The Tiger's Eye

Oh I gotta

2010-09-04T04:36:00.001-07:00

How is this NOT discrimination?

2010-07-31T05:21:00.000-07:00

According to this story, The Department of the Navy going to be practicing promotions based upon a candidate's race (among other things).

The message, sent to a list of other flag officers, notes that "a change in focus of this year's diversity brief is the desire to identify our key performers (by name) and provide insight on each of them." Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead, who apparently originated this order, "is interested in who are the diverse officers with high potential and what is the plan for their career progression. He may ask what is being done within to ensure they are considered for key follow on billets within the Navy."

I thought this was going to be the "post-racial" administration?

Hobsen's choice

2010-07-30T10:37:00.000-07:00

Ever find yourself literally pondering the worse of two evils and then actually choosing one over the other?

Recently I was afflicted with some kind of hellish tooth/gum pain. It all started back in June when I bit down on a bagel and was rewarded with instant knifing pain in the lower jaw on the right hand side. (30-31 molars). Usually when you have that kind of pain, it subsides and you find yourself thinking, “I had better not do THAT again” but this was different. It got worse as the morning wore on, compounded by the heat and humidity of being up on a 2nd story roof while doing a site review. By 11:30 that morning I had called my dentist who agreed to see me on an emergency basis and fit me into her busy schedule.
A few minutes of probing and an X-Ray later concluded that there was little she could do but that she felt a specialist Endodontic visit would be required as this tooth had a crown/root canal a few years earlier. I got the names of a few specialists who are on our insurance plan and went home to medicate with Vicodin while I tried to make an appointment.
The following Tuesday the Endodontic Dentist saw me (Norhtside Endodontics in Indianapolis if anyone needs a root canal – these guys are very good) and after reviewing my Xrays decided my tooth really wasn’t a tooth/root problem but that with all the inflammation in my gum it was most likely periodontal in nature; so off to another specialist I went armed with more Rx for anti-inflammatory and antibiotic drugs. A week later the Periodontist saw me and concluded that yes, I had some infection that need some minor gum surgery. All the while this was going on the tooth above was ALSO beginning to cause discomfort but we decided “first things first” and to deal with the gums before tackling the tooth.
2 weeks later (4th of July week) I had periodontal surgery that cleaned up the gums around my lower molars on my right side and left with stitches in my gums and more drugs. 2 weeks later my surgery site was fully healed and those teeth felt fine but now the upper tooth causing real discomfort.
Any pressure on the tooth was cause for immediate and lingering pain. As it happened, it was time for my annual tooth check-up/cleaning so back I went to see the dentist who informed me that there was good reason to think I might need a root canal on the painful tooth (No 3 molar) as it was a very old and deep filling. I called the Endo and made an appointment for yesterday afternoon to have a root canal to stop the pain. Fast forward 2 weeks and now the pain is almost continual when anything (food, my tongue, my finger…) touched my gum or my cheek (shaving felt like I was dragging sandpaper over my cheek). It felt like a rusty nail being driven into my cheek by angry badgers on speed.
Sunday night I noticed that there was a little swelling above my gum line so Monday morning I called my dentist and described the condition. She said that swelling may be due to the “shadow” she saw on the X-ray which might be the beginning of an abscess (made me feel better that I might be doing the correct thing… I am REALLY sensitive to my teeth and gums. I will admit that I am a wimp when it comes to tooth pain.)
Wednesday morning about 4 AM I woke from a deep sleep with intense pain and swelling that was across the right side of my face. By 8 that morning when I called the Endo office I was nervous, sick at my stomach from the nasty taste in my mouth (imagine that) and worried that any number of things were going wrong in my mouth. Thankfully they fit me in that morning and saw me. The dentist said that while the swelling had increased and was worrisome, the root canal scheduled for the following day should take care of all of it.
Thursday morning I was onsite at 7 to do a field report and get some actual work done before I was to leave at noon for my appointment.
I went home and gathered up the wife to drive me (amongst other things, the meds were making me nauseous enough to puke every so often) and off we went to Northside Endodontics to see doctor.

We arrived at 2:30, hit the chair at 2:50 and I was numbed out by 3:05
2 hours later the tooth was completely cleaned out and ready to be packed and a temporary filling placed in the crown when the dentist decided to fill the tooth with antibiotic for 5 min due to the abscess that started the entire mess.

5 min later while the dentist was taking care of an emergency and my tooth sat with the drugs in it, THE PAINKILLERS WORE OFF!
Over the span of 10 minutes I went from being fully numbed to frantically waving my arms to get someone’s attention to PUT MORE DRUGS INTO MY MOUTH FOR GOD’S SAKE!!!

About 15 min. later, when the Doctor came back and prepared to finish the work I started to motion to him to do something. To his credit he immediately attempted to numb me again but sometimes when your mouth is that inflamed, painkillers will only do so much. In my case the limit had been reached. Even the needle he used to inject the drugs with felt like a hot rusty nail in my jaw.
45min later he finished the root canal. 45 minutes without painkillers on a tooth that an exposed root structure and an abscessed infection!
I don’t think I have ever felt pain like that and I hope I never have to again.
Now I am sitting here, benumbed with Vicodin 750ES while taking all sorts of antibiotics, my face all puffy and sore.

The lesser of two evils was that I knew going into the procedure that it would most likely end up that way. As I said, I have very sensitive teeth and gums and I metabolize anesthetics pretty fast too. So I could have pain that got worse slowly but incrementally or pain that almost made me pee my pants but hopefully will be gone Monday.

What a wonderful way to start the weekend…

AT LAST a new post

2010-07-25T04:22:00.000-07:00

OK,
I think I figured out how to make sense of the last 19 months of our national cultural nightmare.

I decided that from now on; whenever I read about anything this administration does, I will preface it by imagining the administration official saying (in a dreamy 8th gradey voice)
"Hey, Wouldn't it be KOOL if we... (add the proposal here)?"

Then follow it with the sound of a bong bubbling in the background and voices agreeing, "Oh wow!, THAT is sooooo Cool man!!!"

Try it.

Imagine President Obama in a smoky meeting room in the White House. The Black Eyed Peas are playing in the background, a few Hollywood celebs are hanging around doing whatever they do when they aren't on camera, a few cabinet members are slouching in the conference room chairs, Joe Biden is playing with his "Playmobil White House" play set in the corner.

Then; from beneath a cloud of Government grown hash, Our8thgradeclasspresident proposes his Health Care initiative, "Hey; Wouldn't it be Cool if we just make all those people who HAVE already, pay for all those poor people who don't have jobs to have the same insurance plans that they get? I mean it’s not fair for those poor people to not be able to see the same doctor as those bad ole rich folks!"

Imagine Robert Gibbs at a press conference saying anything he has said in the last year and a half.

Come on, it sorta makes it all make sense doesn’t it?

Doesn’t it?

Great Quote...

2010-02-07T08:12:00.000-08:00

"It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin."

James Monroe

Time out...

2010-01-15T18:46:00.000-08:00

I've been giving a bit of thought to what this blog is doing and where it is going.
As of earlier this month, I have been thinking of putting it on a hiatus of sorts while I think about what I want to say and whether it needs saying.
That said, I am pretty sure I will be back.

a REAL Christmas story

2009-12-25T12:46:00.000-08:00

I found this over at The American Thinker:

A Christmas Story and Message for Our Time
By Steve McCann

Many years ago, in a country and a city destroyed by the brutality of World War II, there lived on the streets a young, nameless boy. No one knew his age or to whom he was born. After the death of a woman he had lived with and to whom he did not know if he was related, he was on his own.
He spent his days among the rubble with other children of similar circumstances. The search for food was a daily and never-ending occupation, whether begging from the locals, or from foreign soldiers stationed nearby, or rummaging through the garbage cans outside military mess halls.
At night, the least destroyed of the nearby buildings with a remnant of a roof overhead served as a shelter from the elements. But no one could escape the constant stench of death and destruction hanging in the air. The smell permeated the very fiber of one's being and would remain embedded in the young boy's DNA for the rest of his life.
One day while wandering about the streets, this boy heard the screams of a woman being attacked. He ran to the scene and saw a soldier tearing at the clothing of a teenage girl. Instinctively he picked up some broken bricks and began throwing them at the attacker. The man released the girl, turned, and aimed a pistol at the boy. The boy turned to run and felt a sharp pain in his side. After falling forward from the impact, he got up and ran some distance before finally passing out.
When the boy awoke, he was in a military hospital being treated for a gunshot wound and malnutrition. For the first time that he could remember, he slept in a bed and was fed three meals a day. After recuperating, he was placed on a train and taken on a long journey to an orphanage near Bremen, Germany.
Some time thereafter, this befuddled boy was taken to the harbor. He stood dumbstruck, staring up at the enormous black hull of a ship destined for the United States. Walking alone up the gangplank, he had no luggage, passport, or papers -- just a yellow tag pinned to his coat.
The winter voyage was excruciating. The ocean was in a constant state of turmoil, and seasickness plagued nearly everyone on board. Finally, on the seventh day, as dawn broke, the young boy stood at the railing and watched the image of the Statue of Liberty slowly emerge from the mist, framed majestically by the skyline of New York in the distance, the peaks of its skyscrapers reflecting the morning sun.
As the boy met the German-American foster parents that had agreed to take him in, he knew not what the future would bring in this strange land that spoke a different language from the ones he knew -- a mixture of German and Polish. He was at last given a first name. He began yet another trip, this time to a quiet, quasi-southern town to settle down on a farm. It didn't seem possible, but life there was even more miserable than the one he had known in Europe.
Subject to constant beatings and never-ending work on the farm, the boy often ran away to find solace in the woods surrounding the fields. His only friends were the animals on the farm and in the forest. Soon a neighboring farmer began to notice what was happening on the adjoining property. He called the police, and child protection agencies took the child away from the foster family.
After recovering from another bout of malnutrition, the young boy was placed in a home with other orphans. There was no one there he could communicate with or relate to. Despair began to set in. Unbeknown to him, he was slated to be sent to an orphanage somewhere in New York State, as he was unadoptable due to a lack of papers. He could not be placed in foster care, as he had yet to be "housebroken."
One day, a man dressed in a black suit came to see the boy. He was the pastor of the local Catholic parish. The Monsignor took the boy to the rectory for lunch, and then next-door to the church building. The child had never been in a church before. The small and intimate space was decorated for Christmas. It was the most astounding sight the boy had ever seen. The lights, the colors, and the atmosphere spoke to him of something he had never experienced: peace and tranquility. But what caught his attention was a group of statues and a spotlight shining on a baby in a manger.
The frail boy, the inner spirit that had seen him through so much now depleted, stood before the statues of holy family. He gazed at the serene face of the woman dressed in a blue robe looking lovingly at the baby. Was this the image of a mother? A mother he had never known? Staring into the eyes of the infant in the manger, the boy felt a presence, as if an unseen hand was touching the very core of the his soul. With a tear rolling down his cheek, the boy whispered, "Hilf mir" (help me).
The time came for the boy to return to the shelter and await his fate. At the door of the church, the boy turned and looked one last time at the nativity scene. A glow seemed to surround the statues, and he was overwhelmed by a sense of hope and optimism.
At Midnight Mass on Christmas Day, the priest related the story of a young war-orphan brought to the United States, his hardship and misfortune while in this country, and his lack of any identity, making it nearly impossible for him to be adopted. The Monsignor asked, as the boy had never experienced Christmas, if anyone who spoke German could take the child for a few days during the Christmas season before he left for an orphanage.
During the offertory, with the Ave Maria being sung in the background, a woman in the congregation felt a surge of warmth and heard a voice telling her she must adopt this young boy. Turning to her husband she said, "We have to adopt the boy the Monsignor was talking about." He replied they could not, as they did not speak his language, they could not afford to raise a child, and they could never shoulder the expense of pursuing an adoption even if it were possible. The woman emphatically stated that God has told me to, we must, and we will.
After mass, the woman relayed her experience to the priest. When their eyes met, and before she said anything, the priest announced to her: "You are here about adopting the boy." He told her that during the Ave Maria, he too heard a message from God, and they would make the adoption happen together. Soon an elderly woman from Germany whose husband owned a local car dealership came into the sacristy offering to take the boy for an extended period. Then two other families came to make a similar proposal.
The adoption process was long and drawn-out, involving the courts and the federal government, but the woman and the priest, who paid the legal bills, persevered. The boy stayed at the homes of those who had offered to help. He gradually learned a smattering of English and how to be part of a family structure.
Around Easter of that year, the boy went to live with his future parents. A birth certificate was created, and in October, the adoption became final.
Thanks to a baby lying in a manger, the young boy from the streets of a war-torn city somewhere in central Europe, whose odyssey had taken him through so many trials and tribulations, had a name and a permanent home.
For the rest of his life, this boy would continue to fight with the demons of his youth. He won some battles, but he lost many others. Nonetheless, he always knew he had someone on his side when life was at its worst.
Today on Christmas, many people in the United States and Europe have turned their backs on God and do not care if He is on their side. Some do not even acknowledge His existence. The pursuit of lives of relative ease and wealth allows these agnostics to become more concerned with material possessions and physical pleasure. In order to succeed at this quest, the basic rules of human behavior as espoused by Judaism and Christianity must be ignored and supplanted with no guidelines whatsoever.
The moral fiber of a country, and the religious basis upon which the United States and European nations have developed, has been replaced by faith in people and government. But neither is worthy of such trust. The men and women we choose to govern us are subject to the frailties of human nature. Many are in government because of their desire to acquire dominion over others, for self-aggrandizement, or for personal wealth.
The end result of the people's reliance on their fellow man is to allow the ruling class to foster policies detrimental to the long-term interests of their citizenry. The guiding principle that emphasizes respect for the uniqueness and inalienable rights of all human beings is often discarded. In the twentieth century, the nations of Europe learned this lesson in the loss of millions of lives in two wars and the emergence of communism.
Will we find ourselves staring into another abyss of our own making? Will the unbridled pursuit of individual materialism and pleasure coupled with the unrestrained power of government spell the ultimate destruction of our societies?
The day may well come when the United States and the countries of Europe are relegated to secondary status, dominated by those whose only interest is to make us all subservient to their power, influence, and ideology.
There is an urgent need for the citizens and the leaders of our nations to go back to a lifestyle based on a belief and trust in God and Judeo-Christian teachings.
As to those who question whether there is a God...fifty-eight years ago, I stood in front of a nativity scene in a small Catholic Church and appealed for help. The hand of God reached out to me in my most desperate hour of need. God is there for each of us and our respective countries. All we have to do is ask.

Merry Christmas from King Tiger

2009-12-25T05:23:00.000-08:00

My Previous post while I believe accurate does not reflect my true thoughts for the day.
This is more in line with where I am at today:

THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST
THE world had subsisted about four thousand years when Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, having taken human flesh in the womb of the Virgin Mary, and being made man, was born of her, for the redemption of mankind, at Bethlehem of Judea.
Joseph and Mary had come up to Bethlehem to be enrolled, and, unable to find shelter elsewhere, they took refuge in a stable, and in this lowly place Jesus Christ was born. The Blessed Virgin wrapped the divine Infant in swaddling-clothes, and laid Him in the manger.
While the sensual and the proud were asleep, an angel appeared to some poor shepherds. They were seized with great fear, but the heavenly messenger said to them: "Fear not: for behold I bring you good tidings of exceeding great joy, that shall be to all the people. For this day is born to you a Saviour, Who is Christ the Lord, in the city of David. And this shall be a sign to you: you shall find the Child wrapped in swaddling-clothes, and laid in a manger."
After the departure of the angel the wondering shepherds said to one another: "Let us go over to Bethlehem, and let us see the word that is come to pass, which the Lord hath shown to us." They immediately hastened thither, and found Mary and Joseph, and the Infant lying in the manger. Bowing down they adored Him, and then returned to their flocks, glorifying and praising God.

Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894]

Merry Christmas to one and all.

Merry Christmas from Messr Reid, Pelosi and Obama

2009-12-25T05:19:00.000-08:00

I have been saying for months now, the entire "Health Care" debacle before us has never been about reforming health care (unless by reform you ultimately mean less care and worse health for the vast majority of Americans) but rather it is about control. By taking control of more of our money and by creating a vast new entitlement that Americans will come to expect as a right; bureaucrats will be able to dictate to us more of our daily lives.

What we have to look forward to.

P.S. I believe the correct response to all that is to bend over, grab our ankles and shout, "THANK YOU SIR! MAY I HAVE ANOTHER PLEASE!?!"

you wonder why WE don't believe you

2009-12-06T13:39:00.000-08:00

Perhaps it is because when ever you hold a summit to discuss how you want the Industrialized world to subsidize your "solutions" to the coming ice age oops I mean Global warming oops I mean Climate Change you do dumb ass stuff like THIS.

Growing up I was taught that when you cried "Wolf" there had better be a wild shaggy dog outside and barring that you had better ACT like you were worried by wolf attacks. But instead you apparently spent your time attacking those who disagreed with your assumptions by burying information that did not agree with the sacred texts and then when you thought we weren't watching, you continue to fly in private jets, drive in SUV and Limo motorcades and live in huge homes.

Sorry, I don't believe you.

The Clock is ticking...tick, tick, tick...

2009-11-29T04:31:00.000-08:00

As of 7:30 this morning I have not yet heard anything "official" as to whether Tiger Woods' accident was caused by a marital "conflict", some kind of medical impairment, or just plain dumb bad luck. So far he and his wife have refused to comment to police so there is no official word.
If it develops that he DID have a fight due to the tabloid rumors, how long before someone (most likely NOT Tiger or his advisers) pulls the "race card" in his defence?

I hope this just fades away as he has been a true class act throughout his career.

Hope-n-change, again and again and again...

2009-11-15T15:25:00.000-08:00

With full admission, I am cutting and pasting this from National Review Online's "The Corner" as I cannot think of anything better to say on this one.

Unseriousness, Again [Anthony Dick]

The strange thing about the Obama administration's decision to hold these civilian al-Qaeda trials is that the project is flawed even based on the premises of its staunchest defenders: They talk about due process and the rule of law, but the trials can't possibly provide anything close to the level of objectivity that applies in an ordinary criminal-law setting. There is no way the defendants will get an impartial jury in New York, and there is no way the government will actually release the terrorists if they are acquitted. Thus the courtroom proceedings in Manhattan will be, in a very real sense, show trials. They are designed purely for PR purposes, so that the Obama administration can pay lip service to the ideal of due process while implicitly rebuking the Bush administration for failing to respect the rule of law.
Meanwhile, it is the Obama administration that is truly making a sham out of the rule of law, by politicizing the trial process and pretending that these enemy combatants will be getting normal, neutral, dispassionate trials, as if the larger strategic context of the War on Terror will not affect the judge, the jury, or the actions of the government, which is sure to retain custody of the defendants in the off chance they are acquitted.
This reflects the fundamental unseriousness of the Obama administration in the face of terrorism. (Italics mine) We saw the same thing with the foolish announcement that Gitmo would be closed by January, which was the first iteration of the administration's fantasy-land effort to sidestep one of the core dilemmas of the post-9/11 world: We have a significant number of detainees whom we know with operational certainty to be dangerous terrorists, but, for various reasons, we can't prosecute or convict them according to normal procedures. This is another way of saying that there is no way we can prosecute the War on Terror while providing the full panoply of ordinary due-process protections to enemy combatants. And no amount of hope can change this reality.

Time to quit the charade...

2009-11-08T05:10:00.000-08:00

"...His name wasn't Smith..." Diane Sawyer (paraphrased).

REALLY?!? Why is that pertinent? If he HAD been named Smith or Jones or Roberts or any other "English" sounding name would it have made a bit of difference?

While I have to admit that as soon as I heard the Ft. Hood shooter's name "sounded" Islamic; a part of my mind thought, "we must not rush to judgement" especially because I know of people from the Middle East who have names just enough different than mine that I would expect them to be Muslim only to discover they are actually not, part of my mind thought, "Here we go again!"

I have some friends who are Muslims. I seriously doubt that any of them would act as Major Hasan did.
Most of them seem pretty "normal" in the way my fundamentalist neighbor is "normal", they pay taxes, work at their jobs, love their children and act as normal people do.What is "different" about them is what they don't do. They don't drink, they don't go to church (they attend Friday service at the Mosque), some of them don't wear ties (I don't understand that one) but none of them are ranting Islamic fundamentalists with weblogs where they call the American Military "the enemy". (or if they are, they certainly hide it very well).

That said, this guy was a bad egg. It would appear that his acts constitute treason and/or are the equivalent of desertion in a state of war. Let's stop the handwringing of "looking for root causes" and "worrying about a backlash against Muslims of all stripes" and just punish this joker.

Huh?!? WTF??

2009-10-31T19:23:00.000-07:00

GITMO Detainees get H1N1 shots?

On Hiatus....

2009-10-24T09:54:00.001-07:00

Been too busy to blog.

I could not have said it better...

2009-10-11T05:14:00.000-07:00

As always Mr. Muir is dead on.

Judgement Day is not that far away...

2009-09-13T04:08:00.001-07:00

For many members of Congress.

I was unable to attend the rally in DC nor any of the other rallies across the country but I was there in spirit.

A note to those in Congress; for each of those marchers yesterday who decended on the Capitol steps, there are 2 or 3 who had to stay at home to care for kids, who could not afford to travel or had to work or simply could not afford to travel.

We have long memories and due to the fact that we have jobs (or not due to YOUR malfeasance) we will remember next year if you foist another Trillon dollar burden on our backs expecting that we will just roll over and let you continue to operate "business as usual". US Park estimates were in the 1 to 1.5 million attendance yesterday, more "conservative" estimates were maybe 1/2 that (still a pretty dammed big number) and that did not include those protesting around the country.

This wasn't an "Anti-Obama" rally as much as an Anti-Out-of-control Government protest.

To fix "the health care crisis" we don't need another government bureaucracy, we need the government off our backs. To fix the financial crisis we don't need more debt, we need a government that can truly cut its spending and live within a budget. To keep us safe, we don't need a policy that gives terrorists and our enemies the rights of citizens. We need victory in Afghanistan (something which you have gone on record as having said is not our goal).

Mr. Obama, you ran on a platform of "Hope and Change". Lets hope you hear the message and change your direction before it is too late for our country.

NEVER FORGET II

2009-09-11T16:16:00.001-07:00

NEVER

2009-09-11T03:26:00.000-07:00

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Roughly translated...

2009-09-09T03:28:00.000-07:00

This is what President Obama's speech to the joint houses should say about Government run Health Insurance.

Ben Dova - you have to wtch this one

2009-09-06T09:24:00.001-07:00

Remember:
THERE ARE NO WIRES OR NETS INVOLVED.

HE IS 56 STORIES IN THE AIR!!!

I hate Kool Aid.

2009-08-30T04:30:00.001-07:00

A pretty good read.

2009-08-30T04:14:00.000-07:00

James Lewis - Amerrican Thinker

Hmmmmmmmm...

2009-08-25T15:31:00.000-07:00

Ok, Monday the White House Budget office released figures that say that by 2019 the Federal Budgett Deficit will be $9 Trillion.

How "big" is that number?

Well; the most recent estimates of the age of the universe from the Big Bang till now is about 15 Billion years.

15,000,000,000 years.

Yeah, 15 followed by 9 zeros.

9 trillion is 9,000,000,000,000.

9 followed by 12 zeros.

9 Trillion is 600 times larger than 15 Billion.

Think about that, if left alone the deficit will be 9 TRILLION DOLLARS in 2019.

I'll be 58 years old then. I was hoping to be able to retire in some level of comfort around then and maybe start a consulting firm. I guess I may have to change my plans.

Oh yeah, we voted for hope and CHANGE didn't we?

Heads SHOULD roll...

2009-08-23T03:42:00.001-07:00

Maybe Figuratively...

I'm Just sayin.

This is just plain wrong...

2009-08-22T10:51:00.001-07:00

Greenpeace Leader Admits Arctic Ice Exaggeration

2009-08-19T16:10:00.001-07:00

Oh Really...?

Regina Spektor- Laughing With (Official Music Video)

2009-08-12T20:22:00.001-07:00

No one laughs at God...

So; who was really guilty of "racial profiling"?

2009-08-01T09:24:00.000-07:00

Hat tip to The American Thinker and NRO's "The Corner"

I'll give you a hint, It ain't the guy in back. As my daddy always said, good manners NEVER go out of style.

Much has been written in the last week or so about the entire Gates episode. I'm not going to add much with my thoughts other than, if Dr. Gates was lying in bed some night and her was to suspect that there was a break-in at his Cambridge house, he wouldn't be calling 1600 Penn. No, he would dial 911 like the rest of us and if he was on duty, you can bet that Sgt. Crowley would respond.

The only "teaching moment" here is that our President is either a simpleton or a liar.

Hmmmmmmm....(2)

2009-07-21T15:51:00.000-07:00

Is the REASON that President Obama wants to close Gitmo because he wants to "return" the Guantanamo Naval Base to Cuba as part of "normalizing" relations?

Can someone please explain to me why...

2009-07-16T20:05:00.000-07:00

If I have a job and you do not, I am not required to nor can the government coerce me to pay for your gasoline or buy you food equal to the amount I purchase or to give you a job equal to mine, yet it seems to think it a good thing that it can force me to pay for your health care?

Hmmmmmmm....

2009-07-12T13:27:00.001-07:00

Hope-n-change???

Taken from National Review's "the Corner" - Andy McCarthy

Binyam Mohammed: jihadist plotting mass-murders against American cities — released outright.

Laith Qazali: abduction/murder of 5 U.S. soldiers in Karbala — released outright.

Irbil 5: Iranian IRGC operatives (i.e., the same guys who murdered 19 of our air force at Khobar Towers in '96) coordinating Iraqi terrorist operations that have killed HUNDREDS of U.S. forces in Iraq since 2003 — released outright.

New Black Panther Party operatives on videotape intimidating anti-Obama voters — charges dropped after DOJ had already won the case.
CIA Interrogators who obtained information that saved countless American lives — under investigation.

Bush officials who deliberated over national-security policies that prevented another 9/11 (many of which the Holder/Obama DOJ have defended in court and, however inadvertently, in Congress) — under investigation.

Well, I guess it counts as "Change" when you go from agressively PROTECTING American interests to aiding and abetting those who would kill us and our soldiers...

There WILL be a backlash...

2009-07-02T08:58:00.000-07:00

AND ONE OF UNPRECEDENTED FURY!

Nobody says it better than Dr. Hanson

Why is it that we want a "Canadian Style" healh care system?

2009-06-28T17:39:00.001-07:00

Congratulations, it's a ...cross-border incident! [Mark Steyn]
Somewhere in America Alone, I cite an example of the logical reductio of socialized health care: "the ten-month wait for the maternity ward". I've been adding to the file ever since. Here's the latest entry, from Hamilton, Ontario:
Hamilton's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) was full when Ava Isabella Stinson was born 14 weeks premature at St. Joseph's Hospital Thursday at 12:24 p.m.
A provincewide search for an open NICU bed came up empty, leaving no choice but to send the two-pound, four-ounce preemie to Buffalo that evening.
Well, it would be unreasonable to expect Hamilton, a city of half-a-million people just down the road from Canada's largest city (Greater Toronto Area, five-and-a-half million) in the most densely populated part of Canada's most populous province (Ontario, 13 million people) to be able to offer the same level of neonatal care as Buffalo, a post-industrial ruin in steep population decline for half-a-century.
But wait! The fun and games are only just beginning. When a decrepit and incompetent Canadian health bureaucracy meets a boneheaded and inhuman American border "security" bureaucracy, you'll be getting a birth experience you'll treasure forever:
Her parents, Natalie Paquette and Richard Stinson, couldn't follow their baby because as of June 1, a passport is required to cross the border into the United States. They're having to approve medical procedures over the phone and are terrified something will happen to their baby before they get there.
Once Buffalo enjoys the benefits of Hamilton-level health care, I wonder where Ontario will be shipping the preemies to. Costa Rica?
We now return you to your 24/7 Michael Jackson coverage...

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I could not have said it better...

2009-06-27T18:11:00.000-07:00

My thoughts EXACTLY

It would be wise for those of us at the Tea parties

2009-05-31T04:46:00.000-07:00

to remember there were Tories during the Revolution.

They were our neighbors, they dressed like us, sent their kids to the same schools and had jobs like the rest of us BUT
when the crap hit the fan,
they sided with the Enemy.

A question about bias.

2009-05-17T08:54:00.001-07:00

If a major newspaper such as the Boston Globe or the New York Times were to have to take a Government Bailout to stay afloat, would they be able to claim they were a neutral observer when it came to reporting on government issues or would they simply then become official mouthpieces of the current administration?

I'm just sayin...

This really makes sense.

2009-05-16T14:01:00.001-07:00

Must be the WAY he is spending that money...

VICTIMAE PASCHALI LAUDES, Sequenza gregoriana, Schola Gregoriaa Mediolanensis, Direttore Giovanni Vianini, Milano, Italia

2009-04-12T09:11:00.001-07:00

HE IS NOT HERE

HE IS RISEN!!!

wait for the end...

2009-04-10T11:19:00.000-07:00

RISEN!

When in the course of...

2009-04-05T04:36:00.000-07:00

human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
As the guy says, "WE got PLAYED BIG TIME!"

IT IS TEA TIME!

I cannot come up with a caption that,,,

2009-04-04T04:19:00.000-07:00

Isn't profane or disgusting.

There was a time when an American President would stand proud of his nation and let THE OTHER DAMMED LEADER BOW AND SCRAPE!!!

When the homicide bombers start blowing innocent AMERICANS remember that we could have elected a man who understood what evil is and how to combat it. Instead we elected a childish, arrogant, poseur WHO GIVES IPODS AND DVD SETS AS STATE PRESENTS!

As usual I wait till Saturday morning to cruise the web (specifically Big Hollywood and other Conservative sites) and I forget that if you don't keep up you will miss the sunset on our Republic.

Someone please end this misery, I feel like 1978 all over again with a neophyte in the White House, all good-intentiony and ready to "change the world" while the WORLD DOESN'T WANT TO BE CHANGED!

Lets see what outrages can I find? Hmmmm.. Here's Obama "The groveler-in-chief" kissing Saudi A$$, there is our apologist-in-chief grovelling to Euro-trash, there go the Norks ready to launch and lo-&-behold they are holding some "journalists" hostage. Where is Hildy? What about Joe "the gaffmeister" Biden? And where in the world is Rahm "I'm in charge here" Emmanuel?
We have an administration full of tax cheats and the representative branch of government full of tax-n-spend Dem's with spineless Republicans backing them up.

I'm fed up. Would someone please wake me from this nightmare!

Taking Chance

2009-03-30T16:08:00.001-07:00

There is a line in this movie when a Korean Veteran tells Lt. Col. Michael Strobl (Chance Phelps' escort home),
"You are his witness, without witnesses its like you dont exist."
This film is incredible in being the witness to this fantastic story.

See this movie.

too good not to post

2009-03-29T10:50:00.001-07:00

Hat tip to Theo Spark

a pretty good quote...

2009-03-28T16:00:00.000-07:00

"In America we want EVERYONE to know about the good things we are doing in private"

Jay Leno on Top Gear.

This is why I LOVE Indiana

2009-03-28T09:29:00.001-07:00

While going thru some old photos I had on my work harddrive I ran across a trip that The Queen and I took to Turkey Run State Park.

Man our state is beautiful in the Fall.

Famous last words...

2009-03-14T09:13:00.000-07:00

The issue is now clear: it is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
- G.K. Chesterton

I'm always a bit fascinated by "last words". They seem so random and odd yet often they are eerily prescient as above.

Its been a busy few weeks. The project is continuing full ahead.
Once the Dome came down in December, construction started in earnest. If you were to drive past Capital and Maryland Streets in Indianapolis after a few years absence, you would be struck by how odd that part of town appears now. No longer a large comfortable white pillow of a roof with Peyton and Marven's likenesses anchoring it down and looming to the south is the hulk of Lucas Oil Stadium.
We are set for a Feb. '11 opening date which means that barring major economic disaster or some colossal screw up on my part, I have a measure of job security. Recently I told my mother that when I finish this project, I will have spent 4 years of my life on one building. Given that when that date comes I will be celebrating my 12th year with my current employ, it would mean that 1/3 of my time at this office would have been spent on ONE PROJECT. We are moving our studio this week, for the last 30 months or so, we have been isolated on the 4th floor of our building but as of this Friday, we will be joining the Construction Management team in their offices where we will be working for at least another 2 years.
Our office recently revamped our website. Stop by and take a look. (The picture of "People" was taken this past Christmas. I am the partially cut off head 6th from the right at the top - I'm right next to the guy in the polo shirt.)

Oh, if you click on the "expertise" link there, you can see "My baby". Not too many 55' tall glass cubes around.

Lessons will be repeated until learned...

2009-03-03T02:57:00.000-08:00

It NEVER fails!

Schedule a "Global Warming" protest, speech, appearance by Al Gore, etc...

And look what happens.

2009-02-26T02:54:00.000-08:00

This is for those of you “center/Right” voters who crossed the line and voted for our president (those of you on the left can sit it out because we all knew you would vote for O no matter what. The temptation to join in on the chance “to make history” was too great a temptation).

Are you happy now? I mean come on, how can anyone say they are surprised? I’ve been saying for a year now that an Obama presidency would be like Jimmy Carter in black-face.

3 Trillion dollars?!? We are in a recession, people are being laid off, houses foreclosed on and the answer from the left is BORROW MORE MONEY and TAX THE RICH?!? ( BTW- Since when is making $250,000 "rich")

I thought that the mantra was “Hope and Change”? What were we hoping for; that Obama was a closet Austrian School Economist? That he was a Hawk on defense measures?

With the Pelosi/Reid cabal running congress can we hope for any restraint on a pork-barrel oops, I mean DOMESTIC SPENDING project? Will there be any left-handed, paraplegic, overweight, lesbian, womyn’s studies majors out there who cannot find a government grant to study the effect of the patriarchy’s oppression of the universal female psyche?

This is gonna be a painful 4 years.

further words are not necessary

2009-02-21T04:20:00.001-08:00

Mr. Beck says plenty.

I don't always agree with him, much of his radio ranting is a bit too populist for my taste but he voices my concerns EXACTLY.

shovel ready?

2009-02-19T20:04:00.001-08:00

In my industry, the "Shovel ready" projects are the ones to avoid. They usually stink and often attract unwanted bugs.

A prediction...

2009-02-17T03:08:00.001-08:00

Alexander the Great was supposed to have said, " I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion."

With the changes to our leadership I predict that by the end of this year; no matter how many troopers we "surge" there, the war in Afghanistan will be declared by our press as "Hopeless, a quagmire, a defeat" and other such terms. They will couch their words in flowery phrases as how "they support the troops but its not OUR war to fight" and will renew the call to "bring our boys and girls home". There will be a renewed painting of our military as evil or as victims, certainly not as heroes and brave men and women.
This will embolden our enemies around the world and by this time next year we will see a resurgence of militant Islam in Iraq, Pakistan will be ready to topple and Israel will be ready to attack Iran if not having done so already.

I hope I am wrong.

The Peter Principle...

2009-02-16T19:07:00.000-08:00

has reached its pinnacle in President Barack Obama

NEVER has someone with so little on his resume risen so far and so fast without anyone asking

WHO IS HE?

Someone please tell me why

2009-02-15T08:21:00.000-08:00

This poster we have all seen plastered all over the place:

Reminds me of this poster:

??????

(yes, that is Living Color)

Change is Good

2009-02-15T03:59:00.001-08:00

Hop-en-change 101

How long you been ridin that thang?

2009-02-15T03:28:00.001-08:00

...'bout two weeks...

Too good not to share!

2009-02-09T23:50:00.000-08:00

There is not a better metaphor for our current political mess than THIS!

(Hat tip to Michelle Malkin)

I think my favorite is the Tombstone Deep Dish Pizza vending machine!

I could not say it any better

2009-02-09T23:33:00.000-08:00

(Blatantly Stolen from Cold Fury - guys don't hate me too much, I AM giving you full credit)

Only Liberals would try to fix a contraction caused by the shortage of young people by expanding abortions.
Only Liberals would try to fix a dire deficit by quadrupling it.
Only Liberals would try to fix a sub-prime problem by megafunding the sub-prime advocates and election pirates at ACORN.
Only Liberals would try to fix a housing crisis by putting Chris “Countrywide” Dodd and Barney “Fannie Might” Frank in charge.
Only Liberals would try to fix a mortgage meltdown by mortgaging our children’s futures.

The fix is in. And it’s all about fixing Big Government in place forever and ever.

(I did add the last link from another location.)

Stimulis: Because all economies have performance issues

2009-02-05T23:56:00.001-08:00

I was going to post about the "porkulus maximus" bill that our Senate is "debating" but this video says it all in a much funnier manner.

Echoes... Hello out there! Can anyone hear me?

2009-02-03T15:15:00.000-08:00

Does ANYONE in this administration's appointments know how to pay taxes?

Hello? (Thump, Thump) Is this thing on?

UPDATE!
(cue music)
DUM DUM DUM, ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!!!

Arctic Death 2009!!!!!

2009-01-28T10:20:00.000-08:00

I believe I have discovered the most surefire method of predicting massive snowfall.

Wait for the wooden Indian to head to Washington and palaver about "Global Warming"

no, wait, thats not correct anymore. Since the earth is actually COOLING we now refer to it as

"Climate Change"

Anyway, when ever Al "I won the Academy Award for best fictional documentary" Gore heads to DC to lecture our representatives or when he heads to any large city to do so. Viola!! it snows like gangbusters!

Sheesh!!!

- thats my back yard with 11" of snow from last night's dump.

UPDATE -

6 days later we had 5-6" in about 4 hours during morning rush hour!

After that bit of heaviness...

2009-01-25T06:10:00.001-08:00

Here is a palate cleansing bit of cuteness.

Awwwwwww....

Could this "reporter" (I use the term loosely)

2009-01-24T19:23:00.001-08:00

Have their nose any further up the President's Ass?

This promises to be a long 4 years.

My father worked two jobs to pour money into that hole...

2009-01-18T15:42:00.001-08:00

In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

Civics 101

2009-01-16T17:10:00.001-08:00

...A Republic... if you can keep it.

NEWS FLASH!!!!

2009-01-11T10:52:00.000-08:00

I read this morning where P.E. Obama says that "Closing Gitmo in the 1st 100 days will be a lot harder than people think

REALLY!?!
YA THINK!?!

I AM

2009-01-02T11:03:00.001-08:00

Neither!

Happy NEW YEAR

2009-01-02T06:34:00.000-08:00

Ok, its a day late.
Still, the sentiment is there and genuine. If you are regular reader or just found this by accident (believe me, there have been a variety of odd hits in the last year from all across the globe); here is wishing you a happy and healthy 2009.

There are times when I...

2008-12-28T04:51:00.000-08:00

Am almost ashamed to be a Hoosier.

Some would say that a cartoon can't by definition be a classic

2008-12-28T04:35:00.001-08:00

Loony Tunes - Duck Amuck
Nobody did it better than Chuck Jones.

Joyeaux Noel

2008-12-24T17:59:00.000-08:00

For a child is born to us, a son is given us;
upon his shoulder dominion rests.
They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero,
Father-Forever, Prince of Peace.

Merry Christmas 2008

I'm not sure I could have said it any better

2008-12-21T04:56:00.000-08:00

Chris Muir

Patrick Cassidy, Vide cor Meum

2008-12-14T08:12:00.001-08:00

I am still sick but here is a bit of Sunday morning beauty.

Whiskey Review

2008-12-13T13:13:00.000-08:00

I just purchased a bottle of Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey

This is really good stuff.

Why sickness and I do not mix...

2008-12-13T12:55:00.000-08:00

Those who know me know that the semblance of control is key to much of what makes me tick.

I (we) like to think that we are “in control” of our lives. As long as this charade continues, we feel we are happy and all is normal. When this changes we immediately get all woozy and uncomfortable

Most of those who know me have heard me remark as how. “I hate being sick.” Not that anyone really likes being sick but what is funny is that there are days when I am bored or avoiding a distasteful issue that I will daydream of a “sick day” to take the pressure of the ennui away. In reality I don’t want to be sick as much as I just don’t want to be there at that moment. When I do get sick, the one thing that I truly hate, the one thing I spend most of my conscious time avoiding, happens:

I GET BORED!

I am not talking of run-of-the-mill boredom but rather the kind of boredom that strikes when the thought of eating a meal or using the toilet seems like just so much work. Where even though you are sitting in your feverous body stink in your pajamas on the sofa watching an episode of “The Actor’s Studio” that you have seen a few times before and you really don’t like Susan Sarandon and you think James Lipton is an ass and that Fresca tasted funny because you are sick, you cannot raise yourself to take a bath because it would take too much work.

When I am sick, I will attempt to pick up that book I have been attempting to read but is too difficult to get into only to discover that I cannot concentrate on what the writer is attempting to say. I try to watch movies but lose interest 10 minutes into the show and start channel surfing. Worst of all is that if I attempt to sleep, I usually have those bizarre dreams that come from fever and discover upon waking that I really didn’t get much rest but that I did manage to make the sheets all smelly with sweat.

I got home last night from our yearly office holiday party and collapsed. I took a short bath where I fell asleep in the hot water and then proceeded to crawl into bed around 6pm whereupon I did not wake fully till 6am today. It wasn’t an uninterrupted 12 hours of slumber but rather two to three hours of fitful REM punctuated by medicine, food and bathroom breaks. I got through the night primarily because my lovely wife was watching over me from the other room. (She wisely chose not to sleep beside me). Apparently I was talking gibberish last night at some point when she came in to check on me and found me with my arms inside my tee shirt but not covered by the blanket. When she attempted to cover me up, I protested that I was not cold but that I had pulled my arms inside my shirt because “I WAS COLD!”

It was a weird night.

Now its 4pm on Saturday afternoon and I am wondering why I cannot get the energy to go out and get the Christmas tree and trimmings from the garage. Maybe I will watch a movie instead…

A smallish prediction...

2008-12-10T19:39:00.000-08:00

$1.25 per gallon by Christmas.

(It is already $1.32 all over the south side of Indy)

(UPDATE)

OK I was a bit off. The DAY AFTER I predicted this, the price jumped about $.15 per but it is back at $1.35 today - 12.25.08 so I am thinking maybe by 09?

(UPDATE NO. 2)

Well its Jan. 2 and the prices has edged up across town to be mid $1.40's so perhaps $1.25 is below the bottom of the bucket. The lowest I saw was $1.31 for a day on the south side.
Still, mid $1.40's isn't terrible is it?

Thi srem inds m eofsometh ingIwoul dcomeu pwi thwhe nIhav eafever.

2008-11-23T03:09:00.000-08:00

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Courtesy of BLU

QUOTES...

2008-11-20T03:19:00.000-08:00

It was the first day of a school in USA and a new Indian student named Chandrasekhar Subramanian entered the fourth grade.

The teacher said, “Let’s begin by reviewing some American History. Who said ‘Give me Liberty , or give me Death’?”

She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Chandrasekhar, who had his hand up: ‘Patrick Henry, 1775′ he said.

‘Very good!’

Who said ‘Government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth?’

Again, no response except from Chandrasekhar. ‘Abraham Lincoln, 1863′ said Chandrasekhar.

The teacher snapped at the class, ‘Class, you should be ashamed. Chandrasekhar, who is new to our country, knows more about its history than you do.’

She heard a loud whisper: ‘Sc*ew the Indians,’

‘Who said that?’ she demanded. Chandrasekhar put his hand up.

‘General Custer, 1862.’

At that point, a student in the back said, ‘I’m gonna puke.’

The teacher glares around and asks ‘All right! Now, who said that?’

Again, Chandrasekhar says, ‘George Bush to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991.’

Now furious, another student yells, ‘Oh yeah? S*ck this!’

Chandrasekhar jumps out of his chair waving his hand and shouts to the teacher , ‘Bill Clinton, to Monica Lewinsky, 1997!’

Now with almost mob hysteria someone said ‘You little sh*t. If you say anything else, I’ll kill you.’

Chandrasekhar frantically yells at the top of his voice, ‘ Michael Jackson to the child witnesses testifying against him- 2004.’

The teacher fainted.

And as the class gathered around the teacher on the floor, someone said, ‘Oh sh*t, we’re screwed!’

And Chandrasekhar said quietlly, “I think it was the American people, November 5, 2008.”

Full credit to the Cajun.

Interesting how things like this are just now being uncovered.

2008-11-16T03:32:00.000-08:00

I haven't always agreed with everything the author writes and don't read her blog daily but this is INTERESTING to say the least. After nearly two years and almost a billion (Yes, 1,000,000,000) dollars spent, we elected a man we know almost nothing about.

Huh?!?

I'M BACK!

2008-11-13T16:36:00.001-08:00

Take it from ...

2008-11-09T19:58:00.000-08:00

A BRIT!

The night we waved goodbye to America... our last best hope on Earth...

a deep misgiving

2008-11-04T18:33:00.000-08:00

I fear our nation has made a grave mistake.

I have been wrong in my life before and will be again but this I fear, that by electing a man seemingly amoral beyond anyone's imagining we may call down ruin upon our heads. The one issue that never gained steam in this campaign is the one that may ultimately hang us by the blackness it casts upon our hearts & souls. The forces of death in this country have never had an ally like Obama. Over 43 million deaths since Roe v Wade became law; that's the entire population of New York State, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

If his allies are given a head of emotion to run with it will become a self-consuming hatred of all things good. We will see a division in this land like we have never seen in over 100 years.

That said, I suppose I should be gracious and add my congratulations to President-elect Obama. I learned in sports to congratulate the winner no matter what. Its the effort that you honor not the defeat. I disagree with the man in so many ways but his party ran a dammed effective campaign. There were many, many mistakes made by my party and in the end Senator McCain was a patriot in defeat. As someone else said, "County first!" Well done President -elect Obama. Good luck.

Sorry about the depressing post, I am in deep physical and spiritual pain. Aside from the obvious, a reoccuring old sports injury has been acting up for the last two weeks and the result is that I may have to have "Peyton Manning" surgery on my right knee. I am hobbling around like an old man. If you want to spare a prayer for Queen Tiger, she is the one who has to put up with grumpy me.

I am suspending posting for a while.

Peel back the layers...

2008-11-01T04:48:00.000-07:00

When you peel off the layers of signifying and symbolizing, of blathering and bamboozling, Obama lacks in the elemental qualities of manliness necessary to be President. Obama is like the onion in Peer Gynt. Take away the layers there's nothing at the core....

The Point

2008-11-01T03:26:00.001-07:00

Ramirez Today

2008-10-29T03:16:00.000-07:00

I could not agree more

2008-10-28T16:27:00.000-07:00

Because his positions are EVIL...

So appropriate

2008-10-28T16:05:00.000-07:00

Are you still UNDECIDED??

2008-10-26T14:42:00.001-07:00

And here I was thinking that it was those Evil Republicans that "bought" elections.

Agreed...

2008-10-26T04:55:00.001-07:00

Courtesy of "Babalublog"

Gran Torino (2008) HQ Trailer Starring Clint Eastwood

2008-10-26T04:45:00.001-07:00

"What ever IT is, they won't have a chance."

I can't find a movie website or an official release date beyond "early Dec." but like a commenter on another website, too bad this didn't get released early enough for McCain to use the line "GET OFF MY LAWN" in the debates.

Meet the NEW deal

2008-10-25T04:45:00.000-07:00

Same as the Old New Deal...

It didn't work then, God know how bad it may get now.

Reason - The Second

2008-10-24T20:05:00.000-07:00

We have NEVER had a presidential Candidate who is so opposed to Pro-Life issues as Obama

One more reason why we cannot AFFORD

2008-10-24T20:02:00.000-07:00

A Democrat controlled congress + White House

(Taken from The Corner)

"Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said Democrats will push for a stimulus package after the November election, and called for a package reducing defense spending by 25 percent while saying Congress will "eventually" raise taxes.

Frank told the editorial board of the SouthCoast Standard-Times that he wanted to reduce defense spending by a quarter, meaning the United States would have to withdraw from Iraq sooner.

"The people of Iraq want us out, and we want to stay over their objection," he said. "It's extraordinary."

Frank also said the post-election stimulus package will focus on spending for building projects, extending unemployment benefits, and further supporting states' healthcare costs. "We'll have to raise taxes ultimately," Frank said. "Not now, but eventually." Frank told the Standard-Times that if Democrats cannot secure the votes they need in November, they will try again in January, when they will likely have stronger majorities in the House and Senate.

Frank, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, was an instrumental figure in engineering the bailout legislation to the U.S. financial industry, and indicated a new package may seek to ameliorate fears about investing. "The psychological problem is even worse than the real problem," Frank said."

Judgement Day is coming

2008-10-21T18:59:00.000-07:00

A Worthy Read from Bishop Robert J. Hermann, Archdiocesan Administrator of the Archdiocese of St. Louis.

Very true words

2008-10-21T18:50:00.000-07:00

From Plumb Bob Blog:

...The lesson these Democrats need to learn — and what we Republicans need to remind ourselves as well — is this: the moment you feel as though you must lie in order for your position to prevail, that’s the moment in which you’ve proved that your position does not deserve to be defended. If you have to lie to win the day, you should not win. Truth is that important...

the comprehensive argument against "The One"

2008-10-21T16:01:00.000-07:00

Right Here

I AM JOE

2008-10-21T15:54:00.000-07:00

Feel free to copy the graphic. My copy is going in the back window of my car.

THE GUY who started this effort.

WALLY Sighting!!!!

2008-10-13T13:54:00.000-07:00

The lagoon King in all his basking glory

That's right kiddos, a 10 foot long carnivorous lizard basking right in front of our condo!

You really didn't think I could not comment while on vacation

2008-10-13T05:53:00.000-07:00

Did you?

This guy is dead smack on target.

He oughta know, he is from Chicago.

The sun is up and I'm going for a bike rde on the beach.

ON Hiatus...

2008-10-10T04:14:00.001-07:00

from serious posting.
This time Sunday morning I should be able to hear the ocean thru my bedroom window.
We hit the road in a few hours.
I cannot wait.