FHK Down for Repairs

Well, I finally did it…I crashed the site (we all knew that was going to happen, eventually!) Sorry.

Yes, the amazing Ron Goodwyne, our IT Guy got us back up to a point, but we’ve decided to take this opportunity to do some serious work on the site. Feel free to look through the archives…we’ll be back in a few days, better than ever.

Election 2008: The Next President (Part 1 of 3)

…of Nikitas3.com

• Part One
• Part Two
• Part Three

We are in the trajectory of another Presidential election year, and the rhetoric is getting hot. With the nation polarized on many issues – though not nearly so much as just six months ago when Iraq was looking bleak and Bush was looking cooked – there is much focus on each and every word, wink and nod in the cornucopia of debates. And with Democrat front-runner Hillary Clinton at one point refusing even to commit to a yes-or-no answer on whether she concurred with her own New York State governor over his plan to grant drivers’ licenses to illegal aliens, the voters are getting a genuine taste of the candidates beyond the beauty-pageant aspect of the coming race.

We are being told that 2008 is a “watershed” year, when the nation will decide whether to go this way or that on many critical issues, and indeed that is true. To add to the volatility, it appears that after 8 years of a Republican in the White House, along with the hard-leftward drift of the Democrats, the media are pressing for change more than ever, and will do everything possible to obscure the true positions of the Democrat candidates. When a very liberal Illinois Senator Barack Obama won’t talk specifics, but starts talking flowery about bringing the nation together in one big happy family, it’s time to pull out the nonsense meter and take a true reading of his intentions rather than allowing the media to gloss over his comments with swooning reviews of his style. Read more

Open Books: Oklahoma’s Finances Online

Okie Campaigns congratulates Senator Randy Brogdon, who said:

We are charged with being good stewards of the state’s resources…Making the appropriations process completely transparent and easily accessible to our citizens is simply the right thing to do, because in reality, every dollar the Legislature appropriates belongs to the citizens.

Senator Brogden explained that the Oklahoma program is modeled on the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, introduced by Tom Coburn and Barack Obama.

According to the introduction to Oklahoma’s Open Books web site: Read more

West Point Cadets doing the “Oompah Loompah” (Video and Lyrics)

Oompah Loompah’s in Camo?!

Oopah Loompah, West Point Style

Oompa Loompa doompadee doo
I’ve got another story for you.
Oompa Loompa doompadah dee
If you are wise you’ll listen to me,

What do you get from when you guzzle down sweets,
Eating as much as an elephant eats?
Where are you at when you’re terribly fat?
What do you think will come of that?

Doo, doo, do-do-doo!
I don’t like the looks of this!

Oompa Loompa Doompadee Dah
If you’re not greedy you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Oompa Loompa doompadee do!

Hat-tip, OkieCampaigns

Blog Honor Roll 12/30/07

Right On The Right

Welcome to the 2007 Right on the Right Year in Review. The first topic I’m going to review is election 2008. I’m going to cover the issue chronologically, and of course interject some commentary. Here goes…

Byzantine Sacred Art Blog: Wikipedia, the Source of Disinformation

De Braeckeleer writes: “Conducting false flag operations and planting disinformation in the mainstream media have long belonged to the craft of the spies. …

Judge Halts Law Granting Same Sex Couples Marriage Rights

A federal judge in Portland, OR has ruled in favor of the Alliance Defense fund’s motion to issue an injunction pending review of the state’s invalidating signatures on petitions which would have brought the state’s domestic partnership law…

Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2007

Judicial Watch has just released its list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2007. Not surprisingly, the “top tier” Presidential candidates on both sides of the isle made rank.

Facts About so-called Squibs

Those so-called“squibs” conspiracy theorists are always pointing to are not proof of controlled demolition and the proof is here. Those “blasts” begin with a brief spurt, then increase, which is the reverse of how explosives work. There is also the fact that in a controlled demolition, large amounts of explosives are placed on ALL floors- this is true even for small buildings. In addition, a lot of those squibs are just tiny little wisps of smoke. Furthermore, once the floors above the damaged areas began to collapse ( due to the fact that the damaged areas could no longer support the weight), there’s no way the lower floors could have survived the impact. Read more

Which is it? Global warming or another ice age?

On occasion I have the painful opportunity to talk to individuals about “Global Warming”. Those that are zealous believers, in my experience, tend to be young and liberal. The reason age is important is that I remember my teachers telling me as a child that we were destroying the planet because of pollution. Problem is that back in the 70’s we were being told that it was a coming Ice Age that would overtake the planet. If you are a Global Cooling Denier then here are some excerpts from a Time article on the subject from 1974 titled Another Ice Age?.

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Tea n’ Tea

Why the Hell can’t you leave me alone with a nice cuppa? -Chuck Heston.

“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country, as well as in Eire, Australia and New Zealand”-George Orwell.The Evening Standard for January 12, 1946.

AC/DC, the great Australian rock band, actually prefers and longs for, a nice cup of tea back stage. It’s true. They’re not boozers, but perhaps surprisingly typical Australians of Scottish immigrant background teetotallers.

Hey, man I heard there was some really hot tea brewing! Hey, there is? Aah, Ceylon Gold leaf. -A lost beatnik.

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FHK Blog Honor Roll 12/29/07

Oklahoma Opens Its Books – Spending Transparency Website Goes Live

OkieCampaigns: “Sen. Brogdon said the program was modeled on a new federal law by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn which will allow citizens to track the use of federal dollars.”

Mashable: 12 Things To Do Online Before The End Of 2007

• Back up your files
• Buy a new computer
• Consolidate your email accounts
• Start your Diet
• Donate to a charity
• Get your finances in order
• Get your legal affairs in order
• Home safety
• Prepare your New Year’s Resolutions
• Reconnect with an old friend
• Update your Social networking profiles
• Update your resume

CD For the Troops

Military Members and Veterans with a valid military ID number can go to aafes.com, and download three songs for free.

Here’s John Ondrosik of Five for Fighting, to explain what this is about:

 

FHK SitRep 12.29.07: Get Clicky, Web Analytics 2.0 – A new stat counter/analyzer for your blog!

 

Clicky is a stats-analyzer for small to medium blogs (with traffic less than 30K daily page views). According to the “about” page:

 

Clicky gives bloggers and smaller web sites a more personal understanding of their visitors. Many analyzers give good summaries, and Clicky is no different – but the similarities stop there. Clicky stands out with its refreshingly clean and simple interface, innovative features like Spy and RSS feeds, and an unrivaled per visitor level of detail. You also get real time stats, outbound link tracking, download tracking, IP tagging, custom data tracking, and much more.

It is similar to Stat Counter, or Sitemeter, but has some additional features and enhancements on familiar features, including (from the “features” page):

• Customizable dashboard
• Clean interface
• Visitor details
• Track custom data
• API (Application Program Interface)
• TagClouds, Data export
• Track outbound links
• Track file downloads
• Stats via RSS
• Real time stats
• FeedBurner integration
• Google Maps integration
• IP Tagging, IP Filtering
• Works with visitors who have JavaScript disabled
• Secure web site support (SSL/HTTPS)
• Full dynamic referer tracking
• Public statistics
• Affiliate system that rewards you for sharing Clicky*

Check it out!

*If you click on the links to Clicky in this blogpost, then registering on the the same visit, Ft. Hard Knox will receive credit for referring you to the site.

 

(hat-tip, Eric Odom, of Conservablogs)

 

SitRep Archive

The Hunters become the Hunted…? (Mike Huckabee Scares the Bejabbers out of some Iowa Papparazzi.)

Jim Tankersley, of The Chicago Tribune, reports:

Republican Mike Huckabee took his presidential campaign for a quick pheasant-hunting expedition in Iowa on Wednesday, and…At one point, Huckabee’s party turned toward a cluster of reporters and cameramen and, when they kicked up a pheasant, fired shotgun blasts over the group’s heads.

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My colleague James Oliphant reports that Huckabee’s party was about 75 yards away from the press corps Wednesday when a pheasant jumped up and flew toward the reporters, drawing several shots. “That was too close,” he reports a cameraman saying.

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Huckabee emerged happily from his hunt, three dead pheasants in tow, Oliphant reports. Asked for a metaphor to describe the hunt, he replied, “Don’t get in my way. This is what happens.”

Jose Antonio Vargas, of the Washington Post, wrote: Read more

Pakistani Islamic Extremists kill Pakistani, Bhutto. Ron Paul blames the U.S..

Is there no end to how out-of-touch with reality a Congressman can be? Apparently not. Click here to watch the video. (hat-tip, LGF) Click here, or on the image below to watch the CNN video.

 

 

FHK Fighting-Women Archive

Blog Honor Roll 12/29/07

Facebook Launches Community-Driven Project to Add Foreign Language Support

Facebook is turning to their own platform and community to help translate the site into other languages. The company has launched an app called “Translations,” that is a community effort to make the site available in your language of choice.

WalMart Introduces Search Engine Marketing

Specifically with the AdSense program, WalMart wants to help unsuspecting newbie wares sellers on the internet with their advertising program.

USA Wake Up.org – Main Page

You awake each day to the Muslim muezzin call to prayer from the neighborhood mosque – as millions of Europeans already do. Liberals espouse “diversity is our strength” as Islamic enforcers cruise the cities…

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

The list is ordered by program function rather than merit so you’ll get the most out of it by browsing down this page at leisure. The pathologically impatient can consult the index below.

FHK SitRep 12.28.07: Free Online Big/Small Text Generator

Neoformix has developed a free online big/small text generator. You simply put in the text you want to be “big” and the text you want to be “small,” and voila! Below is an example using “FHK” for the “Big” text, and “Ft. Hard Knox” for the “small.”

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Note: The only problem with this is that it is not possible to save the resulting image directly to a file. To transfer the image to your blog, e-mail, etc., you’ll need to capture a screen print, and paste it into your photo editing software.

To create your own big/small text graphic in seconds, click here.

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