Month: February 2010

The Democrats have a plan. And Bill Clinton is its leader. The Tea Party is getting too strong. It is changing the outcome of elections. Seriously. Scott Brown in Massachusets? Shaking in his boots. Big Government has learned that Clintonistas are plotting a “push/pull” strategy. They plan to identify 7-8 national figures active in the…

While it hadn’t occurred to me that the Tea Parties were racist, the fact that Keith Olbermann brought it up made me think back to the local Tea Party I attended in Northville, Michigan. At the time, I didn’t pay any attention to the race of the protesters, because, well, taxation is not about race.…

Under what I think is a highly questionable category of “CELEBRITY FEUDS,” TMZ has an article titled “Mitt Romney’s Alleged Attacker — Major Rap Star” which claims that the guy involved in a violent airplane altercation with presidential aspirant Mitt Romney was rapper Sky Blu of the group LMFAO. In a video interview (called a…

I was reading a story about how the US Navy exchanges officers and men with other Navies. Royal Navy Lt. Angus Essenhigh, a navigation officer, was part of that exchange. He was part of ship’s company on the USS Winston Churchill. How fitting. Essenhigh found this out when he tried to lay one of his…

We have some new Climate e-mails to peruse. This one is from the fourth pdf. I transcribed it by hand so if you find any errors let me know. Subject: Re: Fwd: US temperature correction graphic and file From:Reto Ruedy Date:Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:30:24 -0400 To:James Hansen CC:Makiko Sato , gavin@e-mail, klo@e-mail Jim, I…

Is this a case of a kamikaze pilot or just a flight gone wrong? A low-flying small plane crashed into an office building that houses the Internal Revenue Service in Texas on Thursday, and officials said they were investigating whether it was an intentional act by the pilot. The U.S. law enforcement officials said authorities…

Bill Quick has a very thoughtful essay with which I generally agree, although I was a bit confused by the essay’s title — which characterized the “Tea Party Principles” as “the call for fiscal conservatism and respect for traditional values.” Because I write this blog, the above puts me in the position of having to…

It looks like the never ending attempt to get high has brought new suppliers to the market. Government official pretend to be outraged. There may be nothing like the real thing, but some industrious marijuana users have seized on an obscure but easily accessible substance that mimics the drug’s effects on the brain — creating…

My friend Famulus is building an open source Polywell with super Conducting magnets. It would be the first superconducting Polywell in the world as far as anyone knows. Follow the link to see pretty pictures of the plan. Here he discusses power supplies for the coils. All very impressive. I wish I was there. There…

Damn! There are so many things I can’t write about that it just kills me. Really, this not-wanting-to-hurt-anyone’s-feelings thing gets to be too much, but that’s the way it is in the blogosphere, especially on the right side of the blogosphere these days. People who take themselves seriously do not take kindly to not being…

Ann Althouse reminded me that I don’t like figure skating. Never have, never will. I also don’t like Barbra Streisand. Neither musically, nor politically. While there’s no accounting for taste (and thus no accounting for those who like “Barbra”), I wish people wouldn’t make tasteless demands like this: Call me a stereotype if you will…

Senator Evan Bayh is retiring. On his way out he had a few choice words. “I simply reached a conclusion that I could get more done to help my state and the American people by doing something in the private sector,” said Bayh, the two-term senator and former governor, on ABC’s Good Morning America on…

My apologies to those who came here looking for one of my usual eccentric or silly posts. I’ll try to come up with something later, but I think this is important, so I’m changing the time on this post so it will stay at the top all day. As most of you know, I don’t…

Anyone familiar with Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón will remember that he’s an activist who sought to bring criminal charges against a number of Americans, including Henry Kissinger and the so-called “Bush Six.” (Alberto Gonzales, former Attorney General; John Yoo, of the Office of Legal Counsel; Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense for policy; William Haynes…

In a post about the latest attempt to medicalize political opinion, I interjected a gratuitous, unelaborated thought: I often suspect that the culture war is intended to keep us bickering over penises in the hope we won’t notice the country is going bankrupt, but that’s another rant. I’ve talked about this before. It’s the old…

I’ve read that conservative is the new gay, but might there actually be a “conservative gene”? What if conservatives are “born that way” as activists maintain gays are? Wouldn’t that make conservatives the members of a legitimate identity group worthy of the full range of legal protections? Lest anyone laugh at the absurdity, the New…

I just came across an Australian Company, Ceramic Fuel Cells Ltd., that makes a solid oxide natural gas fuel cell, BlueGen™, that can produce electricity and heat. BlueGen™ is a the latest breakthrough in small scale electricity generation – a modular style fuel cell generator that can be configured to suit a range of different…

In a recent news item I wish I didn’t have to take seriously, the Shariah-promoting Fiqh Council of North America is claiming that airport body scanners violate Islamic law. The Detroit Free Press says this could complicate airline screening: In a move that could complicate airport screening, a group of Muslim-American scholars issued a religious…

Earlier I was sent a link to an event I consider ridiculous, which I was all set to ignore in my usual manner. I offhandedly forwarded the link to M. Simon, who made an obvious suggestion — that I ridicule the event. The event featured programs with titles like “Homosexual Rights and First Amendment Freedoms:…