Tuesday, October 19. 2010
 New Poll: Van Tran Pulls Even with Loretta Sanchez in CA-47
Democrat Dirty Tricks: The Next Round
Related: Did you hear about Axelrod's bestiality problem?
AVI on Kent State:
We were so sure we were the ones who wanted peace, and some of us were willing to get violent to prove it.
How Diversity Punishes Asians and Poor Whites
A reader pointed out that schools use two categories: "Minorities" and "Underrepresented Minorities." Asians are overrepresented minorities. Poor whites are, well, white - and whites who cannot pay full freight, so nobody wants them.
How Krugman became Krugman
Governor Moonbeam Offers Free College for Illegal Aliens
Dick Morris: Dems have no message.
Yes, they do. They just won't say what it is.
Obamacare will kill the private practice of medicine (on purpose)
More on that $250 bribe the over-65 set got in the mail.
As we said, timed perfectly to send it off to your favorite Tea Party candidate
Coyote: Government: The Solution to Failed Programs is to Double Their Size (h/t Shrinkwrapped's Connecting the Dots)
That means there can be no such thing as a failed policy experiment.
ObamaCare’s Unseen Costs - Taxes will go up under the new health care law—and the costs will be more than you think.
What's the Matter With America? President Obama's false consciousness theory of economic worries
Related, the post below, Fault Lines, is a good overview of what is going on politically these days. A quote from that essay:
“He’s trying to Europeanize us, and the Europeans are going the other way. The entire American spirit is being broken,” said an Obama voter and donor in South Bend, Indiana. In Elkhart, Indiana, Time found a Republican candidate who said she was “often approached by Obama voters who want[ed] to vent.” “Betrayed by the health care vote,” “What are they thinking when it comes to spending?” and “He’s not what I voted for,” were among the many complaints. These are not Republicans, and Republicans did not make them say this.
Monday, October 18. 2010
Photos of East Germany, before and after reunification. h/t No Pasaran
Photos of the construction of the new Swiss tunnel
Who is Clint Webb? I guarantee that you know him because he is running for something in your state:
A good line: Fiorina Says Boxer 'Too Extreme' for California
Too bad it isn't true.
Why sex in space is a bad idea
Why don't Asians count as racial or ethnic minorities?
I always wonder whether people from Spain count as Hispanics. Also, do Moslems count as minorities? Also, as 1/16th American Indian, am I a minority? (If so, gimme the $ and the freebies.)
The people are scared, explains Obama: Our psycho-babbler-in-chief
The only thing we have to fear is loss of our job itself. And more Dem job-destroying and economy-stifling insanity.
Top 400 Charities See Billions Less in Donations
Debicella now a dead heat in CT-4.
It's time for New England to elect at least one Repub congresscritter.
Rasmussen: McMahon Closes Gap on Blumenthal
Linda Chavez: Obama has no clue about entrepreneurship
Well, he has done a heck of a job getting government to grow
Surber: No, we are not afraid
The Trouble with Manchin
Screaming "Allah Akbar" before you open fire is the confusing part
Washington Reb: Growing Up Conservative
How Long Will MSM Ignore Assault By NY Congressman Maurice Hinchey On Reporter? / Update: Poughkeepsie Journal Scoops NY Times
Leftoid violence does not exist.
NRO: Some Context on the Wilders Case
Related: Wilders Is Right: Europe Needs a First Amendment
Perino asks Why is Maureen Dowd so angry?
Everybody knows the real reason in her case. However, Leftoids to tend to be angry people in general.
The bay entry to the Wellfleet Audubon's large salt marsh on an incoming tide, in September.
Sunday, October 17. 2010
 As I live and learn, I no longer view Roman civilization as "ancient." Old, but not ancient. Those folks were a lot like us, and lived a lot like us.
Roman floor mosaics and wall paintings were the usual fashionable decor of the time, and typical for the homes of the prosperous. Naturally, the floor mosaics are better preserved than wall mosaics or wall paintings.
In 2009 we were fortunate to make our way to the Bardo Museum in Tunis to see the world's largest collection of Roman mosaics. They have so many, you even walk on them to get from one display room to another. This was decor, mind you - not fine art.
The Lod mosaics are a recent find, very-well preserved. They are now displayed in NYC.
Here's the story of the Lod mosaics.
 Any Hoyt Axton fans at Maggie's? (He died in 1999.)
He wrote Joy to the World, Greenback Dollar, etc. His Mom wrote Heartbreak Hotel. Bio here.
Merkel says German multicultural society has failed
Desmond Tutu: Obama’s Other Anti-Semitic Guru
Murdoch: The goal is to make Israel a pariah
David Warren: End our 'multiuniversities'
Gelinas wonders whether TARP was good or bad, effective or ineffective
Tides Foundation CEO To Fox News Advertisers: Drop Glenn Beck Or Have Blood On Your Hands
Ilya Somin on The Florida District Court Decision Rejecting the Federal Government’s Motion to Dismiss the Case Against the Individual Mandate
A great example of an elitist viewpoint, with takedown by Dino
Betsy: Teachers putting themselves ahead of their students
Ahmadinejad’s Deadly Triumph in Lebanon
Driscoll: All the Way with LBJ!
Union Bosses Are Funneling Millions to Democrats to Keep Money Flowing To Them
Rasmussen:
Voter nervousness about the economy, Rasmussen noted, is clear in the declining number of people he finds who feel their own finances are “in good order.” Two years ago, he recalled, 43% of Americans felt their finances were in good order, 38% felt this way the day Barack Obama was elected, and 35% felt that way on the day he took office as President.
“At the beginning of the year, that figure dropped to 32%,” he added, “and today, it is down to 30%.” Rasmussen also said that more than half of homeowners are “unsure if their home is worth more than their mortgage.
2 Timothy 3:14-4:5
3:14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it,
3:15 and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings that are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
3:16 All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
3:17 so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.
4:1 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I solemnly urge you:
4:2 proclaim the message; be persistent whether the time is favorable or unfavorable; convince, rebuke, and encourage, with the utmost patience in teaching.
4:3 For the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires,
4:4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander away to myths.
4:5 As for you, always be sober, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.
Saturday, October 16. 2010
 Maybe our most common winter sparrow in the NE, the White Throated spends most of his time on the ground and in low shrubs looking for berries, seeds and hibernating bugs. Likes bird-feeders.
He'll be coming down from the breeding grounds in Canada around now, and will give us a chance to hear his familiar pleasant songs (the link has songs).
Mead explains that all it does is to export pollution and jobs to places like China. From his essay:
The left leaning Guardian newspaper in Britain let the cat out of the bag yesterday, reporting that while the EU’s emission of CO2 declined by 17% between 1990 and 2010, this apparent progress was bogus. If you add up the CO2 released by the goods and services Europeans consumed, as opposed to the CO2 thrown off by the goods and services they produced, the EU was responsible for 40% more CO2 in 2010 than in 1990. The EU, as the Guardian puts it, has been outsourcing pollution — and jobs — rather than cutting back on greenhouse gasses.
EU “progress” on greenhouse gasses in the last twenty years was a mirage. And the only reason that the EU can pretend to look green is that it was outsourcing economic growth to countries like China.
Our wonderful, invigorating cold weather is finally upon us, despite the warming alarums. I got my wood. It's a start, at least. That's about two cords, and I'll need another two to get to Spring.
I am not good for much, but I can split wood pretty good.
Friday, October 15. 2010
Here is a re-posted sample of a few decent places to stay for your New England grouse hunting, ranging from the simple to the quite comfortable (some have fishing too):
 Bosebuck Mountain Camps
Miramichi Inn
King and Bartlett
Partridge Cabins
Lopstick Cabins
and in the Adirondacks, The Hungry Trout
These are just some of the places we've been to or heard about first-hand. Here's a good source for Maine outfitters.
Photo: A cabin at Bosebuck, where the only heat is your wood stove and your dog, the bunks are lumpy, the Canada Jays steal the dog kibbles of a slow eater, and where the locals cruise the dirt roads and shoot the partidges along the road from their pick-ups, while the sports in their expensive attire bust the brush with their dogs. Grouse huntin' ain't shopping. It's a rare occasion when I've limited out at 4 birds in an 8-hour, leg-testing day in the woods and marsh edges (think 8 hours of singles tennis in mud, bogs, raspberry brambles and cage-like alder thickets). It's a work-out. At some point, you start wondering how long it is to cocktail hour. The Woodcock keep it interesting and varied. It's a 20 ga. sport, or even 28 ga.
Hunting grouse is wonderfully difficult, challenging, and frustrating - but you get to spend time in the wild woods with dogs and pals and guns, smoking at will and accumulating precious memories to re-live in your old age.
 From Sipp, or Greg Sullivan, or whatever his current alias is. A quote:
Me, I'm self-employed, so I always have to be on the lookout lest my next meal comes out of that dumpster I mentioned earlier. My resellers went bankrupt with a bucket of my money, my biggest customer went bust and handed me a five figure loss, the forty percent equity I had in my house might as well have been forty dollars, the state of Massachusetts demanded I purchase $13,000 worth of health insurance with an adjusted gross income that was hovering a little above that just then, and the banks that lent me money at 3% would like it paid back at 30%. Or immediately. Immediately would work for them, they said. Time for a change.
It's illegal to vote with your feet using the method I had in mind for many of the people foremost in my mind last year --using a shod foot like that is a felony -- so we decided that we'd move instead.
Read the whole thing. It's America today. Also, if you happen to be a Down-easter, read the Meteor. It's your only reliable source of info...assuming you can get contact with the intertubes up there.
How worrisome is habitat loss? I find it highly worrisome. There are many ways for free-market Conservatives to be Conservationists. I am just one example. There are tons of us tree-hugger and turtle-lover Cons out there.
Boot: Shift in momentum in Afghanistan
Tea Partiers love killing miners? The guy has fallen off the reality cliff.
News flash: First Lady eats burger and fries
Krauthammer on "appearances":
He is a tax-and-spend Democrat. He spent a trillion dollars — and we’re going to have to borrow or tax it — on the stimulus. He‘s going to spend $2 trillion to $3 trillion on health care — we’ll borrow or tax it. Cap-and-trade is spending that you’re going to have to [tax for]. That’s [a tax-and-spend Democrat] what he is. That’s why the electorate is against him. It’s not appearances. It’s substance.
Jonah: Obama's Arrogance Starting to Get Noticed
Feed the Indians, get votes.
Prof B:
The basic problem I have with behavioral economics is that its proponents have never met a problem that could be solved without legislation or regulation. Indeed, it's practitioners seems to skew heavily towards liberal paternalism. As Josh put it, "the behavioral law and economics literature nearly uniformly applies the insights of behavioral economics to justify paternalistic intervention."
I have a father. Do not need another one. But, Prof B, watch your "it's"es.
Scott Brown endorses in MA
Barone: They ignored us
Am Thinker: Three Things Government Cannot Do:
Our federal government does not, and cannot, (1) produce products, (2) create wealth, or (3) provide jobs that pay for themselves.
The interconnectedness of these economic truths is not well-understood (especially by the political classes).
Thursday, October 14. 2010
A few people asked me for the lyrics of "The Little Bell" which we posted a few days ago.
I wanted them too. I know no Russian, but the song hardly needed English lyrics to be understood. Here's a Red Army Chorus rendition of this heart-wrenching tune, with English subtitles. This is Russian soul music, and Russians have soul if nothing else.
 Bake a split Butternut Squash until cooked but with the meat firm - not mushy.
Sautee some chopped onions with garlic, butter, and olive oil. Then toss in 1-2" cubes of the peeled squash, with salt and pepper, a teaspoon or two of sugar, and chopped sage, and sautee it all together for a little while, but don't let the squash cubes disintegrate. Add more butter and oil, and a little water, if it gets too dry.
Some people like to add hunks of turkey sausage, and some like to add a splash of brandy.
I think this sauce works best with a chunky pasta like Farfalle.
As I remind people, always stir pasta with the sauce in the sautee pan before serving. That's why they make big sautee pans - to mix the sauce with the pasta. Sauce plopped on top is not the right way to do it.
Top with a sprinkling of parmesan and some pignolis.
Wednesday, October 13. 2010
Via Reason, this remarkable portrait of a dead American city. It's not easy to kill a city without bombs, but unions, numbskull business managements, and corrupt pols did it there. Their "light rail" will be the tombstone before the whole city is plowed over to grow wheat or corn or trees or something.
Government did not build NYC's subways and trains. Businesses built those things to meet a profitable demand. Someday though, this absurdity in Detroit might be a tourist attraction - to ride a trolley through the vacant lots, wreckage, and abandoned buildings filled with feral dogs and cats.
McArdle: Americans like to be lied to.
City Journal on two books about Tea Parties: Two new books show how alienated Americans have become from Washington.
The CBC: Sorry, that's classified information
Bielat responds to Barney Frank's query. h/t, Neoneo
Morris: REPUBLICAN TREND GROWS
The Dem search for bogeymen. The problem is, as Rush says, that their bogeymen are at least half of the population.
Removing turtles from the environment - for the environment. People are insane. Furthermore, I know a bit about tortoises, and they do not transplant well. They just try to get back home, and die on the way.
What Dems must do to avert disaster. Sounds like the answer is to become Repubs
One more example of why the French are not respected.
Barney Frank wants another chance to destroy the housing market
More on Prof. Hal Lewis' resignation letter, at Watts.
Barnes: Four Causes that Will Lead to a Democratic Election Nightmare
Clinton Heckled in Blue New York, Says Half of Republicans Need Psychiatric Help.
Stay dignified, Pres. Clinton
David Horowitz is one of those rare people who change lives. I know, because he changed mine.
Sarah is not the only Palinesque pol in the US
4 of 10 Former Supporters Have Bailed on Obama
Insty:
ON THE UPSIDE, THEY PRODUCED VASTLY MORE INTRUSION INTO FAMILIES: Child Abuse Investigations Didn’t Reduce Risk, a Study Finds. “Child Protective Services investigated more than three million cases of suspected child abuse in 2007, but a new study suggests that the investigations did little or nothing to improve the lives of those children.” Also, this employed lots of people in “helping” professions, who tend to vote Democratic. So you’ve got to score this as a win, even if children weren’t any better off. And the study authors suggest that since what we’re doing doesn’t work, we should redouble our efforts! See above. . . .
Tuesday, October 12. 2010
At Reb. That's America in 2010.
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