The Truth Is Out There, Part 2

Writing in the American Chronicle, Dr. Michael Salla tells the story of Clark McClelland, a retired Spacecraft Operator with NASA. McClelland, a 34-year NASA veteran, reveals that he “witnessed an eight to nine foot tall extraterrestrial in association with a Space Shuttle mission he was monitoring from the Kennedy Space Center.”
McClelland’s revelation is [...]

Brothers in Arms

Two wars, one regiment…..nice piece in LAT.
The two most unpopular American wars of the last century have found an intersection of sorts here in Washington, where an unusual friendship has taken hold between veterans of a war that ended in Southeast Asia 33 years ago and newly battle-honed soldiers with the “4/9″ brigade, who shipped [...]

Daily pill halts Alzheimer’s in its tracks

“This is an unprecedented result in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease,” said Prof Claude Wilschik, leader of a British research team. The results of the Phase 2 trials carried out by a team from the University of Aberdeen (UK) suggests that the new medication known as “rember” stops Alzheimer’s by as much as [...]

Tuesday Open

The chin has it…..

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Is water wet? Do fish swim? Does a bear **** in the woods?

h/t JD

I’m Gonna Build a Dinosaur!

“Jake, what are you doing?” I asked as the #1 grandson was running around the pasture with a pail this weekend, picking up things and putting them in his pail, and vigorously excavating in the compost pile.
“I’m gonna build a dinosaur! See my dinosaur bones?”
The pail was filled with various bones that the dogs and/or [...]

No Media Bias?

Still think the media isn’t biased for Obama? Think again. A thrill running up his leg…. what a pud.

You can’t fix stupid, Itza Shokka, Bits and Pieces: WFFOT

A recurring theme for this soon-to-be triple-digit, steamy, southern Summer weekend ….
You Can’t Fix Stupid (Part 1)
“Despite the devastation hurricanes Katrina and Rita wrought on Louisiana in 2005, a large number of coastal residents still say they would refuse to evacuate if another hurricane zeroes in on the state, a Harvard University survey shows.”
You Can’t [...]

Goin’ vertical

It’s “Vertical Day” at Mike Huckabee’s website. The former campaign website has been transformed to become the new home for Huck-PAC, and promises to endorse the candidates who will support the ideas and efforts the Huckabee campaign. And, it’s off to a great start.
“Vertical politics” relate to issues which are neither Left nor Right, but [...]

Yet Another Rant

More things that puzzle, perplex, and just plain piss me off.
In yet another sad and infuriating case of political correctness trumping over literacy, Dallas County Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield was ordered by a judge to apologize for calling the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments a “black hole”. It seems the [...]

How to talk to an Obama cultist

h/t Former Obama Supporters

Primo…Secundo…Tertio! Lord Monckton Exposes Advocates of Global Warming Dishonesty!

Most readers here are familiar with Lord Monckton’s stance on the matter of global warming, or anthropogenic climate change. His chastisement of those who are promoting the many myths and deceits of earth’s cyclical patterns is approaching legendary status, especially in the gathering of climate change opportunists in Bali, and his exposure of the [...]

Announcing Grandnieces!

They got to come home from the hospital this week, and weighed just over 4 lbs. each at birth. They have a big sister, 3, and a big brother, 2. Their Mommy and Daddy will be very, very busy for the next 20 or so years.

Robin Long, Your Obligations Have Come Due!

A U.S. Army deserter who fled to Canada three years ago has been deported back to America to face possible court martial or a return trip to Iraq.
The Canadian Press.
And so he has, to much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the loons who have supported the many deserters that have fled to Canada.
I visited [...]

PPT has a busy weekend

Not much time was spent on the golf course this weekend for members of the Plunge Protection Team. Today’s announcement of a support plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac follows another grim week on Wall Street. Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke faced the impending meltdown of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac [...]

RIP, Tony Snow

from CNN…
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former White House press secretary Tony Snow — who once told reporters “I’m a very lucky guy” — died at the age of 53 early Saturday after a second battle with cancer.

Tony Snow responds to reporters at an October 2006 White House news conference.

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Snow, who had been undergoing chemotherapy [...]

WFFOT: Mid-Life Crisis?

My plans for the weekend are to:
1) Till up my garden spot: I got me a very cool front-tine tiller from the building supply store. Gotta put it together, first. The spot is picked out, well-drained, sunlight for over 1/2 the day.
2) Go by the bargain barn and pick up some used [...]

What’s in your emergency kit? Part 3

As Big Bertha spins in the Atlantic, the onset of the hurricane season is bringing up some uneasy memories for me of late August 2005. At a time that I believed I was fairly well prepared (and we were much better prepared than most), the fact remains that most of us are simply not [...]

VaTech, D.O.E, Russians, collaborators study rare microorganism that produces hydrogen

An ancient organism from the pit of a collapsed volcano may hold the key to tomorrow’s hydrogen economy. Scientists from across the world have formed a team to unlock the process refined by a billions-year old archaea. The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute will expedite the research by sequencing the hydrogen-producing organism for [...]

Democrats Having Trouble Organizing Their Convention

From the New York Times:
Some of the Democratic missteps started soon after planning for the event began. The Democratic National Convention Committee decided not to take cheap office space and instead rented top-quality offices in downtown Denver at $100,000 a month, only to need less than half the space, which it then filled with rental [...]

Independence Day! Celebrate 232 Years Of Freedom!

An unknown author’s verse on Old Glory:
I am whatever you make me, nothing more.
I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.
I am a day’s work of the weakest man and the largest dream of the most daring.
I am the clutch of an idea and the reasoned purpose of resolution.
I [...]

The shakedown begins today

Normally, I don’t like to let other people speak for me, but today I read this column by Howie Carr of the Boston Herald, and it’s as if he had read my mind. This is one of those rare times when I can honestly say that I absolutely, positively agree with everything he says [...]

A View From The State of Jefferson

There’s been a lot of activity around here as of late. And on the occasion of Nuke’s 200,000 milestone it looks like we’re all going to visit. So here’s an overview of the fires burning in my neck of the woods.

Video Courtesy of Shasta Lake Bulletin
Firefighters at last got some help from the air Monday, [...]

Greetings from loony Massachusetts!

One of the great things about living in Massachusetts is that it is impossible for me to pick up a newspaper and not find something that winds me up so much I want to blog about it. Unfortunately, I don’t always find the time to do so. So much insanity, so little time. And so, [...]