I wish

that I could find out the name of the man who designed that piece of equipment

In order that I could track him down and either kick him in the balls or piss on his grave.

Either would work for me after spending 3 hours struggling to replace a belt..
I donated several square inches of skin and about a half pint of blood, all because someone did a piss poor job of engineering.

Above the law?

Since the "won" failed to show at the Georgia court hearing regarding his eligiblity to be President of these United States, He is, best case, in contempt of the court.

And since his attorney didn't show, one would think that he considers himself above the law....(no surprise there)

2 things:

You haven't seen any of this on any mainstream media, and it is doubtful that you will...

And will this tactic of ignoring the issue work again? Will we let it?

I really don't know if he is or is not an eligible citizen. But the farther this goes, the more I wonder what he is hiding?

ETA: More HERE

An excellent article.


Read it. All of it.

Think.

Found through WRSA. (which is a site you should check out often)

Trying again

The folks in Washington are trying again to gain control of the Interenet.

Watch carefully.

Expect to act.

life

On Venus?

I highly doubt it, but it would be interesting.
But 800+ degrees F? nearly 100 times the pressure?

We do have life which exists in similar conditions here on earth, so it is possible.

If they are intelligent though, they'll likely want to stay away from us.

Women (true)

Stolen from a forum I check out periodically:

 God promised men that good and obedient women would be found in all corners of the world.


And then He made the earth round.

Light

Between the message the O pushes, and the Republican response to it, I no longer see a light at the end of the tunnel, I see an oncoming train (wreck)

There was nothing that I heard that inspired hope. Nothing.

If Obama gets re-elected, we are fucked.

And if Mitch Daniels' message represents the republican party, then there is only despair.

Methinks that someone missed a chance when all of our government officials were all together under one roof...

win

We got the stuff we won from the soldiers angels fundraiser.

Thanks for all your hard work Linoge.

Seems that Government Motors CANT GIVE THE VOLT AWAY.

Apparently they can't sell them, unlike other "normal" cars.

Dealers don't want 'em, for whatever reason.

Yet, strangely, the Japanese and Ford hybrids leap off the lot.

Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to yew

Today was the day the gods gifted us with the genius that was John M.Browning.

I own several examples of his genius.

Is he above the law?

Or is he subject to the same rules, regulations, and judicial orders that the rest of us are?

We shall soon see.

This should be interesting.

Missed it

I meant to post this yesterday.

On Jan 20th, 1942, the decision was finalized to completely eradicate an entire people from Europe.


Himmler and Hitler, and many others, at the Wansee Conference in Berlin, chaired by Richard Heydrich, finalized the plans for the Final Solution.

Something that we should remember....Much evil lurks in the hearts of some men.

If we forget, it can (and will) happen again.

(Note, it is being attempted in several places in Africa, just in a much less organized or industrial way.)

Socialism

Who determines how much profit a company can make?

Apparently, people who think that they know more than the rest of us.

Socialists, all of them. They think that they can decide how much profit is too much.
Soon, they'll be telling you how much salary you can make. And these things will be decided by a board of people accountable to no one. People that they decide should make those decisions.

And, lets not forget that, likely, you own bits and pieces of those companies they are going to limit the profits on....if not directly through your portfolio, then through your 401K and other retirement investments.

Look: I'd like to see gas prices drop, and I'd like to return to the days when I could fill up my tank for less than a Franklin. I'd like to return to the days of muscle cars. I'd like to go back to when $5.00 could let me cruise the strip for all night with my friends.

But to limit the profit that these companies make, to pass legislation where a select group of unelected "experts" decides what is enough profit for any single corporation is madness. It places too much power in the hands of people who have no right to determine the earnings of a company. It leads to a very steep and slippery slope, wherein each of us must ask politely for a decent return on our investment, be it time, labor, or dollars. Who will be next? Farmers? Stores? Factories? Why should anyone invest in anything if there is no incentive to do so? When there is no reward?

The actual amount of profit that the oil companies, the shippers, distributors, and retail outlets (individuals, all) makes on a gallon of gas is less than the taxes that the feds and the state steal from charge you. The rate of return is minuscule per gallon.

In another time, Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and his co conspirators would have been branded "red" and hounded out of the government. Or horsewhipped for admitting that he even thought about such legislation.

How do even let these people into government?

Y'know, sometimes people are stupid. Sometimes they are led/influenced by stupid people. Like the news media.

We have had, here in the greater Chicago metro area, a fairly mild winter so far. For most of November and nearly all of December, we were above freezing and had very little precipitation fall as snow.

The past few days have been somewhat cold, reaching (gasp!) single digit temps. (really unusual for JANU!ARY). Today, warmer air is flowing up from the south, leading to a predicted 8" of snow possible for some parts of the are in the next 24 hours.

People are panicking. People are cancelling travel plans. Some schools are closing, with cold and snow as the reason.

Over 8" of snow.
In a 24 hour period.
In the midwest.
In January.

Jesus
What weak sisters we have living here.

Yep

Santorum did win the Iowa caucus.

But the GOP really only cares about their chosen boy, Mittens.

Santorum isn't the chosen one. They lied. You don't think that this had an effect going into New Hampshire?

Romney is getting the support of the GOP national folks. And he's gonna lose to Obama.

Betcha

Well, did you call 'em?

Did you even bother to call and explain why SOPA/PIPA, etc is a bad idea? Did you read anything that was posted on the 18th??

Or did you just go forward with your life?

Watch this video, might help. Take 4 minutes to learn.


PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.


(h/t walls of the city)


It is important. These bills can be used to (and likely will be) shut down blogs which are not approved by your government. Or any larger group who wishes to claim any copytight infringement. No notice, no chance to take down any material which might be an issue.  Just shut the website down.
Guess who gets to make that choice? The government. Do you think that is a good idea?

Many of us, some big, some small, chose to use today as a protest. As a day to (hopefully) educate and motivate the rest of you to take some action by cutting off the "free ice cream"

Or not.

I was impressed by Wikipedia somewhat less by Google, not so much by Drudge and Instapundit.
I guess income trumps taking a stand. Even though taking a stand might well save your income.

Cop, or soldier?

It can be HARD TO TELL.

Via JennifersHead.

Can you do any better?

THe sad fact is that it is harder and harder to tell. Cops are no longer "peace officers".

Sadly, other than militarized, I am not sure what they are. Some of them are good police officers. Others are something else.

But if you can't tell the difference in these photos, then you (and we) have problems.

Class

Midwest Chick and I spend a fair bit of time shopping this weekend. some high end stores, some low end stores, and most somewhere in between.

While I am all for saving a buck or two, I noticed something:

Wal-Mart and Menards had much less well behaved customers. Same with the cheaper grocery stores.

The stores that were one step higher in price had a much better class of people shopping there. By better class, I mean behavior wise. Same town, same demographic (or so it appeared), but a much higher level of social interaction quality. 

Quite simply, they behaved better. More like people and less like animals.

It may well be worth it for me to pay the slightly higher prices and shop where the lowest common denominator doesn't.

It'll be good for my blood pressure

No amount is too little

When it comes to the NRC and low doses of radiation.

They are even checking imported tissue holders.

They caution us to be careful sitting near them, as we might get the equivalent of 2 x-rays a day...

Yet there is no check on the scanners that they use in airports at all. Nor on the dosages the TSA personnel get while working.

Interesting, ain't it?