13 Names of Things You Never Knew Had Names

So, on Fridays, Spike Driver Blues usually has a informative, unique page albeit completely useless. I love it. Not sure if _a_ will be posting today so I will give the gentle reader this list to further clutter your mind with mostly Useless Information. Thanks Trish.

Invitation to play.....and response

“I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play. Bring a friend… if you have one.”
-- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

“Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second… if there is one.”
-- Winston Churchill, in response

Saddam's cat...

Since I am a cat fancier, I just had to check out this rare photo of Saddam's cat.

Anti-mosque pigs race

Minneapolistan

You’ve got to kinda wonder what the hell is it lately with Minneapolis-St. Paul and all the Islamist related stuff coming out of there.


Officials at the Minneapolis-St Paul airport are having increasing problems with their cab drivers, most of who are Muslims. Many of the cab drivers are refusing to carry fares who have alcohol in their possession or who have dogs; even service dogs. Inch by inch these Muslims will try to enforce their backwater religious dogma on the rest of us. Hopefully the Minneapolis airport officials will tell them to either do their job or find another one.

The Flying Inmans. No ,not a circus act but a bunch of clowns anyway. We’ve covered this farce before but it still deserves watching as the curtain has not rung down on their act.

Last, but not least, is the election of Keith Ellison, a Muslim, to our USA Congress. No, I’m not a bigot, but any Muslim, anymore, anywhere deserves a second and maybe a third glance. Sorry ‘bout that but Muslims you’ve made your own bed etc.

Unreal

I cut this article from Sunday's Jan 7 The Tennessean (the Nashville newspaper) and print it here in its entirety.

Police arrest 3 men in Mapco robbery
Metro police arrested three Nashville men in the Friday morning robbery of a Mapco Express on Tusculum Road.
One of the suspects, Miles Jordan Armstrong, 19, of
Harding Place, was out on $200,000 bond for two counts of criminal homicide and
two counts of attempted criminal homicide. He also has an arrest history that includes felony drug and weapons charges.
Alex Sparrow, 20, of Brentwood, was arrested in May of last year for theft. Both men, along with Brian Alan Martin, 17, of Crest Drive, are being charged with aggravated robbery.
Two men thought to be Sparrow and Martin entered the Mapco at 7:15 a.m. Friday, and Sparrow pointed a gun at the cashier and took money from the register, police said. The men left the store and got into a 1980s Oldsmobile Cutlass driven by Armstrong.
Police responded to the scene in minutes. After the getaway car was spotted traveling north on Una-Antioch Pike, police gave chase. The car hit a tree at the Nashboro Village Apartments off Murfreesboro Pike.
Martin stayed near the car and was arrested. Armstrong fled but was quickly caught. The other man ran toward the nearby Hampton Chase Apartments through a drainage ditch.
Police checked every apartment; Sparrow emerged from the drainage ditch at
11:05 a.m. and was arrested.
The store cashier identified Sparrow and Martin, and Sparrow and Martin identified Armstrong.
— MICHAELA JACKSON

Am I naive or that much out of touch with the world today, but what the hell is that Armstrong guy doing out of jail on bond of any amount? He has killed twice and attempted to kill two others and apparently has a long, violent criminal background.

Another oddity from The 'Boro:

Cats In The Belfry

Man sues cops over seizure of 114 frozen felines, dog named Snowy

JANUARY 5--A Tennessee man who kept 114 dead cats and a dead German Shepherd named Snowy in three freezers is suing police for seizing and destroying the frosty animal carcasses, which, he claims, had "emotional value" to him and were destined for a pet cemetery he was building. William Davis wants $1.5 million from the Murfreesboro Police Department and other defendants, according to a complaint filed last week in Rutherford County Chancery Court. A copy of the lawsuit can be found below. According to the 75-year-old Davis, police and animal control officers raided his home twice in December 2003 and took the frozen animals, along with 46 cats, one dog, and assorted "wild game meat." Included among the cats removed from his home and later euthanized, Davis charges, were Pixie Bob, Miss Patchwork, and Big Duke. The searches resulted in animal cruelty charges being leveled against Davis since conditions in his two residences were deplorable. A veterinarian estimated that carpeting had a half-inch layer of animal feces ground into it and that the stench was so overwhelming it was hard to breathe through your nose without gagging (Davis pleaded guilty to a single animal cruelty count and was placed on a year's probation). The Davis lawsuit, which was, amazingly, not filed pro se, notes that he was keeping one of the frozen cats so that he could submit the animal to the Guinness Book of World Records. The lawsuit reveals that the cat was exceedingly large at birth. Davis, who's pictured above in a 2006 Rutherford County Sheriff's Office booking photo, contends that he has suffered "emotional pain and suffering" as a result of the government seizures.
...thanks to "The Smoking Gun"

At the end of the rainbow:

Thanks to Natalie Dee...

Dad at Comedy Barn

This will get you laughing!

Red Pradas but German cojones; Benedict XVI

This is a somewhat back page story but it could be a harbinger of Christian resistance to all the unending, unreasonable demands of Islam. This Pope apparently has some guts and is ready to stand up against the increasing whine of Islam. The continued oppression of Christians in Islamic countries is well documented and the flight of Christians from this oppression is increasing. Christians are not even allowed to have Bibles in their possession in Saudia Arabia, supposedly our closest "friendly" Islamist state.

The following article was lifted in entirety from Daniel Pipe’s blog.

“Spain's Islamic Board wrote a letter to Pope Benedict XVI to be allowed to pray in Cordoba Cathedral, on the grounds that the building was originally a mosque before being transformed into a church in the thirteenth century. "What we wanted was not to take over that holy place," reads the Islamic Board's letter, "but to create in it, together with you and other faiths, an ecumenical space unique in the world which would have been of great significance in bringing peace to humanity."

The Islamic Board took this initiative after senior Catholic clergy announced they "did not recommend" this step and indeed declared themselves unprepared to permit the cathedral's shared use with any other faith. On an operational level, security guards in the cathedral are said often to prevent Muslims from praying inside the medieval mosque that surrounds its church structure.

The Islamic Board's general secretary, Mansur Escudero, complained that some in the Church feel threatened by Spain's growing Muslim population. "There are reactionary elements within the Catholic Church, and when they hear about the construction of a mosque, or Muslim teachings in state schools, or about veils, they see it as a sign we are growing and they oppose it."

Comment: The Muslim demand is all very reasonable – but only if Muslims permit reciprocal rights to Christians. For example, the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus is built over a Byzantine church and to this day contains a shrine said to contain the head of John the Baptist; Christians should be granted leave to pray there. Or the grandest church of Byzantium, Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, for centuries a mosque and now a museum – it too should be made available for Christian services. The Vatican has made reciprocity the cornerstone of its relations with Muslims, and this looks like a simple place to start implementing that policy.”

St. Nicholas

This essay is a Catholic take on the origins and history of Christmas. But it is more than that. The essay was written by Fredrick Wilhelmsen and re-published in one of William F. Buckley's anthologys.

" Wilhelmsen is not satisfied to praise religion. He sees it as Chesterton did, and he is the only American writing today who combines Chesterton's power of historical discrimination and religious animation -- the mystic enthusiasm of the religion of joy, despising the accretions of puritanical dourness, straining to adore: and succeeding."....William F. Buckley

Thanks to Powerline for making this available.

A Christmas Message

If as Herod, we fill our lives with things and again with things, if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must fill every moment of our lives with action, when will we have the time to make the long, slow journey across the desert as did the Magi? Or sit and watch the stars as did the shepherds? Or brood over the coming of the child as did Mary? For each of us, there is a desert to travel. A star to discover, and a being within ourselves to bring to life.
....author unknown

Public Service Notice:

The Flying Imams real purpose.

I’ve been following with great interest the developing story of ‘The Flying Imams’. I’m sure that you have read or seem this story on tv. The analysis of this incident has gone through several layers starting with the clerics claiming ‘discrimination’ and developing into this linked plot. This looks like an islamofacist ploy to disable American law from within. Here is the latest development from the reporter who has been following it from the beginning.

Goodby Kofi Annan...(insert rude noise here)

Goodby Kofi Annan and good riddance to bad rubbish. I have a finger for you also.
You've left a ten year legacy of poor leadership, inaction, death, rape and starvation while you and your son padded your wallets.
Can anyone say Oil for Food or Darfur?
Here is the result of a symposium written by UN watching experts on Kofi Annan's legacy.
And a funny "translation from the original bs" of his going away speech in Missouri.

Hu's on first - a video

Shades of Abbot and Costello. You'll get a laugh out of this one.

John Lennon

This Friday, December 8 is the twenty-six anniversary of John Lennon's murder. He would have been sixty-six years old this year. Wonder what he would have done in those twenty-six years?

Also, as a minor aside, this happens to have been the same day that Chris and Mark drank all my wine that I was going to take to Gatlinburg. 'Twas a dark day all around.

Tomorrow Never Knows

Turn off your mind relax and float down-stream,
It is not dying, it is not dying,
Lay down all thought surrender to the void,
It is shining, it is shining.
That you may see the meaning of within,
It is speaking, it is speaking,
That love is all and love is ev’ryone,
It is knowing, it is knowing.
When ignorance and haste may mourn the dead,
It is believing, it is believing,
But listen to the color of your dreams,
It is not living, it is not living.
Or play the existence to the end.
Of the beginning, of the beginning.
Of the beginning. Of the beginning.

…..from “Revolver” (Lennon/McCartney)

"You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate." - John Lennon

Writers and artists, need some inspiration?

For the lightweight of the absinthe crowd, With 70% alcohol by volume yet one tenth of the psychoactive Thujone content, this is the still the absinthe Picasso and Earnest Hemmingway acclaimed.

Darth Sadr

Doggie Disguises

If your Doberman is freaking out your neighbors you can now make him look like a poodle. Your dog, not your neighbor.
Note to _a_, this would be good for Delores. Check this out.