Pointman’s Page

Maybe it’s just me but such protests reveal “we’re not protesting the soldiers, only the war” is a total farce. Someone cannot oppose shipments of armaments to our boys and still claim they wish only the best for our troops. Of couse, one only has to look at the way the Anti-war protestors and […]

I’ve seen some pretty disingenuous “research” from the nut job side of the environmental movement where global warming is concerned but this one on poison ivy really takes the cake.
Stop global warming now or face worse poison ivy rashes!! Gads, what a sham…
Another reason to worry about global warming: more and itchier poison […]

I would comment on the President’s “apology” but Horsefeathers has done a much better job of expressing my dismay.

I guess it should be no surprise since when comparing rhetoric and voting records Democrats and Republicans have to be askign themselves what’s the difference? When progressives tell me they hope McCain gets the nod “because he’s a Republican I could vote for” I get this strange urge to lease the place next to […]

How can we even take Mehlman seriously after enough Republican Senators defect from the Party to stop the lifting of the off-shore drilling ban because it.. ahem.. might harm tourism.
That’s OK, by the time we get our thumbs out of our bums

John Kerry Supports, Opposes Border Fence
Sen. John Kerry joined most of his Democratic colleagues last week in voting to build a wall along 370 miles of the U.S.-Mexican border.
But he now says that after the wall is built it should be taken down as soon as possible.
“I voted for it,” Kerry acknowledged Friday while […]

I’ve basically ignored the Dixie Chicks since before their gaff in 2003 but a short entry on Texas Rainmaker titled Dixie Chicks Learn the Difference Between Censorship and Capitalism is an interesting read.
In the end it comes down to a paraphrased old saw of you have the right to free speech, you don’t […]

It has taken quite awhile but I have finally found a real use for the camera built into my Treo 700w.
Whiteboards!!!

(no, image quality is not that bad, I’ve blurred it to conceal content) Snapping a picture of a process flow diagram on a whiteboard with the Treo then sending it to myself […]

Sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease.
I’ve watched with amusement as people go from complaining that they’re getting spam to complaining their friends forwarding chain letters are getting flagged as spammers.
Even worse is when someone gets marked in one of the black lists because, well, you know their chain […]

Look Ma! it’s a WHEEL!
Seriously commercials on broadcast television are a top annoyance that lead many television addicts to subscribe to premium channels. So far most of Google’s revenue has be ad based and I’ve personally maintained that their unobtrusive text-ads were and are ingenious (too bad they’ve spread across the internet with […]

Nothing like a little Progressive censorship. Oh its hate speech… guess who defines what ‘hate speech’ is? The Progressives.
More on this over at News Busters…

The 100 presidents in waiting persist in showing off how disconnected they are from the American people. Tourism trumps energy. I wonder if they’ll still think so when no one can afford to be a tourist because they had to tank up this week? I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t […]

If anyone would like to buy me one of these I happen to have a lead on one for a good price. Too bad that while I have wanted another bike since I sold the FJ1200 many years ago I don’t want one quite badly enough to actually spend the money. Yet, anyway. But […]

I really love intesting studies that come to asinine conclusions. What they missed out on in the study is easy enough, boredom! Who in their right mind would be entertained, provoked to think, playing with a childs game versus a complex piece of machinery like a “large handgun”. No what […]

Two for the Fact is Stranger than Fiction department. Billy the Kid and the Murrieta brothers and 3-fingered Jack ( the people Mask of Zorro was built around).
Hat tip to my Mother who sends me the weirdest things…..

The great Smith & Wesson recovery continues as they’re awarded a contract to provide the CHiP with 9,700 4006’s. That wouldn’t exactly be my model of choice, but hey, anything to knock on the door of the Glock hegemoney

Yeah, I really see what Richard Dreyfus means about the lack of critical thought in America. Oh wait, Reid is one of Dreyfus’s own!

The failure of gender equality for young boys has been widely reported over recent months but only now are we starting to hear much on the ‘out of control’ Teenage girls that have resulted from the same social experimentation. Unless you’ve been watching Jerry Springer or Maurie Povich.
Anyone who allows “social experimentation” […]

Either the newsies or possibly TSA since the warning on the cell phone guns was sent out a few years ago. What, are they just now getting around to reading their mail? More likely desparate for news they can use to advance their agendas. And since we know they really don’t want to protect […]

Java that is. Certainly no one is complaining of the price (which is about $12/gallon), threatening “windfall” tax hikes or how much the executives make. But then it’s Starbucks and not Exxon.

I didn’t believe I’d see the day that I could ever agree with the likes of a anti-American hippie-type 60’s Commie war protester like Richard Dreyfuss. But he finally uttered a couple of comprehensive sentences (as the saying goes even a blind hog gets an acorn now and again):
“Civics is no longer taught […]

That’s how far I came from having a server in my datacenter up for 2 solid years.
Today marked the 720th day of uptime for an old Compaq 1600R running Mandrake 9.1 serving primarily as an NFS and MySQL server. But as happens in Indiana some sever popup storms knocked out a big transformer that […]

Since we’ve reached the pinacle of scientific and culinary achievement with the baked bean pop-tart.

It looks like the English have found a new way to deal with dissent, don’t treat people with the wrong views. Remember every hand out from the government comes with very large and obvious strings attached. Sooner or later they’ll pull on them and you will dance.

Albert Einstein postulated that “There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe…” Try as we might to make things as safe as possible in our society today it’s not always possible to prevent the most determined. Case in point is a 14 year old boy who dangled a wire off […]