Month: March 2010

Yesterday I saw that the local Hollywood Video I pass on my regular running route is selling its entire inventory because it will be closing. It is part of a struggling chain which has filed for bankruptcy: NEW YORK – Movie Gallery Inc., owner of the Hollywood Video movie rental chain, has filed for Chapter…

Via an email from a friend, I learned about a disgusting new form of rudeness which irritated me so much that I thought it merited a blog post. Apparently (and I hope this is not a trend) car dealers are using a new technology to trigger obnoxious horn-honking in vehicles owned by people behind on…

If the Health Care Destruction Bill passes Idaho will sue the Federal Government to prevent implimentation of the individual mandate. Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if…

EMC2 (Polywell Fusion) has updated their site with an image of WB-8 shown above. The Drawing is labeled as “with diagnostics”. And then there is this picture: Labeled: WB-D 100MW Polywell Demo Device Your Contributions Will Help Us Design The WB-D Polywell Device Send your supporting contributions to: New Mexico Community Foundation Contact Energy Matter…

One of my quirks is that I don’t like being lied to or manipulated, especially by people whose job is to simply gather the news and report facts. So I found myself more than a little annoyed by the manipulative nature of a USA Today story which attempts to promote a meme I wish had…

More than once I have been treated to the spectacle of seeing welfare mothers in supermarket check-out lanes, carts full of grape soda and all sorts of cheesy, puffy processed junk foods, like potato chips, pork rinds, etc. I don’t know whether such stuff still qualifies legally as “food,” but many times I found myself…

Dick Armey predicts (via Memeorandum) that the current round of Democratic shenanigans will succeed at forcing Obamacare through. “They’ll probably force this through,” he said. “But you can’t discount the number of people who can be moved by a ruthless and powerful political leader or group of political leaders.” The FreedomWorks chairman also had harsh…

Well not so random actually. They are the working notes of anti-Drug War Lobbiest and retired Detective/Officer Howard Wooldridge. De Nile is also a river in Egypt: At a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting this week our Deputy Secretary of State for the Americas, Mr. Valenzuela was asked by the chairman about the murders of…

If you want to read about my recent computer travails you can get a short history at Power and Control. But history is a thing of the past. I need to buy a new machine in the next day or three. I want to buy one locally – probably at Best Buy – since I…

A man purporting to represent Sam’s Club came around today offering “discounts” and government money for window replacement and other housing upgrades. He declined to leave his information. I did a quick search and couldn’t find anything on the program related to Sam’s Club. Does any one know of anything? I note that a similar…

Sean Kinsell’s reaction to the Coffee Parties was to embrace with ridicule the language of the oppressor: I think I’d rather be tea-bagging. While no one denies that “teabagging” is meant as an insult, isn’t it also a tacit acknowledgment of a larger issue, that the Tea Partiers have balls?

Via Ghost of a Flea, I found an entertaining (and certainly educational) video titled “Coffee Party Group Therapy Session”: After the therapy session, they got together and made cool signs and stuff. I haven’t seen the signs, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they enjoy ridiculing as “teabaggers” the people they lamely imitate. Now, while…

Michael Barone thinks the Republicans may be giving up on the culture war. Finally. The Republicans for the last two decades have been a party whose litmus tests have been cultural issues, especially abortion. The tea partiers have helped to change their focus to issues of government overreach and spending. That may be a helpful…

A lot of people on the left complain about “economic injustice.” Usually, this involves the fact that some people have more money than others, the assumption being that the Haves got whatever they have at the expense of the Have-Nots. The idea is that income differences are inherently “unfair” or “inequitable” and that they should…

Putting words in the mouths of respected figures is as old a practice as man. The reasons vary; sometimes the idea is to knock the venerated figure off his pedestal, while other times the idea is to invoke what he purportedly “said” as an argument to authority in support of one premise or another. Sometimes,…

Jeff Id visited a trade show in St. Louis and brings back a report. First, there is a definite but slight recovery in in industry at this moment. Good news. The second, is that industry is absolutely angry at what BHO and the extremists in charge are doing. Now understand, these include rank and file…

Earlier I read about a group of young men with Muslim names — Mohammad Habibzada, Shafiq Hashemi and Sayed Bassam — who went from their hometown of Hayward, California to San Francisco, California for the express purpose of shooting gays with a BB gun, which they already confessed to doing: Three Hayward men are scheduled…

Like clockwork, every time I might think of taking a little time to do, you know, things unrelated to blogging, a new emergency arises. Until a few moments ago, I had absolutely no idea that “they” were about to burn the Reichstag, and that because M. Simon was discussing drugs, that makes this blog “unreal.”…

High Country News has an interesting article on how Mexico is becoming a failed state. All because of the Drug War. The man talking on the screen was recruited by the drug industry in Ciudad Juarez, sent to the state police academy, where he got around $150 a month as a student and around $1,000…

One of my pet peeves is that in many jurisdictions, police officers have become little more than revenue agents. Tax collectors, if you will. Here’s a typical rant: You go 75 (which nearly everyone does, and which you have to do to keep up with traffic), and you’re vulnerable, because sooner or later, some damnable…