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Fuck WordPress, Too

Posted by mambopalace on March 31, 2007

So importing my old posts gives the impression that the code will be brought in too, but evidently, NO!

Oh sure, they look like links, but no, sorry. Not really!

Fucking cocksucking asshole piece of shit blogging fuckwad cuntlick dick for drains piece of shit sites!

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Daily Scripture 21 Mar 07

Posted by mambopalace on March 21, 2007

Isaiah 49 (NASB)

8 Thus says the LORD, “In a favorable time I have answered You, in a day of salvation I have helped You; And I will keep You and give You for a covenant of the people, To restore the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages;

9 Saying to those who are bound, ‘Go forth,’ To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves ‘ Along the roads they will feed, And their pasture will be on all bare heights.

10 “They will not hunger or thirst, Nor will the scorching heat or sun strike them down; For He who has compassion on them will lead them will guide them to springs of water.

11 “I will make all My mountains a road, And My highways will be raised up.

12 “Behold, these will come from afar; And lo, these will come from the north and from the west, these from the land of Sinim.”

13 Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth! Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains! the LORD has comforted His people And will have compassion on His afflicted.

14 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, And the Lord has forgotten me.”

15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child And have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you.

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Daily Scripture 20 Mar 07

Posted by mambopalace on March 20, 2007

Ezekiel 47 (NIV)

1 The man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar.

2 He then brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was flowing from the south side.

3 As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and then led me through water that was ankle-deep.

4 He measured off another thousand cubits and led me through water that was knee-deep. He measured off another thousand and led me through water that was up to the waist.

5 He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep enough to swim in—a river that no one could cross.

6 He asked me, “Son of man, do you see this?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river.

7 When I arrived there, I saw a great number of trees on each side of the river.

8 He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, where it enters the Sea. When it empties into the Sea, the water there becomes fresh.

9 Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live.

12 Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing.”

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Daily Scripture 19 May 07

Posted by mambopalace on March 19, 2007

2 Samuel 7 (KJV)

4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,

5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?

12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.

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Part five of the 40 days of shedding the gut (starting 19 Mar 07)

Posted by mambopalace on March 18, 2007

The 198 1/2 may have been a false positive as the scales at the Y cannot be trusted. So I’m not bothering with weight for a while and will concentrate instead on seeing visual results. Wearing a pair of pants that i haven’t fit into since Ohio? That’s a positive.

Now this week is time to face reality and accept that I just cannot manage to keep up the morning and evening calisthenics so after work set is gone. To make up for it, the run gets 5 more minutes but to keep it reasonable for the week, speeds are down. Weights stay the same this week except for the pull-ups, dips and chin-ups where we lose another 10lbs and face doing the last 4 everyday with no assistance.

Morning at home
4 x 35 bicycle crunches
4 x 20 pushups
4 x 25 opposite knee crunches
4 x 25 pelvis lifts

At the gym
8-6-4 assisted dip @ 40lb-20lb-00lb
8-6-4 assisted pullups @ 40lb-20lb-00lb

5 min. Warm up walk @ 2.5-4.5 mph ascending .5 mph/min
5 min jog @ 5.0 mph
5 min jog @ 5.5 mph
5 min jog @ 6.0 mph
5 min jog @ 5.5 mph
5 min cool down walk @ 4.5-2.5 mph descending .5mph/min

5 min stretching

8-6-4 assisted chin ups @ 40lb-20lb-00lb

M-Th
8-6-4 curls @ 25lb-30lb-35lb (dumbbell)
8-6-4 upright row 50lb-60lb-70lb (barbell)
8-6-4 military press 35lb-40lb-45lb 30lb-35lb-40lb (dumbbell)
8-6-4 preacher curls 30lb-40lb-50lb (barbell)

Tu-Fri
8-6-4 bench press 135lb-155lb-175lb (barbell)
8-6-4 bench press 45lb-55lb-65lb (dumbbell)
8-6-4 front pulldown 90lb-100lb-110lb (cable)
8-6-4 flat flys 20lb-25lb-30lb (dumbbell)

Sat
8-6-4 lateral raise 15lb-20lb-25lb (dumbbell)
8-6-4 tricep extension 50lb-60lb-70lb (dumbbell)
8-6-4 shrug 50lb-55lb-60lb (dumbbell)
8-6-4 pushdown 40lb-45lb-50lb (cable)

Sauna long enough to say one decade of the rosary

Two trips up the stairs to the 7th floor at work during the course of the day

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Daily Scripture 18 Mar 07

Posted by mambopalace on March 18, 2007

Joshua 5 (DRA)

9 And the Lord said to Josue: This day have I taken away from you the reproach of Egypt. And the name of that place was called Galgal, until this present day.

10 And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, and they kept the phase on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the plains of Jericho:

11 And they ate on the next day unleavened bread of the corn of the land, and frumenty of the same year.

12 And the manna ceased after they ate of the corn of the land, neither did the children of Israel use that food any more, but they ate of the corn of the present year of the land of Chanaan.

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Daily Scripture 17 Mar 07

Posted by mambopalace on March 17, 2007

Hosea 6 (NAB)

1 In their affliction, they shall look for me: “Come, let us return to the LORD, For it is he who has rent, but he will heal us; he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds.

2 He will revive us after two days; on the third day he will raise us up, to live in his presence.

3 Let us know, let us strive to know the LORD; as certain as the dawn is his coming, and his judgment shines forth like the light of day! He will come to us like the rain, like spring rain that waters the earth.”

4 What can I do with you, Ephraim? What can I do with you, Judah? Your piety is like a morning cloud, like the dew that early passes away.

5 For this reason I smote them through the prophets, I slew them by the words of my mouth;

6 For it is love that I desire, not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than holocausts.

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Daily Scripture 16 Mar 07

Posted by mambopalace on March 16, 2007

Hosea 14 (DRA)

2 Return, O Israel, to the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen down by thy iniquity.

3 Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.

4 Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses, neither will we say any more: The works of our hands are our gods, for thou wilt have mercy on the fatherless that is in thee.

5 I will heal their breaches, I will love them freely: for my wrath is turned away from them.

6 I will be as the dew, Israel shall spring as the lily, and his root shall shoot forth as that of Libanus.

7 His branches shall spread, and his glory shall be as the olive tree: and his smell as that of Libanus.

8 They shall be converted that sit under his shadow: they shall live upon wheat, and they shall blossom as a vine: his memorial shall be as the wine of Libanus.

9 Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I will hear him, and I will make him flourish like a green fir tree: from me is thy fruit found.

10 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

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Daily Scripture 15 Mar 07

Posted by mambopalace on March 15, 2007

Jeremiah 7 (KJV)

23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:

26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.

27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

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Daily Scripture 14 Mar 07

Posted by mambopalace on March 14, 2007

Deuteronomy 4 (ASV)

1 And now, O Israel, hearken unto the statutes and unto the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, giveth you.

2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.

3 Your eyes have seen what Jehovah did because of Baal-peor; for all the men that followed Baal-peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed them from the midst of thee.

4 But ye that did cleave unto Jehovah your God are alive every one of you this day.

5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the midst of the land whither ye go in to possess it.

6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

7 For what great nation is there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as Jehovah our God is whensoever we call upon him?

8 And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?

9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes saw, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but make them known unto thy children and thy children’s children;

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Daily Scripture 13 Mar 07

Posted by mambopalace on March 13, 2007

Daniel 3 (NAB)

25 In the fire Azariah stood up and prayed aloud:

34 For your name’s sake, do not deliver us up forever, or make void your covenant.

35 Do not take away your mercy from us, for the sake of Abraham, your beloved, Isaac your servant, and Israel your holy one,

36 To whom you promised to multiply their offspring like the stars of heaven, or the sand on the shore of the sea.

37 For we are reduced, O Lord, beyond any other nation, brought low everywhere in the world this day because of our sins.

38 We have in our day no prince, prophet, or leader, no holocaust, sacrifice, oblation, or incense, no place to offer first fruits, to find favor with you.

39 But with contrite heart and humble spirit let us be received;

40 As though it were holocausts of rams and bullocks, or thousands of fat lambs, So let our sacrifice be in your presence today as we follow you unreservedly; for those who trust in you cannot be put to shame.

41 And now we follow you with our whole heart, we fear you and we pray to you.

42 Do not let us be put to shame, but deal with us in your kindness and great mercy.

43 Deliver us by your wonders, and bring glory to your name, O Lord:

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Daily Scripture 12 Mar 07

Posted by mambopalace on March 12, 2007

2 Kings 5 (New King James Version)

1 Now Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great and honorable man in the eyes of his master, because by him the LORD had given victory to Syria. He was also a mighty man of valor, but a leper.

2 And the Syrians had gone out on raids, and had brought back captive a young girl from the land of Israel. She waited on Naaman’s wife.

3 Then she said to her mistress, “If only my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! For he would heal him of his leprosy.”

4 And Naaman went in and told his master, saying, “Thus and thus said the girl who is from the land of Israel.”

5 Then the king of Syria said, “Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” So he departed and took with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

6 Then he brought the letter to the king of Israel, which said, “Now be advised, when this letter comes to you, that I have sent Naaman my servant to you, that you may heal him of his leprosy.”

7 And it happened, when the king of Israel read the letter, that he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and make alive, that this man sends a man to me to heal him of his leprosy? Therefore please consider, and see how he seeks a quarrel with me.”

8 So it was, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Please let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

9 Then Naaman went with his horses and chariot, and he stood at the door of Elisha’s house.

10 And Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean.”

11 But Naaman became furious, and went away and said, “Indeed, I said to myself, ‘He will surely come out to me, and stand and call on the name of the LORD his God, and wave his hand over the place, and heal the leprosy.’

12 Are not the Abanah and the Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

13 And his servants came near and spoke to him, and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do something great, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

14 So he went down and dipped seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

15 And he returned to the man of God, he and all his aides, and came and stood before him; and he said, “Indeed, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel; now therefore, please take a gift from your servant.”

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Daily Scripture 11 Mar 07

Posted by mambopalace on March 11, 2007

Exodus 3 (NAB)

1 Meanwhile Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

2 There an angel of the LORD appeared to him in fire flaming out of a bush. As he looked on, he was surprised to see that the bush, though on fire, was not consumed.

3 So Moses decided, “I must go over to look at this remarkable sight, and see why the bush is not burned.”

4 When the LORD saw him coming over to look at it more closely, God called out to him from the bush, “Moses! Moses!” He answered, “Here I am.”

5 God said, “Come no nearer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

6 I am the God of your father,” he continued, “the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.” Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

7 But the LORD said, “I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry of complaint against their slave drivers, so I know well what they are suffering.

8 Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the hands of the Egyptians and lead them out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the country of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

13 “But,” said Moses to God, “when I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ if they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what am I to tell them?”

14 God replied, “I am who am.” Then he added, “This is what you shall tell the Israelites: I AM sent me to you.”

15 God spoke further to Moses, “Thus shall you say to the Israelites: The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. “This is my name forever; this is my title for all generations.

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Daily Scripture 10 Mar 07

Posted by mambopalace on March 11, 2007

Micah 7 (KJV)

14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage, which dwell solitarily in the wood, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

15 According to the days of thy coming out of the land of Egypt will I shew unto him marvellous things.

16 The nations shall see and be confounded at all their might: they shall lay their hand upon their mouth, their ears shall be deaf.

17 They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.

18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.

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It’s Friday, Bitches!

Posted by mambopalace on March 9, 2007

The 300 opens today and is a “race-baiting fantasy and nationalist myth.” I may have to see it. Ok, maybe not since Stephen Hunter hates it too.

Hat tip to Ace for the heads up on the nonpartisan review from Dana.

Lane Garrison likes ‘em young…and drunk according to the LAPD.

Newt Gingrich, favored pinata of the Left, the gift that keeps on giving to the Moonbats, resident egghead of the Right and still my favored choice for nominee or at least Veep in ‘08 admitted that throughout the Clinton Impeachment process, he was banging someone who was not his wife. This should be front page news and keep the talk shows bust for at least a week. Oh Newtie.

Eric got spammed. I can’t help but hear that in Bill Murray’s voice.

Metaphorical launches a jihad against that most evil of all American (do I need to say American or does evil automatically connote American) past times: Girl Scout Cookies!

Omar talks Iraqi politics.

Blood Ray is still pimping Norn’s Island which is always a good thing.

The Mad Texan lays out the Pirate Queen, which is not a musical about a marauding hoard of gay privateers.

Pokey was poking “one or more players” on her LSU squad along with a nameless WNBA player. Girl’s a playa!

Ok, that’s all I got time for today. Maybe more madness later. If not have a lovely weekend.

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