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As Stephen Soderbergh readies his new fantasy film “Che” it’s good to review some facts on Che Guevara’s stupidity, sadism and failure.

That is how long it took me to get home tonight (70 miles). I left the office at 1:30PM and arrived home at 8:30PM having spent almost 3 hours of it sitting on highway. 36 which they had literally shut down.
At the end of it all, 1 mile from home, the road […]

As I suspected they’re going to recount until Franken wins at which point he’ll sue to stop the recount. That was my initial thought but I’ve been trying to let the process work. But the insight on how the board is reviewing “voter intent” is clear who the board is leveraging into the winners […]

I think the gases are warming US are coming from all the global warming zealots. If they think the US’s average temps are up they’re not living here where we’re seeing single digit and sub zero temps over a month earlier than normal. And I’m not talking about just my neck of the woods […]

“Weather is change. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
– Pointman

It seems President Bush has finalized an $17.4 Billion Auto Makers “bail out”. I have been fearful of a Congressional bailout that put Congress in charge of the automakers who in turn would impose their “green” agenda on them, effectively driving the last nail in Detroit’s coffin.
So I’m pleased with the “bridge loan” approach […]

There is a petition drive to create an M14 DCM Program under the guise of helping with war costs. No matter the guise its an idea long past due. Aren’t familiar with the M14 or the DCM programs? Check out the post on Blackfork and the Civilian Marksmanship Program for more info.
And sign […]

“When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.”
–Thomas Paine

Anyone who didn’t know in July who was going to be TIME’s Person of the Year 2008 must have been living under a rock. Big media is piling into a car wreck once expected only of the auto industry and, like the auto industry, are blind to “why don’t people buy our products”. […]

OPEC announced a 2.2 million barrels a day cut in production but that didn’t stop the slide as oil fell below $40/bbl for the first time since 2004 when the madness began.
Strangely, though, gas locally remains at $1.59 to $1.79 when it was $1.38 last Thursday morning. The quick up-tick was largely due the pending […]

I don’t disagree with them but find it ironic that top liberal a-list actors are defying their union. I guess its another example of the Left’s do as I say, not as I do.

Vladimir Putin’s true colors show as Russia looks to make open opposition to the Government treason. Be wary of this template for the future in the guise of “saving the planet”. Gore and company will surely find the idea of labeling global warming skeptics as “traitors to mankind”. I’ll bet if you […]

Anyone who can so easily sacrifice free-market principles either didn’t have them to begin with, or didn’t understand. Looking back at W’s administration believe he had many principles - the ones he believed, and the ones he espoused. Obviously free-market principles were among the latter else this perfect opportunity for irrefutable proof that the […]

It’s been said before, I’ll say it again… It’s the sun, stupid. No sun spots, cooler… excessive sun spots, warming… and problems with your cellular service….
It was just this morning I lamented meteorologists can’t get their models accurate past 7 days. Don’t you think that if the local weather girl could tell you what […]

For years one of my memes has been “sarcasm, just one of the services we offer”. Little did I know how useful a service it would become. As a major purveyor of sarcasm services my personal economy is swinging out of the recession as demand for my services rise.
(and if you missed the sarcasm […]

Except that we’re seeing record cold temps (just read the news folks! 12 degrees in December in Indiana is COLD!) and despite their saying the 10 warmest years have occurred since Clinton the truth is the hottest year was 1934 (go look up “dust bowl” folks). Then the absolutely absurd statements such as
cooling trend illustrates […]

So USA Today is reporting that home prices may take decades to recover but looking at the charts its easy to see in most cases the values today still exceed the numbers at the beginning of the decade. The problem isn’t a rapid decline as much as the adjustment from the artificial bubble created by […]

Yet another great example of why the base didn’t turn out for McCain.

I know someone who could use a set of these! At least for a few more weeks….

The real Better Off Dead?

I’m not really getting the whole corruption per capita thing since other than the House of Representatives the number of political offices isn’t that different from state to state until you get to the Township level.
A State’s percentage of political corruption would be better measured as convictions by number of state politicians.

If Blogo is going to jail for offering up for sale an Illinois Senate seat up what are the ramifications for someone who offered Blogo $1 MILLION for it? And if this one was #5 in the list what did candidates 1-4 offer?
This is going to get interesting, I’d better go make some popcorn!

Yet another home run by my favorite political cartoonist.

I’ve read close to a dozen articles on the arrest of Illinois Governor Blagojevich and have yet to see in print WHICH PARTY he belongs to?
Now search for info on Stevens or that restroom foot tapper and there is no doubt what party these idiots belong to. Of couse we all know the […]

The devout have flocked to Poland to negotiate a new climate treaty where the European members of the Kyoto accord are trying to eliminate the penalty bearing milestones we can find some sanity from the least likely place on the planet, the United States Senate Committee on Environmental and Public Works. Choice quotes include:

“For how […]