2006-07-03

[This was due for Bill C’s request on the 25th, I hope it’s not late but… er, my dog ate my post]
I once had a theory, back when I was about 10, that everything in stores should be free, as that would eliminate poverty. In my theoretical world everyone would only take what they needed [...]

2006-07-02

Didja miss me? I have now completed the move to Kentucky from So-Cal. I’m [re] married and have a new job. I sold my overpriced house in Corona, CA for a reasonably priced home in Kentucky and pocketed the cash. I still work in the Underground Aerospace Mines that are typical of the industry, but [...]

2006-02-01

I grew up in the Bay Area, as it’s called, in the suburbs just east, past Berkeley towards Sacramento. Bucolic tract homes interspersed with walnut farms that soon dissipated in time as property values rendered them archaic was the setting for my childhood.
You can never go back home, so they say, and this latest column [...]

2005-12-23

That was on the radio this week.
So let me wish you all a Very Merry Christmas.
I was raised Catholic, and although my faith has sometimes been, let’s say tested, I rejoice in the celebration of the birth of the Prince of Peace. One of the reasons I don’t believe anymore is that pacifism is ideologies [...]

2005-12-10

Read This:
“Mr. Volcker himself has admitted. In reporting that Saddam, along with his smuggling and oil graft, diverted $1.8 billion in kickbacks from U.N.-approved relief contracts under the program, Mr. Volcker underestimates, quite probably by billions, the amount the U.N. allowed Saddam Hussein and many of his favored business partners to graft out of Oil [...]

2005-12-07

A while back I used to think that same sex marriage wasn’t an issue for me. Let them have the same heartbreak, legal issues, divorce etc. that men like I have had. Be careful what you wish for and all that.
Now that I’m seriously committed (or should that read: “I should seriously be committed”) and [...]

2005-10-24

Happy United Nations Day!

Celebrating 60 years of insignificance…
Meanwhile, at a recent U.N. conference in Rome, Mugabe the Reformer gets applauded and pumped up the crowd of representatives by comparing Bush and Blair to Hitler and Mussolini, and calling them international terrorists.
This coming from a guy that last May “unleashed a massive wave of police brutality and destruction [...]

2005-10-14

Viva la Difference. I just finished reading an article by Charles Murray that dares to delve into the fray of “The Inequality Taboo”.
Long and detailed, he explores the implications, or rather the reasons behind the Summers spectacle of women fainting at the mere notion that men may be somehow innately more adept at higher levels [...]

In an October 8th speech Bennett points out the fact that his remarks were taken out of context, and hints at intentional misrepresentation and defamation. I may not agree with The Federal government getting involved with education, or with his Drug Czar position, but to call Bill Bennett a racist because of his statement is [...]

2005-10-11

Talk about high-ticket-item looting by New Orleans’ Finest:
Acting New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Thursday that as many as 40 officers from the department’s 3rd District, including the commanding captain, are “under scrutiny” for possibly bolting the city in the clutch and heading to Baton Rouge in Cadillacs from a New Orleans dealership.
Must [...]

2005-10-08

Q: What kind of Bee gives milk?
A: A “Boo” Bee
*Rim Shot*
Get it? A boobee, that’s just too funny.
Okay, you give me the funny and I’ll shut up.

2005-10-07

Polish Knight’s post on the latest rant from loser Al Gore got me riled. I got to the part where he said, “Are we still routinely torturing helpless prisoners, and if so, does it feel right that we as American citizens are not outraged by the practice? And does it feel right to have no [...]

2005-10-04

The Bennett blunder, if you want to call it that, has got me thinking: Why has simple communication become so difficult? It used to be that if you said “A” it would be interpreted as “A”.
Now, any hidden subtext of “A”, either perceived or real, can and will be perceived, through the interpreters’ filters that [...]

2005-09-15

I’ve been meaning to link to this brilliant essay… better late than never.
Bill is at his verbose best, so settle down for a good, long read.
Trust me—it’s worth it.

2005-09-01

Perhaps you’ve heard of the latest craze: Lab-grown meat.
I, for one, cannot wait till I can sink my teeth into my next chicken McNugget from a cultured specimen that has been stretched, stacked and chopped properly. Yum.
No mess no slaughter. Why bother with the trouble and burdensome task of growing Chickens or Cows just to [...]

2005-08-27

Bill C’s post linking the Drudge report about Anti-war protestors besieging the wounded and disabled soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C, and the later released story from CNSNews, prompted me to add a rather verbose comment in the form of a fisk that you may have missed. In my infinite wisdom I will [...]

2005-08-26

Just not the quagmire the MSM would have you believe. Apparently, back in the early ‘90’s Saddam’s regime built an extensive network of dykes and channels to take water away from the marsh lands near the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers as an act of punishment for the acts of rebellion of the [...]

2005-08-23

Read this from the Rino:
“We should start figuring out how we get out of there,” Hagel said on “This Week” on ABC. “But with this understanding, we cannot leave a vacuum that further destabilizes the Middle East. I think our involvement there has destabilized the Middle East. And the longer we stay there, I think [...]

2005-08-19

Denis left a comment to my Kelo Grab post that I wish he would have put on a post.
So I’ll do it for him:
Pete, hopefully this will wake Americans up…but I have my doubts. It appears that Americans are too willing to give up their rights and freedoms. Recent history is proving this.
As you know, [...]

2005-08-18

Thought you heard the last of the eminent domain story? Think again. [Link found at Protein Wisdom]
Now The New London Development Corp., the semi-public organization hired by the city to facilitate the land deal, is going to charge the plaintiffs back rent for the five years they were fighting the confiscation of their property, and [...]