Saturday, August 11, 2012
Ethanol vs. the World
Corn fuel mandate continues to raise food prices and hurt the poor - corn is also a key ingredient in the combine of political power and corporate welfare that is U.S. alternative energy policy.
If not for the politics, the ethanol mandate would have been gone years ago. Oil costs and imports are up (ethanol makes up less than 1% of world-wide transportation fuel), and even the green lobby has turned against the fuel (because of the carbon-increasing deforestation it causes).
If not for the politics, the ethanol mandate would have been gone years ago. Oil costs and imports are up (ethanol makes up less than 1% of world-wide transportation fuel), and even the green lobby has turned against the fuel (because of the carbon-increasing deforestation it causes).
Friday, August 10, 2012
Cemetery Guns and Grave Torpedoes
Protection against grave robbers during the 1700's and 1800's.
I love this, from an advertisement:
"...sleep well sweet angel, let no fears of ghouls disturb thy rest, for above thy shrouded form lies a torpedo, ready to make minced meat of anyone who attempts to convey you to the pickling vat."
I love this, from an advertisement:
"...sleep well sweet angel, let no fears of ghouls disturb thy rest, for above thy shrouded form lies a torpedo, ready to make minced meat of anyone who attempts to convey you to the pickling vat."
Friday links
A Physics Lesson: Why Cats Land on Their Feet (Usually).
Infographic: Here’s Every Avenger That Marvel Ever Invented.
25 Advertisements By Dr. Seuss Before He Was Dr. Seuss. And here are his WWII Editorial Cartoons.
Stressed Men Like Bigger Butts.
Freeing a Moose From a Swing Set. Also in the animal rescue category, bringing a drowned turtle back from the dead with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Infographic: Here’s Every Avenger That Marvel Ever Invented.
25 Advertisements By Dr. Seuss Before He Was Dr. Seuss. And here are his WWII Editorial Cartoons.
Stressed Men Like Bigger Butts.
Freeing a Moose From a Swing Set. Also in the animal rescue category, bringing a drowned turtle back from the dead with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
"Romney Murdered JonBenét Ramsey,' New Obama Campaign Ad Alleges
The Onion: Romney owes an explanation to the American people as to why he murdered JonBenét Ramsey.
Titled “He Did It,” the advertisement asks if anyone can truly remember where Romney was the night of the child’s murder, and whether the U.S. populace wants a president capable of strangling a little girl and dumping her body in her parents’ basement.
And this: According to sources at Obama’s Chicago headquarters, the “He Did It” commercial is just the first in a new series of attack ads that accuses Romney of drowning actress Natalie Wood in 1981, convincing cult leader David Koresh to burn down the Branch Davidian ranch in Waco, TX, and causing the Challenger disaster.
Titled “He Did It,” the advertisement asks if anyone can truly remember where Romney was the night of the child’s murder, and whether the U.S. populace wants a president capable of strangling a little girl and dumping her body in her parents’ basement.
And this: According to sources at Obama’s Chicago headquarters, the “He Did It” commercial is just the first in a new series of attack ads that accuses Romney of drowning actress Natalie Wood in 1981, convincing cult leader David Koresh to burn down the Branch Davidian ranch in Waco, TX, and causing the Challenger disaster.
Poll: Obama, Romney 48-46 in Northern Virginia
NoVa (where I live) is generally significantly Democrat - especially since so many are employed or contracted by the federal government.
Statistical dead heat.
Statistical dead heat.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Jonah Goldberg on Pelosi: To Hell With You People, Again
This is what liberals do. They metaphorically lash children to the
fenders of government so that the budget cutting blade must slice
through them first.
Wednesday links
A British man set fire to his home by microwaving his socks and underwear.
The Ultimate People Walking Into Stuff Compilation.
LEGO roundup: Seven-foot long minifig-scale Serenity model, an Olympic Park replica, and a recreation of the Ringwraiths’ hunt for Hobbits. Also, kid had a LEGO stuck in his nose for 3 years.
Methane-exhaling microbes.
30 Giant Figures Seen from Google Earth.
Woman in O's anti-Romney SuperPAC Death Ad had her own insurance
Malkin: And died 5 years after her husband lost his.
A couple of points that are fairly well known by now, because we’ve been here before. Romney left Bain in 1999. GST Steel declared bankruptcy in 2001. The woman mentioned in the ad died in 2006 — seven years after Romney left Bain and five years after Soptic was laid off. Who was running Bain when the man lost his job? A high dollar Obama campaign bundler. They keep leaving that part out.
Update: According to CNN, not mentioned in the ad is the fact that during the time after Soptic lost his job, his wife had her own job with health insurance coverage:
A couple of points that are fairly well known by now, because we’ve been here before. Romney left Bain in 1999. GST Steel declared bankruptcy in 2001. The woman mentioned in the ad died in 2006 — seven years after Romney left Bain and five years after Soptic was laid off. Who was running Bain when the man lost his job? A high dollar Obama campaign bundler. They keep leaving that part out.
Update: According to CNN, not mentioned in the ad is the fact that during the time after Soptic lost his job, his wife had her own job with health insurance coverage:
NCIS Targets Wired's Danger Room in Leak Investigation
Over a 5 year old article based on an unclassified document about a weapon never built.
Plus, a discussion on how the leak investigations are going after low-level individuals and protecting the administration and congress.
Plus, a discussion on how the leak investigations are going after low-level individuals and protecting the administration and congress.
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Report: Cronyism, political donations likely behind Obama, Holder failure to charge any bankers after 2008 financial meltdown
The Obama administration’s decision to not appoint an independent
counsel to investigate the MF Global scandal, despite more than 60
members of Congress demanding it, also reeks of cronyism.
Mark Steyn on the Olympics in London
I scrammed out of London a few days before the
Olympics began, but after getting an earful on what the locals make of
it. On the whole, the residents of that great city would rather the
honor of hosting the world’s most disruptive sporting event had gone to
some joint that needs the publicity more — Alma Ata, or Ouagadougou, or
Oakland. In 21st-century London, traffic moves at fewer miles per
hour than it did before the internal-combustion engine was invented
without the added complication of fleets of Third World thug bureaucrats
and the permanent floating crap game of transnationalist freeloaders
being dumped on its medieval street plan.
Read the whole thing.
My younger daughter called me about this column, because of the Guys and Dolls reference - needless to say, this is totally stuck in my head.
Read the whole thing.
My younger daughter called me about this column, because of the Guys and Dolls reference - needless to say, this is totally stuck in my head.
Monday, August 6, 2012
Slicing vegetables with thrown playing cards
This fellow hopes to break a world record throwing playing cards with vegetable-slicing speed and accuracy.
Slow motion flaming tennis ball
They took a tennis ball, soaked it in gasoline, and lit it on fire. Watch it served in slow-motion. Some possibly NSFW language.
via Mental Floss.
via Mental Floss.
Connecticut public beaches closed all day so Obama can fund-raise
Two of Connecticut’s popular public beaches -- maintained with taxpayer
money -- will close all day Monday to accommodate President Obama’s fundraising
excursion that ends with a $35,800-per-plate event.
Monday links
The history of toilet paper.
Patented method for exercising a cat.
Italy rules ‘no balls’ insult for men is a crime.
Luxury chickens.
Patrick Combs deposits a junk-mail cheque for $95,000 – for a joke. The bank cashes it.
The only existing video footage of Mark Twain, as filmed by Thomas Edison.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Obama Fundraisers to Deny Thousands a Day at the Beach
“Could you imagine if a Republican ever did such a thing? They’d be screaming from every corner."
A popular Connecticut park and its 234 acres of wetlands, woodlands and beach on Long Island Sound will be shut down all day Monday so that President Obama can use the location as a base for fundraising nearby.
The Sherwood Island State Park in Westport, Connecticut will have to turn away thousands of bathers so that Obama can get to and from his events, including a $35,800 per head bash at the 9,000-square-foot, $8.3-million waterfront estate of movie mogul Harvey Wienstein.
A popular Connecticut park and its 234 acres of wetlands, woodlands and beach on Long Island Sound will be shut down all day Monday so that President Obama can use the location as a base for fundraising nearby.
The Sherwood Island State Park in Westport, Connecticut will have to turn away thousands of bathers so that Obama can get to and from his events, including a $35,800 per head bash at the 9,000-square-foot, $8.3-million waterfront estate of movie mogul Harvey Wienstein.
15 Military groups oppose Obama campaign Ohio lawsuit
The National Guard Association of the United States and more than a dozen other fraternal military groups asked a U.S. judge for permission
to intervene in and oppose a lawsuit filed by President Barack Obama’s
campaign challenging the fairness of Ohio’s early voting rules.
via Gateway Pundit.
via Gateway Pundit.
Iowahawk: Readings from the Book of Barack
“For I am the Lord Govt, creator of Eden! 32 I
gave unto you the roads and bridges, and schools and cops, brought unto
you of gentle showers of Tarp and Stimulus and rivers of Subsidy, I am
the purifier of the waters, cleanser of the air, without which you and
your profits would not exist. Thus all that thou have created is created
by Us. Thus ye shall render unto Govt what is Govt's, and this is the
Word of your Lord.”
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Thoughts while hanging out with grandkids:
I hear babies cry, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more, than I'll never know
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.
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