Naughty Librarian

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Nice Vacation

I'm taking a more relaxed view of the blog...a few postings here and there should do it. I'm mainly interested in calming down a little bit...

But every once in a while, I just get irked over something so simple. I really start to think that the world just might be better off with some normal thinking people in charge.

Take Al Gore's acceptance of his Nobel prize in Norway. Here's the AP story from a few days ago and notice the part I've highlighted:

Gore in Norway to Get Nobel Peace Prize

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Former Vice President Al Gore arrived in Oslo on Friday to accept the Nobel Peace Prize he shared for the campaign against global warming, and shunned the traditional airport motorcade in favor of climate-friendly public transport.

Ohhhh...isn't he sweet? He's taking the more favored and "climate-friendly" public transportation. How environmentally correct of him!

How'd he get to Norway in the first place? Any guesses?

Couldn't he have just used the internet he invented to video conference his acceptance speech?

Email?

YouTube it to them?

How did he travel all that way? On public transportation?

Couldn't the AP have asked that simple question? Or made the same point? Or does my lack of a journalism degree make me unqualified to ask that sort of thing?

Then, Al hangs himself again with the another inconvenient truth...

"I use public transport when I can. It isn't always possible," Gore told The Associated Press while walking up Oslo's main street to his hotel. He said the train was much faster than a limousine, but that it was also a symbol of efforts to reduce pollution in hopes of slowing climate change.

"It is a gesture. It is also one of the changes we are all going to have to be doing anyway," Gore said.

Except important people like him, of course.

As much as I despise Hannity...he's the only one with damning video of Al Gore's "gestures" and use of "public transport" as much as possible.



NewsBusters points out that as Al and Tipper took the environmentally correct train from the airport to his hotel...his luggage got a private ride in a Mercedes van.

Apparently, Al's increasing bulk made for lack of room on the train for his and Tipper's change of undies.

Gore Takes Train From Oslo Airport, Luggage Takes Mercedes

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And Finally...

My work here is done.

Proposal seeks banning immigrant raids in D.M.

From the story at the Des Moines Register...

"...a plan that would block local city departments - including the police - from conducting raids on immigrants or inquiring about a person's immigration status..."

That's it...I quit.

Good luck, folks. Thanks for lending me your time and attention. Move along now...

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From State29

This is priceless...especially the second to last question to Senator Obama...



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Hillary Is A Woman

And Iowa doesn't like em?

From David Yepsen's column yesterday in the Des Moines Register:

"I was shocked when I learned Iowa and Mississippi have never elected a woman governor, senator or member of Congress," she said. "There has got to be something at work here...

The fact we haven't had any good female candidates doesn't occur to the smartest woman in the world. This learned wizard of policy and education hasn't boned up on Occam's razor...

"entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem"

Roughly translated from Latin:

"...other things being equal -- the simplest hypothesis proposed as an explanation of phenomena is more likely to be the true one than is any other available hypothesis..."

All things being equal, the most logical explanation is probably the right one. We haven't had good female candidates to vote for.

Bonnie Campbell was a cold fish who didn't connect with the normal people of Iowa. I remember her running and just about falling asleep during her campaigning. Hillary has the same sort of robot-emotionalized way of speaking.

Still...we're better than Mississippi...

"I think Iowa poses a special burden, or a special obstacle to me because when you look at the numbers, how can Iowa be ranked with Mississippi? That's not what I see. That's not the quality. That's not the communitarianism, that's not the openness I see in Iowa."

Don't expect to see Hillary campaigning in Mississippi...she's already written them a "No Thank You" note.
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Rush Hasn't Met THIS Phony Soldier

If it looks like a scam, smells like a scam, and reads like a scam...it's probably a scam.

A while back, I referenced a letter I received via email from one of those South African scam/spam sites. Since I'm smarter than your average US Senator, I decided to have a little fun with the attempt at getting me to help assist in "transferring" some money from overseas to the US.

All the email scams sound the same.

"Hey, I found a huge amount of money! But I can't legally bring it to the US...will you help me?"

So, I figure I could have a little fun and play around with them...lead them along for as long as possible in the hopes of wasting their time enough to prevent them from being able to scam someone else.

Read my previous posts on the adventure of scamming scammers...HERE.

Anyway, the latest involves a "phony soldier" (or at least it sounds like one) from Iraq. Here's the letter and my reply below. I've removed the email and website contacts "she" includes to protect my attempt at scamming the scammer...I don't want a bunch of you folks emailing the address to tip her off or ruin my fun...

Good Day,

I found your contact particulars in an E-mail address guide they provide us here, as I desperately needed an urgent help to do this deal. I am seeking your kind assistance to move the sum of $12m {Twelve Million U.S Dollars only} to you as far as I can be assured that my share will be safe in your care until I complete my service here.

SOURCE OF FUND:

A lot of money in various currencies were discovered in barrels at a farmhouse near one of Saddams old palaces in Tikrit in Iraq during an operation Conquest in Fallujah north of Baghdad, and it was agreed by Staff Sgt. Kenneth Buff and I that some part of this money be shared among both of us before informing anybody about it since both of us saw the money first. This is quite an illegal thing to do, but will tell you what? No compensation can make up for the risk we have taken with our lives in this hell hole, of which my brother in-law was killed by a road side bomb last time.

The above figure was given to me as my share, and to conceal this kind of money became a problem for me, so with the help of a British Contact working here, at Southern Basra British fortified green zone, whose office enjoys some immunity, I was able to get the package out to a safe location entirely out of trouble spot. He does not know the real contents of the package, and believes that it belongs to a British/American medical doctor who died in a raid here in Baghdad, and before giving up, trusted me to hand over the package to his family. I have now found a very secured way of getting the package out of Iraq to you, for you to pick it up, and I will discuss this with you when I am sure that you are willing to assist me, and I believe that my money will be well secured in your hand because you have fear of God. I want you to tell me how much you will take from this money for the assistance you will give me. One passionate appeal I will make to you is not to discuss this matter with anybody, should you have reasons to reject this offer, please and please destroy this message as any leakage of this information will be too bad and catastrophic for soldiers here in Iraq. I do not know how long we will remain here, but I hope to have a shift very soon for me to return back to the States.

I have been shot and wounded twice and I have survived two terrible suicides bomb attacks just by special grace of God, this and other reasons I will mention later has prompted me to reach out for help, I will honestly want this matter be resolved immediately, Please contact me as soon as possible with my private email address which is my only way of communication for now.

My private email address is: torcarajjtolbert@xxxxxxxxx
You can read more about me at: Website: www.xxxxxx-xxxxxx.com

I thank you so much for everything and anticipate that you will be trustworthy and handle this transaction to the best of your ability to benefit both of us.

God Bless you and your Family
Yours,
SGT Torcara J. Tolbert

Here's my reply. Let's hope she bites and we can continue our correspondence.

My wife was in the military which is where you probably got my email address. I also had a brother in law in Iraq early last year and my family is heavily involved in the military, so I am graced by your presence. Thank you for the job you do.

I too am a very discrete person, so please share with me more information. Since we are being discrete, I cannot share my full name with you...the President might be listening or reading. I need to be reasonably sure that my name will be guarded as well.

I hope all is well. How may I help?

This should be fun...stay tuned.


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