Pointman’s Page

If you want to keep family livestock, a dairy cow or goat for example, USDA wants it radio tagged and little commotion has been rasied and the media has been largely silent.

If you like antique and interesting historical firearms then this site will keep you busy for hours.

All I can think of is the old joke that asks what a snail says while riding on a turtle’s back….  Wii!

SENATE INVESTIGATION: FEMA so flawed and beyond repair ‘it should be disbanded’
Wed Apr 26 2006 18:57:19 ET
FEMA is so flawed and beyond repair that it should be disbanded, a bipartisan Senate investigation into the response to Hurricane Katrina has concluded. The report, which is scheduled to be released on Thursday, says that the effort […]

So while the rest of us are fretting high gas prices guess what the Senate is doing? They’re fretting over the possibility that they didn’t get their share of those dreaded oil profits.
Seems if they were really concerned they’d reduce the at-the-pump taxes or maybe allow exploration and drilling in the US, specifically Alaska. I […]

I tend to refer to parts of Wisconsin as “Berkeley North”  (specifically Madison) so it’s good to see them
doing something right up there….

As usually happens in America we don’t always wait for the Government to fix things that are broken. Unfortunately, someone will file suit or do something else to stop this but I think it’s really the publicity that is the most important and as important as the fence itself.

This will be great news for some in my family since most of my immediate family came from Knox County. But Knox is also the first county to  realize their choice to change to Central Time to spite the Governor wasn’t such a good idea, after all.
Maybe if there as a sizeable town across the […]

Some parts of my job I really don’t like and writing references is one of them. But I found a great tool to create them that is really slick.

Metals are going through the roof which isn’t making my search for lead any easier. Already I’m seeing cast bullets at twice the prices of only 3 or 4 years ago and the local supply of wheel weights, linotype and plumbers lead is very competitive.  So I’m looking for lead where ever I can find […]

Intersting that the gang attacks in a 2 day Vegas Terror Spree are mainly targeting tourists and facility employees. Could it be because the local man on the street would shoot them?  But those from out of state and on the job are often not able to carry anything for personal defense. Employees because their […]

Though the article is on Linux Snobs the worst ones I ran into back in the early to mid 90’s were the Perl snobs later to be suplemented by the Java Snobs, *BSD Snobs and, of course, the ubiquitous General Purpose snobs (BMW, Mini, Honda, Coors, Heiniken, et al).
In reality though the word snob isn’t […]

I guess it’s better than Wander Indiana

Long live the British Welfare State. You get what you subsidize.

And this is why the US will not recognize the “Palistinian” government as legitimate. Ironically those pointing fingers at the US for not recognizing Hamas as the legitimate government are the same ones urging other Nations to not recognize George Bush as the legitimate President of the United States.

Say hello to Randy the Red Rat Snake also commonly called an Corn snake. Old Randy here isn’t as colorful as most of the images I’ve found, he’s rather subdued with more browns and tans than reds and oranges but the banding marks and red eyes are a dead giveway.
I found Randy this afternoon when […]

I think I’ll use this image in the header for awhile since it seems appropriate for Indiana in April. Other images I caputured during the storm are in the storm gallery.

I now know it will take 391 cans of Diet Dr. Pepper or 110 cups of perk coffee to cause me Death by Caffeine. Update According to Death by Penguin Mints it would take 517.38 Hershey’s Special Dark bars or 16,038.75 Hershey’s Kisses to do me in.
But what if I want […]

More evidence that “gender equality” in education is destroying future generations. How many of those young boys diagnosed with attention deficit problems are simply bored out of their skulls?

In the past 4 days my Treo has taken a dive from its holster. Seems the latch on the holster requires me to actually pull it forward to get it to lock onto the device unlike my old Motorola phone carrier which latched by simply forcing it into the carrier shell.
Fortunately the device […]

Spring is in full swing now so maybe it’s time the header graphic above had something without snow in it. Looking through all of the vacation photos I found a number of images any one of which would make for a good header graphic. But before choosing one here they all are….

The Alamo #1

The […]

It’s spring and time to start the putting pesticides on the yard and woods close to the house to keep down the pests including moles. The Missus is at Wally World for something else so I ask her to pickup 2 bags for the spring application. She finds all kinds of “grub control” […]

You know this would all be appropriate if it wasn’t the ATF that nabbed the ninja. Imagine a contingent of agents surrounding a college kid with guns drawn! Why am I consistently detecting fear among law enforcement? Hm.. those concerns would make a good stand alone post later maybe.
Anyway, if the […]

Google has launched their Calendar. It pretty much looks and works like most web based calendars but with Google’s flare for interfaces. Anyone out there still using Outlook in a stand alone environment may want to seriously take a look.

It’s that time of year when the refineries have to setup all the different boutique mixes the EPA has mandated for various locations around the country. If Congress wanted to do one thing that would greatly reduce overhead for the refineries it would be to take these arbitrary powers away from the EPA and allow […]