Another Hollywood person died this weekend. But this one was special.  At least to me. Patricia Neal had a fine career.  Not one of headlines that we are constantly bombarded with as some of the "stars" today like to do.  But one of grace, beauty and competence that enriched our lives. She was one of the few stars that seemed to love her work for the work, and allowed us to escape on an occasional Saturday from the mundane to the world of make believe She won an Oscar for Hu...

I have always loved Dells (well since about the mid 90s).  And yesterday, I found I had an even better reason to love them! My sister-in-law suffered a fire at her house a couple of years ago.  The house was a total loss (which is a shame - have you ever heard of the Hobbit House?  That was hers.)  By the time my wife and I got out there several months later, they had cleared the rubble and were fighting the insurance company over money.  In that rubble apparently was...

We had a red letter day on August 2, 2010.  But not one that many will celebrate as the damage done to people, and this country is not something that will be celebrated by true Americans. First up, we do have a celebration.  The Commonwealth of Virginia just locked arms with the State of Arizona in standing up for its citizens.  Something the federal government refuses to do, and indeed as will be shown, has decided that the rights of citizens are secondary to the new world o...

CNN recently asked the question of the title.  The implication being the only ones in the first world that were not on Facebook were old people not on computers, some people with an ax to grind, or just computer illiterates.  They have their opinion, I have mine.  I have never been on MySpace or Facebook, and here is why:  - For whatever faults some find with JoeUser, I have yet to see the admins here delete a post.  Shove it to your personal blog?  I have heard ...

Another example of lack of character, albeit less surprising, comes from a member of the press.  Sarah Spitz, a member of JournoList, had an orgasm of glee when thinking about Rush Limbaugh having a heart attack and declaring, unequivocally, how she would not do a thing to help him, just jump for joy. Like the other cockroaches of the Journolist, her revelation was found out and outed.  Today, she issued a clarification: I made poorly considered remarks about Rush Limbaugh to w...

For years, liberal bloggers, bereft of any substantive arguments, have tried to use a source to show others that their thinking was wrong, and that their sources were bogus.  That source was Media Matters.  A supposed unbiased watchdog of the Media that would tell us when someone was lying, obfuscating or distorting.  They swore by their new found god to discredit the arguments they could not debate. And for good reason did these liberal bloggers love Media Matters.  For m...

The title is a quote from J.C. Watts.  I know, the liberals are climbing out of the woodwork right now calling him a Nazi concentration Camp guard ( Luke Visconti ), or an " Uncle Tom ".  Why?  Because he is not a slave on the democrat plantation who actually has a mind of his own and is not afraid to speak it.  And he is right with his statement.  Character is what you do when you think no one is looking.  And the NAACP has no character. Recently, the august (in...

One of the deceptions that the Obama administration is trying to push on the American Populace is that "The border has never been safer"!  So why not let more illegals in? So if the borders are so safe, and nothing needs to be done to the borders (just offer amnesty for all the illegals here), why then are the feds providing armed escorts for federal livestock inspectors? In this day and age of the alternate media and of course non-sycophantic media like Fox and Drudge, lying by the g...

Well, I went to the doctor for a check on my cholesterol yesterday.  And the good news is that in just 3 months, I have lowered it by 30 points!  With Niacin (1000 mg daily).  Niacin (one of the B vitamins), as those taking the instant release stuff know, causes "hot flashes" and worse - itching!  According to my doctor, the itching is because of histamines and is normal (which is good news, I am not allergic to it, and bad news!  Like I need to scratch more?). I just...

It use to be that the local vampires would wait until the day after I became eligible.  Recently I have been giving at a church where the organizer would call me before I was eligible to schedule me for the blood drive, so I have been spared for the past year.  But I missed the last scheduled donation.  I went a week later and gave, but they have started to go every 8 weeks, so that means I was a week short this time. And the vampires called at 8:30AM on the day I was eligible!...

Fox News has a slide show on the addresses of the presidents to the nation from the oval office in the broadcast age.  It is very enlightening.  For the most part, we see how past presidents have used the occasion to address the nation in the time of national crises, often when the very existence of the nation was at stake, or  had been secured.  There slides represent 11 of the last 13 presidents and details what their initial address was about, and any subsequent address...

Twice in the last week I have been called in to fix a computer that would not "browse" the Internet.  The browser of choice was internet Explorer (one was 6 the other 7), and while the home page would launch when the browser would start, they could not then type in another URL and have the browser connect. But it was not 100%.  In other words, type in a second URL, and it would not connect.  Type in a 3rd and it woudl.  4th, would not, 5th would, etc. I checked for all ...

Well, I have seen it all now!  Obama has decided that his supporters cannot think for themselves (that is nothing new in itself, but the blatant expression of it is unprecedented).  So for all the idiot liberals out there, do not worry about sounding stupid!  just go to Radio Barak Obama dot com and have your views spoon fed to you!  And then like a good little bundest, report your results back to Il Duce himself!

In what is the stupidest example of both lack of journalistic integrity and the left's lack of personal responsibility, Bush, having been blamed for everything for the last 10 years (although being out of office for the last 2), now seems to be a home wrecker.  Apparently, Al Gore's failed marriage is his fault too! The reasoning (lack there of) goes that the defeat of Gore in 2000 was just too much for the marriage to bear.  Never mind it was the fourth time in history it has happe...

Yesterday, Dennis Hopper and Gary Coleman died.  For someone of my age, they are very significant and their loss just plays on our mortality.  Dennis Hopper was "Easy Rider" along with so many other great roles.  He was the easiest to identify with as he seemed to be like you and me, only bigger and in Hollywoodese, what we dreamt about.  Until his last, I always love his roles.  They were the psycho part of us, yet they were bigger.  Or they were the sane part of u...