Been spotty around here. I’ve been travelling, sick, busy, sick, and finally had a network meltdown at home just when I wanted to write a post to remind me of all my great post ideas. All of this while I am caught flat-footed in trying to change the look of this place. Trust me, if you are reading this in October of 2011, this is not the look I’m aiming for. Meanwhile, I need to get cracking on my novel.
So it’s been kind of sketchy around here. But I think you’ll like what’s coming.
We’ve assumed that ObamaCare is the prize, and that the financial crisis is The Crisis not to waste.
But what if ObamaCare is The Crisis, and the administration will gladly let it go by the wayside? Their eager echo of Randy Barnett’s request for all due haste in taking it to the Supreme Court left us all scratching our heads. There are some good theories out there, but none seem to fit well enough to get my spider-sense to stop tingling. Now the administration dumps the CLASS act just because the implementation is prohibited by law (based on some requirements we stuck in at the last minute, whew!). But breaking laws with impunity is a defining characteristic of this administration, so I don;t think they are tearing limbs … Continue reading
I had this as a draft before Palin announced she would not run:
The GOP has been had again, and deserves its fate. The candidates are now trotting to the tune called by their media betters, with the exception of Gingrich, who will never be President anyway. Why are they not talking about fourteen trillion dollars in outright debt, or sixty trillion in unfunded liabilities? Why are they STILL answering the same God-Damned questions about gays (gays), abortion (stem cells, HPV), and guns (death penalty)?
Because they have failed to defend Sarah Palin, and now they are being picked off one by one. We had a chance to take the narrative and run with it, but instead we are being run behind the media bus. Trip once, and … Continue reading
I cannot get away from this crap. Sure, it just sits there on the right, but why am I being pressed non-stop to subscribe to these nimrods? I have no desire to hear whatever it is they say. Personally, I think it’s their moronic auto-suggestion thing converging on a trivial solution. They couldn’t be this stupid, could they?
Founder and CEO at Facebook 5 friends are subscribed. Subscribe 
Program Manager at Facebook 1 friend is subscribed. Subscribe
Somebody has taken blog comment spam to the next level. Somehow, this comment made it past Akismet (the Cloverfield monster of blog spam defenders):
Whenever I read one of your posts, my balls get even bigger.
Naturally, the comment was accompanied by a link to a commercial site, in this case a page on the highly suspect site “Evaporative Humidifier Reviews“, which I am going to simply link here and wish the guy good luck. If all spam were this funny, the web would be a different place. I hope you get lot of hits, dude.
[pullquote]The MSM is turning on Obama not because they ran out of liberal whitewash.[/pullquote]I’m not buying the MSM’s pivot on Obama. They may be genuinely upset at his incomprehensible (or dishonest) statements lately, but they are taking him to task not because he is so obviously lying, and not because they ran out of liberal whitewash. The MSM is turning on Obama because the GOP failed to defend Sarah Palin.
They have always known that Obama is a liar, and they have always been willing to do whatever it takes to support him. Lie, cheat, steal, kill, throw an election–there’s an argument that each of these has been accomplished on the road to BarryTown. So their sudden criticism is not squeamishness about what needs to be done–they are fearless about … Continue reading
Vision for future structure of this blog:
“Front: page looks much like it does now, but with only “chops” or extracts, functioning more like an index. Allows greater number of posts to be linked on the default landing page. Retain two/three column format.
Detail pages should absorb selected sidebar content into an “inline sidebar”, like an extended pullquote, or a “resource box”. Wipe out actual css sidebars (retain only on front/index) and make content wider to increase info density without creating a wall of text. Inline sidebars and other methods will help manage text flow.
[pullquote]blackness is not a scale on which I measure a Presidential candidate[/pullquote]Everybody who cares has seen or heard clips of MSNBC anchor and self-described socialist Lawrence O’Donnell engaging GOP hopeful Herman Cain in a series of racially-motivated attack questions, the point of which seems to be that Herman Cain is not authentically black, didn’t march at Selma, what-have-you. I’m not going to lecture either of these men on how to be black, as that is of no concern to me; blackness is not a scale on which I measure a Presidential candidate, but integrity is.
[pullquote]the White House calls the Tea Party “terrorists”[/pullquote]First, the media has gone out of its way to promote and euphemize the groups and their lawless, unsanitary goings-on. The contrast between the tongue-bath for … Continue reading
This is bad.
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta this week moved to replace key members of the Defense Policy Board, the advisory group of former officials that serves as a brain trust.
“He made it more ‘Democratic,’” one board member quipped about the changes.
Liberals added to the board include former Clinton administration Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright and Jane Harman, a former Democratic congresswoman from California. Also added: former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead.
Most notable among the new members is Ms. Gorelick, who was notorious for erecting the so-called bureaucratic “wall” blocking law enforcement and intelligence agencies from cooperating closely before the Sept. 11 terror attacks. The … Continue reading
neXt was Steve Jobs’ project in his inter-Apple years. ‘It will be the last startup to succeed, or the first to fail”, he said indicating the door to PC startups was closing. In a way, it did both, as he used the tech from the cratered company to rejuvenate Apple upon his triumphant return.
Survived by four kids and exactly one wife; a life well-lived.
