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“The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.”
George Washington

The technological glitch behind the dipping Dow. Awfully coincidental with Greenspan’s stupid remarks… but then I thought it was simply a round of greedy capitalistic profit taking…

“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
James Madison

I have heard this reported from sources other than VEI which instantly disqualifies the information in the eyes of any Global Warming leftist but the fact that the US Doing Better Than its Kyoto Critics on CO2 are easy enough to verify with a little judicious googling and library research.

The Washington Post has a great piece, Trial in Error , on the ongoing prosecution of Scooter Libby in the Valerie Plame leak case. Little real attention has been paid to this subject of late and the media would largely let it drop now that they were able to post headlines such as “Cheney […]

Personally I feel quite strongly that Band of Brothers is not suiteble for PG13 audiences let alone three kids 8,6 and 4 though I know I would have loved the series at those ages, too. So I can understand how 3 young brothers were avid fans knowing the members of Easy Company by heart. […]

There are 3 US automakes left though judging by current quality issues I have to wonder that there are that many. GM especially seems determined to ruin what reputation of quality remains to US automakers and hand the top auto sales position to Toyota. Now, in their quest to either remain on top […]

We’ve all heard stories whether from friends or family of people who buy a house and find treasures in the attic. A friend of mine even found a Porche 912 in a barn once and was able to buy it cheap. But I’ve never heard of a guy buying a small farm that hadn’t been […]

Apparently the European Union is in such a state of perfect euphoria they’re done to legislating the little things like department store mirror standards because a politician’s wife and daughter thought the mirrors were “misleading”. While I sympathize with these women I’m wondering if maybe they’d do better to deal with the slightly […]

I knew I wasn’t the only one who found such humor in Al Franken’s senate abitions and it took no time at all for other’s amusement to show including the introduction of the Anyone But Al Franken Stein stein.

As someone who’s used PHP since PHP/FI I thoroughly enjoyed the interview with Stefan Esser on PHP Security and PHP core development and the problems, technically and personality, within the project.

Tim Hardaway says what he believes and the media has forgotten he has the right to his beliefs, at least for a bit longer, in the United States. If he doesn’t want to associate with gay people why the heck should gay people care? I know people who don’t want to associate with conservatives […]

Apparently Chavez missed the day in class when they taught the history of Soviet bread lines so he’s going to have to teach the whole country what food shortages are. Good luck with that Hugo… I hope some hungry peasant doesn’t shoot you as a result of your unilateral greed and stupidity. Or do […]

The man who couldn’t even keep the liberal talk radio Air America in listeners now thinks he’s a shot at a Minn. Senate Seat. But Al did accomplish one thing, he finally said something that actually made me laugh out loud!

The cry of the new oppressors: “RACISM!” …because it’s easier than refuting a logical argument.
Pointman

I’ve uploaded some images from today to the gallery Valentine’s Day 2007. One thing about snow is it does make for some interesting pictures. Too bad I can’t safely get down to the river to get more.
While I was at it I threw some photos from last week’s snow in a gallery as well.

It has been many years since we got 12″ of snow but 12″ we certainly did get here in west central Indiana. The snow stopped around Midnight yet only one of my bordering counties has lifted the snow emergency. After shoveling for a couple hours today I can say with confidence that short of […]

“Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
—Mark Twain

“A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.”
James Madison

I started on the Internet in the days when registering a domain meant filling in an email template and they’d bill you later. Those days are long gone but until recently I stuck with Network Solutions for commercial use domains because of the potential for disputes. And though Network Solutions dispute resolutions have often drawn […]

Do we have troops in Algeria? Isn’t that why Muslim’s and Al-Qaeda resort to killing, because of evil Americans? If that’s the case why are they targeting civil authority?
Because it’s not about America, it’s not about some perceived “injustice”. It’s not about Israel or the Jews. It’s not about Christians. It’s not even about […]

You may have already read about the 18 year old in Utah who walked into a shopping mall and started shooting. But did you hear from the main stream press that this kid was a Muslim refugee from Bosnia? An armed off duty cop was there to stop the body count from climbing […]

No Child Left Inside has posted a piece titled Economist on National Parks (TreeHugger) concerning the increased green awareness coinciding with declines in attendence at some of the major National Parks such as Yosemite.
I would love to visit especially Yosemite and Yellow Stone, they’d make great motorcycle trips. But as much as I’d like […]

I just shoveled over 4″ of snow and sleet off the patio and path to the cars. This is a much heavier weight stuff than last week. It was rather ominous being out there shoveling with no wind at all then this 30-40mph gust comes roaring down the river valley from the north, very cold […]

I must say I really
love this guy. I don’t know any of his politics, what I love is that he doesn’t govern by pop-culture which is the real quagmire the US hasn’t been able to get out of since 1965.
Global warming is a myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not […]