http://www.pointmanspage.com Strange in a Stranger Land Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:21:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With our 20th approaching I'm preparing for a trip to the Tail of the Dragon and came across this excellent video.... Following my BFF through the Dragon from killboy on Vimeo. http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/08/25/tail-of-the-dragon/ Having known Bob & Deb for 20 years I am very much looking forward to their getting their new gun club off the ground and open. Though I don't need to go to a range, having my own, I would be very likely to pickup a membership, if they're ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/08/16/plans-for-new-gun-club-remain-in-limbo/ I guess they found a way to keep Stevens from taking his seat back after all. In case everyone has forgotten it was Stevens who the Democrat prosecutors brought up on corruption charges which were dismissed after the election. http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/08/10/stevens-killed-in-crash/ Oh where to begin... I mean besides the obvious fact that you're suppose to clean your cat before marinating.... If you marinate them when they're still alive it just makes the fur clumpy. So these days you murder your child and that's "choice" - but marinate your cat? Evil ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/08/10/traffic-stop-saves-cat/ Sophie will eat almost anything and she reinforced that tonight by cleaning up a 1/2 dozen broccoli florets the Missus accidentally dropped on the floor making dinner. Ginger has a bit more discriminating tastes than Sophie and decided she'd pass on the Broccoli. Which was fine ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/08/02/broccoli/ Stark has obviously been caught flat footed to which a politician's normal reaction seems to be to stick their flat feet straight into their mouths. Stark's slip may be of ignorance or more likely Freudian but how much of this do we lay at his or the party's feet? ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/08/02/constitution-what-constitution/ We seem to have a problem with the ongoing gulf clean up.. they can't find the oil or at least not nearly as much as they should be finding. Now that the greatest eco disaster of all time is failing to marterialize there is scrambling to explain why. One ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/07/29/has-anyone-seen-the-oil-that-spilled-into-the-gulf/ http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/07/25/if-you-drive/ I've repeated until I'm blue in the face that CO2 is plant food and have pointed to articles showing increasing C02 makes plants grow better/faster not once but twice as far back as 4+ years ago. And these were largely articles meant to sweep the whole C02-is-plant-food under the ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/07/01/more-co2-results-in-a-greener-earth/ Nothing a few Marines can't fix.... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/06/30/venezuela-govt-to-nationalize-11-us-owned-oil-rigs/ The SCOTUS has just voted 5-4 that the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution applies to the states effectively ruling the ban on firearms in Chicago unconstitutional. Hopefully this will trickle down through the entire IL FOID system but I am not holding my breath. What is also significant here is ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/06/28/chicago-gun-ban/ Adobe makes some great products but to say they lack customer service and treat their customers poorly is an understatement. Case in point. I have purchased 8 copies of Adobe Acrobat Standard for my user. But when my desktop tech went to install an unused copy for someone today it wouldn't ... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/06/23/good-old-adobe/ "[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/2010/06/18/frugal-government/ Well what do you know.... it's working..... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/06/10/hispanics-flee-arizona/ I considered making light of this honey of a wreck but as there was a fatality I shall refrain so as to avoid any stinging rebukes.... http://www.pointmanspage.com/2010/05/25/truck-carrying-17-million-bees-crashes/