Ivory Dome

There was an interesting article in today’s Amarillo Globe-News about a campaign to erect monuments of the Ten Commandments in front of county courthouses throughout Texas.  This project will be paid for by the sale of T-shirts in each county.

There was a picture of one of these T-shirts, along with the following caption: “Nort Mowery holds up a sample T-shirt at the Carson County Courthouse. The shirts are meant to pay for the Ten Commandments at the Deaf Smith County courthouse.”

Here’s the picture:

Uh, Mr. Mowery … I don’t know how to break this to you, but it’s the County of Deaf  Smith, Texas , not the County of Death Smith, Texas!  Being hearing impaired myself, I can empathize with him.  But I have to wonder how many of these were printed up this way.

Y’know, it would almost be worth buying one of these shirts.  Like the diplomas from the United States Navel Academy a few years back, it might be a collector’s item some day.

In the words of another great resident of the Texas Panhandle, Manny Perez, “MY VOTE IS ИOT FOR SALE!”

As fantastic as this sounds, this is real.  I would give some detail, but I don’t want to ruin anything.

 Playwright and Film Director: “Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal”

Also for fun:

UPDATE:

Heh heh:

I suppose you’ve made it big…

…when the majority of the hits on your blog come as a response to criticism by a right-wing blogger who’s upset you hot linked his picture and all the hits come from a site called – ar15.com which is a also known as weaponsforum.com and ak47.net – I wonder, should I now be concerned for my life because of an internet faux pas? I suppose that I should thank God that none of the ‘hits’ from that site came from my home state (which in all honesty says a lot) and that they mainly came from old Confederate border states as well as Texas (the main culprit) California (surprising and yet not) and Virginia.

Nothing will wake you up in the morning more than noticing a disturbing trend on your blog traffic report from automatic weapon toting (notice I didn’t say gun-toting) persons apparently distressed over ‘usage violations,’ who because of said violation spend long periods of time on your website looking deeper and deeper at various pages.

Well, this group has labeled me a radical liberal – and although I might dispute the “radical” part, I am a liberal and damn proud of it – let’s roll!

*On 2/29/08 – I learned something new – hotlinking. That site will give you an explanation. Now that I know what hot linking is and what it can do, I’ll be more cognizant of it in the future. How did I learn about it, well the above picture of HRC looking scary was on someone’s blog – I found the image via Google and just copied the image URL that Google gave to me. Apparently the Image was on the site of a rabid fascist in Texas – a place where no one would ever expect to find a rabid fascist and he decided instead of kindly e-mailing someone who is a relative novice to blogging and educating me to post nasty, hateful comments – which thankfully I’ve removed, as well as replace “his image” with one more disparaging, and quite frankly filled with inaccurate information (apologies to regular readers). But no worries – I discovered the faux pas and corrected it.

1. Of course, I am the fascist and have received no apology.

2. BO [heh, a presidential candidate we can call BO], does support partial birth abortion and has voted many times to infringe on the people’s right to bear arms.

3. Typical liberal retardedness seeing anything that has to do with a gun and thinking their lives are in danger.

4. Checkmate!

*****************I was messing around with the site and noticed that someone was stealing bandwidth by linking to one of my uploaded photos.  I watch out for this stuff because the result can be quite funny.

The offending blog is Leonardo”s Notebook by Mattheus Mei on his post, Don’t make me angry, you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.  If you scroll down a ways you’ll see a nice litte block of text I whipped up.

Because I am sure it will soon be removed, I preseved the “changes” I made.  Here is the heading of the post and evidence of support of Obama:

Stolen picture before:

Stolen Picture After:

How long do you think it will last?

 Huge pig shot in a liberal part of the country.

Man says it took 8 shots before the mouth quit moving. Incredible

Al Qaeda leader “Abu Musab al-Zarqawi”, killed by US Forces in Iraq last month, has just met with the first of his 72 virgins that Allah promised:

????? …. ONLY 71 MORE TO GO !!!
ALLAH AKBAR !!!

Are you a Democrat or a Republican? Here’s a little test to help you decide:

You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, a mideastern man with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, raises the knife, and charges at you. You are carrying a Glock .40 cal, and you are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family.

What do you do?
Liberal Answer

Well, that’s not enough information to answer the question! Does the man look poor? Or oppressed? Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to attack? Could we run away? What does my wife think? What about the kids?

Could I possibly swing the gun like a club and knock the knife out of his hand? What does the law say about this situation? Does the Glock have appropriate safety built into it? Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children?

Is it possible he’d be happy with just killing me? Does he definitely want to kill me, or would he be content just to wound me? If I were to grab his knees and hold on, could my family get away while he was stabbing me? Should I call 9-1-1? Why is this street so deserted?

We need to raise taxes, have a paint and weed day and make this happier, healthier street that would discourage such behavior.

This is all so confusing! I need to debate this with some friends for few days and try to come to a consensus.
Conservative Answer

BANG! BANG!
Extra Credit: Southern Conservative Answer:

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! click…..(sounds of reloading).

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! click

Daughter: “Nice grouping, Daddy! Were those the Winchester Silvertips or Federal Hydra-Shoks?”
Son: Can I shoot the next one?