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The loss of human life is always tragic. But there is also a saying that if nothing else a person’s life stands as a warning to others. Recently in Arizona an 80 year old man found himself erecting such a signpost that will reach the criminal mind more effectively than a dozen extra […]

When President Bush was campaigning for office he clearly stated that he would sign the renewal of the Semi-Auto ban if it got to his desk. A lot of us took that as “like you’ll ever get that to my desk anyway”. Once elected (like it was an option for Gun Owners to vote […]

Interesting that the AP would even write a small bit about the FBI blocking further investigation into the OKC bombing but they did down play Islamic ties to McVeigh and Nichols.
Rohrabacher said he also was denied access to others with suspected ties to the Oklahoma City bombing, including al Qaida-linked terrorists Ramzi Yousef and […]

Over the last decade and a half I’ve observed a Darwinian microcosom at Casa Pointman. It seems possums like cat food as much as the cats so one of the chores I relish is running off the little buggers and dispatching the retarded ones with prejudice when they won’t take a hint and go […]

It appears the Stupid Disease (often referred to as Political Correctness) has invaded Canada’s schools. Not really surprising, they probably caught it from the French. Or the British.

I’ve maintained for years that were it not for HTML email the whole malware storm we’ve been battling for the last 7 or so years would have been seriously dampened. Throw out Outlook and it’s progeny and it would have been dimenished still further. When you get right down to it what about […]

After nationalizing Shell’s investment in Russia Putin is not only eying BP’s invesments in Russian energy production. This is especially worrisome when Putin will obviously use energy as a poltical weapon against his neighbors. I guess you can take the thug out of the KGB, but you can’t take the KGB out of the […]

My last few GM vehicles are sure examples of why Toyota may outsell GM in 2007. Yet in the article GM is whining that GM suffers from a bad rap of being gas guzzlers rather than address that they do really stupid things like make intake manifolds out of plastic that must be replaced […]

So while Sandy “burgler” Berger has plead guilty to stealing and destroying classified documents from the National Archives in an attempt to cover up Bill Clinton’s and his own bumbling terror policy the “punishment” is outrageous. A ten-thousand dollar fine ($10,0000) and loosing his security clearance for 3 years? This man is no longer […]

We’ve all heard the argument that we should accept illegal aliens because they are doing the jobs Americans don’t want to do. So.. if that is the case why are Americans lining up to try for the jobs opened by the ICE sweeps at Swift?

Yet again the media is selective about who’s rights they recognize as legitimate though most of the time they’re on the opposite side of logic anyway. And the Second Amendment has long been on their “ignore” list. Case in point, it seems they feel the public has a right to know who owns […]

’‘Tis the season to be politically correct—a coast-to-coast harkening-free zone and the tyranny of hyper-sensitivity. The increasingly successful effort to purge Christmas from our culture (correctly called the War on Christmas) proceeds apace—municipal Christmas trees are re-christened (no pun intended) ‘holiday trees,’ schools ban Christmas decorations and the singing of Christmas carols during holiday programs. […]

Isn’t it wonderful we’re so concerned with a murderer’s pain during execution yet everything possible is being done to prevent a discussion on the pain babies experience during a abortion. I would say this was truely amazing but in perspective I’m not surprised at all. Outraged, yes, but not surprised.

Since none of the last batch of header graphics seemed to meet with approval here are some new options created from pictures I took during the “Last Last Hurrah”. Some were taken at Cataract Falls and a couple are from the Rolling Stone covered bridge.

A shelf above the lower Cataract Falls

Looking down a rock ledge […]

One of the “Last Last Harrah” days (Thanksgiving thru the seven days) I made it down to Cataract Falls. It’s been many years since I’d been to Cataract but it hadn’t changed much, though the water was a bit higher in the lake below making the lower falls appear lower than they are during the […]

I needed to check my DSL performance due to some problems and stumbled onto Speedtest.net. They have a very cool interface that lets you actually watch the test in progress and it tests both down and up which is handy and the first one I’ve seen that does this so transparently. Though admittedly I […]

“History, by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and […]

Those who follow Gary Varvel’s blog may know he’s been in hiding working on a special feature for Christmas. Well…
it’s here! Well done especially considering it’s his first animation release.

What Mark Foley did was reprehensible but what the Dems did is even worse. They kept the information hidden since the fall of 2005 so that they could use it in the 2006 elections. And use it they did as it my well have been the pivot point of the Democrat victory.
So the […]

Exxon was roasted on a spit over record profits… wonder if anyone will complain about Goldman Sachs biggest profit in Wall Street history. At least Exxon has a tangible product….

“The gavel of the speaker of the House is in the hands of special interests, and now it will be in the hands of America’s children.”
Nancy Pelosi on being elected House Speaker after Democrats take the House in 2006

I’ve been building computers well over a decade but the whole “casemod” thing has never really done it for me. I’ve always built to get more bang for my buck or to help other do the same. But I think I’ve finally found a casemod that would be really cool to do… the retro […]

I have never questioned the validity of Heinlein’s TANSTAAFL. That is until now. Anyone else notice that asian news stories read like comic books?

I’ve read about these problems before (and others not mentioned in this article) and noted even then no one is taking it seriously, that soy is causing long term problem serious enough countries are starting to crack down. Except in America where even what little bit of masculinity is feared. A feminine population is […]

Imagine what would happen in the media were a judge to cut and paste parts of an Exxon prepared brief into a ruling that benefited energy companies in general? The content or accuracy of the content doesn’t matter since it is the source that counts, and that has been the position of the Left energy […]