Pointman’s Page

It only took a couple of weeks to choose 144 pictures out of 1088 to put into the Las Vegas 2007 gallery but it’s finally done. Though I’ve recounted the story a dozen times I’ve yet to actually write down the details of our experiences. Maybe I’ll get to a more detailed account at some […]

“If I live as if there is a Heaven, it won’t matter if I am wrong… If you live as if there is no hell, you had better be right.”
Author Unknown

The Brits use radar speed cameras more than anyone else to ticket speeders. The problem, as some US states have also found, is the potential for abuse is huge. Catching speeders becomes no longer about safety but about revenue. Once that is realized the shenanigans begin; new and sudden changes of speed limits in obscure […]

It looks like the United States Army may be turning to the Apple Mac to replace PC’s. Breaches and attempted breaches of military networks and computers have been in the news here and there over the past few years and the Army feels that the Mac, which isn’t targeted as heavily by hackers (yet) […]

News of yet another micro-reactor for electric generation, a little smaller than the nuclear batter I last posted but and from Toshiba. I think the reason the alternative energy people are pushing so hard to get ahead of the private sector in replacing oil is nuclear… and they don’t want that because an alternative they […]

According to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works…
Over 400 prominent scientists from more than two dozen countries recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called “consensus” on man-made global warming.
Surely that cannot be correct! I mean we have consensus, right!? Right…?

While in Vegas last week we shot up a lot of camera memory. Rather than spend money on more memory cards we’d only need for 3 or 4 days I thought to use the kiosk computers found at most any drug store to dump the memory sticks to a CD.
By Tuesday evening I had […]

The consequences of bio-fuel and global warming hysteria are showing themselves. One noteworthy nation almost entirely bio-fuel driven is ready to switch to petroleum now that they found a (very deep) domestic supply. Imagine that….

First no hurricanes or even notable tropical storms for 2006 or 2007 (they had to resort to naming tropical depressions for 2007) and now a colder than usual December with early winter storms killing people. Yup, must be Global Warming and probably George Bush’s fault, too.

Yet again on that Iran report it seems that Iran sees the report as a declaration of surrender by the US Administration. If you folks can’t see through to the meaning of that and its implication then you absolutely deserve what you get. It’s just too bad you’ll take a bunch of innocent people with […]

I guess Russia’s 1st Nuke shipment to Iran confirms that recent report that Iran has ceased development of their nuclear ambition, yes?

Republicans are often accused of being the puppets of “big oil”, a mantra pushed hard by the Democrats including the Clintons. So color me shocked to see the WaPo actually report that the Clinton Library received $10mil from the Sauds. Of course even the most liberal of rags are on Clinton’s collective cases now that […]

Apparently your Second Amendment rights end at the gates of the “magic kingdom”. Not like I would be caught dead in Flori-DUH anyway but this isn’t helping their case nor Disney’s.

A curmudgeon’s reputation for malevolence is undeserved. They’re neither warped nor evil at heart. They don’t hate mankind, just mankind’s absurdities. They’re just as sensitive and soft-hearted as the next guy, but they hide their vulnerability beneath a crust of misanthropy. They ease the pain by turning hurt into humor. . . They attack maudlinism […]

Danger lies not in what we don’t know, but in what we think we know that just ain’t so.
- Mark Twain

Appeasement’ is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.
– F D Roosevelt

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire

Concerns over an entire generation of druggies isn’t new but one that is largely hidden by popular media. Especially when there is yet another shooting spree by a kid that was a ward of the state for 4 years.
Why is there this drug denial? A number of reasons, including the fact that blaming it […]

I mentioned I thought the Challenger concept car is hot and have been casually watching for them to hit the street. Now that they’re almost here I see the price tag puts them well out of what I will afford at almost $38k MSRP. But there seems to be a huge draw to this new […]

For years I’ve laughed at this cartoon but there is a 70 year old Santa in Australia who isn’t laughing.

The internet is a fascinating place and it never ceases to amaze me what people will take the time to make available online. A great example is the 1982 Sears Christmas Catalog someone upped to Flickr. I even found my microscope, SLR camera and slot car track! Thanks for the memories!
This particular Flickr user […]

The UN is welcoming everyone to the Climate meeting in Bali. Unless you’re a skeptic (journalist) at which point you will be denied entrance.
I guess this is what they mean when they say the ‘debate is over’, eh?

Stories like this just warm my heart…

I firmly believe someone who commits acts of violence is responsible for those actions no matter their “environment” but when we start talking about kids it gets a bit murkier. While gamers and Hollywood deny their “media” does not induce, cause or lead to violence the escalation of youth violence over the past decade warrants […]

I like Dick Cheney and have since he called a spade a spade in the Glock debate of the late 80’s when the movement was afoot do ban these “dangerous guns invisible to x-ray and metal detectors”. And when it comes to the real conservatives who are sticking it out in the Republican […]