Other ramifications of the weakened US dollar is that foreign companies are buying out U.S. companies either to acquire technology, patents or to eliminate competitors. If you think little is actually “made in America” now just wait until all these buyouts conclude. It is bad enough now but soon America will not be […]
“Because we can’t prove them wrong for a thousand years, and I think the other thing about it is, it goes back to Chesterton’s statement: that when people stop believing in God, the problem isn’t that they believe in nothing, it’s that they’ll believe anything. And that’s what you constantly see with people who don’t […]
Now this is a raging case of buyers remorse if ever I saw one. Early adopters always pay heavily for the privilege… I’ll bet this woman spent the first few weeks bragging to her friends she had an iPhone and they didn’t, how much is that worth these days? $200 seems cheap all […]
Because the US dollar is in free fall and has been for several quarters prices on almost everything we buy from overseas are rising. From oil to toilet paper the dollar simply won’t buy what it would even 2 years ago as I’m sure every Walmart shopper in the county is well aware of. […]
I love it when radical enviro nutjobs actually reinforce a few points the *global warming is hooey* crowd have been discussing for several years. In their plight to wake up their own, much of it on target as far as it goes, Nordhaus and Shellenberger aren’t doing the big-business and political wing of “global warming” […]
Guns don’t kill people, steamrollers do, at least in Flori-duh…. Sadly, we really can’t blame this on Florida, those steamrollers are sneaky.
We have been watching the acceptable definitions change for several years; male icons have gone from manly to little more than women with outdoor plumbing. And its all been so subtle, casting the macho man as a wife beater and forbidding boys to be boys. Add in a mix of self esteem and […]
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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