Digital Impulses

Castro Quits

*Yawn*.

Cuba's official Communist state-run newspaper "Granma" published a letter today via the Internet only purporting to be from the beast himself, Castro wherein he states that "will not vie for nor accept the position of President" in the upcoming elections.

Until his carcass is paraded around in some glass coffin up and down the streets of La Habana, I could not give less of a fuck.

So he quit.  So his brother is now officially the next bastard henchman to continue to oppress the Cuban people.

So, what's new?  Exactly.  Like I said:

"Yawn".

A Vote For Mitt Romney

This evening the wife and I walked over to the Elementary school across the street from our house and voted in the California Primaries.

As we have for the last 20 years, we voted Republican and we cast a vote for Mitt Romney, as we believe he is the better choice over the centrist/liberal John McCain.

PROOF:

We are proud of the choice we made. Go Conservatism in the Spirit of the great Ronald Reagan.

Evel Knievel, dead at 69

From the AP:

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.

Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.

Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.

Immortalized in the Washington's Smithsonian Institution as "America's Legendary Daredevil," Knievel was best known for a failed 1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a spectacular crash at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly 40 broken bones before he retired in 1980.

Although he dropped off the pop culture radar in the '80s, Knievel always had fans and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity in recent years. In later years he still made a good living selling his autographs and endorsing products. Thousands came to Butte, Mont., every year as his legend was celebrated during the "Evel Knievel Days" festival.

"They started out watching me bust my ass, and I became part of their lives," Knievel said. "People wanted to associate with a winner, not a loser. They wanted to associate with someone who kept trying to be a winner."

His death came just two days after it was announced that he and rapper Kanye West had settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel's trademarked image in a popular West music video.

I remember having some of his toys in the early 1970's, including getting a a cool-ass motorcycle that had EK as a posable action figure on it for my 7th birthday.  I could take the EK figure and make him stand on his head on the handlebars of his motorcycle.

RIP, Evel.  You thrilled us all.

Iran releases 15 British prisioners.

TEHRAN, Iran —  Fifteen British sailors and marines seized by Iranian naval personnel have been pardoned and will be freed, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said at a press conference Wednesday, but he vowed his country would not tolerate invasions of its borders by any country.

CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and multiple other news agencies all over the Internet are reporting that Iran has released or is about to release the 15 British sailors that they have been holding as prisoners for over two weeks.

"I announce that the great people of Iran and the Islamic Republic, even having legal rights to try these military people, in honor of the prophet's birthday, will be freed as a gift to the people of the United Kingdom," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to reporters, clerics and civil servants at a small hall in Tehran.

Iranian state television said the crew would leave the country Thursday on a plane. However, a State Department official said to FOX News, "We are cautiously optimistic — but it ain't a done deal 'til they're out of Iranian airspace, just like the American hostages [in 1981]."

Anna Nicole Smith DEAD at 39

Anna Nicole Smith has died unexpectedly at the age of 39, while with her boyfriend Howard K, Stern at a Hollywood, FL casino.

From the AP:

By SUZETTE LABOY
Associated Press Writer

Anna Nicole Smith dies in Fla. at age 39

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- Anna Nicole Smith, the voluptuous former Playboy centerfold who married an octogenarian billionaire and waged a legal battle for his fortune all the way to the Supreme Court, died Thursday after collapsing at a hotel. She was 39.

The blond bombshell - who recently became tabloid fodder all over again after the sudden, apparently drug-related death of her 20-year-old son - was stricken while staying at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and was rushed to a hospital.

Edwina Johnson, chief investigator of the Broward County Medical Examiner's Office, said the cause of death was under investigation and an autopsy would be done on Friday.

A private nurse called 911 after finding Smith unresponsive in her sixth-floor room, said Seminole Police Chief Charlie Tiger. He said Smith's bodyguard administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation about an hour before she was declared dead.

Through the '90s and into the new century, Smith was famous for being famous, a pop-culture punchline because of her up-and-down weight, her exaggerated curves, her little-girl voice, her ditzy-blonde persona, and her over-the-top revealing outfits.

The curvaceous Texas-born Smith was a topless dancer at strip club before she entered her photos in a search contest and made the cover of Playboy magazine in 1992, captivating readers with her Marilyn Monroe looks. She became Playboy's playmate of the year in 1993.

She was also signed to a contract with Guess jeans, appearing in TV commercials, billboards and magazine ads.

In 1994, she married 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, the head of oil-based Koch Industries, which is part of a family fortune worth at least $400 million. He died in 1995 at age 90, setting off a feud with her former stepson, E. Pierce Marshall, over whether she had a right to his estate.

A federal court in California awarded Smith $474 million. That was later overturned. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court revived her case, ruling that she deserved another day in court in her battle with her former stepson.

The stepson died June 20 at age 67. But the family said the court fight would continue.

More recently, Smith's ballooning figure and up-and-down weight became a subject of public fascination. But she lost a reported 69 pounds and became a spokeswoman for TrimSpa, a weight-loss supplement.

She starred in her own reality TV series, "The Anna Nicole Show," in 2002-04. Cameras followed her around as she sparred with her lawyer, hung out with her personal assistant and interior decorator, and cooed at her poodle, Sugar Pie. She also appeared in movies, performing a bit part in "The Hudsucker Proxy" in 1994.

After news came of Smith's death, G. Eric Brunstad Jr., the lawyer who represented Marshall, said in a statement: "We're very shocked by the news and extend the deepest condolences to her family."

Smith's son, Daniel Smith, died Sept. 10 in his mother's hospital room in the Bahamas, just days after she gave birth to a daughter.

An American medical examiner hired by the family, Cyril Wecht, said he had methadone and two antidepressants in his system when he died. Low levels of the three drugs interacted to cause an accidental death, Wecht said. Last month, a Bahamas magistrate scheduled a formal inquiry into the death for March 27.

Meanwhile, the paternity of her now 5-month-old daughter remained a matter of dispute. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, Smith's most recent companion. Smith's ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead was waging a legal challenge, saying he was the father.

Debra Opri, the attorney who filed his paternity suit, said Birkhead "is devastated. He is inconsolable, and we are taking steps now to protect the DNA testing of the child. The child is our number one priority."

She was born Vickie Lynn Hogan on Nov. 28, 1967, in Houston, one of six children of Donald Eugene and Virgie Hart Hogan. She married Bill Smith in 1985, giving birth to Daniel before divorcing two years later.

"From my professional exposure to Anna Nicole, I can say she was always personable, down to earth and driven. All in all, a joy to have as a client," said Wayne Munroe, her Bahamian lawyer who has overseen the aftermath of her son's mysterious death in Nassau.

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Talk about a shooting star.  How tragic.  My thoughts and prayers are with her family.

Tijuana Police issued Slingshots

And now, straight from the "You-Have-Got-To-Be-Kidding-Me" department:

The local police in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico, which borders San Diego, CA, have been issued roughly 60 slingshots along with bags of ball bearings in order to defend the citizens of the city.

From the AP News Service:

Tijuana police issued slingshots

Guns confiscated amid allegations of collusion with drug runners

The Associated Press

Updated: 10:07 p.m. PT Jan 22, 2007

TIJUANA, Mexico - The police department has issued about 60 slingshots to officers in the violent border city of Tijuana, where soldiers confiscated police weapons two weeks ago on allegations of collusion with drug traffickers.

Municipal police spokesman Fernando Bojorquez said Monday that the slingshots, along with bags of ballbearings, were given to officers patrolling areas of the city visited by tourists.
Tijuana’s police force of 2,000 officers has been without guns since Jan. 5, but some patrol alongside armed state police.

President Felipe Calderon sent 3,300 soldiers and federal police to Tijuana at the beginning of January to hunt down drug gangs. The soldiers swept police stations and took officers’ guns for inspection amid allegations by federal investigators that a corrupt network of officers supports smugglers who traffic drugs into the U.S. The weapons are still being checked.

About 100 police demonstrated outside Tijuana town hall on Monday demanding the return of their guns. “The arms are our tools for work,” said officer Juan Manuel Nieves. “Do they want more police to be killed?”

More than 300 people were slain in Tijuana last year including 13 police officers.

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This is one of those stories that just make you shake your head in utter wonderment at what some parts of the world are quickly devolving to. 

Wow.

"Web Geek" California License Plate STOLEN

Someone stole Dori Smith's license plate in Northern California.  It says, simply:

“WEB GEEK”

As seen here:

If you see that plate, please report the bastard who did that. And if you are said bastard, return the plates and no questions will be asked.

Gimme a break, guys.  It has sentimental value. Be a human being and give it back.

Tuesday, September 11, 2001: 5 years

Never, ever, ever, ever forget.

Sadly, I believe most of us, just a scant 5 years later, have forgotten the horrors visited upon this great nation that beautiful Fall morning of 9/11/01.

On that fateful Tuesday morning, We, the Non-Muslim population of this planet were irrevocably plunged into a war to to the death with Radical Islam.

A renewed war whose opening salvo was fired on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. They seek to destroy us.  We are the targets of their swords.  They fear not death. They hold nothing sacred but the Koran. 

They willingly sacrifice themselves for their cause, hoping that by staining our soil with their blood ink and taking out as many of us as they can manage, their sins will be erased in the eyes of Allah, their God.

Let me repeat:  Every single non-Muslim, non-follower of the Qur'an on this planet is considered an Infidel who must be destroyed.

It is not a matter of IF but WHEN we are hit again. 

Those aligned against us and seeking to destroy our way of life have infinite patience and will wait for us to grow complacent once again to strike at the heart of freedom again.  And again. And again.  For as long as it takes for either us or them to be eradicated from the face of the planet.  Either way, in their enfeverished, lunatic minds they win. 

For if they destroy us, they have achieved glory in the eyes of Allah, and if they are destroyed, they died in the name of eradicating the infidels that were offending Allah, and so they have achieved Martyrdom and the glory that comes with it.

God bless us and the rest of the forces aligned against Radical Islam.  We are going to need every ounce of strength and moral fiber we posses to rid ourselves and the world of this scrooge.

London Authorities: "Huge Terror Plot Disrupted"

Well.

Woke up to the news that authorities in London had "disrupted" a huge terrorist plot that involved nearly 50 people, 21 which have been arrested.  Information, rumors adn updates are running hot and heavy and it is the # 1 news story all over the world.

The U.K. has raised its threat level to SEVERE or "red", and we here in the U.S. are at threat Level "orange".  Following are some of the headlines on some of the major News sites on the web:

Fidel Castro cedes power temporarily

Is Fidel dead yet?

Could we see dancing Cubans in Miami's famed Calle Ocho soon?  That dream could be a reality soon.

After 47 hellish years at the helm of one of the most vicious, brutal dictatorships in the history of the world, Fidel Castro is gravely ill and seems to be ill enough to have ceded power 'temporarily' to his bother Raul Castro.

I won't bother with links, since this story is ALL OVER the news at CNN, FOX, MSNBC, BBC, L.A. Times, New York Times, Google, etc.

Those of us Cubans can only hope that this is the beginning of the end for the monstrosity that has been Communism in the beuatiful island of Cuba since 1959.