Month: June 2011

Breitbart’s opinion of his news conference. Big Journalism – Revenge of The Nerds: ‘Big’ Blogs Scoop the MSM Yet Again Big Government – Breitbart on TODAY: Big Gov’t Publisher Tells the Incredible Story Behind the Weiner Presser Cross Posted at Power and Control

My printer (Canon MP160 all in one) has been out of wack for the last few months due to lack of ink. I had a cartridge refill kit available but I hadn’t used it because the refill requirements seemed so stringent. I was way overestimating the difficulty. I used the single version of the following…

Actually she resigned on 3 July 2009. So let me see if I can figure this out. This coming 4th of July will be two years AND one day from that date. How interesting. What some folks were thinking back then is also interesting. …Palin also hinted at continuing political ambitions when she repeated a…

I don’t know whether any birdwatchers frequent this blog, but I recently attached a bird house to my garage, and it didn’t take long for a commotion to develop, following which construction began. I just photographed the builder in action, entering the house with twig in beak: Cute, no? I have not yet identified the…

Commenter JLawson at Paul Launches Assault On RomneyCare had this to say about the Republican Presidential field: If Palin runs, she’ll get my money and vote. If she doesn’t, I’ll hode my noze and vote for the R – because we can’t afford another 4 years of Captain Clueless in the White House. At least…

In the sweltering heat today, the landscaping job continued. I dug trenches in the hot sun and chopped out so many roots and so much concrete that my hands are now covered with blisters. I do not envy the Chinese coolies. Even though it was too hot for any non-mad-dogs Coco still managed to supervise.…

Hacksaw Bow? Sounds like a small river town in Michigan. But that is not what I’m talking about. It is a criticism of Jennifer Rubin’s opinion of Palin’s political status. Rubin thinks Palin is interested in the kingmaker/pundit role. She doesn’t want to be President. I said: Let me explain what Palin is doing to…

Here is a little ditty I got by e-mail. Republican Liberty Caucus Advisory Board member Gary Johnson, the former two-term Governor of New Mexico, is being excluded from the upcoming CNN/WMUR/New Hampshire Union-Leader Republican Presidential debate taking place in Manchester on Monday, June 13. Maybe it has something to do with the criteria for being…

Commenter Clint makes a very good point in a comment to Howard Dean: Palin Is An Obama Beater. Let’s also not make the mistake of picking a candidate because he’s “electable”. That’s just playing right into the MSM’s hands — “electable” is just shorthand for “treated with respect by the MSM”, isn’t it? Yep.

(Note that the time shown in the image is GMT – heh) Ron Paul is launching an all out attack on Mitt Romney and the socialized medicine plan he devised for Massachusetts. This could be just round one for Paul. It looks like Paul is only beginning to hit Romney on health care. Sandwiched between…

This is some news. Howard Dean says Palin can beat Obama. And not just when it comes to making news. Dean says his fellow Democrats should beware of inside-the-Beltway conventional wisdom that Obama would crush Palin in a general-election contest next year. “I think she could win,” Dean told The Hill in an interview Friday.…

Returning to Portugal for a visit has both the effect of skipping forward and watching only the high points of a movie (I’ve now reached the rueful age when I can ask my mother “tell me which of my elementary school classmates died since I’ve last been here) and the effect of re-examining my childhood…

Filing this under “skeptical, but cautiously optimistic” — a guy named James Woodward may have created a reactionless (well, propellantless) engine based on the Mach effect.  We’ve been talking to some of Woodward’s associates over the years at physics site TalkPolywell, and they seem earnest and sincere — Woodward apparently actually refuses donations to support his work for…

Via HotAir, this howler from Nicholas Kristof: But when many Republicans insist on “starving the beast” of government, cutting taxes, regulations and social services — slashing everything but the military — well, those are steps toward Pakistan. … The long trajectory of history has been for governments to take on more responsibilities, and for citizens…

Electric cars frighten me. Not because I have anything against new technology or the freedom of anyone to travel in whatever way he sees fit, but because I see a lot of money going into the development of something that people are not going to want, and I worry that push may come to shove.…

As we were landing in Porto, after our travel (mis)adventures, my son leaned out towards the window (I always claim as right of she who gave birth, the right to the window seat) at a landscape covered in terraces, in which sit massive white or cream buildings with red tile roofs, and said “Wow, it’s…

In the event that anyone is coming here looking for new posts from me, my sincere apologies! I have been literally SWAMPED with work lately, and I am completely re-landscaping the yard. Coco has been supervising everything so carefully that she has a new title. “The Snoopervisor!” But little does she know…. Just wait till…

According to Hill Buzz, “Cupcakes are da bomb!” The British intelligence agency M16 has managed to hack into Al Qaeda’s online magazine “Inspire”( which “inspires” jihadists to make bombs and plan terrorists attacks against infidels). The brilliant Brits replaced the magazine’s bomb making recipe section with cupcake recipes. Ingenious. It’s like something out of a…

As you can tell English is probably their second or third language. No matter. This is one of my favorite versions of “Sweet Jane”. Italy’s Poddighe Power Trio is reviewed in English. Along with some nice Lou Reed mp3s. www.Poddighe.com Cross Posted at Power and Control

Remember Pee Bottle and Bull Crap from the old cartoon series? Well they are at it again. (just my way of avoiding the subject) Whenever I try to use a public restroom, everything freezes up! No matter how badly I need to go, nothing happens if I’m not at home. I can urinate when I’m…