To the Honorable Representative Ellsworth, I appreciate your recent email newsletter informing me of your position on the current high fuel costs in the United States. Sadly I must disagree with the proposed solutions supported by you, my representative.
After the last election I commented on how the Republican representatives that lost their seats were frequently conservatives who’ve made no secret when they disagreed with President. He even later commented that his Immigration agenda stood a better chance of passage with those seats lost to the Democrats. Fast forward to today when President Bush [...]
I don’t listen to any of the satellite radio systems but it is tempting with XM recreating the D-Day radio coverage in real-time: This incredible broadcast will air, in real-time, starting at 12:41am ET (which was the time of the first airing) and will end June 7th, at 5:45pm ET on The ’40s (ch 4). [...]
I’m not much of a gamer but a friend of mine worked hard on the Linux and Mac version of Penumbra: Overture so if you game on the Linux or the Mac be sure to check out Frictional Game’s announcement.
“If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be; if God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; if [...]
Some followup on the poisoned pet food, some are asking is China trying to poison Americans and their pets? Reading up on Chinese food imports is rather scary considering that the practice of falsely labeling containers is so widespread to get around inspections. This is a part of the issue where pressure needs applied to [...]
If you’ve ever looked at a .500 S&W and wondered what the heck such a huge hand cannon was good for… now you know… I cannot express how impressed I am that an 11 year old was able to handle such a beast, a word applicable to the hog and hog leg. If only more [...]
Yes, I admit that we fell prey to the marketing machine and went to see Pirates 3 last friday. Upon reflection of all the movies we saw during the week we decided that Next (another of Philip K. Dick’s stories) was the hands down best of the three with Pirates and Spidey tied for 3rd [...]
The last day of a week long vacation is always as depressing as the first day is exciting and optimistic. Still, it is good to look back on a vacation though I must admit that the weather so good and the Missus and I spent most of the week on 2 wheels. But we did [...]
The Oakalla Covered Bridge is just west of Greencastle, Indiana and like most covered bridges in Putnam county it is over the Big Walnut. We had attempted to visit this bridge last fall when several other bridges were added to my Covered Bridges gallery but we turned around when the road turned to gravel. So [...]
Pointman is a Hoosier who works in the IT industry, is an amateur photographer an avid motorcycle rider, shooter and firearms collector.
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The masthead graphic "Road to Oakalla" was taken during a motorcycle ride to the Oakalla covered bridge on 23 May, 2007 with a Canon A85 digital camera (F5.6, 1/125 sec exposure). Additional images from the visit are in the Oakalla bridge gallery.
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