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There is so much to comment on in the Business Week article The Great Ethanol Scam. But all I can say is it’s about freaking time!
Now while lauding recongnition of the ethanol scam I find Butanol rather interesting and wonder why we’ve heard so little about it? But, I’m leary of any “biomass” alcohol […]

Since the experts can’t figure out the “winged cat” I would question that they’re experts… I have a self-adopted (meaning we weren’t given a vote) feral who looks exactly like the pictures including the wings. On ours those wings are the matted hair being shed and pop up like that until they finally fall off. […]

The guys at Hackleman got the trunk repainted and I was able to pick it up this morning. The up side is those pock marks are going to be much less likely to show up after sitting in the sun now that the glass has more or less gassed. Fingers crossed anyway.

They even […]

An amendment was attached to the recently passed credit card bill which makes all park service land uniformly follow state laws with regard to carrying a firearm. This is something several rights groups have been working on for years as the National Park Service had differing rules for their various controlled properties making it tricky […]

Looks like a new cycle shop in Brownsburg… look forward to checking them out…

So I dropped off the tour pak a week ago Monday, that’s 11 days. As of an hour ago they’d finished stripping it down again and were starting to re-paint it. Seems when they baked it it bubbled badly. He said it was air in the gel coat and I’ve also read the wrong […]

On the brink of President Obama socializing our health care industry the Canadians remind us why its a bad idea… Dying at home improves hospital efficiency

I wonder if Bill President Clinton being sent to Haiti could be considered attempted murder?
Bill + island of tropically clad Caribbean women + one of the highest HIV rates in the world = they’re trying to off him!

A few weeks ago now the last of the parts showed up to mount the tour pak on the VTX. Finally last weekend got around to mounting it up. All the major components…

Oldy’s Tour Pak
Nice trunk, needs some minor clean up from mold marks but nothing unreasonable. Fresh fiberglass smells bad… The hardware they […]

Bill Kristol names the Most Valuable Republican…

I certainly hope they have more than what they’re showing.. when the news said the pictures were “graphic” I assumed they meant in a violent sense rather than in a OMG he’s naked! sense. Anyway, as I said I would hope there is more than that since the image that was chosen doesn’t reflect […]

Can you imagine the uproar if the a conservative editor placed the word “Democrat” in the dictionary under the reference for the word “Traitor”? I wonder who’s going to care what they’ve done with the definition of ‘Narrow-minded’ which now means “conservative”, “self-righteous” and “bigoted”.

I think the King of Jordan is willfully rewriting history (SHOCK!) in demanding Israel must accept Palestinian state. Israel has already accepted the Palestinian state in question and the King of Jordan is the King of it! A little history….
In 1920 the League of Nations put Palestine under British control who proceed […]

Here we go, proving once again being African-American is about being black rather than being from Africa. I’m sure this is earth shattering news….

Tax smoking because its unhealthy. Smokers gain weight and they’ll tax fat people next. But.. what if it was banning smoking that started it?
Could it be that dreaded law of unintended consequences which tends to thwart congress regularly?
It would make for some interesting stats - how many quit smoking over a set time […]

Five where convicted by a Federal jury of trying join forces with al-Qaida to topple Chicago’s Sears Tower and bomb FBI offices in hopes of igniting an anti-government insurrection.
So why isn’t this news?
Oh! Can’t have the public realize there really are bad guys in the world who are out to kill us. […]

I’ve always liked Dick Cheney and while I also like W I have alway believed Cheney was a better VP than W a President and wished W would have taken more queues from the considerably more conservative westerner. Rightly, Cheney has made several salient points against the new Administration while his old boss hides […]

Oh yeah, great movie. Good story, pretty good acting and lots of bantering tribute to the original series and movies. McCoy was probably the worst of the bunch but good enough I knew who he was after 3 sentences of prototypical “Bones” complaining about how unsafe space travel is. Zachary Quinto and Chris […]

The National Rifle Association seems to be offering free one year memberships to get new members on the rolls for the up and coming gun control battles with the “administration”.
Although, I’d be surprised were anyone reading my site who is not already an NRA member…

The United States built a free nation on the acknowledgment of rights granted by our Creator yet 233 years later our Military destroys soldier’s Bibles because, in the words of the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, the military’s position is that it will never “push any specific religion.”
Ignoring the […]

Being impatient I’d hooked my local systems to the kde.org repositories and upgraded the pathetic kde4.1x that comes on 2009 to 4.2 - which while still plagued with problems worked better than 4.1 which was virtually unusable to the point I was reverting to version 3.5 altogether. Considering Mandriva is still installing 3.5 in parallel, […]

Jeb Bush now counts his name among those “Republicans” stating it is time for the GOP to leave Reagan nostalgia behind. Sadly, my own Governor Mitch Daniels has also made such statements. I guess considering Bush Sr. and Reagan were not ideologically aligned (remember “voodoo economics”?) it should be no surprise that the Bush […]

“You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know, under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you […]