The Bind Moggles

Go look. Trust me on this one.

Not keyboard safe, though.

Free Legal Tip

If you are in Haitian jail for suspicion of child trafficking, it is a really good idea if your legal team does not include some clown who is wanted in two countries as a suspect in a sex trafficking ring.

What I Did for Valentine's Day

I went to the pistol range with a .45 and a box of mil-spec ammunition.

Romance Я Us!

The Major Caudill Rant

I'm just a hobby blogger. I don't do this to promote myself (personally or professionally). I blog because I have something to say. At times it's just snark, sometimes the posts are full of outrage, sometimes its just about the topics listed in the first few words of the blog header, and sometimes it's just stuff that caught my fancy. I'm not making any money from it. It's a hobby.

But it does gripe my ass when, from time to time, I've poured a nice chunk of time into a post and then I find out that all, or substantially all, of it appears on another blog or a discussion list without attribution. That's just wrong and, as another blogger once noted, there is a term for that: Plagiarism.

Plagiarism is wrong.

It is one thing to read another blogger's essay and then use that as the launching pad for one's own thoughts. It would be courteous to at least give a mention to the post that got you thinking, but what you've written is still your thoughts.

It is entirely another thin to take a post from one blogger and pass it off as your own work. If you don't understand that is wrong, then I will be very much surprised if you made it though school without somebody administering a richly deserved ass-kicking to you.

Whenever There is Global Financial Skullduggery Afoot...

...it seems that if one digs deeply enough, one will find the vampiric tentacles of Goldman Sachs wrapped around the deal.

It should, therefore, come as no surprise that the current financial collapse of the Greek government, which is in turn dragging down the Euro, has Goldman Sachs and other Wall Street players all wrapped up in it (and profiting handsomely from the deal). Goldman and the rest have essentially done over there what they did to the housing market here: Figure out a way to pump it up and then make money from both the inflation and the crash.

"Little People Pay Taxes"

But not high-flying political celebrities like Harold Ford, who has had a residence in New York City for nearly three years and has held a "job" as a Merrill Lynch vice-chairman for all of that time. He has not filed a New York State or New York City tax return for all of that time, even though both the City and the State impose income taxes on non-residents.

Harold Ford is just another rich tax cheat. Maybe it's about time that he have a conversation with Cyrus Vance, Jr. Preferably before a judge.

Caturday

Some serious white-on-white action is going on with Gracie in this shot.

Nothing Right Now

Jake is lying next to me. He wants a belly rub. He is getting it, and I suck at 1-hand typing.

It's a big Internet. Go exploring. Surf the blogrolls.

Later.

And When He Grew Up, He Went to Work for Fox News

Move over, Steve Doocy:

Replacing any one of the Fox News jerkoffs with Calvin would be an improvement. At age six, Calvin was far smarter and savvier than any of those asswipes.

The Running of the Rat(s)?

NEW ORLEANS -- A lawyer for one of the four conservative activists [Robert Flanagan] charged with trying to tamper with Sen. Mary Landrieu's office phones says he has met with federal prosecutors in an effort to resolve the case.

Attorney J. Garrison Jordan wouldn't discuss any details of his meeting Wednesday with prosecutors. Jordan said he was trying to quickly resolve his client's case, but he wouldn't say whether the talks involve a possible plea agreement.

Normally, I would assume that meant that Flanagan is preparing to roll over on the other three, but these guys are first-timers. No doubt that there are powerful folk on the Right who, are exercising some very private leverage to get a deal cut for them.

I'd look for them to all cop a plea to misdemeanor trespass.