Sunday, October 31, 2010
"... ‘No New Deficit Spending’"
This promise was clearly NOT kept...
Terrence P. Jeffrey writes about this at CNSnews.com:
"When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave her inaugural address as speaker of the House in 2007, she vowed there would be 'no new deficit spending.' Since that day, the national debt has increased by $5 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.
'After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending,' Pelosi said in her speech from the speaker’s podium. 'Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.'"
"Why Pastors Punt on Political Issues"
Here's an interesting article about today's Christian clergy...
Doug Giles recently voiced his opinion at Townhall.com:
"Now, this screed is primarily for Christian pastors, but in the spirit of multicultural interfaith yumminess, leaders of other faiths may feel free to apply this message to themselves and send me hate mail as well. Except for the Muslims. This ain’t for ya’ll. We don’t want to tick you off, y’know … because of the whole “kaboom” thing.
Before I give you the master list of reasons why some ministers are limp biscuits, let me go on record as saying that a silent pastor in today’s paranormal climate is about as worthless as a pitch pipe is to Yoko Ono. Look, I don’t care how much the minister likes kitty cats, candy canes, or if he weeps at Celine Dion concerts. If he’s not a part of this crucial societal throw down—pointing out what’s putrid and cheering on what’s proper—then he’s Judas Iscariot in my estimation."
Meanwhile - in Maine
Posting this reveals my opinion.
You can form your own...
You can form your own...
Bill Bumpas reports one person's opinion at OneNewsNow:
"'I think this is an example of this whole individual rights agenda going completely amok,' laments Janice Crouse, senior fellow at the Beverly LaHaye Institute of Concerned Women for America (CWA)"
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Meanwhile - in Toronto - Rob Ford elected mayor
Spending is THE issue all over...
Jonathan Jenkins reports in the Toronto Sun website:
"The brash councillor with the rumpled suits and the simple message of cutting waste chugged his way to victory in the mayor's race, ploughing through the challenge of more polished opponents and seizing the imagination of voters, as torontosun.com declared him the winner shortly after the polls closed."
Oil - Libra discovery offshore Brazil could contain 8 billion bbl of oil
I've seen and posted several stories of the last year or so about discoveries of oil, coal, and natural gas reserves, that would seem to diffuse any idea that we are soon to run out of energy supplies...
Recently, WorldOil.com reported this:
"The Petrobras Libra Field discovery offshore Brazil in the Santos Basin's prolific pre-salt play has been estimated to contain approximately 8 billion bbl of oil.
Marco Antonio Almeida, Brazil's secretary of oil and gas at the Ministry of Mines and Energy, said yesterday that the Libra Field was independently appraised by Gaffney & Cline at 7.9 billion bbl - considerably more than the previous estimate of 5.5 billion bbl first reported by Haroldo Lima, director general of the government's Agencia Nacional do Petroleo (ANP), and making the field rival the 5-8 billion bbl Tupi Field and become second largest discovery in ten years after Kazakhstan's 17.2 billion bbl Kashagan Field."
Friday, October 29, 2010
"The American Left Slides into Psychosis"
People don't seem to know or learn from history, and we have and still will pay a price for that.
I guess we're too busy with other things...
I guess we're too busy with other things...
J.R. Dunn writes about the Obama administration policies at AmericanThinker.com:
"They have never worked anywhere they have been tried -- not in Europe, not in Asia, not in Africa, nowhere across this wide world. Obama's grand schemes have been attempted previously. The failures were hurriedly stuffed down the memory hole, enabling the left to hope for another shot sometime down the line. (No small number of people in this country -- many of them not doctrinaire leftists by any means -- truly believe that FDR 'ended' the Depression.)
But today they have a problem -- several, in point of fact. The first is that the memory hole has in large part been filled in over the past decade and a half by such things as the internet and the New Media. It's no longer a simple matter to shove nationwide failures out of sight. It may not even be possible.
The second is the fact that this time, they bet the house. They put everything down on Obama. Because it had to work. Because the third time was the charm. Because O was the messiah. And now they're sitting in the casino dead broke, without another dime to lay on the table, and through the doorway they can hear the shouts of the people whose money they embezzled."
2011 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport - WSJ.com
Wow!...
Dan Neil writes about this in the Wall Street Journal:
"2011 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport
Price as tested: $2.8 million (est.)
Powertrain: Quad turbocharged and intercooled 8.0-liter, 16-cylinder engine with variable valve timing; seven-speed dual-clutch automated manual transmission; all-wheel drive with limited-slip rear differential.
Horsepower/torque: 1,200 hp at 6,400 rpm/1,106 pound-feet
at 3,000-5,000"
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Politicians - Congresswoman Betty McCollum
This is hard to believe...
"Gate" posted this and the video at NorCalBlogs.com:
"Video of Democrat Omitting, "Under God", While Leading the Pledge of Allegiance on the House Floor"
"70% Say Government Does Not Spend Taxpayer Money Wisely"
This is not news to most of us.
What needs to be new is for voters to demand that it be fixed.
If it means electing someone new, so be it...
What needs to be new is for voters to demand that it be fixed.
If it means electing someone new, so be it...
Rasmussen Reports recently polled and got this result:
"An overwhelming 70% of Adults say the government does not spend taxpayer’s money wisely and fairly. Just 16% believe the government does spend this money correctly, while another 14% are not sure."
"Death Before Truth: Political Correctness in America"
Blame, blame, blame.
The politically correct way to absolve personal accountability.
It was much easier when people just said, "the devil made me do it"...
The politically correct way to absolve personal accountability.
It was much easier when people just said, "the devil made me do it"...
Paul A. Ibbetson has experience on the subject. At WorldNetDaily.com, he begins with:
"If you want to see the pervasive nature of political correctness in America today, the national public outcry following the Rigoberto Ruelas suicide in California is a salient example."
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Don't Ask, Don't Vote - Investors.com
This certainly looks fishy...
From the Investors.com editorial page:
"You can call it a tragedy of errors, a perfect storm of incompetent and uncaring bureaucrats, or you can call it a deliberate attempt to steal what looks to be a close race for both governor and U.S. senator in President Obama's home state by disenfranchising its servicemen overseas, votes likely to tilt Republican."
Politicians - N.J. Congressman John Adler
Here's an ex=football player finding out how rough and tumble politics is...
So, from Jon Runyan's website, there is this:
"Jon Runyan Statement on Congressman John Adler Planting a Fraud Tea Party Candidate in NJ-3 Race"
"By Reporting Bad Science As Fact, Biased Media Help Create Panics"
The U.S. media leaves a lot to be desired.
This writer agrees and explains why...
This writer agrees and explains why...
Henry I. Miller writes about it at Investors.com. He, a Stanford Fellow, certainly has the credentials:
"In spite of the FDA's finding of BPA's safety and the statement of deputy agency head Joshua Sharfstein that 'if we thought it was unsafe, we would be taking strong regulatory action,' these were drowned out in virtually every media report by the FDA's pronouncement that certain studies using 'novel' methods raised 'some concern' about BPA.
Many press accounts led with the FDA's announcement being a 'reversal' of previous positions, when the reality is that the FDA merely committed to looking more closely at studies that were inconclusive and plagued by 'substantial uncertainties.'
It's no secret that the media thrive on sensationalism and controversy, real or imagined. In the case of BPA, the media have abetted a campaign to stoke public fears while failing to provide a complete and balanced picture of how the science is evolving and how it shapes regulatory decisions."
"Chris Coons lied, Granny died"
Ann Coulter's style is usually one barb after another.
That makes it difficult to extract just one as a lead in...
That makes it difficult to extract just one as a lead in...
Recently, at WND.com, Ann Coulter wrote about the Delaware Senate candidates' debate:
"O'Donnell wiped the floor with Coons, moderators Wolf Blitzer and Nancy Karibjanian, and the idiotic University of Delaware students asking questions – all of whom were against her.
(With the nation on the verge of another great depression – the brunt of which, to my delight, will fall most heavily on college students – guess what the dunderheads asked? GUESS! That's right: They asked about abortion 'in the case of rape or incest,' 'don't ask, don't tell,' doing something about 'our carbon footprint,' and the kook-minister who was going to burn Qurans, because ISLAM IS A RELIGION OF PEACE, I TELL YOU!)"
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
"Democrats abandon House progressives"
Politics is an ugly profession.
If you don't think so, just read this article...
If you don't think so, just read this article...
Julie Hirschfeld Davis of the Associated Press, reports on it:
"Democratic strategists acknowledge the tough decisions are based on harsh reality: If the party loses the House, all of its plans and Obama's would face major GOP roadblocks, so right now it's about scoring as many wins around the country as possible -- whether that benefits friends or foes of core party principles.
'They have to make very cold-blooded decisions. They have to .... be involved in the races that they still think are close and, in a few cases, pull out of races where the candidate is too far gone,' said former Rep. Martin Frost of Texas, who held Van Hollen's job in the 1990s.
'The important thing is to hold onto as many seats as you can. It doesn't have anything to do with how they voted -- this is pure politics, and both parties play it exactly the same way,' Frost said."
Government at Work - in Michigan
I think government is way over the line here.
I wonder what would have happened if she wanted someone "tall, rich, and handsome"?...
I wonder what would have happened if she wanted someone "tall, rich, and handsome"?...
Bob Unruh recently wrote about this at WorldNetDaily.com:
"A single, 31-year-old woman in Michigan who posted a note on her church bulletin board seeking a 'Christian roommate' to share her residence has been cited by the state for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against those of other faiths."
Politically Correct Radio - Rasmussen Reports™
There is clearly a double standard in America.
It's frustrating to see similar things treated in opposite ways.
The media isn't the only one at fault; but, they DO play a large part as to what gets coverage and what does not...
It's frustrating to see similar things treated in opposite ways.
The media isn't the only one at fault; but, they DO play a large part as to what gets coverage and what does not...
At Rasmussen Reports, Susan Estrich begins her writing with:
"'There is nothing more painful to me at this stage of my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery -- then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.'
Rev. Jesse Jackson, speaking at the PUSH convention in 1993."
Monday, October 25, 2010
Boehner: No More Comprehensive Budgets
I'm instinctively skeptical about everything a politician says.
That being said, I do like this idea.
The reasoning behind it may lead you to agree...
That being said, I do like this idea.
The reasoning behind it may lead you to agree...
Sean Higgins recently reported at Investors.com:
"The most noteworthy was this:
Let’s do away with the concept of 'comprehensive' spending bills. Let’s break them up, to encourage scrutiny, and make spending cuts easier. Rather than pairing agencies and departments together, let them come to the House floor individually, to be judged on their own merit.
Boehner notes that for years the word 'comprehensive' has been a positive adjective in Washington-speak, despite the fact that it typically has resulted in most federal spending being hidden inside doorstop-thick budget bills that few people — including lawmakers — read."
Meanwhile - in Brownsville, Texas
I understand the concept here; however, I don't understand the exceptions, as well as the fact that nothing will change environmentally if everyone decides to just pay the fee...
Rafael Carranza has the story at ValleyCentral.com:
"Under new changes to the ban on plastic bags in Brownsville, shoppers will be charged an extra dollar for every transaction in which they use plastic bags after the ban goes into effect.
Starting January 5, the use of plastic bags will be banned inside the Brownsville city limits in effort to go green."
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Politicians - in Illinois
Illinois certainly is an interesting political neighborhood...
Mary Katharine Ham has the story at DailyCaller.com:
"'As I’ve said, we didn’t know the extent of that activity,' Giannoulias said.
Mark Kirk came prepared with a prop for this debate, holding up a sheet of paper with many columns marked in highlighter yellow:
'This is a list of all the bank loans to convicted mobsters and felons. The ones in yellow are the ones where he was the senior loan officer,' Kirk said. 'These are all infamous mob figures, who have a very long and storied record. And, you don’t have to pull their rap sheets. It was in the Chicago Tribune.'"
Shutting Up Business - WSJ.com
Money for politics is obviously very serious business...
This is from the Wall Street Journal's opinion page:
"Since the Supreme Court's January decision in Citizens United v. FEC, Democrats in Congress have been trying to pass legislation to repeal the First Amendment for business, though not for unions. Having failed on that score, they're now turning to legal and political threats. Funny how all of this outrage never surfaced when the likes of Peter Lewis of Progressive insurance and George Soros helped to make Democrats financially dominant in 2006 and 2008.
Chairman Max Baucus of the powerful Senate Finance Committee got the threats going last month when he asked Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman to investigate if certain tax exempt 501(c) groups had violated the law by engaging in too much political campaign activity. Lest there be any confusion about his targets, the Montana Democrat flagged articles focused on GOP-leaning groups, including Americans for Job Security and American Crossroads."
Saturday, October 23, 2010
'Slow genocide' in Somalia's capital Mogadishu
This is not pretty.
It makes me wonder where the U.N. might be.
Are they too busy monitoring America's civil rights indiscretions?...
It makes me wonder where the U.N. might be.
Are they too busy monitoring America's civil rights indiscretions?...
For the BBC, Mohamed Olad Hassan reports:
"The sound of gunfire echoes through almost every street in Mogadishu.
Residential areas frequently come under heavy, indiscriminate shelling, corpses litter the alleyways, and neither side seems to be gaining the upper hand."
Friday, October 22, 2010
"Shovel-Ready White Elephants"
Some examples of government at work...
Jonah Goldberg writes at National Review Online:
"It took 410 days to build the Empire State Building, four years to erect the Golden Gate Bridge. The Pentagon took a year and a half, the Alaska Highway just nine months. These days it takes longer to build an overpass.
For instance, planning for Boston’s 'Big Dig' officially began in the early 1980s with a budget of $2.6 billion, but ground wasn’t broken until 1991 and the last ramp wasn’t opened until 2006. The final estimated cost: $22 billion. According to the Boston Globe, it won’t be paid off until 2038."
Thursday, October 21, 2010
"Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel: Multiculturalism a Failure"
Sound familiar?
Obviously, immigration issues are not isolated to the United States...
Obviously, immigration issues are not isolated to the United States...
Rudi Stettner recently reported on this at IndyPosted.com:
"Merkel focused in her speech on the need of immigrants to learn German and to integrate into German society. A greater frequency of crime and welfare dependency among immigrants in Germany has fueled frustration and resentment among Germans. By tapping into widely voiced frustration, Merkel undoubtedly hoped to take the hot button issue of immigration away from Germany’s extreme right and to deal with it in a firm and lawful manner.
Merkel’s remarks mirror the experience of other countries in Western Europe such as France, where immigrants are often likely to be involved in crime, lack fluency in the national language and suffer from higher rates of unemployment.This in turn fuels rightist extremism among native Europeans and Islamic extremism among immigrants, many of whom come from Muslim nations."
The Media - Are they reporting this?
If they are, I must have missed it.
Some fun, heh?...
Some fun, heh?...
Michael W. Chapman reports at CNSnews.com:
"Four billboard trucks bearing the message 'Stop the Liberal Bias, Tell the Truth!' began circling the Manhattan headquarters of ABC, CBS, NBC, and the New York Times on Friday. The trucks will do so for eight hours every weekday for the next four weeks as part of a campaign run by the Media Research Center, a watchdog group that analyzes the media for liberal bias.
Similar trucks also are operating in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, passing the offices of the broadcast networks, the Washington Post, CNN, the Newseum, the National Press Club and Politico, and ads about the campaign are running on numerous Web sites and on conservative talk radio programs."
The Media - Selective Reporting?
If this is true, the answer is yes.
And, as history has shown many times, it happens all the time...
And, as history has shown many times, it happens all the time...
The New York Post recently had this:
"In Paul Pope's 'The Deeds of My Fathers,' he claims his father, Generoso (Gene) Pope, who turned the Enquirer into the best-selling tabloid in America, spiked a story that reported Kopechne, the pretty young campaign worker, was pregnant in 1969 when she drowned in the Chappaquiddick River in Kennedy's car.
Pope writes that his father sent a reporter to DC in 1980 to buy the story from Washington Post gossip columnist Maxine Cheshire and a Women's Wear Daily reporter. The story detailing the alleged coverup included on-the-record sources, with every quote attributed.
'Once people read it, there'd be no way that Ted Kennedy could ever run for president, maybe not even for dog catcher in Massachusetts,' Paul writes.
But the story never ran."
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Schwarzenegger Veto Notes: Priceless - Washington Wire - WSJ
The "Terminator" has had rough sailing in California, but, he apparently still has some sense of humor...
Stu Woo recently reported this on a Wall Street Journal blog:
"California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is using his veto pen to push back on some bills that legislators passed while they dallied on a solution to the state’s three-month budget impasse. He’s also using it as an outlet for his sense of humor.
On Thursday, he attached this veto message to Assembly Bill 2418, which would have removed the apostrophe in the 'Contractors’ State License Law.'
To the Members of the California State Assembly: I am returning AB 2419 without my signature …"
Health News - Celery and Peppers
Keep eating those veggies. They're good for you...
Diana Yates recently reported this at News.Illinois.edu:
"A diet rich in the plant compound luteolin reduces age-related inflammation in the brain and related memory deficits by directly inhibiting the release of inflammatory molecules in the brain, researchers report.
Luteolin (LOOT-ee-oh-lin) is found in many plants, including carrots, peppers, celery, olive oil, peppermint, rosemary and chamomile.
The new study, which examined the effects of dietary luteolin in a mouse model of aging, appears in the Journal of Nutrition."
Health News - Watermelon lowers blood pressure
Hopefully this guy doesn't have a vested interest in the watermelon market...
Arturo Figueroa, of Florida State University is reporting:
"No matter how you slice it, watermelon has a lot going for it –– sweet, low calorie, high fiber, nutrient rich –– and now, there's more. Evidence from a pilot study led by food scientists at The Florida State University suggests that watermelon can be an effective natural weapon against prehypertension, a precursor to cardiovascular disease.
It is the first investigation of its kind in humans. FSU Assistant Professor Arturo Figueroa and Professor Bahram H. Arjmandi found that when six grams of the amino acid L-citrulline/L-arginine from watermelon extract was administered daily for six weeks, there was improved arterial function and consequently lowered aortic blood pressure in all nine of their prehypertensive subjects (four men and five postmenopausal women, ages 51-57). "
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
"Media Pushes NOW Is the ‘Voice of Women’ Lie"
I think this writer has this right.
N.O.W. "sounds" like it would be right FOR women; however, over the years they've proven that they have an agenda that frequently overrides that perception...
N.O.W. "sounds" like it would be right FOR women; however, over the years they've proven that they have an agenda that frequently overrides that perception...
Lori Ziganto explains it very well at BigJournalism.com:
"N.O.W., the National Organization of Whores, leaped into the lead for the title of most epically hypocritical organization this week. Whoops, silly me! I mean National Organization for Women. But, as ExJon of Exurban League pointed out to me, they won’t mind being called whores, will they? I mean, they obviously have no problem with that term, otherwise a group who claims to be For the Women™ would not, you know, endorse men who slur women with that term, now would they?
Of course they would. And did.
A mere 24 hours after Jerry Brown was caught calling Meg Whitman, his opponent in the race for California Governor, a 'whore,' they endorsed him. Proof positive once again that Leftist feminists, including their cult-like organizations, will stop at nothing, even rewarding sexism, to further their true agenda. An agenda which is not one of concern for women at all."
The Virginian: How the Media Created the Tea Party
This seems to be a quite accurate analysis.
Hopefully, election day will provide confirmation...
Hopefully, election day will provide confirmation...
This was posted on the MoneyRunner blog:
"...the media has always been liberal, but their liberalism had been tempered. But they simply could not resist the temptation to become the cheerleaders for the first affirmative action president."
Monday, October 18, 2010
Politicians - Maine Gov. Candidate Libby Mitchell
A memory lapse for sure.
Politicians are slow to learn that everything is recorded by somebody these days...
Politicians are slow to learn that everything is recorded by somebody these days...
AsMaineGoes.com recently reported on this:
"BANGOR - Maine Democrat gubernatorial candidate Libby Mitchell tonight lectured her opponents on the necessity for respect when discussing the President. However, her concern for decorum was exposed as cheap political posturing when a photo emerged showing her laughing at a description of former President George W. Bush as an 'International Terrorist'."
Government at Work - Managing Medicare
Yes, this group got caught; but, did the government get our money back?
And I wonder, how many others are doing the same thing and NOT being caught.
If the crooks know government is incompetent, how come so many others don't seem to know it?...
And I wonder, how many others are doing the same thing and NOT being caught.
If the crooks know government is incompetent, how come so many others don't seem to know it?...
At MSNBC.com, Tom Hays, of the Associated Press recently reported:
"A vast network of Armenian gangsters and their associates used phantom health care clinics and other means to try to cheat Medicare out of $163 million, the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in the program's history, U.S. authorities said Wednesday.
Federal prosecutors in New York and elsewhere charged 73 people. Most of the defendants were captured during raids Wednesday morning in New York City and Los Angeles, but there also were arrests in New Mexico, Georgia and Ohio.
The scheme's scope and sophistication 'puts the traditional Mafia to shame,' U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a Manhattan news conference. 'They ran a veritable fraud franchise.'"
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Politicians - Michigan State Representative Marie Donigan (D)
Elected officials clearly have little respect for OUR money...
The Foundry, a Heritage Foundation blog, recently reported this:
"The federal government is footing most of the bill for the Detroit light rail, thanks to 'a nifty Congressional agreement,' as MLive’s Jonathan Oosting describes it. If you see federal dollars as 'nifty' play money that falls from the sky, it doesn’t seem like that bad of a deal, right?
Michigan State Representative Marie Donigan (D), who was interviewed about the train for a Reason.tv video (above), is all for taking the free money. She scoffed at the notion that there is only so much cash to go around:
'So we have a limited pool of money, right? Is that what you’re saying? There’s only so much money in the world ever? Obviously that’s not true.'
Note to Rep. Donigan: Detroit, which has to chip in $55 million for the rail, has a deficit of $85 to $125 million and in April faced a budget deficit of $331 million. Meanwhile, the State of Michigan will see a $1.6 billion budget shortfall next year. It seems there IS a limited supply of money for state and local governments, after all."
Politicians - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
This is NOT pocket change...
Mark Tapscott reports at WashingtonExaminer.com:
"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and members of her family and staff took 85 tax-paid trips on military aircraft between March 2, 2009, and June 7, 2010, according to new documents uncovered by Judicial Watch.
Pelosi's daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons were on the June 20, 2009, flight from Andrews AFB to San Francisco where Pelosi resides, according to the documents. On July 2, 2010, Pelosi took a grandson on a flight from Andrews to Travis AFB, north of San Francisco.
Judicial Watch obtained the documents as a result of a January 25, 2009, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Previous documents received by the non-profit watchdog group revealed that Pelosi's travel 'cost the United States Air Force $2,100,744.59 over a two-year period — $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol,' according to Judicial Watch."
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Global warming - A respected opinion
There's nothing wishy-washy about this statement...
James Delingpole has the story in the U.K. Daily Telegraph:
"US physics professor: 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life'"
Mind Boggling Speed!
Entertainment may be the most obvious; however, this kind of digital speed will impact everything we do...
Dean Takahashi writes about it at VentureBeat.com:
"Intel announced today that it has created a breakthrough data-transfer technology in its labs, using a combination of silicon chips and lasers to transfer data over a fiber optic cable at a speed of 50 gigabits per second.
That is far faster than the maximum possible today with copper wires, which hit their peak around 10 gigabits per second. The new Intel Silicon Photonics Link is fast enough to transfer a high definition movie from iTunes in one second, or to transfer 1,000 high-resolution digital photos in a second, or send 100 hours of music in a second, or to send 45 million Tweets. It could hit the market within five years."
Friday, October 15, 2010
Scale of Universe - Interactive Scale of the Universe Tool
This probably isn't for everyone; however, my scientific side thinks it's pretty neat...
PrimaxStudio.com website:
"You have to click and drag the "grab bar" back and forth to see how it works"
Thursday, October 14, 2010
"Ten Questions You're Not Supposed to Ask About Islam"
It would be interesting to hear the answers; however, in our "talking point" and "sound bite" society, I doubt anyone would listen long enough to hear them.
The media as we know it, rarely gives anyone more than a few seconds to explain anything, and then invariably interrupt without letting anyone finish their answer...
The media as we know it, rarely gives anyone more than a few seconds to explain anything, and then invariably interrupt without letting anyone finish their answer...
At Townhall.com, John Hawkins has the ten. Here's number 9:
"9) Islam, as it's practiced, SEEMS to be an EXTRAORDINARILY intolerant religion. Yet, non-Muslims are constantly being told we have to be tolerant to Islam. Why should non-Muslims be so tolerant of Islam when that tolerance is not being returned? "
The Media - MSNBC's Todd & Guthrie
Read this and see if you agree about MSNBC being biased...
Mark Finkelstein reports at NewsBusters.org:
"MSNBC's Todd, Guthrie Urge Democrat Meek to Quit Florida Senate Race"
The Media - and their biased reporting
So, if you only follow the "main stream" media, you would never know about this...
Warner Todd Huston offers this at PubliusForum.com:
"The Old Media went into a feeding frenzy when it was revealed that News Corp., the owner of Fox News, had donated $1 million to the Republican Governor’s Association to help GOP candidates this election cycle. The left immediately used this fact as a fundraising meme and the media was thrilled to play the news up when a few days later the Democratic Governors Association filed a complaint with the Ohio Election Commission against Fox over the donation.
But while the media loved the story of the DGA filing its complaint, that same Old Media establishment doesn’t seem nearly as interested in reporting that the Democrat’s quietly dropped their complaint, abandoning it without comment. "
"Oct. 12, 1986, ..., The Day That The World Changed"
Some Presidents stick up for what they believe in.
It's an admirable trait, to say the least...
It's an admirable trait, to say the least...
John Heubusch writes at Investors.com:
"On the evening of Oct. 12, 1986, the Reykjavik Summit appeared to have ended in failure for President Reagan. Two days of talks between him and Mikhail Gorbachev over the reduction of their nations' vast missile arsenals had resulted in Reagan walking out at the last minute.
The issue? Gorbachev wouldn't agree to any agreement unless the U.S. ceased its research on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Reagan said no.
The meeting adjourned, and both leaders, with their staffs, walked out into the cold Iceland rain.
As historian Richard Reeves recounts in his biography, 'President Reagan: Triumph of Imagination,' on the trip home aboard Air Force One, Charles Wick, director of the United States Information Service, approached the president and said... "
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Politics of Foreclosure - WSJ.com
I think we all agree that paperwork needs to be right to make a process legal.
Enter the government and elected officials (in an election year).
Just imagine what unintended consequences that might lead to...
Enter the government and elected officials (in an election year).
Just imagine what unintended consequences that might lead to...
The Wall Street Journal gives their opinion:
"The moratoriums further politicize the housing market and further delay a housing recovery. In an economy and a financial system engulfed in Washington-created uncertainty, the political class has decided to create still more."
Coal - It's Out There
There's plenty of it, and new technology looks to make it VERY useful...
I found this posted at GlobalPetroleumClub.com:
"Canada has more energy in its 'proven, recoverable' reserves of coal than it has in all of its oil, natural gas and oil sands combined: 10 billion tonnes. The world has 100 times more: one trillion tonnes. These reserves hold the energy equivalent of more than four trillion barrels of oil. They are scattered in 70 countries, mostly in relatively easy-to-mine locations and mostly in democratic countries.
The United States alone has 30 per cent of the world's reserves, and scientists in Texas say they have found a way to convert coal into gasoline at a cost of less than $30 (U.S.) a barrel - with zero release of pollutants.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) announced last month that they have developed a clean way to turn the cheapest kind of coal - lignite, common in Texas - into synthetic crude. 'We go from that [lignite coal] to this really nice liquid,' Brian Dennis, a member of the research team, said in describing the synthetic crude that can be refined into gasoline."
The “Toxic” Truth About TARP - Rasmussen Reports™
This is about how the government handles OUR money.
Just look at the complications and "guestimates".
Regardless of what the government reports, history should remind you not to believe that taxpayers got any "value"...
Just look at the complications and "guestimates".
Regardless of what the government reports, history should remind you not to believe that taxpayers got any "value"...
Howard Rich writes about it in the Wall Street Journal:
"Of course these rosy, election-year estimates are based on government liquidating its ownership stake in hundreds of 'private' corporations – including a 92 percent stake in the American International Group (AIG) and a 61 percent stake in General Motors (GM).
For taxpayers to recoup their 'investment' in AIG, the government will have to sell 1.66 billion shares of common stock at an average price of $29 per share. At GM, the government must sell 304 million shares of common stock at an average price of nearly $134 per share. Hitting these targets would be a daunting task in any economic climate – and may prove insurmountable in our ongoing malaise.
'How does one get $49 billion out of a company that’s currently worth $25 billion?' an investment research publication recently asked. “'he follow on question is: why would investors buy AIG shares while the government’s AIG stock sale could last 18-24 months?'"
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
"The Kennedy-Nixon Debates: JFK Lied, Cubans Died"
Wow! It took 50 years for this little bit of truth to come out.
I wonder what might come out 50 years from now...
I wonder what might come out 50 years from now...
Humberto Fontova recently posted this in his story at BigPeace.com:
"Take Kennedy’s claim that President Eisenhower had fallen asleep (or gone golfing) during his command and allowed a perilous “missile gap” to grow between the U.S. and the Soviets. In fact a huge gap had grown (roughly six thousand for us, three hundred for the Soviets).
Might this qualify as an 'outrageous claim' by Kennedy? Not if your source is Ted Sorensen and the New York Times. In fact, prior to the debates, CIA director Allen Dulles had briefed Kennedy on the genuine missile numbers. But rather than respond to this genuinely outrageous claim, Nixon bit his tongue. Disclosing the real number (that JFK knew perfectly well) in public would alert the Soviets to how we got their number, and jeopardize U.S. national security. Which is to say, to blindside his Republican opponent Kennedy relied on that opponent’s patriotism. Let’s face it, Republicans are at a woeful disadvantage here."
Republicans Bachmann, King, and Goodlatte lead charge against alleged fraud in settlement with black farmers � � Print The Daily Caller – Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
This seems like a legitimate question.
After reading the story, it does make you wonder why it hasn't been asked before...
After reading the story, it does make you wonder why it hasn't been asked before...
Caroline May reported this at DailyCaller.com:
"Republican Reps. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Steve King of Iowa, and Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, want to know how it is that over 94,000 black farmers have sought reparations for discrimination, when data show that there are only 33,000 black farmers in the United States? And why, if the discrimination was so widespread, no USDA official was ever fired for it?"
Monday, October 11, 2010
"Which Malik Shabazz Visited White House in July 2009, Mr. President?"
Considering the circumstances, this question seems like one the "main stream" media would press on.
But, then again, they may NOT want to know the answer...
But, then again, they may NOT want to know the answer...
Andrew Breitbart writes about it at BigGovernment.com:
"In May 2009, the Obama/Holder Justice Department dropped charges in a voter intimidation case against Malik Shabazz, a leader of the New Black Panther Party, despite having already won a summary judgment against him, and his New Black Panther Party colleagues King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson who were video-taped outside polling place in Philadelphia intimidating voters as they arrived on election day, 2008. In July 2009, when Congress began looking into the matter, someone named Malik Shabazz visited the private residence at the White House.
When news of the visit was released under the auspices of transparency, the White House denied that the Malik Shabazz on the visitor’s log was the same Malik Shabazz involved in the New Black Panther voter intimidation case."
Government at Work -in Minnesota
This is pretty bad...
Tom Stewardrecently called attention to this at BigGovernment.com:
"St. Cloud Regional Airport (STC) touts lots of amenities on its website—a café, ATM, free wi-fi, free parking and a $5 million completely renovated terminal whose capacity went up dramatically from 30 to 200 travelers. There’s also a new $750,000 passenger boarding bridge secured with federal stimulus funds to keep travelers out of the elements while catching a flight. One asset, however, the newly renovated airport notably lacks—commercial flights and passengers.
'We’re here to serve the public and serve them well and have adequate facilities,' Bill Towle, airport director, told the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota. 'I would say the airport is a utility and we need adequate facilities to serve the public.'
Currently, an average of about one charter flight a month with 130 or so passengers uses the eerily empty 9,000 square foot glass-fronted facility."
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Chasing Fox - N.Y. Magazine's Gabriel Sherman
There's much more to the cable news business than meets the eye...
Gabriel Sherman writes about the cable news business for N.Y. Magazine, calling it:
"The loud, cartoonish blood sport that’s engorged MSNBC, exhausted CNN—and is making our body politic delirious."
Saturday, October 09, 2010
President Obama's 'Rap Palate' - WSJ.com
Well, at least he's open about it.
It let's America know who he is, and they can respond accordingly...
It let's America know who he is, and they can respond accordingly...
Thomas Chatterton Williams gives his opinion:
"The president is entitled to his friends and aesthetic tastes. But he undermines his own laudable message and example when he associates himself with a hip-hop culture that diminishes blacks.
Mr. Williams is the author of "Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture" (Penguin, 2010)."
Global Warming - from around the world
Unusual weather conditions don't always cooperate with the preferred agenda of global warming predictors.
It's kind of funny...
And in Russia...
It's kind of funny...
In New Zealand, Meat Trade News reports:
"Following a reasonably benign winter, the Southland region of New Zealand (NZ) has in the past week been hit by 'the worst spring storm in living memory' according to the NZ Herald.
Six days of blizzards..."
And in Russia...
RT.com reports:
"Coldest winter in 1,000 years on its way"
Friday, October 08, 2010
Meanwhile - in Fulton, Tennessee
I guess this can happen anywhere; but, it DOES seem quite harsh...
Jon Swaine, reporting for the Daaily Telegraph, recently reported:
"Gene and Paulette Cranick, of South Fulton, Tennessee, US, lost their home after officers were ordered by bosses not to extinguish it.
Fire fighters only arrived when the flames spread to the property of a neighbour, who had paid the fee. However, they continued to refuse to help the Cranicks."
Thursday, October 07, 2010
“The President Is Losing It”
I read this a while ago and figure nothing much has changed.
It's a fun read...
It's a fun read...
This is from Pat Dollard's website:
"Ok, back to President Obama then. In just a few words, how would you describe him these days? Like I said, it’s been a while since I was last at the White House, but I don’t have a problem saying that the president is losing it. I don’t mean he is like losing his mind. I mean to say that he is losing whatever spark he had during the campaign. When you take away the crowds, Obama gets noticeably smaller. He shrinks up inside of himself. He just doesn’t seem to have the confidence to do the job of President, and it’s getting worse and worse. Case in point – just a few days before I left, I saw first hand the President of the United States yelling at a member of his staff. He was yelling like a spoiled child. And then he pouted for several moments after. I wish I was kidding, or exaggerating, but I am not. The President of the United States threw a temper tantrum. The jobs reports are always setting him off, and he is getting increasingly conspiratorial over the unemployment numbers. I never heard it myself, but was told that Obama thinks the banking system is out to get him now. That they and the big industries are making him pay for trying to regulate them more. That is the frame of mind the President is in these days. And you know what? Maybe he is right, who knows?"
The rich don't pay, they leave - John Stossel
Higher taxes almost always create less income for the government.
One of our political parties can't seem to understand that...
One of our political parties can't seem to understand that...
John Stossel recently wrote about it at WND.com and included this example:
"New York billionaire Tom Golisano isn't stupid, either. With $3,000 and one employee, he started a business that processes paychecks for companies. He created 13,000 jobs.
Then New York state hiked the income tax on millionaires.
'It was the straw that broke the camel's back,' he says. 'Not that I like to throw the number around, but my personal income tax last year would've been $13,800 a day. Would you like to write a check for $13,800 a day to a state government, as opposed to moving to another state where there's no state income tax or very low state income tax?'
He established residence in Florida, which has no personal income tax.
Now New York Gov. David Paterson may have even seen the light.
'We projected that we would get $4 billion, and we actually got well short of it,' he says."
Blankley: Tea Party Has Elites on the Run
Today's elected officials (city, state, and national) have created an environment that now has the citizen's attention.
Maybe there was a straw that broke the camel's back. Maybe they feel backed into a corner. Maybe they feel their young are being threatened.
Any one of these causes normally patient people to react with force.
What happens next, remains to be seen...
Maybe there was a straw that broke the camel's back. Maybe they feel backed into a corner. Maybe they feel their young are being threatened.
Any one of these causes normally patient people to react with force.
What happens next, remains to be seen...
Tony Blankley writes about the Tea Party at GOPUSA.com and then says:
"The Obama presidency is both the high watermark, and the beginning of the end, for elite multicultural materialism in America."
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Two events, two crowds, two pictures. The "main stream" media reports them as about equal.
Top - 08-28-10 Glenn Beck "Restoring Honor" Event
Bottom - 10-02-10 "One Nation" Rally
"Christie Announces Sweeping N.J. Education Reform"
I see this as refreshing.
I'm sure there are others who disagree...
I'm sure there are others who disagree...
CBS2 - New York recently reported this:
"Determined to turn New Jersey’s education system on its head, Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday unveiled a tough-love reform package that will make classroom achievement — not seniority or tenure — the basis for pay hikes and career advancement in Garden State public schools.
Christie is turning his take-no-prisoner’s style to the classroom, demanding a top to bottom overhaul of how New Jersey students learn and teachers teach. And that means undoing tenure, seniority and other union work rules.
'We cannot wait. Your children are sitting in these classrooms today. We cannot wait to make it better,' Christie told CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer.
Unqualified teachers will feel the lash. The governor is demanding that teachers in kindergarten through fifth grade actually pass tests in reading and math in order to be certified."
"Lunacy dims Edison's invention"
I've posted articles on this subject before.
My guess would be that elected officials will forget that they caused this, and "save" us (probably in an election year)...
My guess would be that elected officials will forget that they caused this, and "save" us (probably in an election year)...
Alan Levine reported this at Arizona's TriValleyCentral.com website:
"The General Electric factory in Winchester, Va., the last major U.S. plant making standard incandescent light bulbs, is scheduled to close at the end of the month. When it does, the remaining 200 workers will lose their jobs, marking a rather ignominious end for a company that produced a product that Thomas Alva Edison gave to us and the rest of the world back in the late 1870s.
This is a direct result of Al Gore’s global-warming scare tactic, which is largely responsible for the 2007 energy bill enacted by the Democratic-dominated Congress that mandates the total banning of all incandescent bulbs by 2014, further exacerbated by the fact that all of the CFL bulbs that we are being forced to use will continue to be manufactured in China."
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
"... possible 'resurrection day' on Nov. 2"
This is probably not about what the title got you to think...
Bob Unruh discusses voting in America at WorldNetDaily.com:
"According to Scripps Howard columnist Deroy Murock, Arkansas, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon and Tennessee removed exactly zero dead voters from their rolls between 2006 and 2008.
And there are several regions, including counties in North Carolina and Iowa, where there are more registered voters than there are live, voting-age adults.
'Registered voters equal 104 percent of Baltimore County, Maryland's voting-adult population; and, according to documents … 113 percent in Lincoln County, West Virginia. Alaska's and Michigan's statewide figures are 102 percent,' the report said.
Recent vote-fraud indictments have resulted from cases in Minnesota, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Indiana, New York, New Jersey, Mississippi and other states, the report said."
Bob Beckel, the Politics of Personal Destruction, and Me - Big Journalism
We've all seen Bob Beckel on various TV talk shows. He does NOT appeal to me.
I suspect he is selected to appear because he represents the left and is prone to outbursts like this...
I suspect he is selected to appear because he represents the left and is prone to outbursts like this...
Pamela Geller tells the story and fights back at BigJournalism.com:
"To that, Beckel showed his misogynistic side, turning to me, waving his finger in my face and saying:
'You better be very careful. You’re a woman, you better be very careful about who you say I carry water for, because you have no idea what you’re talking about. And don’t start putting me in the middle of your crap!'
'You’re a woman'?
Remember, this was the same Beckel who called Hannah Giles a “ho” last winter, and who was the focus of an extortion plot by a prostitute who tried to get $50,000 out of him to keep him quiet about their liaisons. It looks as if I was right when I called him a 'woman-hater.'
It got ugly between Beckel and me not only during the show, but also after the show. When we cut to a break..."
Monday, October 04, 2010
Arizona Sheriff Arpaio Gets Favorable Audit - WSJ.com
The "main stream" media isn't likely to say much about this.
It does seem apparent that this sheriff is only "wrong" politically.
At least so far. We'll have to wait and see...
It does seem apparent that this sheriff is only "wrong" politically.
At least so far. We'll have to wait and see...
However, Evan Perez DOES report on it in the Wall StreetJournal:
"Hispanic and civil-liberties groups have criticized practices of Mr. Arpaio, such as using tents to house detainees and dressing them in pink uniforms.
The Marshals Service conducted routine inspections of jail facilities operated by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in September 2009 and again recently. Those inspections, separate from the Justice civil-rights probe, were done as part of agreements under which the Maricopa sheriff houses some of the Marshals Service's federal prisoners.
Mr. Arpaio's department polices much of the suburban region outside of Phoenix.
In the inspections, the Marshals Service gave Mr. Arpaio's facility 'compliant' grades, the highest mark, in all major categories, according to the September 2009 inspection reports. In another series of inspections this month, the Maricopa County jails received the same grades, Marshals Service spokesman Thomas Henman said."
"...Why Obama's diplomacy is flailing"
It seems that the United States always comes up short when it comes to understanding the ingrained cultural aspects of foreign countries.
We seem to base our diplomacy on American culture, and act as if every other culture thinks and has the same values as we do...
We seem to base our diplomacy on American culture, and act as if every other culture thinks and has the same values as we do...
This is from Richard Cohen in the N.Y. Daily News. He does not think highly of of current Middle-East diplomacy:
"Given the highly emotional nature of the settlement issue, it made no sense for the administration - actually, President Obama himself - to promote an absolute moratorium on construction as the prerequisite for peace talks. The government of Benjamin Netanyahu complied, under extreme pressure, but only to a 10-month moratorium. For Netanyahu, this in itself was a major concession. He heads a right-wing coalition that takes settlements very seriously. Netanyahu had a choice: accede to Obama's terms and have his government collapse, or end the moratorium. On Sunday, with the 10 months being up, he chose the latter. We will see if the end of the moratorium means the end of peace talks. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has not yet ended negotiations. He's going to confer with his fellow Arab leaders. Obama ought to also confer with someone who knows the region.
Trouble is, many experts have told him that his emphasis on settlements was the wrong way to go."
Sunday, October 03, 2010
"The Republican Philosophy"
I can easily agree with this...
Cal Thomas writes about it at TownHall.com writes about it at TownHall.com:
"Since the New Deal, there has been an unhealthy relationship between government and the people that has harmed both. But like illegal drugs, there would be little supply if the demand were not high. The idea that people are incapable of taking care of themselves and their immediate families would have been foreign to our Founding Fathers. What too many lack is not resources, but motivation. Remind politicians of the stories from our past and present about people who overcame obstacles, start teaching these stories to the kids in our schools.
Perhaps no one in modern times articulated the conservative philosophy about government and its rightful place better than Ronald Reagan, who said in a 1964 speech endorsing GOP presidential candidate Barry Goldwater: 'This is the issue of this election: Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.'
Philosophy is easier to express than to apply. Republicans, should they win back Congress this year and the White House in 2012, will face enormous opposition from entrenched interests that will test more than the strength of their philosophy. It will test the strength of their character. "
NBC’s Martin Fletcher ‘Walking Israel’ - TVNewser
I actually find it honorable that a former NBC news correspondent realizes that Israel gets a bad rap, and is actually trying to let us see a different abd more accurate view...
Recently, Molly Stark Dean reported on his new book at MediaBistro.com:
"The reason I wrote the book is that I believe this view of Israel is too narrow," Fletcher tells TVNewser. "I want people to understand that Israel gets a raw deal. That Israel is a much nicer place than the country they hear about."
Saturday, October 02, 2010
Politicians - U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan of Missouri
Right in our face!
This seems so obvious that it seems like a dare to do something about it...
This seems so obvious that it seems like a dare to do something about it...
Amanda Carey recently reported this at DailyCaller.com:
"Democratic Rep. Russ Carnahan of Missouri is a rank-and-file Democrat. According to OpenCongress.org, he has voted with the Democratic Party 99 percent of the time since he assumed office in 2005, and was among those who consistently espoused the merits of the 2009 stimulus package.
He has, in other words, been a good reliable Democrat for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Obama. And it seems the obedience has not gone unnoticed.
Earlier this month, the White House released a report entitled, '100 Recovery Act Projects that are Changing America.' Number 18 on the list is Lost Creek Wind Farm in DeKalb County, Missouri, which received a $107 million grant from the Department of Energy. And it just so happens that Lost Creek was founded by Tom Carnahan – Russ’ brother."
Daily Gut: Extinction Appreciated
Conservative types have humor, too.
Of course, facts are facts, and this point seems well taken...
Of course, facts are facts, and this point seems well taken...
Greg Gutfeld recently posted at BigHollywood.com:
"...to me this represents another false panic sold to the public, under the assumption that the world was in peril, and that we were at fault.
Conservationists have been pushing mass critter extinction and blaming it on mankind for ages – for there’s no easier way to make money than creating hysteria, and then asking you for help. I.e. cash.
So it raises the question: If conservationists asked for your dough to save the central rock rat – and now it turns out that the central rock rat is fine – do you get your money back?"
The Pelosi-Reid Deficits - WSJ.com
If these numbers are accurate, it's clear where the problem lies.
Election Day is an opportunity to begin fixing it...
Election Day is an opportunity to begin fixing it...
Steve Moore recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal:
"For the sake of comparison, let's look at the Pelosi-Reid fiscal record over 10 years. In January 2007, the CBO projected a $379 billion surplus over the next decade. Now, after four years under Mrs. Pelosi and Mr. Reid, and two years of Mr. Obama in the White House, the 2007-2016 projection is a deficit of $7.16 trillion.
This deterioration of the nation's fiscal situation is arguably the worst in United States history, and it was brought to us courtesy of a congressional leadership that pledged "pay as you go" budgeting to bring the budget into balance.
It is no wonder that Americans are not eager to retain the services of these two spendthrifts as leaders of Congress."
Friday, October 01, 2010
"Cancer's 'penicillin moment'?"
Sooner or later, this cancer thing will be defeated.
Here's a story about the latest positive discovery...
Here's a story about the latest positive discovery...
Fiona Macrae reports in the U.K.'s Daily Mail:
"Known as PLX4032, it is the first cancer drug to harness knowledge from the full decoding of human DNA, and has produced ‘spectacular’ trial results."
