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I’m pretty tired of politics, mainly because it’s so damned redundant. In fact it’s so redundant and so repetitive that I am actually sick of being sick of politics, and most of all, sick of even saying I’m sick of politics. I mean, how many times and in how many ways can I say that…

This is a video of the August 4th AARP Meeting in Dallas. Pay close attention to the Marine speaking about 4 minutes into the video. And if you concentrate on the video you will notice a certain flag that keeps showing up in relation to citizen discontent. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Being trapped on an airplane for nine hours and not being allowed to leave strikes me as false imprisonment, and I’m not sure I’m buying the airline’s explanation that the “rules” required passengers to stay on the plane: 47 passengers […] spent the night trapped inside a small airplane, parked at the Rochester airport, complete…

In an earlier post when I complained about ejected babies crashing into vehicles driven by unsuspecting motorists on the freeway, I mentioned my own “near miss” with a baby in plastic pants crawling on a public street in Berkeley. This upset me so much that I never forgot it, but still, I always comforted myself…

You can see a larger version of the poster and read about the controversy with the photographer at the link. Gerard Vanderleun at American Digest gives his take along with more photos of Obama smoking plus a reprise of the original American Digest December 18th article along with the comments from that earlier post. Cross…

I just came across a most interesting www site. Oath Keepers. Here is how they describe themselves. Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, veterans, peace officers, and firefighters who will fulfill the oath we swore to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help us God.…

Eric of Classical Values suggested a read of this article about the opposition to Obama’s Health Care initiative. In the comments I came across this interesting thought by commenter RKV who talks about the current attitude of the Obama opposition. Victory is what we’re after. We’ll decide what standards we uphold, and refuse to give…

Eric did a post on Free Will and mentioned that the Koran was supposed to be the exact words of Mohamed as received by him from Allah. That made me think of a post I did back in 2006 which I think is pertinent. == I have been noodling around the net and have come…

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,…