Unfortunately, I have to agree with Peggy Noonan’s editorial in WSJ that was published last Friday. As she was commenting to Rush Limbaugh and his disdain for John McCain and assertion that both McCain or Mike Huckabee are destroying Republicans, she said:
This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues…
And this needs saying, because if you don’t know what broke the elephant you can’t put it together again. The party cannot re-find itself if it can’t trace back the moment at which it became lost. It cannot heal an illness whose origin is kept obscure.
The lady is right, so IS Rush. All three are bad for the Republicans (and this country) whether they know it or not. All of them are liberals, all of them are way to interested in making friends with Clintons, then with their conservative basis.
Since Fred Thomson and the other true conservatives bailed out on me, I am going to have to stick to the second tier “conservative” -Mitt Romney. Besides, I also found article about Liz Cheney (the conservative daughter of Dick Cheney) supporting him as well.
Romney said Liz Cheney brings the campaign “years of experience helping to formulate America’s foreign policy and to advance democracy and reform in the Middle East.”
Liz Cheney previously supported former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, who dropped out of the race last week.
Socialists in California want to decide for you on how cold your living room should be - literarally. In the newest proposal by the bueracrats in this lovely but socialist state of the Union bunch of them is working on a mandated program to provide electrical power company to turn your heater down no matter what YOU think.
Well, the socialists in UK have a better idea. This time is on your organ “donation” without your consent. You’ve got to wonder if there is any difference between the era of Stalin of the Soviet Union and today in UK under the “loving” care of current Prime Minister Gordon Brown. IT IS SCARY FOLKS! :As the British Telegraph writes
Gordon Brown has thrown his weight behind a move to allow hospitals to take organs from dead patients without explicit consent.
Writing in The Sunday Telegraph, the Prime Minister says that such a facility would save thousands of lives and that he hopes such a system can start this year. The proposals would mean consent for organ donation after death would be automatically presumed …
OK you good liberals supporting nannie governments - I hope you get to do it first.
If it wasn’t for some talented people with a sense of humor, one could get in to a serious depression. Here are two funny clips from increasingly my most favorite place on Internet - YouTube:
Here is the first proof for “global warming” to exist:
Also, in our schools we can find tangible proof for the climate change (in addition to decaying education in US schools):
For years, I’ve been telling my friends - “Don’t go to Mexico- it is not safe out there!”. It seems that in recent years it became so dangerously, that EVEN AP started noticing the obvious:
Personally, I don’t see ANY reason to go to this corrupt, third world country. It has nothing to offer that US or Canada or Europe can (Have you been to Poland or Slovakia lately? They ARE both, beautiful and safe!). Oh yea - the pyramids. HOW CARES about a pile of rocks? Wouldn’t you rather go to Hawaii, have a good time and NOT be raped like one of the women described by the article :
Lori Hoffman, a San Diego-area emergency room nurse, said she was sexually assaulted Oct. 23 by two masked men in front of her boyfriend, San Diego Surfing Academy owner Pat Weber, who was forced to kneel at gunpoint for 45 minutes. They were at a campground with about 30 tents, some 200 miles south of the border.
The men shot out windows of the couple’s trailer and forced their way inside, ransacked the cupboards and left with about $7,000 worth of gear, including computers, video equipment and a guitar.
So, you obviously have serious crime in the region and the authorities (that includes American) are not concerned too much.
Local media and surfing Web sites that trumpeted Baja in the past have reported several frightening crimes that U.S. and Mexican officials consider credible.
Like there was NO credible evidence of police corruption and crimes committed on foreigners in the past… suuuure.
Americans have long tolerated shakedowns by police who boost salaries by pulling over motorists for alleged traffic violations
So the police extortion was considered “normal” and not a problem. Thanks for clarify this small “misunderstanding”…
It is a rainy day here in California, and here goes my 3 post today. This time I need to say something about my other passion - computers.
The time when there was only one computer in a household is gone for ever. Today, it is not a matter of “if” but “how many” computers are at home. Also, the amount of stored data has grown from megabytes to hundreds of gigabytes or few terabytes. We store more and more files that represent not only spreadsheets or (for the savvy ones ) Quicken/Turbo Tax files. Today we need to protect pictures and movies that represent our memories, our lives.
The “evil” empire (for some of the computer folk) fought back and … provided us with a fabulous (IMHO) solution. Microsoft Windows Home Server (WHS). Product based on mature Windows 2003 server modified to provide headless access (no monitor required), backup of all attached workstations (actually- XP and above only) with software raid support (redundancy at the folder level), etc. .. One can buy this program on a CD ($170-$180 + tax) and install it on his own hardware or … (and this one is a better one) by an appliance from reputable vendors like HP.
Speaking of HP and WHS. The good folks at HP released server HP470 and HP475 which is basically a PC based appliance which is capable of supporting internal 4 disk drives (we talking 2-4 TB of storage babe!) and additional storage using external USB and eSATA interfaces. You can access this little and VERY quiet box via 1GB/s Ethernet card. You can “have” it for about $600 in a single drive configuration (add 3 extra 750 GB drives at $160 each and you have a monster).
Al buddy, I have a bad-good news situation for you.
First, let’s start with the bad news. The Ruskies are telling us that your alleged global warming may turn into actual global freezing, as many real dissident scientists had already told us.
The real reasons for climate changes are uneven solar radiation, terrestrial precession (that is, axis gyration), instability of oceanic currents, regular salinity fluctuations of the Arctic Ocean surface waters, etc. There is another, principal reason—solar activity and luminosity. The greater they are the warmer is our climate.
Astrophysics knows two solar activity cycles, of 11 and 200 years. Both are caused by changes in the radius and area of the irradiating solar surface. The latest data, obtained by Habibullah Abdusamatov, head of the Pulkovo Observatory space research laboratory, say that Earth has passed the peak of its warmer period, and a fairly cold spell will set in quite soon, by 2012. Real cold will come when solar activity reaches its minimum, by 2041, and will last for 50-60 years or even longer.
Being pragmatic, I would suggest building whole bunch of nuclear plants, so we are ready for the time when all other resources are gone. In addition, hit Walmart store and get a lifetime supply of REALY warm underwear - you will need it!
Now, as for the good news. Don’t worry about Norwegians! They will NOT take their Nobel prize away from you. By the time they understand that you were a fraud, Norway is going to be deep under the ice and NOBODY is going to care about them. Enjoy your limos, jets and lavish mansions, since nobody will quiz you on this subject any more.
The genius of America’s “left” has announced to day on his blog the following …
“I am not endorsing anyone at this point. This is simply how I feel in the first week of the process to replace George W. Bush.”
I have a simple question to this this guy - WHO gives a shit cares “slim”, REALY? Do you actualy think, that even an average democrat cares whom a known America hater (you know - the one that travels to ‘Old” Europe so often to bash not only George Bush, but ALL Americans) endorses?
Also, as you correctly noticed, George W. Bush is on his last year of his presidency, so … why does you think love to use Ebonics from time to time that any Democrat are still running against HIM? I have a flash news for you Michael - YOU can sleep, do nothing (maybe except for occasional trip to Pizza Hut for a “supersized” peperoni or Hawaiian special), and George W. ain’t gonna be the next President of this country - for sure!
BTW, Mikey, I think you DO need some serious help - TODAY Not even Dr. Laura is going to help you bro! I listen to her from time to time and know her limits - she ain’t it. In your case, strong medication will have to be used. You don’t even have to go to Kuba to get it, since you can afford the best in this good U.S. of A.
Your longing for yet another nut job your friend Al Gore to run for the the office of the President just proves my point, when you say:
I’ve been wanting to ask the question, “Where are you, Al Gore?”
Well, your buddy Al is busy making a fortune off his new “religion” of environment. He was anointed by the Norwegian Nobel committee to be the high priest of the “Greens”, and now babe is a ch-aching time…
If your other best friend Bill was able to “recover” financially after the Monika’s stain on the blue dress episode, why shouldn’t Al? At least, he didn’t rape Oh sh.t, I almost forgot about the disclaimer allegedly any woman !
I found a great 30 sec replay to Michael Moore’s about his trip to Cuba by Fred Thomson - short and sweeeeet:
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