Saturday nite axe

Smokin’ Joe Bonamassa.
Remember this old tune from Blind Faith?

btw, we really are going on vacation. tomorrow.  really. I mean it.

Roswell officer’s amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit

A drive-by post before we hit the road……..
Exactly 60 years ago, a light aircraft was flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, at a height of around 10,000ft.
Suddenly, a brilliant flash of light illuminated the aircraft. Visibility was good and as pilot Kenneth Arnold scanned the sky to find the source of the [...]

Friday Night Tight

Carlos Santana and the Tower of Power
h/t bonz

Open Thread

The Nuke’s are headed to the mountains for a week of R&R.
I hope everyone has a great Independence Day.
See y’all later.
photo credit

Hillary’s high negatives show up in new poll

More than half of Americans say they wouldn’t consider voting for Sen. Hillary Clinton for president if she becomes the Democratic nominee, according to a new national poll.The poll by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research found that 52 percent of Americans wouldn’t consider voting for Clinton, D-N.Y.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, was second in [...]

Tiger Tiger - potential terrror target.

Good morning America.
So another day another bomb plot. I have included Islam in the categories of this story though I don’t have any evidence as such, just the usual suspects….. The British radio is giving out very few details. Central London is gridlocked. A major attack has been averted. Thank the Lord.
Find the news on [...]

Midnite strat

Eric Johnson Cliffs of Dover

A mullahcratic solution

Fuel shortages have triggered a mandatory gas rationing plan in Iran. It hasn’t gone over well with the Iranian people, as stories of protests, and molotov cocktail parties at over a dozen gas stations in Tehran has alarmed the regime. Their solution? Crack down and censorship.
Iran’s top security body has ordered [...]

Break out the sackcloth and ashes

It’s dead, Jim. Again.
Cloture on the immigration bill failed 46-53.
On the other side of Capitol Hill, House Speaker Pelosi made the following statement, noteworthy only for its breathtaking arrogance and hebetude :
“Today, Republicans in the Senate had an historic chance to act in the interests of the American people, but chose not to.”
Umm-kay Miz [...]

Thursday Open

Mount Suribachi is seen on Iwo Jima off Japan’s main island in this file photo of July 12, 2004. A U.S. search team is on the island looking for a cave where a Marine combat photographer who filmed the famous World War II flag-raising 62 years ago is believed to have been killed in battle [...]

Sutton should resign

In the last six months, agents along the Southwest border caught 15 people from Iran, 35 from Pakistan, 12 from Jordan, two from Syria and five from Lebanon. Conservatives have been deeply disappointed with the Administration’s half-hearted efforts to provide Border Security. We’ve also been more than just a little puzzled with the [...]

Floods mess with Texas

AUSTIN, Texas
Heavy rains and high winds belted parts of the state early Tuesday, causing flooding, forcing street closures and damaging houses and other structures…
Gov. Rick Perry has ordered search and rescue teams to be at a high state of readiness to provide rapid responses when necessary, according to a state emergency situation report.
The severe weather [...]

Coulter v Edwards on Hardball

I used to watch Chris Matthews’ Hardball regularly. That was before the entire MSNBC network went over to the darkside of BDS. Now, I generally see a few clips a month, but seldom watch an entire program.
In all of that time, I’ve never seen Matthews try to ambush a guest before. He [...]

Tony’s gone!!!!

So it’s farewell then Tony. What did you do for the British Isles - or did you in fact do anything? Charles Moore in the Telegraph has a few interesting, and for me, accurate remarks.
 

When Margaret Thatcher was forced out in November 1990, almost everyone could have given an account – [...]

Hillary’s got a secret

MSNBC is reporting that Bill Clinton has begun the first stage of his campaign on behalf of his better half with a curious email fundraising pitch:
“She’s also the best candidate to beat the Republican machine. You know Hillary will never let a swift boat-style attack go unanswered.”
The Clintons have enough in their [...]

Poetic Justice

More from Britain: UK Mirror
Abu Hamza has refused any more treatment from his prison nurse after finding out the man is gay.
The nurse, nickname Queenie, has been helping to wash and dress the convicted terrorist for more than two years.
A prison source told the Mirror the full-time staffer is openly gay and has [...]

Here come the Brits!

Global warming is such a threat to security that military planners must build it into their calculations, the head of the armed forces said on Monday.

Jock Stirrup, chief of the defence staff, said risks that climate change could cause weakened states to disintegrate and produce major humanitarian disasters or exploitation by armed groups had to [...]

Iran raises the stakes

From AFP via Beitbart 
Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces have been spotted by British troops crossing the border into southern Iraq, The Sun tabloid reported on Tuesday.
Britain’s defence ministry would not confirm or deny the report, with a spokesman declining to comment on “intelligence matters”.
An unidentified intelligence source told the tabloid: “It is an extremely alarming [...]

Danish Flambe’

A video update from The Baron at The Gates of Vienna

We declare:
Saint Hans’ Eve has always celebrated the tradition of burning away the evil, in earlier times symbolized by the witch, who was supposedly directly connected to Satan. And if the witch was not burned then the harvest could not be safely [...]

salt water into fuel?

UPDATE: Kanzius process receives independent confirmation
We live in interesting times. Not long ago, I blogged about a Purdue University research team that had engineered a process to generate hydrogen from aluminum. That was pretty amazing.
A few minutes ago, I ran across this video over at Breitbart. If you think the hydrogen [...]

Who’s Next?

Oh, that’s gonna leave a mark!  From HotAir 

h/t Swampwoman

Chavez ups the ante

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States, saying that Washington is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government.
Dressed in olive green fatigues and a red beret, Chavez spoke inside Tiuna Fort — [...]

Sunday Nite SRV

Because not just anyone can wear a purple zoot suit with a funky hat and do a song about Mary Had a Little Lamb, and make it sound like a million bucks.

Nite y’all

Science or Fraud?

Noel Sheppard at the outstanding NewsBusters website has a great piece which provides more evidence that the global warming “consensus” is anything but settled science.
According to Swedish paleogeophysicist Nils-Axel Mörner, who’s been studying and writing about sea levels for four decades, the scientists working for the IPCC have falsified data and destroyed evidence to incorrectly [...]

Shepard Cooper

It was a tough week for the metrosexual twins of cable TV news.
Fox News Channel’s Shepard Smith gave pointers to the Chicago Fox affiliate, and left them with these pearls of wisdom:
“I’m not here to talk to you about journalism,” one witness recalled him saying. “I’m here to talk to [...]