My Boss and I were discussing the whole kerfuffle with Anti-American, former-tyrant/dictator, and foreign John Kerry Supporter, Saddam Hussein, and the Iraqi court, and how it looked like a DUI hearing.
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You may recall my Previous Post regarding the Wall Street Journal’s Presidential Rankings. After learning more about this, I picked up my own copy of the book, Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and the Worst in the White House. And it is a good read.

On top of the interesting way they compiled this list, they also include pithy biographies of each of the 42 presidents from Washington to George W. Bush. Its a great Cliff’s Notes version of American History, displaying how and why each president was great, or not-so-great.
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I know I talk about the Fourth of July more often then any other holiday, but there is a reason for it. It is a revolutionary holiday, and there is no pun intended.
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I’m not a gambling man, by trade, nor am I a good “Bluffer”, at least, I don’t think I am.

Well, this holiday week, I got sucked into watching something that I’d never thought I’d get yanked into:

• For one reason, its on the Bravo network (Sorry Denis Leary, just cause its independent film, doesn’t mean its good.)
• Second, its hosted by Dave (I used to think I was Funny) Foley.
• Third, its watching people play cards on TV

Celebrity Poker Showdown
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The United Nations is declaring “war” on Spam.
Well, maybe not.

I saw this article on h-t-t-p-colon forward-slash forward-slash slash-dot-dot-org, refrencing this article on The AOL News Network.

So its the “Moral Authority” of the United Nations versus the “Bottom-Dwelling” nature of Spammers.

So I’m in a “quagmire”.

I don’t know who to root for.
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I went to the used book store yesterday to get rid of some of my old College Texts, and some books that I’ve never read and never planned on reading. In the effort, I picked up 2 others, which I’ve eagerly added to my plans for Summer Reading.

I love a good book, especially in the Summer.
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Its a little late, but blame the holiday, not me.

For those who came in late, these are the top 20 search strings used to find Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com via the various Search Engines around the World Wide Web.

And disturbingly, there are still a lot of MSN results…

Aside: A LOT Of you people are still looking for Real Men of Genius whatever… can you guys just turn the page and get on with your lives? Those commercials are SO OLD now.
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“The Colonel” is still in the news, in this Opinion Journal Feature Article (Need Free Subscription, or wait until tomorrow).

Seems like while the Colonel has reduced his terrorism abroad, he is still quite the bad-guy at home.

And the U.N. in all its “Moral Authority”, isn’t happy.
Go figure.

Picture borrowed from the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal
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In the effort to track Operation: Summer Pulse ’04, here are the latest news and deployments of the United States Navy SuperCarrier Fleet.

Sources: Global-Security-dot-org
Navy-dot-mil
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Twenty-Eight years ago, today, My Two-Years-and-one-month of being an only child came to a close; and my little sister Angela was born.

The cute one is Ang, I’m the dumb looking one

July 13, 1976 was a good day!

Happy birthday sis!
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Matt had posted about his obvservations of a certain flower store near our house with some rather inflamatory comments about President Bush. One of the slogans he used as a mantra for awhile caught my attention:

I’ve only been in the office for an hour, and I’ve already got my support team laughing.
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This has been floating around the Internet, so I’d put my own little spin on it:

Read this like you would watching the Simpsons:

Sales Clerk: “Take this object, but beware! It carries a terrible curse…”
Homer: “Ooh, that’s bad!”
Clerk: “…but it comes with a free Frosted Yogurt, which I call ‘frogurt’!”
Homer: “That’s good!”
Clerk: “…the frogurt is also cursed…”
Homer: “That’s bad!”
Clerk: “…but you get your choice of topping…”
Homer: “That’s good!”
Clerk: “The toppings contain potassium benzoate…”
[Silence]
Clerk: “That’s bad!”
Homer: “Can I go now?”

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Quite a few of you have been curious as to what I’ve got “on deck” or “in progress” in the reading department.

So, I put together this Dynamic database page for your curiousity:

Jeremy R. Gilby’s Reading List

It also has a link to the database of completed books that I’ve enjoied (or not enjoied).

Share and Enjoy!

From the Washington Times: Chinese produce new type of sub.

Hat tip to Matthew-Maynard-dot-net.

So the Chinese are flexing their naval muscle?
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You may remember my Movie Review of Master and Commander; well, today I finished the book of the same name; Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brian.

Knowing the movie was not directly from the book, I still enjoied this quite a lot.

++++++++ SPOILERS BELOW ++++++++
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Okay, I don’t like cell phones. I don’t like them at all.

I often joke about the day when I actually have to get one, and then the rapture will come. (I’m that extreme.)

Well, I saw this flash report on Drudge regarding the Feds are looking into an “Emergency Only” policy towards cell phone use while driving.

I’m all for it.
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Wha?
h-t-t-p-colon forward-slash forward-slash slash-dot-dot-org is 503ed?
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According to “The Governor”, Mr. Schwarzenegger, Called Special Interest Democrats “Girlie Men”

If they don’t have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, “I don’t want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers …” if they don’t have the guts, I call them girlie men,…

Of course, this is in reference to Democratic legislators who refuse to go along with his spending cuts.

I love it!
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I saw this Article on the User-Friendly-dot-org: Link of the Day.

Go ahead and read it, its cute, in a megalomaniac sort of way.
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I saw this on Drudge this morning:

This is an election year, and I think we’re in desperate trouble and it’s time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It’s a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I’d rather not know.

Linda Ronstadt

So the left-wing pundints DO support “Don’t-Ask Don’t-Tell”?
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Last night, for about 3 hours, I recorded 6 tracks for a CD that the Band is planning to cut in the semi-near future. As the band is 16 peices/vocals; this track-by-track process is not easy to do.

And I learned an important lesson about playing the saxophone.
You have to really pay attention to your breathing.
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I mean it this time, STOP!

I bring this up because last night I got into a very smart discussion with Nathan about why Mozilla is more secure then IE ever will be.
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So there I was, looking through my referrer logs, and lo and behold one refering website (which I’ve never seen before) shot up in the ranks overnight.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173936/posts

This article is about the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan and the upcoming festivities in San Diego.

Scroll down and you will see why.
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A Co-worker forwarded this website to me today:

Cell Phone Etiquette

Now, if only this was actually adhered to, I would be a happier man.
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So, is Lance Armstrong cool, or what?
*Listens and sees that the ENTIRE WORLD agrees with Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com, for once.*

Even the French think Lance is the best, as This Genius salutes our favorite cyclist telling him He is Number One!.

Go Lance Go!
What a guy!

Hattip to Citizen/Lt-Smash

Dennis the Crap Weasel Kucinich has Finally dropped out of the Presidential Race, conceeding to the mighty-mighty haughty-french-looking Massachusetts Democrat, who by-the-way, also served in Vietnam. (Oh, its true, its true! Kerry DID serve in Vietnam!)

Graphic borrowed from the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion-Journal-dot-com

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Lots of SuperCarrier News today, so I thought I’d give my next installment of Where are the Carriers to cover it:

• 2 SuperCarriers come home today
• At least one SuperCarrier comes home in the next week.
• 2 SuperCarriers move out to deployment.
• And 1 SuperCarrier has a “Sid Meyer: Civilization” moment with a chumpy little wooden boat.

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As Dad informed me in my last post Illinois Jacquet died of a heart attack on Thursday Night.

He was 81 years old.

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If this works, “Jeremy” will not be the only author on Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com

(Yeah, its still me, I’m just playing with some things.)
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Welcome to the Monsoon Season
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At Geof’s suggestion, I’ve implemented WordPress over at the Geek-Project that is lovingly called Geek-Brigade-dot-com.
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It was Andy Warhol who said:

In the future everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes

I’m beginning to think otherwise.

I was watching a show on the History Channel the other weekend, and someone said something to the contrary.

“In the Future, everyone will have 15 minutes of privacy”
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From Best of the Web Today: On Location at the Democratic National Circus in Boston.

We board the T and head for the Haymarket station, the closest the trains run to the Fleet Center. But the train ends one station early, and rather than mess with a transfer, we decide to get off and hoof it. Outside the station perhaps a dozen people have gathered to hear members of the Socialist Party USA hold forth.

[Continued Below]

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Go a check out Michelle-Malkin-dot-com, and her article on “The Party of Al [The-Race-Card-Hustler] Sharpton“. She also links to her article on town-hall-dot-com, Five reasons to fear the Democratic party.
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Thanks to Cassini’s images of the Death-Star-Like-Moon: Mimias, Saturn can finally say “We Got DeathStar”
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To cite Cox and Forkum.

“Stronger at Home, Respected in the World” — which is just a euphemistic way of saying, “More Socialism At Home, Less Military Self-Defense Abroad.”

How do you spell Stronger?
*Spelling Bee Time*
Stronger, T-A-X-E-S. Stronger.
[End of Spelling Lesson]

Today is System Administrator Appreciation Day

Find your nearest System Administrator, and give them a big HUG!
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Today, is the 29th Anniversary of the disappearance of the notorious Jimmy Hoffa.

Last seen leaving the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Michigan, in the back seat of Charles O’Brien’s car, Jimmy Hoffa seemed to vanish 29 years ago, today. Since then, there has been no trace of him.

So Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
The Staff at Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com wants to know.
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You heard it hear last: David “Baywatch” “Micheal Knight” Hasselhoff feels snubbed for not receiving the credit he deserves for ending the cold war, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

I can’t quote the BBC on this one, its too hard. You have to read the article yourself.
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Its time to update the Jeremy-Gilby-dot-com Reading List again, as today, I’ve finished up Tom Clancy’s The Sum of All Fears.

As you should already know, I’ve read the books which follow this one (in fact, the only book(s) of the Jack Ryan/John Clark Series I have not read are Patriot Games and The Teeth of the Tiger, the later I picked up today as it was just released in Paperback.

So onto the review:

+++++++++ SPOILERS BELOW +++++++++
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