January 12, 2011
Big Mouth Bass.
I really do wish Jim Clyburn would just hush.   His incendiary outgassings have been an embarrassment to this state since his elevation to head flunky in the Progressive Party in 2006.   On the other hand, the Progs know that nobody worth her salt, in this state, listens to nor cares what this presumptuous gas-bag has to say.   So when he bloviates, as he has over the shooting of the unfortunate Rep. Giffords, only people outside the state, who do not know what a complete joke he is, here, give him credence.

Still, it is wonderful irony that this poor exhibitionist contradicts his very words about hate-filled rhetoric.   If he wants to temper the rhetoric, he should reflect on his own words.

Hurry Children! All are welcome!
Hey, all you businesses in Illinois!   Our business taxes are now lower than those in Illinois!   C'mon down!   We'd love to have you move here!

Crunch, Crunch, Crunch.
Wednesday night, around 5:30pm or so, I took this picture for comparison to the others below.
 

This picture was taken over 48 hours after
the Jan 10th picture below
 

Naughty NASA
Don't believe the numbers on warming from NASA.   When we get a new President, it will be "discovered" that there were "inaccuracies" in the amalgamation of temperature figures using their satellite temperature maps.   When that happens, and my source says they will, there won't have to be firings, because those people will have already mysteriously been retired or let go.   Right now, apparently, NASA is all politics.

January 11, 2011
Cold Power.
The Shriver family, or The Kennedys in Kaleeforneeya as they are known out there, have killed what could well be Greg Kinnear's finest performance.   He plays a strong and constitutionally moral, yet personally randy, President Jack Kennedy in an eight-part series which was to be shown on The History Channel.   Now it's not.
 

Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes shooting a
scene in the miniseries, The Kennedys.

What is so odious about the killing of this mini-series - and it could well pop up on a pay channel, still - is the bastardization of the business ethics of the History Channel.   Yes, it's partly owned by NBC (NBC Paramount) which is attached at the Depuy hip replacement to the glitterati in the Progressive Party.   But only rarely has the HC ever knowingly broadcast falsehoods - their motto was to get the history straight.   Now, apparently, business ethics are out the window, and they have been painted with their own tar brush. But I'm pulling for Mr. Kinnear and hope we all get to see his reported stellar performance. That's enough clichés for now..

What's Snow With Yo.
I was waiting to see if there would be any appreciable thawing in the upstate, before writing this, but it looks like it could be late Wednesday before there is any real progress.   Here's a picture of what it looks like this afternoon.
 

Yes, this really was taken 24 hours after
the picture below

January 10, 2011
Snow.
Wow!   Seven inches and counting, in the West - at least, slush, on the coast.   Reminds me of the Great Charleston Snow-In, back in 1973.   In North Charleston, it snowed 14" at the Army Depot.   The Air Force logged 12", and next door, the Airport only logged 7.1 - their snow collector was next to the runway.   The each city in the area was shut down.

In the Upstate,

Didn't take long.
Liberals and Progressives didn't take long to start blaming Republicans, Conservatives, Tea Partiers, and Libertarians for the shooting, yesterday.   Please remember that those who are pointing fingers are the ones who are using a left-wing crazy person's actions to justify their own outrageous behavior. (He had an altar-like structure in his back yard with a skull on it - according to local reports)   The one person who knows him is telling anyone who will listen that he is a lefty!

Did you hear the Pima County Sheriff get political?   It was based on no facts at all, by the way - and now the facts are coming to light, his quiet vindictiveness has nailed his own argument to the gate.   What a shameful display by an officer of the law.

After all the hooplah is over, those of us who agree with Tea Party ideals, will still be on target "to peaceably assemble" to defeat the disastrous agenda of the Progressive silly people.   The Country will still be conservative and libertarian.   The Country will still realize that the Progressives have tried to use a senseless murder to justify their crazy ideas.

January 9, 2011
The Shooting of Gabrielle Giffords.
We are a country of the ballot, not the bullet.   We are a country of laws and not of popular whim.   We are a country of self-reliance, not dependency.   And we are a country of faith, not blind hope.

When we are aggrieved, we remove the evil, even if it kills our best and bravest.   We will gather together to defend the rights of the most odious among us - as long as that wrong-headedness is constitutional.   We are good when others are not, patient when others are not, long-suffering when even our leaders err, and philosophical in the face of raw insanity.

We have witnessed evil at its purest, this Saturday.   Insanity has, again, brushed its hated wings against our citizens.   People died, today, because of a crazy man, and we will live through it and continue on.   Some times we need to remember that we are good, even when someone among us is not.

To say more is vanity.

January 8, 2011
Puzzle..
Think about it..

What's the only real commonality among all of the various places where schools of fish, flocks of birds, etc., have bought the big 6?   Cold.

In every case, the migratory patterns of each group of really dead fish and game have been through an area sporting an uncommonly cold temperature.

Now, I'm not saying that we're headed for an ice age.   All I'm saying is that extended periods of extreme weather patterns are most probably typical of ice ages.

And, of course, there are scientists who have speculated for years that we have never actually exited our 2-million year ice age cycle.   Some times the freezer door gets left open longer.

January 7, 2011
Whom Do You Believe?
A bunch of people who can't read and "have to pass [a bill] so [they'll] know what's in it," or people who have lived in the business world and are the ultimate enemy of ambulance chasers?

The Unemployment figures for today are part of the fantasy world the current administration is struggling with.   we need a SUSTAINED forward lurch in order for the economy to overcome the stupidity of the Health expenditures mandated in the exisiting Health Bill nightmare, and not even counting the expenses rolled out since 2006, thanks to the wishful thinkers in the Majority Progressive House and Senate and the willing Residents of the Whitehouse during this time.

But, there is another, scarier prospect - the spectre of the world moving away from the US Dollar.   It's already happening at the world bank, and unless something happens, it will continue as a practice and grow.

Here's something you haven't thought about - As the US Dollar depreciates as an international currency, it will drag the value of our local money down, and with it the value of every single, non-precious metal investment we have.   Why?   Because we have linked our state currency to the US Dollar.

One more thing; We, as a state, can still mint gold and silver coins, as long as the coins are of pure value, thanks to the original agreement in the Constitution.   Every state can.   Perhaps, we should take up the practice, again.   It's a legal way to save our state from the calumny the Progressives have visited upon us.

Yes, that would include YOU, Jim Clyburn, and your felonious group of n'ere-do-wells.

January 6, 2011
Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead
Margaret Hamilton did it better in the Wizard of Oz (1939).   Die, that is.   It would have been much better had Nancy Pelosi simply dissolved into a pile of green goo.   Instead, America had to suffer through the longest speech ever made by an outgoing House Speaker.   Not only did she not tell the truth but three times during her natural gas out-jetting imitation, she made a fool of every Progressive in the room.   How embarrassing was THAT, eh?   The only thing missing was a Leno joke.   There may have been a Letterman joke, but since he is so rarely funny, it may have been too hard to tell.   What a world!   What a world!

Happy Epiphany!

January 4, 2011
Market Farces
The "pit" futures reporter for Fox Business News was ecstatic.   The Oil futures market was soaring.   He said this was "a great sign of possible vitality in the markets - people think the market may be coming back!" ..sigh..

Even people you trust in the media don't always get it right.   The rest of us, you and me, live on the edge of obliteration - some, a little further back from the edge.   If our income were jeopardized, for some reason, for three months, many of us would be starving and homeless.   People like the "pit" futures reporter don't understand that.

They also don't understand that the elements, which push us over that edge, are the price of gasoline, the price of utilities, the price of groceries, and the price of medicine - all of which are now unavoidably linked to the daily price of oil.   The price of oil is unavoidably linked to the value of the U.S. Dollar.   The value of the U.S. Dollar is unavoidably linked to the amount of U.S. Dollars in circulation and the power of the Country which backs up the U.S. Dollar.   This is why "Quantitative Easing" is such a very, very bad idea, not to mention all the profligate spending in government from Downtown to D.C.!

Even if you believe that money is only "appreciation certificates," not backed by any corporeal value, where there is too much of it circulating, it's value drops.   And, remember, the dollar is STILL linked to the price of gold, even though it's not supposed to be - another downward pressure on the perceived value of the dollar.

January 1, 2011
Common Cents
Bad officiating is part of any game, and only cricket "judges" have instant overrule.   With that in mind, the retiring of ALL of the Big Ten Officials would be a terrific idea!   Of course the head doofus official would say they made the right calls - their part-time JOBS are at stake.