Month: August 2009

While I’m a Global Warming denier, the details of a gigantic Congressional junket to the South Pacific almost make me want to become a believer, just so I can jet around the world and go diving and partying and have someone else pay for it. WASHINGTON — When 10 members of Congress wanted to study…

What is authority? And what is free will? We talk about those things as if the words have self apparent meanings, but do they? There are so many views of free will that when I use the term I have no idea how I am being interpreted. People use words like “family values” or “sustainability”…

The Market Ticker has a very interesting report. From August 6th. Remember the Dallas Fed’s Fisher saying that “The Fed will not become the handmaiden of Treasury”? He was lying (The Fed already has), and now there is proof. Mad props to both Zerohedge and Chris Martenson for noticing this; I missed the facts buried…

If you like the above cut here is the whole movie on DVD. According to the reviews do not be put off by the title in Russian (the movie was made in Russia), the movie is in English (even the French speak in English). WATERLOO – by Sergei Bondarchuk (Import) And why have I been…

This little cutie is named “Mud.” While I haven’t sexed the turtle and can’t easily ask its gender, if he turns out to be a she, her name would be “Mudelle.” Not a very original name either way, but reflective of the species. Mud is a Mississippi mud turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis), and in the…

Sarah Palin has a few words about the health care bill now before Congress. The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost.…

“Government Medicine Should Horrify Americans.” So argues Deroy Murdock, who demonstrates in chilling detail that death rates are higher — and the standard of medical care lower — in the single payer systems of England and Canada. Countries that Obama wants to emulate here: As he told the AFL-CIO in 2003: “I happen to be…

What is health? And why does it keep changing? The reason I’m asking is because I was at a local “health food” store (which sells extremely expensive organic produce along with their extremely expensive health food), and I noticed a display rack full of expensive plastic drinking bottles, which was emblazoned with an important and…

It seems the Obama health care plan is attracting a LOT of unwanted attention from dissenters. Kenneth Gladney, 38, a conservative activist from St. Louis, said he was attacked by some of those arrested as he handed out yellow flags with “Don’t tread on me” printed on them. He spoke to the Post-Dispatch from the…

Paul Krugman and Peggy Noonan have both written columns analyzing the protests against nationalized health care, and they agree on one thing: the protests are new and ugly. Noonan: There’s a new tone in the debate, and it’s ugly. Krugman: So this is something new and ugly. What’s behind it? From there, they diverge, and…

Britain may soon have an electricity problem according to The Economist. In the frigid opening days of 2009, Britain’s electricity demand peaked at 59 gigawatts (GW). Just over 45% of that came from power plants fuelled by gas from the North Sea. A further 35% or so came from coal, less than 15% from nuclear…

The guys from the Rockford Tea Party are having a meet up with Illinois Congressman Don Manzullo from 9 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday Aug 8th at the DeKalb County Farm Bureau, 1350 W. Prarie Drive, Sycamore, Illinois and from Noon to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug, 8 at the Ogle County Farm Bureau, 421 W. Pines,…

It has come to my attention that if you send an e-mail to flag@whitehouse.gov to report unwarranted criticism of President ∅ your IP address will go into a permanent file. Cuffy Meigs at the above link explains what to do: For the record, I’m not completely freaked out by the White House having my IP…

I’ve been getting quite a laugh out of the accusation that “conservatives” are using Nazi symbolology (“SS Nazi sign carried at town hall protest“) — especially considering that the “evidence” consists of a picture of a hand-lettered sign attempting to use the SS double lightning bolts in a mocking way: The sign uses the SS…

This morning I learned (much to my chagrin), that the Obama Joker image I was promoting has not only upset some very prominent people on the left, but it is considered racist in some circles. They’re also saying it is “dangerous.” It may sound a bit counterintuitive, but as I’ll explain later I think that…

I had to say that. Especially in light of the story headlined “Schwarzenegger Finally Learns: Freedom Is Profitable, Statism Starves” that Glenn Reynolds linked earlier detailing how the governor is “aggressively pursuing a way to open a portion of California waters to offshore drilling.” What’s up with Arnold Schwarzenegger? Can it be that he is…

Sixty German Scientists doubt the current “consensus” that human CO2emissions are driving the climate. More than 60 prominent German scientists have publicly declared their dissent from man-made global warming fears in an Open Letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The more than 60 signers of the letter include several United Nations IPCC scientists. Well well…

When success is defined as “we were able to give away WAY more taxpayer money than we thought we would” you should be worried. Very, very worried. And these people want to run 15% of the economy.

How do you complain about identifiable groups of people without sounding like a bigot? Yesterday when my patience was tried by a particularly awful driver, I found myself wondering, and I also found myself feeling a bit jealous of the bigots (if it isn’t a form of bigotry to refer to bigots that way), because…

Not long after my complaint about news creating a sense of blogligation, there was a story — BLOODBATH AT GYM ATTACK PLOT ONLINE (linked with huge Drudge headline). I guess that means I am supposed to say something about it, although I am not sure why. The shooter kept a diary, and I think it…