Many now know of the kerfuffle in California with Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown calling Meg Whitman a whore.  The comment was a bit amusing, and totally uncalled for given the nature of all politicians.  But at least one would have expected an organization, whose mission is to ensure women a level playing field, to object to the use of word meant to demean a woman of accomplishment.  The implication of the word of course is that a woman cannot do anything without sleeping her way to powe...

The Global Warming wackos are getting desperate.  The latest - which you will not hear about in any of the "non-biased" media - is from England where teachers, bosses, and studio producers are blowing up people that have not swallowed the Global Warming kool-aid (why should the sheep be the only ones that die?  Blow up those not taken in by the hysteria so no one will be left). Reportedly (as in they made their point so they do not give a damn now), the 1010 organization has pulled ...

The title quote is provided by an astute writer on Stardock forums.  And of course he is correct (I assume a "he", but do not know the person outside of his writings).  And it is pertinent.  As one sore head on the site has gone around committing libel.  He accused me of stalking him, and thus justified his Big Brother attitude of his banning me from commenting on his posts. The problem is he is a liar and guilty of libel.  The truth (easily ascertained by any reader ...

Much has been made of Bush's war on terrorism, mostly by democrats.  They accuse him of a bigotry so far not supported by facts, and that charge has been picked up and used by Muslim countries around the world.  Yet it was Bush on 9-14-01 that went out of his way to specifically say we were at war with terrorism, and not Muslims. But what about democrats faced with similar situations?  Looking back at the last war that consumed the nation, Vietnam, Kennedy did not lock up the V...

Five (5) years ago, Katrina devastated the gulf coast.  And in the world of "unintended consequences", the resulting rapid increase in gas prices pushed my wife to start using one of the remote Access software solutions on the market.  The job she used it for was a part time one that required a bit of a commute and with gas over $3/gallon, it was not economically feasible to drive to this job.  But it was very feasible to use one of these products that cost only a few dollars a mo...

I recently wrote an article in praise of Verizon FIOS. I noted in the comments that I had heard Verizon had stopped expansion of the project and wondered why.  A commenter said the reason was that Verizon was waiting for government money (another needless bailout).  In that I cannot blame them.  Free money (i.e. not yours) is an opiate for any company (and most individuals).  But his explanation reminded me of another government program that has long outlived its usefulness a...

I was researching the Shore Bank of Chicago for an  aunt of mine recently (there appears to be a potential scandal there) because she no longer trusts Snopes for getting to the truth about anything Obama (indeed, if you search for any Obama story that may be true or is true, you do not find it at Snopes, but you do find it at Truth or Fiction). As I was checking out an email she had been sent (the always circulating ones that we all get from our relatives and friends), my wife asked me w...

Well, it has been about 5 months since my switch from Comcast to Verizon FIOS.  And I had my first "incident" with FIOS over the weekend.  5 months and only 1 outage!  That is definitely an improvement in service (with Comcast, outages were about once a month). So I tepidly called Verizon tech support to report the outage.  Having been through 9 years of Comcast "service", I was expecting the worst.  With Comcast, 9 times out of 10, when there was a problem, it was wi...

This makes you feel so much better about the last big mistake you made.  You can always console yourself with the thought - YOU are not THEM!   Hippies Wail for Dead Trees

Well...I would not go that far (and I do not think he would either).  But after this past weekend, US Snooze and World Report did a survey and found he was a better orator than the messiah!  Yep!  he got over 2/3rds the votes to Obama's 1/3rd. But then Beck said more things of substance in 1 day than Obama has in 6 years.

Seems like a simple enough question.  Take a peak at  your thermometer, turn on a local all weather channel (we have 2 in the area), or hit accuweather.com.  Simple.  You will find that it is now 90°.  At least here.  But what if you wanted to find out the temperature for say......1998?  And not just your berg, the world?  What do you do? One thing you cannot do is go to any online source or data averaging site!  Why?  It appears that even...

Yes, that ego maniac of movies chickened out.  He likes to threaten people a lot (like shooting them down in the street and wanting to fight them), but when a challenge - BY HIM - to debate Global Warming was accepted by some skeptics, he first went through Orwellian contortions to change the rules (all changes were accepted) before pulling out at the very last minute! It seems the blow hards (the real source of AGW) are good about denying all the access to the facts and information, and...

George Orwell was a very insightful man.  Who had a gift of taking complex or confusing rhetoric and boiling it down to the bare essentials so that even the most obtuse of us could understand it.  Or maybe not.  He wrote 2 novels about the evils of government, 1984 and my favorite, Animal Farm. The quick and dirty of Animal Farm is that the animals on a farm revolt against the farmer and take over.  At first, there is an egalitarian type of society formed, but very soon, t...

One of the most controversial items of the AGW Alarmists arsenal of weapons is the often disputed, and refuted hockey stick graph of Michael Mann.  Mann is not a climatologist per se, but his word is gospel to those who would like the world to believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW).  Interestingly enough, while his PHD is not in climate science or math, he at least did get BS in the later.  And Statistics are a branch of math, or they use to be until perverted. But his h...

I have to wonder if there is anything that has, will or will not happen that is not Bush 43's fault.  We are told DAILY that all the bad in the world is Bush's fault.  From Obama down to the lowliest criminal, all actions that are bad, all events that are bad, all mishaps, misunderstandings, or misqueues are Bush's fault. The latest is more of the same.  Maxine Waters, caught with her hand in the cookie jar, is blaming Bush for her crimes!  I am sure Bush is also responsib...