Love Fades

LOVE

Last night I was sitting on the sofa watching TV when I heard my wife's lovely voice from the kitchen.  "What would you like for dinner my Love. . . Chicken, beef or lamb?"    I said, "Thank you sweetheart, I'll have chicken."            She replied "You're having soup, asshole.  I was talking to the cat." sigh Merrily

Magic Spectacle

Bye bye bifocals, hello electronic spectacles

Traditional bifocals could become a thing of the past with the invention of electronic glasses that automatically adjust to let their wearer view objects at different distances.

Shuron 360-B Lens Grinder Who knows what I'm doing here? “ The spectacles, which are due to be launched in the US this year and the UK next year, use lenses that change their strength when a small electrical current passes through them. A layer of liquid crystal sandwiched inside each lens alters its refractive properties according to the current applied, adapting the focal length according to where the wearer is looking. ” This erstwhile optician is agog!

Moon Landing

MSNBC wants to know ...

Burn baby, burn

This just says it all - cuzzin ricky

The left have gone bonkers (again) over Texas schoolbook changes that, among other things "cast the United Nations in a critical light."  The reason for their angst is because Texas buys so many textbooks that other localities wind up using the same editions. Egad! This from people who see no problem with textbooks written by Howard Zinn, and ilk. Now to the point. California's size, and political clout on everything from global warming, emissions, and unfit congress critters,  means  everything they do has impact on the rest of us.  The state has become a laboratory for socialism run by the political equivalents of  Dr. Josef Mengele.  Which is why I, an Easterner, spend so much time with, and have such shadenfreudal delight over their failures. As cuzzin Ricky said ... “ Heres a depressing but documented comparison of California taxes and economic climate with the rest of the states.  The news is breaking bad, and getting worse (I keep updating this fact sheet): California has the 3rd worst state income tax in the nation.  9.55% tax bracket starts at $46,349 for people filing as individuals.   10.55% at $1,000,000  By far the highest state sales tax rate in the nation.  8.25%.  7% is next highest (does not include local sales taxes)  Table #15  California corporate income tax rate (8.84%) is the highest west of the Mississippi (our economic competitors) except for Alaska.       Table #8   -- we are 9th highest nationwide. BLAH BLAH BLAH ”

I Scream

Today's Poll

Does anyone want me to have this Cuisinart Supreme Commercial Quality Ice Cream Maker?   Yes Rodge you and MoSup deserve to live longer by eating ice cream made from natural ingredients, and not that store bought glutenous crap. Go fhuck yourself!

Kagan the Horrible

Kagan Brain Burst

Elena Kagen, WTF?  Her record is one of someone entirely contemptuous of constitutional law, and she's an obfuscating   liar.  I knew that.  By the bye this morning, I came across this post on the Moral Theory blog.  It goes to  dishonesty used by the Obama regime to block the 9/11 families' lawsuit against Saudi funding of al Qaeda. As Obama's solicitor General, it was Kagen who carried the spears. “ As Obama's solicitor general, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan urged the Court to dismiss the suit that our 9/11 families have been pressing against the Saudi government and several Saudi princes for their extensive funding of al Qaeda. The families sued under the domestic tort exception to sovereign immunity, which according to Kagan's Supreme Court brief (at p. 14):     requires not merely that the foreign state’s extraterritorial conduct have some causal connection to tortious injury in the United States, but that “the tortious act or omission of that foreign state or of any official or employee” be committed within the United States. 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(5). The "tortious act or omission" is the wrongful act (the tort) that leads to the injury. Thus she is claiming that for Saudi funding of al Qaeda to be actionable, the funding itself has to have been transacted within the United States. Compare this with the actual wording of 28 U.S.C. 1605(a)(5):     (a) A foreign state shall not be immune from the jurisdiction of courts of the United States or of the States in any case – ... (5) ... in which money damages are sought against a foreign state for personal injury or death, or damage to or loss of property, occurring in the United States and caused by the tortious act or omission of that foreign state or of any official or employee of that foreign state while acting within the scope of his office or employment..." ”   With no dearth of activist leftist judges sitting on lower courts, why Kagan for the SCOTUS? Sure, she has no judicial decisions to pick apart, but her voluminous writings (like her senior thesis)  and prior actions impeach her candidacy, or ought to.  Then, a light bulb moment.  Kagan's  involvement  in defending Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit.  Kagan, Solicitor General.  Obama's effort (over one million dollars spent) to squash numerous birth certificate  lawsuits.  I believe her nomination by Obama is payback for personal services rendered. If confirmed, Justice Kagan would more or less become Obama's Roland Freisler on the highest court in the land. I wonder how she feels about hanging people with piano wire?

Blah blah blah

finding answers

Am  I prescient, or what?  This morning while I was copying stuff to put on the new computer, this one locked up.  Then,  after trying everything to get it back, the screen blinked and I get a Microsoft message telling me the error was caused by "equipment malfunction."   I've been having hiccups for a while, so I think this baby is getting ready to die.  Whew. I bought in the nick of time. Coincidentally, my e-mail has been spotty all day; wouldn't send at all; spotty incoming.  Of course I blamed it on me; but oh no.  After searching around Verizon I found a bunch of people asking wtf is wrong with the mail server?   There is no answer.   What the hell is wrong with Verizon?   When my Internet provider is having trouble, as soon as I log on there's a bulletin describing the situation. I had to ...  are you at all interested in this?  I had to do a total recovery of the Windows 7 box yesterday; all stemming from me,  like a dummy,  entering a log-in password,  and then trying to undo it with a sledgehammer.  But, I am most impressed with Windows 7.  The blazing speed relative to what I'm used to is of course because the new machine is 7 years younger.  I did learn this however.  Several times I found myself unable to install new stuff; an "administrator privilege" thing that abounds.  You just right click the mouse and select "run as administrator," and Bob's your uncle.  Why it  doesn't recognize me as the Administrator to begin with is another thing. Windows will always do stuff like that.  I would buy Windows 7 again.  But ...  Hearts is totally retooled, which is okay, but is ungodly slow.  S-L-O-W!  I start playing the game when I begin feeling guilty about not doing what I should be doing, so that's a lot of Hearts.

What he had ...

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USA WINS

5-4: SUPREMES AFFIRM GUN RIGHTS NATIONWIDE Well, this is settled law.  Even democrats obey court decisions they don't agree with. Right?

Glenn H. Reynolds, law professor, University of Tennessee - the Second Amendment has now become normal constitutional law. Donna Schuele, legal historian, U.C. Irvine -- blah-blah hot air James Alan Fox, criminology professor, Northeastern University -- The irony of this ruling is that the now-moribund Chicago handgun ban had, according to statistical evidence presented in an amicus brief submitted to the court, resulted in as many as 1,000 fewer homicides since it was enacted in 1983 John Feinblatt, adviser to Mayor Bloomberg-  You bastards! Last year, New York City had fewer murders than any year since 1963. And according to the F.B.I., we are the safest big city in the country. Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School  --  more of a pop gun than a big bang. The result was widely expected, and now the case goes back to the lower courts to apply the 2008 decision in District of Columbia v Heller. The Real King of France - Go ahead and call them.   I warned you to keep that cat off my bird feeder.

Zippety-Doo-Dah

A Special Treat

Here's something some of you have never seen, and nobody since 1977 when Song of the South was last released by Walt Disney. (I am fortunate to own a VHS copy, made in Europe where it is, or at least was, in distribution).

What's that smell?

Byrd Dead at 92

Robert Byrd often professed his love for the United States Senate; a love so great that he refused to give the nation a break, and leave.  His mastery of senate rules often provided the key to getting difficult, read repugnant, legislation to a vote, and 151,241 West Virginia highways, outhouses and other pork barreled projects named after him.  Privately, Byrd was known by colleagues for incessant farting, including at times (ahem) under the sheets.  It's Byrd's legacy that his death today will inspire millions to Google up what party West Virginia's  Governor belongs to, hoping for an American replacement. Disappointingly, he's a democrat, so expect more of the same.   RIP.

Milkin' the cow

Retired, then rehired: How college workers use loophole to boost pay.

“ Greg Royer ranks among the state's top-paid employees, with a salary of $304,000. But that's just part of his income. For nearly seven years, he's also collected an annual pension of $105,000. Royer, the vice president for business and finance at Washington State University, tops a long list of college administrative staff members who've been able to boost their incomes by up to 60 percent by exploiting a loophole in state retirement laws. A Seattle Times investigation has found that at least 40 university or community-college employees retired and were rehired within weeks, often returning to the same job without the position ever being advertised. That has allowed them to double dip by collecting both a salary and a pension. ” Royer, 61, has collected about $700,000 in retirement benefits while continuing to draw his salary. In recent years, he's been responsible for overseeing some of the deepest budget cuts in the university's history. Last year, for instance, WSU announced it was cutting about 360 jobs, axing its theater and dance program and hiking tuition by 14 percent.

Inject! Inject! Inject!

Now, to correct the historical mistake of Obama

Sweeping achievments

There's a remarkable scene in the movie Goodfellas, where the camera follows, in one continuous unedited stream,  Ray Liotta escorting Lorraine Bracco from the street, through the winding bowels of a New York nightclub, to their table. The political discourse equivalent may be this measured, unbroken monologue delivered by Dr. Richard L. Rubinstein, Yale fellow, “Distinguished Professor of the Year,” Harvard PhD and personification of gravitas.   Obama's intention , says Rubinstein, is to “correct the historical mistake of the creation of the state of Israel."  He calls Obama the most radical U.S. President ever. ASIDE - The YouTube page comments are worth reading.  These two, where the ubiquitous pasty-face lib invokes the race card, and attendant response, are noteable. “ DarkstarNV 3 hours ago Its sad how many racist, and un-American people post videos. Obama was elected by a popular majority!!!! You either support democracy or you don't, and if you don't, YOU are the radical!!! If you don't like the decisions made by the majority of Americans by popular vote and the electoral process, perhaps you should live elsewhere. ehunter2 2 hours ago Wrong . You cannot understand Obama apart from his race.  He is the stereotypical black, third world demagogue.  He is Robert Mugabe, Jacob Zuma, Hugo Chavez., . Race is identity, it is personality, it is capability for truth and reason. Obama is absolutely perfectly true to racial stereotype. ” Ka-Ching!, via jmarkcampbell)

WOLFRAM/ALPHA

WHOA!

Then go to the site and save in your favorites: http://www.wolframalpha.com/ Jodi Lou

Community Organizer Obama.

Obama calls for bank tax as next step in "reform"

“ President Barack Obama, fresh from a win on a sweeping overhaul of Wall Street regulations, on Saturday urged Congress to take up his proposal for a $90 billion, 10-year tax on banks as the next step in reform. [ugh] ” I went through the whole exercise that brought me to thus point, and now there's nothing remotely new that I can say.  I'm going, then, for some pure, self indulgent catharsis.  I watched an American Gangsters yesterday, about Jeff Fort, the founder of  Chicago's community organizers Blackstone Rangers/El Rukin.   Fort had incredible magnetism,  and used it to build the largest, most violent street gang in Chicago's history.  Once, a woman recalled, the gang descended on a funeral home where a guy they'd shot was being waked.  They ripped his corpse from the casket, dragged it the into the street, and proceeded to shoot the hell out of it "to make sure he was really dead." Fort was convicted in 1987 for conspiring with Libya to perform acts of domestic terrorism. I spent the entire time looking for Obama's face among those thugs.  I know he was there.  The parallel between Fort and Obama is manifestly evident.  That's what I see.  That, and some pictures of Mussolini. PS - Two Census Bureau managers fired for creating 10,000 bogus questionnaires... In case you were wondering if ACORN really was removed from the census army.

No muss, no fun

Through the looking glass

Tim W sent me this proof of puzzle progress picture, but what struck me was I couldn't tell where his workspace ended and mine began (and I'd just cleaned mine).

The pre-election script

Wonder just how annoying those 3 D’s were?

Here's yur hands ...

This movement is not about politics..