http://www.pointmanspage.com Strange in a Stranger Land Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:30:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "[A] wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." Thomas Jefferson http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/02/08/wise-and-frugal-government/ The 10" windshield on my Tsakayu fairing is perfectly sized until I put on a helmet. Even with lowers on the forks and engine guards the buffeting feels like someone is playing the bongos on my head at interstate speeds. After doing a lot of reading on the aerodynamics ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/02/07/motorcycle-windshields/ I've been shooting and carrying my Kimber with factory sights for 8 years now and it was time for a change. A change I've been telling myself I was going to get to for those same 8 years. Recently this was further spurred on by my desire to ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/02/07/kimber-upgrade/ There may be some conservative votes happy to see Dan Coats come out of hiding in Virginia to take on Evan Bayh but I am not one of them. Its been many years so many have forgotten Dan Coats voted for the crime bill in 1994 otherwise known as ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/02/05/dan-coats/ About the only time I'm not found wearing boots is at work in the cooler months and at Church. So that my well over 10 year old Danner's finally surrendered was no surprise. I'd been looking at different boots this past year anyway so what an opportunity to pick ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/02/02/boots/ 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. http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/02/02/6-more-weeks/ 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.... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/01/31/beagles/ 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 ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/01/25/just-a-little-snow/ 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 ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/01/24/pms-therapy/ 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 ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/01/20/browns-victory/ 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 ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/01/18/want-a-better-interested-rate/ 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 ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/01/18/us-military-weapons-inscribed-with-secret-jesus-bible-codes/ 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 ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/01/13/hostettlers-2008-campaign/ 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 ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/01/13/pelosi%e2%80%99s-a-horrible-woman/ 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 ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/01/13/punctuating-sarcasm/