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I’m not a big fan of ground hogs today…. Still, 3/21 is the official start of spring and as long as that’s on schedule I’ll survive… besides - I’m not done with my long list of winter bike projects.

Are apparently the new pit bull of NYC’s east end. I’ve seen a Beagle considerably more vicious than any dog I’ve ever seen. But she was probably just covering her embarrassment of having been bred to a Pug….

So the weatherman this morning says maybe a little accumulation of snow. After lunch the weatherman is saying we might get and inch by Tuesday morning.
After two hours on the road (the plow drivers must be listening to the same forecast) getting home in the snow I’m pulling into my driveway. There’s easily […]

Saturday may not have been a terribly pretty day but it had one thing going for it, 50 degrees. As I have a laundry list of maintenance items to do before ridign season it seemed a good day to work on the head bearing. If the adjustment works I’m not taking the entire front […]

I’m sure you all saw this coming. At least the President got it over with quickly….

By that time, we did. And here’s my assessment of not just the vote in Massachusetts, but the mood around the country.
The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office.
People are angry, and they’re frustrated. Not […]

So I’m sitting at my desk this afternoon moving data around on a SAN when I get this robo-call asking if I’d like to lower my interest rate on my credit card. “If you’d like to lower your interest rate on your credit card account press 1 to talk to a representative”. Well who […]

It seems Trijicon puts scripture references on their products which has some people claiming it proves we’re crusaders in the Middle East. And then there is that whole “separation” myth, too.
I’d love to have a Trijicon site so marked and as is being issued for the M4 but my goodness they’re expensive […]

Just writing about Pelosi I recall that John Hostettler, 8th district Indiana - and now doing is part to take down Evan Bayh - essentially ran on a campaign of “a vote for Brad Ellsworth is a vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker of the house”. The powers that be had been pretty […]

While we’re all celebrating Jack Cafferty’s Pelosi’s a horrible woman we mustn’t loose sight of the fact that Cafferty remains an unapologetic Obama fan boy.
The Administration’s first year has been a horrible one by any political measure you choose to use. And if you’re paying attention to the White House’s “stands” on issues […]

I’m not at all sold on the need for a sarcasm punctuation mark and for a few very good reasons.
First, not all sarcasm is created equal - for example there is the generic sarcasm and then there is my preferred . Would there be a variety of punctuations to identify the type of sarcasm?
Second, […]

I don’t know why I’m bothering with such a mundane topic. But it was quite obvious Leno didn’t want to move but NBC had a deal with Conan so the forced it. Now their shinanigans are backfiring on them as they try to have retain their talent and ratings too. I have never […]

Wow, I wonder why no one saw this coming - that the whole H1N1 flu scare was drug firms cashing in. But how would anyone know since the WHO’s involvement and holdings in these drug companies has been effectively buried by the media. Let the Left bemoan the Right’s involvement with Wall Street […]

The Daily Mail’s David Rose has a nice article today, The mini ice age starts here. Why must any current event, especially historically proven cyclic events, be assumed the new status quo? Well, besides that there’s money to be made in the next-big-emergency…
It’s really to bad, too, as I was looking forward to global […]

Americans make seemingly unhealthy choices - smoking, eating too much fast food, roller blading without pads, riding a motorcycle without a helmet, keeping a gun in the house are just a few whereby someone is bound to say “you shouldn’t be allowed to do that because it is making my insurance go up!”. I have […]

So Eric Holder is going to go after ponzi schemes now… if he wants to go after the one that’s stolen the most money from citizens he’d go after Social Security. Oh wait, they’re the ones running that one.. so he’ll focus on the small fish to make it look like he’s doing something….

Spazy was our first pet after the Missus and I married and got our house. A close friend found her under the hood of his truck where she’d crawled one cold night to stay warm and for some reason he thought we ought to have her. That was late winter in 1992 and she […]

I have an embarrassing admission to make: Windows 7 (Enterprise) isn’t terrible. Having gone from Windows XP to 7 on my laptop and thus avoiding Vista I missed most of the horror of Microsoft’s ME2.
Of course this doesn’t mean I’ll be booting to Windows 7 any more often than I have in […]

Roberta X has a great rundown on the Gun Bills In The Indiana General Assembly.
I’m pleased to see mostly pro-freedom for a change. A law to allow you to keep your firearm locked in your car at work even if your employer forbids it. Another to prevent the state from restricting our rights […]

A woman was up visiting friends in our town and happened to see the ad in the paper for Scout while there. It was spur of the moment but since they were already right here they called at almost 10PM.
Naturally my being eager to find the fellow a home I agreed to the […]

The local police are wondering what exactly happened to common sense as 3 are rescued from their GPS routes.

Or so goes the saying in Hollywood when they’re trying to justify their latest tricks. But a recent study shows that sex really doesn’t help box office receipts. What I find even more interesting is how do teens rebel against parents of the “sex, drugs, rock’n’roll” generation? By abstaining, staying married and saying no to […]

Recall my recent comments on our dependency on technology? Well, here’s another example.. a couple gets stranded 3 days after GPS takes them down a seasonal road. In the wrong season, naturally….

Over the last few weeks we’ve noticed the girls getting all worked up and barking at something several times an evening. But there’s nothing going on…. I think I may finally have figured it out though, thanks to the game of musical rawhides currently underway in our living room….
Sophie is barking at the front door, […]