Another Fritch Award?

This all sounds so familiar... Does the name Debbie Fritch ring a bell people? Why are all these leftard wenches so demented? Is it the food they eat or the company they keep? If you want to read more on the issues pop on over to Ace... he has the basic framework of a footshoot episode. Pic was pinched from Amanda's Blog Mouse Words... go there at your peril

What was the question?

You Are 4% Democrat

If you have anything in common with the Democrat party, it's by sheer chance. You're a staunch conservative, and nothing is going to change that!

How Democrat Are You?

Important Need to Know Stuff

Some very important info on the ki4u site... take some time to get informed! Since the end of the Cold War Civil Defence has gone due to the complacency of many goverments;
"Instead, Homeland Security continues to be focused primarily on two missions:

1. Interdiction – stopping nuclear materials and terrorists at the border
2. COG – Continuity of Government for when No. 1 fails

The most important mission has been largely ignored:

3. Continuity of the Public – proven mass media Civil Defense training of the public that would make the survival difference for the vast majority of Americans affected by a nuclear event.

This tragic and deadly oversight won't change until the crippling myths of nuclear un-survivability are banished by the good news that a trained and prepared public can, and ultimately has to, save themselves."
Become prepared... no one else is going to be able to help you for at least two weeks!

Time to get the brat with wings...

in the sights of my Barrett .50 sniper rifle.

Once again we are being bombarded with Valentines Day adverts... this is my uptake on the whole Commercial Cupidian Conspiracy. I need some depleted Uranium ammo, a good fire position and that will be the end of this critter... time to get me some cherubic wings... I hear they are quite crunchy dipped in chilli sauce.

Don't get me wrong, I believe in love, just not the type inflicted by my Nemesis with wings! Been there, done that! So Mr Cupid you are hereby warned, you are fair game and in my sights.
So to celebrate the stupid season I decided to put together another Screaming Tangerines playlist with a twist in the arrow... but damn... ambushed again... while compiling the list I was listening to "I'll Surrender" by Calienda, vocals by Linn aka Linda Bredschneyder and I think I have an arrow in my heart! The angelic voice of Linda got to me... ah well next year.. this is a pic from the website. Can you blame me?
Back to the playlist... Called Bullet For Cupid.
74 tracks in playlist, average track length: 4:20 Playlist length: 5 hours 21 minutes 10 seconds.

1. Placebo - Bulletproof Cupid (2:22)
2. Sentenced - Bleed in my arms (5:09)
3. Evanescence - All That I M Living For (3:48)
4. Gregorian Masters of Chant - Stop crying your heart out (5:16)
5. Crowded House - Into temptation (3:52)
6. Moon - Thoughts (3:44)
7. MacAngel - Love Is The Hunter (3:26)
8. Theuns Jordaan - Soos bloed (3:30)
9. Nick Kamen - Each time you break my heart (6:19)
10. No Mercy - Missing (4:01)
11. Delta Goodrem - Lost Without You (4:08)
12. Roxette - I didn't want to get hurt (4:16)
13. Peter Gabriel feat. Kate Bush - Don't Give Up (7:36)
14. Spice Girls - Viva forever (5:10)
15. Jennifer Lopez - Ain't it funny (4:06)
16. Akira - Wanna be with you (3:06)
17. Frontline Assembly - Justify my love (4:59)
18. Dht - I Cant Be Your Friend (4:10)
19. Southside Spinners - Luvstruck 2005(Klubbheads Mix) (3:29)
20. Armin van Buuren - Burned With Desire (4:13)
21. Nicki French - I surrender (shanghai surprize radio edit) (3:51)
22. Mylo - In My Arms (Tocadisco's 'Zwischen Den Stühlen Mix') (5:52)
23. Dance Nation - Words (3:28)
24. Rachael Starr - Till There Was You (3:26)
25. Kylie Minogue - Love At First Sight (3:59)
26. Meck ft. Leo Sayer - Thunder In My Heart Again (3:00)
27. Ferry Corsten Pres. East West - The Love I Lost [Robert Nickson Mix] (8:08)
28. SOS - Just be good (3:39)
29. Jennifer Rush - Ring of ice (3:45)
30. Rikke - Gimme gotta gimme (3:28)
31. JMC ft Maria Liucci - The reason (3:30)
32. Imperio - Amor Infinitus (Album Version) (4:54)
33. DJ Bobo - I believe (2:54)
34. Love Bite - Take your time (3:46)
35. Shine 4 - Begin weer voor (3:15)
36. Pet Shop Boys - Love Is A Catastrophe (4:50)
37. Drop Dead Gorgeous - Pain (4:12)
38. Mark Knopfler - Romeo And Juliet(Live, Hamburg 2001) (9:33)
39. Jewel - Foolish Games (long) (5:44)
40. Dido - My lover's gone (4:26)
41. Dht - I Miss You (3:54)
42. Level 42 - Lessons In Love (4:03)
43. Rihanna - Unfaithful (white disc mix) (4:17)
44. Linn - Falling in love (3:24)
45. Jennifer Rush - I see a shadow (4:13)
46. Fragma - Every time you need me (3:32)
47. Kate Ryan - Love or lust (3:44)
48. C-Base - Superstring (3:42)
49. Delerium - Silence(dj tiesto) (6:02)
50. Iio - Is It Love [Radio Edit] (3:09)
51. Benassi Bros ft Dhany - Hit My Heart (5:08)
52. Calienda - I'll Surrender (3:38)
53. Marc van Linden - Real Thing (7:33)
54. Damae - Control (3:01)
55. DJ Bobo & Sandra - Secrets of Love (2006 Club Mix) (6:41)
56. ATB - Believe In Me (3:18)
57. Kate Ryan - Alive (3:31)
58. Royksopp - What Else Is There (5:17)
59. t.A.T.u. - All About Us (3:02)
60. Pet Shop Boys - Single bilingual (3:50)
61. HIM - Wicked game (4:06)
62. Cutting Crew - (I just) died in your arms tonight (4:41)
63. The Ronettes - Be My Baby (2:39)
64. Roxette - The Sweet Hello, The Sad Goodbye (4:49)
65. Gregorian - I still haven't found what I am looking for (4:50)
66. Jewel - Fragile Heart (3:21)
67. Sonja Heroldt - What do I do now (4:05)
68. Jak de Priester - My hart is in Intensive Care (4:13)
69. Pearl Jam - Last kiss (3:19)
70. Tommy James & The Shondelles - Crimson & Clover (3:28)
71. HIM - When love and death embrace (6:08)
72. The Awakening - Death Says Yes (5:23)
73. Rammstein - Mein herz brent (4:40)
74. Evanescence - Even In Death (4:09)

"Must, bid the Morn awake!
Sad Winter now declines,
Each bird doth choose a mate;
This day's Saint Valentine's.
For that good bishop's sake
Get up and let us see
What beauty it shall be
That Fortune us assigns."
Michael Drayton (1563 - 1631)

Windows to the soul

The prettiest eyes on the planet... I can't wait for her new movie Resident Evil: Extinction, to be released later this year in September.

When I saw Milla in 5th Element I was struck, nay smitten, by her eyes. As previously mentioned, for me eyes are my Nemesis...
I think that having someone so cute looking playing such a kick ass heroine is the recipe for success for Resident Evil... So while busy re-categorizing my music collection I made a list of eye songs for The Screaming Tangerines, here goes;

Windows to the soul:
45 tracks in playlist, average track length: 3:48 Playlist length: 2 hours 51 minutes 42 seconds

1. 4 Strings - Euphoric Eyes (3:20)
2. Alice Deejay - I Can See It In Your Eyes (3:46)
3. Shakira - Eyes like yours (Ojos asi) (3:53)
4. Novaspace - Dancing with tears in my eyes 2004(radio edit) (3:34)
5. Tooga ft Pit Baily - Behind blue eyes (4:48)
6. MLTR - Angel eyes (3:49)
7. Shania Twain - Black eyes, Blue tears (3:35)
8. Tanz- & Showband Vis à Vis - Sexy eyes (2:59)
9. Springbok Nude Girls - Blue eyes (3:53)
10. Staind - Open your eyes (3:53)
11. Tom Jones - Sexy eyes (2:24)
12. Coldplay - Green Eyes (3:41)
13. Joshua Kadison - Beautiful in my eyes (4:09)
14. Art Garfunkle - I Only Have Eyes For You (3:28)
15. Westlife - Close Your Eyes (3:41)
16. Limp Bizkit - Behind Blue Eyes (6:05)
17. Shivaree - I Close My Eyes (3:56)
18. Goo Goo Dolls - All Eyes On Me (3:57)
19. Gregorian - Close my eyes forever (6:00)
20. Art Garfunkel - Bright Eyes (3:55)
21. Lene Marlin - Eyes Closed (3:43)
22. Engelbert Humperdinck - Can't Take My Eyes Off You (3:38)
23. Leann Rimes - Looking through your eyes (3:19)
24. Elton John - Blue Eyes (3:28)
25. Ace Of Base - Angel eyes (3:14)
26. Viking - Behind blue eyes (2:27)
27. Kate Bush - The Man With The Child In His eyes (2:41)
28. The Platters - Smoke gets in your eyes (2:45)
29. Phil Collins - Look through my eyes (3:59)
30. Hermes House Band - Can't take my eyes off of you (4:06)
31. Groove Cutters - We Close Our Eyes (7:35)
32. Kylie Minogue - In Your Eyes (3:20)
33. Bosson - You opened my eyes (3:35)
34. Whigfield - Sexy eyes (3:54)
35. Armand Van Helden - Into Your Eyes (2:51)
36. Edgewater - Eyes wired shut (3:15)
37. Russ Castella ft Karen Vazquez - Angel Eyes radio rip 128 (3:48)
38. Silex - Eyes (3:17)
39. Tree63 - But now my eyes are open (3:04)
40. Enigma - The Eyes of Truth (7:13)
41. The Who - Behind blue eyes (3:44)
42. Moody Blues - The story in your eyes (3:05)
43. Depeche Mode - World in my eyes (3:58)
44. Kelly Clarkson - Behind These Hazel Eyes (3:19)
45. Jennifer Rush - Maddonnas eyes (3:38)
Now that is quite an eye opener for me, I never knew I had so many eye songs! Some of course are covers like "Behind blue eyes" originally performed by the Who... I like all the versions.
"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)

Requiem for a namesake

I am researching my family history and Roux was a recent possible contacts that I was going to be following up shortly... To his family and wife Pamela, my deepest sympathy.
Once again words are not adequate. All I can say is he died doing something he clearly loved and enjoyed.
"Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!"
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)

Chillingly hot

Blogging time has been rather scarce... what with not getting enough sleep (a book on it's own),getting last weekends MX regional up and running and work it has been way down the to-do list... maybe this weekend will allow me to do some updating...
In the meantime it is scorching hot... not abnormal though, it has been much hotter! Something to do with El Nino not Global Warming.
Saturday was one mad rush, as well as being COC, I had to grab a scoresheet for some of the races, without W as assistant COC it would have been chaos... All pics I got was during documentation before racing started.

So here I am, sipping lime juice with lots of ice and wondering what quote would go with "chill" and "summer"... voila!
"The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know."
Patricia E. Presutti, 1986 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

FDA Award goes to South African Parliamentarians of all shades

for showing up like peacocks at a ball... since when is the opening of Parliament a fashion show?
Even the leader of the ACDP was dressed in a lime green Tux!
Politicians are the bane of the citizenry...
At least some job's were created but the picture I got was "Here I am, flush with the taxpayers money!"

The trees will be glad...

to hear that the print media is heading for extinction and so will I. Kate's blog about the gnashing of teeth over at the New York Times made add my comment thus;
The print media used to give out the news of the day with an editorial comment... then they started putting their view on each news item and that was when truth left journalism. From there it was a downward slide and the Internet was the edge of the precipice. I do not see a way back up for them, neither is it a big loss, unless you like wrapping your fish and chips in the paper.
Kate's comment "It's not a war, Mr. Sulzberger. It's a revolt." is probably the epitaph of modern newspapers as we know them. Personally I don't give a damn if they recover from this slump or not. History will show that the media failed their prime directive and paid the price...

Fireworks panorama

Awesome! For more from Atti go to the site!

Todays quote brings things of nature into perspective as well...

"You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain."
Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994