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I Have the Best Readers

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I Have the Best Readers

Man, the comment threads recently have been full of WIN! Y’all are impressive.

I just wanted to make that generally known.

As an aside, it looks like blogging is going to be taking a back seat to work soon. Starting Monday I will be working four 12-hour shifts (M-Th) and then 10 hours on Friday, not including the four hour drive home (returning on Sunday to start over.) At the present time, that schedule will run for two weeks, then I’ll spend a week back in Tucson, and then back to the jobsite for two more weeks (with weekends at home unless the job demands that I stay over the weekend.)

This is supposed to go on until the project is finished, and completion is scheduled in early December.

Like I believe that.

Needless to say, blogging will be light.

. “. . a pork conveyor for incumbent congressweasels.”

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The Quote of the Day from the inimitable Tam. Here’s the full flavor:

“But Tam,” you say “We’ve already mapped the moon! We’re playing with R/C model cars on Mars!“

Yes, but after we mapped the moon and hit a few golf balls around up there, we just turned our back on the whole thing. Scrapped our huge boosters. Used an outdated, overengineered flying garbage truck as a make-work program for NASA and a pork conveyor for incumbent congressweasels. Got in the way of private progress with government interference that would have strapped airbags on the Wright Flyer and prevented them from flying at Kitty Hawk lest they wound some rare sand flea.

Read the Whole Thing.

The Obama Youth Vote

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The Obama Youth Vote

Rachel Lucas discusses her Freshman Chemistry classmates in a long and heartfelt rant.

These are the people who will vote for Obama because they believe in entitlement.

As Rachel says:

In case I wasn’t clear enough, my “issue” with these kids is that they expect the help and that they don’t believe they could do anything without it. That is not a good thing. If your parents put you through college, and you did well and you appreciated it, GOOD. I am 100% happy for you and think it’s fabulous, and I’d do the same thing for my kids if I had them, as long as they held up their end of the bargain.

The point is that these kids I’m talking about DON’T hold up their end of any sort of reasonable bargain. They get 49’s on their tests because they only studied for 4 hours. They bitch about driving a Civic instead of an Accord. They complain about their parents’ rules while they suckle the teat all the way up to age 25.

And once of the parent’s teat, it’s not a long jump to Uncle Sugar’s.

Firehand Has a Question

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Firehand Has a Question

Why do so many damn near crawl before politicians?

Excerpt:

From what I’ve read, it really started in the 1930’s, the habit of deference to our employees. I mean the politicians, of course. The ‘Most Exclusive Club’ members of the Senate, and the Representatives in the House. Have you ever listened to the way these clowns address each other? “The Honorable Gentleman/Gentlewoman from”, “My Esteemed Colleague” and so on. Which, if that garbage stayed in the chambers, I wouldn’t mind so much; if you want to vocally kiss the ass of people who despise you, in some cases hate and want to destroy you, go ahead. It’s the ass-kissing they get in public that ticks me off.

That’s how it starts. It only gets better from there. Go read.

Quote of the Day

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Quote of the Day

If journalism still existed, I’d still be doing it in television, likely. – AM 790 KNST morning show host Jim Parisi via email

I emailed Jim Parisi this morning with a link to Orson Scott Card’s angry rant at journalists because he had interviewed Card once before, and one of the topics Jim discusses on the show fairly regularly is media bias. He has had a long career in journalism as a reporter and a news director in television and radio, so he’s seen it. He ended up doing the morning news here in Tucson because his wife is a native Tucsonan, but Jim is originally from New Hampshire and has directly covered the New Hampshire primaries on more than one occasion. He spent some extended time in Bill and Hillary’s presence when they were campaigning there. I can’t find it now, but he did a scathing monologue one day on how he personally liked Bill, but found Hillary to be loathsome, and how that discovery finally turned him away from being a Democrat.

A couple of years ago the morning show guy quit (or was fired) and he was put in the morning show seat with basically no warning – newsman to talk-show host in ten seconds flat.

His show is now #1 in the Arbitron ratings for AM stations here in Tucson. Jim is, if you say nothing else about him, fair – giving each side a voice, and smacking them down when they deserve it. He’s also got a twisted sense of humor, and that helps.

I’ve quoted Jim before here.

Coincidence? I Think NOT!

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Today Joe Biden once again made headline news by opening his mouth:

Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., on Sunday guaranteed that if elected, Sen. Barack Obama., D-Ill., will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions.

“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”

“I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might originate,” Biden said to Emerald City supporters, mentioning the Middle East and Russia as possibilities. “And he’s gonna need help. And the kind of help he’s gonna need is, he’s gonna need you – not financially to help him – we’re gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it’s not gonna be apparent initially, it’s not gonna be apparent that we’re right.”

As Spock would say, “Fascinating.”

Now, what other news was released today that has mostly flown under the American news media’s radar?

MoD releases UFO sighting files

Details of UFO sightings around the UK, including a number in Northern Ireland, have been released by the Ministry of Defence.

A total of 19 files covering sightings between 1986 and 1992 have been made available online.

Iran with nuclear weapons? Oh, please. Russia invading another ex-sattelite? Whoopde-do! Al Qaeda pulling off another major strike in the U.S? Yeah, like that’s going to happen.

No, it’s all blindingly apparent to me now.

This election is a test. If we puny, warlike humans can overcome our bigotry and elect Obama our President, then the Space Aliens will know that we’re civilized enough to reveal themselves to us! Yes, Obama isn’t a “lightworker,” he’s one of THEM sent here to TEST US!

Hey, it makes as much sense as anything that comes out of Biden’s mouth.