Monday, March 30. 2009
 Our readers know there is a nationwide movement, a la the Boston Tea Party, to demonstrate opposition to the multi trillion dollar deficit plans of Obama/Pelosi/Reid. Please remember to join in by mailing the President a tea bag on April 1st.
Mail to:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Sunday, March 29. 2009
Reposted from October, 2006
 It's time to think about what fun, expensive, and unnecessary gear we might be wanting to play with this spring.
Here's our first post on Fishing Bamboo.
And here's a post about Hoagy Carmichael Jr., who is apparently a great fisherman of the Grand Cascapedia, and who is responsible for the renaissance of the split-bamboo fly rod, at Never Yet Melted.
The photo of Amber is to highlight a fine site for fly fishermen, Bamboo Fly Rod. net. Nope, that site is defunct, but we hope Amber isn't. This site has good info on casting with, and the care of, bamboo rods.
Leland is just one of many makers.
Monday, March 9. 2009
My cousin Oscar offers this comment -
I don't want to sound like a spoilsport, but does anyone in the Mainstream Media or in the Obama Administration understand that the latest unemployment rate of 8.1% as of February, bad as it now feels, is actually close to the normal unemployment rate in France and most of the European Union (EU) without a recession?
Yes, that is the same EU which Obama and his friends want us to emulate in terms of much bigger Government, higher taxes on producers, weaker Free Markets, and much stronger Labor Unions.
In fact, there is no country in the EU which came close to the United States' former unemployment rate of about 4.5%, save Ireland, which adopted our Free Market approach and so was loathed by the other welfare states.
So, if you're an Obama enthusiast, stop whining. This is the norm for governments whose spending absorbs 30+% of their Gross National Product.
Get used to it...this is what you wanted.
Or, is it?
-Oscar
Saturday, March 7. 2009
We posted this before, but I thought our gentle reader MM might enjoy this fine item:
The media just found out that Sullenberger is a Republican:
Wednesday, March 4. 2009
As someone said, after all the Clinton re-treads, we were hoping he wouldn’t do for Hope what he did for Change.
Saturday, February 28. 2009
Wednesday, February 25. 2009
Wednesday, February 18. 2009
First bunch of crocuses came up yesterday, hereabouts.
(Pedantic Editor's note: "Crocus" is the Greek word for "saffron." Saffron is from the Arabic word "zafaran" - yellow. While the pollen looks like saffron, it's the ground-up stigma of the Saffron Crocus which produces the herb Saffron.)
Tuesday, February 17. 2009
Wednesday, February 11. 2009
"Hell these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima, Baghdad ain't shit."
Major General John F. Kelly to a reporter who asked him if he ever contemplated defeat (h/t, Blackfive)
Sunday, February 8. 2009
Norman Mattoon Thomas (Nov. 20, 1884-Dec. 19, 1968) - some of us are old enough to remember him running for President - was a leading American socialist, pacifist and six time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
Norman Thomas said this in a 1944 speech:
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "Liberalism", they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." He went on to say: "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform."
Saturday, February 7. 2009
This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn't. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar . Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter 'S.'
Answers below -
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Friday, February 6. 2009
That's exactly what we've been saying for years. A quote from John Tomlinson in the Flint Journal:
If you're wondering why North America is starting to resemble nuclear winter, then you missed the news.
At December's U.N. Global Warming conference in Poznan, Poland, 650 of the world's top climatologists stood up and said man-made global warming is a media generated myth without basis. Said climatologist Dr. David Gee, Chairman of the International Geological Congress, "For how many years must the planet cool before we begin to understand that the planet is not warming?"
I asked myself, why would such obviously smart guy say such a ridiculous thing? But it turns out he's right.
The earth's temperature peaked in 1998. It's been falling ever since; it dropped dramatically in 2007 and got worse in 2008, when temperatures touched 1980 levels.
Read the whole thing. Link above.
Tuesday, February 3. 2009
From Rep. John Carter:
WASHINGTON, DC) – All U.S. taxpayers would enjoy the same immunity from IRS penalties and interest as House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Obama Administration Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, if a bill introduced today by Congressman John Carter (R-TX) becomes law.
Carter, a former longtime Texas judge, today introduced the Rangel Rule Act of 2009, HR 735, which would prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from charging penalties and interest on back taxes against U.S. citizens. Under the proposed law, any taxpayer who wrote “Rangel Rule” on their return when paying back taxes would be immune from penalties and interest.
The movie starring Kevin Bacon premieres Feb 21. Trailer here.
Michelle Obama's salary, charted. You get the feeling that the Left is all about money. Conservatives are all about freedom. How simple is that?
Sunday, February 1. 2009
Yo, Captain Sullenberger! You are an honorary duck. (Black Duck, on Friday)
Saturday, January 31. 2009
The 2009 Harbin (China) International Snow and Ice Festival. The English translation is quaint:
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