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May 10, 2009
So, my daughter wanted to know how the fabric softener knows how to get into the laundry at the right time. Seems that in her previous experience, fabric softener was added to a small reservoir off to the side, and that was based on a timer. That much she knew. But “The Ball” mystified her.
So, I explained about Centrifugal Force, but I could see the nouns, verbs and adjectives alone weren’t hacking it.
No, what was required was a Practical Demonstration.
I explained, first of all, that if I took some water, and put it in a pail, and twirled it around the axis of my arm, none of the water would fall out. That, I explained, was Centrifugal Force, the same force that worked on “The Ball” to dispense the fabric softener.
She didn’t believe me, I could tell. Here comes the Practical Demo.
So, Cautious Me, I did it, with a little water (maybe a pint) in the bucket, but it amazed her. I even coaxed her to try it, but I could tell she was reluctant, because she believes, as I do about myself, that the worst possible outcome is exactly the outcome that will occur whenever she tries something that she is the least bit skeptical of. She envisioned soaking herself with bucket water, so she declined.
Still, there was wonder there, in her eyes, when Good Ol’ Dad did it.
And I loved it! 
Filed under: Dad-dom, Observations |
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May 9, 2009
Pictures from a Russian site, sent to me by My Dasha, of North Korea:
BigPicture.ru: Peeping into North Korea
Haunting images, which (probably) you might not be able to read the captions of, taken near the China-North Korea border. I was especially impressed by the starkness of it all, and the very real, maybe omnipresent, military. And even in the lowliest of hovels, packed so closely together, there seems to be an antenna - TV or radio, not sure - perched on the roof. (I wonder if they run their TVs and radios like me, sometimes: just on to have some noise in the background to give the illusion of something worthwhile going on.)
Why, I ask, are we seemingly so intent on experimenting with Socialism in this country, which is the progenitor of the pictures you see here? North Korea - and Cuba, and a host of other countries - are living examples of the abject failure of the collective to provide. (I was looking for an object there, to answer the question, “Provide what?” And I am stumped for a noun to beat “Misery.”) Why do we want to try to implement the same collectivist mindset, perpetrated by a thuggish “community organizer” and enforced by the power of the State - which ultimately is the power of a gun! - here? Why do we ignore the misery, and hearken only to the “glorious promise of a New Soviet Day” from Our Own Dear Leader’s Lips?
One last testament to the collective’s power to “light the way” to that “glorious day:”
Korea at Night
Any questions?
Filed under: Communism, Gub'Mint At Work, History, Indoctrination, Marxism, Philosophy, Socialism, The Future, and Evil is Good |
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May 7, 2009
I have to take exception to the currently in-vogue catch-phrase to describe Gub’mint spending: “…spending like drunken sailors.”
Now, I take exception to that. (Having once spent a month on a U.S. Navy ship, I can claim a sort of affiliation with sailors, even though I’m a “Zoomie” (Air Force Guy) at heart.)
I take exception because sailors - no matter their level of intoxication - are both limited and responsible. By that, I mean the drunken sailors’ ability to spend is limited by the amount of cash on hand, whether in greenbacks in da wallet, or credit cards, or the pooled and willingly made available resources of friends. In that, there is a limit to what they can spend.
And, no matter how much they spend, they have to report back to ship, in some semblance of order, and resume normal, responsible duties. They aren’t out of reach of the long arm of the Shore Patrol, and there is a limit to how much mayhem they can inflict on the host populace.
U.S. politicians, on the other hand, have no such constraints. There are, apparently, no limits on their wallets, and they certainly don’t believe they are responsible, and held accountable, by any controlling legal authority, as Al Gore, himself a free-wheeling spender of monumental proportions, is fond of saying. They can freely confiscate or print any needed wealth, and they don’t even have to go through the motions of reading or deliberating on any bill - they just pass it, and use whatever is in it as justification for their continued arrogance and irresponsibility.
So, let’s be a little more circumspect in our blatant use of “…spending like drunken sailors.” After all, compared to Congress, they’re emminently respectable!
Filed under: Bailout! Bailout! Bailout!, Crime and (sorta) Punishment, Demagogues, Democrats, Enemies, Good vs. Evil, Gub'Mint At Work, Life In Liberal Land, Malfeasance, Obamunism, Philosophy, Really?, Stupid Liberals (or am I being redundant?), The Revolution |
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May 6, 2009
From the Schnitt Show (SchnittShow.com) today, a most excellent idea:
Mail Arlen Specter boxes of “Junior Mints.”
Filed under: Democrats, Humor, Justice, Lackeys |
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May 6, 2009
RiehlWorldView: Snarlin’ Arlen Has No Fangs
Such excellent points:
Contrary to his claims, the Dems voted against allowing Specter to keep his seniority, thereby stripping him of his one big advantage while running in a primary, or for re-election in a general. One possible scenario for what happened is simply too rich to overlook. Biden spoke with Specter multiple times on the switch. Did Biden’s mouth write a check his clout couldn’t cash?
Without any assurance of seniority, Specter loses a major weapon in his campaign to win reelection in 2010: the ability to claim that his nearly 30 years of Senate service places him in key positions to benefit his constituents.
Specter is trapped. He can’t switch back. If he doesn’t vote like a card carrying Dem, they can primary him. And they might do that anyway. If he does cave to go Left, he looks like a neutered puppet, which hurts him in 2010.
No matter how you slice it, Specter’s switch has left him looking either weak, or the fool - and disloyal to boot. And that’s the likely ending to a storied political career of a politician who swithed parties, not once but twice.
If it’s all due to Biden, that’s just icing on the cake.
Used to live in Pennsylvania. I even got to shake Arloon Spectre’s hand once at a George W. Bush event in Erie. His Cadaverousness was trudging around the stands, alone, trying to shake hands with people. I barely recognized him, and I got the feeling that he was there basically riding President Bush’s coattails, and very little else. He wasn’t a speaker; The Bush Team had plenty of local talent, and — on reflection — it seems a significant slight that Arloon wasn’t speaking that day.
Nothing compared to now. Heh heh.
And if that isn’t enough to sour you on Spectre, here’s a bit from Michelle Malkin:
How to file an FEC complaint against ‘Specter for the Cure’
Arloon is using a supposed “charity front” to raise campaign cash, apparently.
One line from a screenshot of Arloon’s “charity” struck me:
“The centerpiece of Specter for the Cure is the Cures Acceleration Network (”CAN”) a new institution, answering to the President of the United States…”
Doesn’t everyone, by now, answer to the President of the United States? I just see it as an obsequious tributary gift from a vassal to his new master, a payoff for allowing him to sup at the scraps thrown from the Dear Leader’s table.
Sickening…
Filed under: Crime and (sorta) Punishment, Demagogues, Democrats, Enemies, Justice, Lackeys, Life In Liberal Land, Malfeasance, Moral Compass-less, Obamania, Politics, RINOs, Society's Carbuncles, Stupid Liberals (or am I being redundant?) |
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May 6, 2009
…I guess I’ll be on (Once) Great Britain’s, too.
Some reading material for your perusal. The short of it is that (Once) Great Britain has denied visits to people it thinks think wrongly. (Hah! Follow that?) Michael Savage, conservative talk radio host, was recently denied, and it has a few people - those with any consciences left - to question the efficacy of banning those whom they consider guilty of “thought” and “hate” crimes. You can read these for yourself, but as for me, I’ve paid my last visit to (Once) Great Britain.
Telegraph: Should we be banning this US ’shock jock’?
Independent: Named and shamed: the 16 barred from UK
SFGate.com: SF radio host Michael Savage, banned from Britian: “Will they ban my listeners too?”
Breitbart.TV: Right Talker Savage on Britain Ban: ‘When Has This Witch Listened to My Program?’
Filed under: (Once) Great Britain, Demagogues, Enemies, Felonious Foreigners, Good vs. Evil, Gub'Mint At Work, Indoctrination, International Relations, Life In Liberal Land, Moral Compass-less, Political Correctness, Politics, Really?, Stupid Liberals (or am I being redundant?), The Future, Travelogue |
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May 6, 2009
Yep. You’re in charge when it comes to the screw-ups, but Obama’s in charge of everything else, (including, soon, your very lives.)
CURL: Stimulus oversight left up to taxpayers
So just who’s tracking that $787 billion in taxpayer money that President Obama and the Democrat-led Congress are doling out? You are. Or you’re supposed to be, anyway.
“We are, in essence, deputizing the entire American citizenry to help with the oversight of this program,” said Rep. Brad Miller, chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology’s subcommittee on investigations and oversight.
So, too, said Earl Devaney, the ex-cop who’s now chairman of the Recovery Act Accountability and Transparency Board, charged with tracking the torrent of cash now pouring out of federal coffers.
“I’m going to have millions of citizens to help me,” he said, comparing run-of-the-mill Americans to inspectors general, the high-ranking officials charged with ferreting out waste and abuse in federal agencies.
“I’m going to have a million little IGs running around,” the chairman said Tuesday after his testimony before the subcommittee.
And perhaps that’s just as well, given the turnout of the panel tasked with keeping track of thousands of millions of dollars. Just three of the 10 members bothered to show up for the subcommittee’s second meeting, dramatically titled “Follow the Money Part II.”
I don’t know about you, but I’m damn overworked as it is. These ass-clowns don’t even read the bil before they pass it into law, then they throw up their hands and feign shock — shock, I say! — that scoundrels are scamming the coffers, and you, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, should be more vigilant!
After all, only three of 10 on the committee bothered to show up.
Can you say, “Dereliction of Duty?”
Filed under: Bailout! Bailout! Bailout!, Enemies, Gub'Mint At Work, Life In Liberal Land, Malfeasance, Obamunism |
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May 6, 2009
Belly up to the bar!
Bank of America May Need About $34 Billion of Capital (Update2)
Regulators have determined that Bank of America Corp. requires about $34 billion in new capital, the largest need among the 19 biggest U.S. banks subjected to stress tests, said a person with knowledge of the matter. Bank of America fell 9 percent in trading before U.S. exchanges opened.
Let them fail.
Filed under: Bailout! Bailout! Bailout!, Bidness, Enemies, Obamunism |
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May 5, 2009
LA News: Obama, Biden Raise Hell at Burger Joint
Feel free to hang on every word, much like the press everywhere:
It’s like this: When you want a burger, you have to have a burger. Oh, and some tater puffs on the side, please.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden took a short — but wholly noticeable — motorcade ride from the White House to Virginia and pulled into a small, independent burger joint called Ray’s Hell Burger.
The two leaders waited in line and then went right up to the counter where the meat was being grilled and ordered.
What did they order?
“I’ll have a swiss cheese burger with jalapeno peppers and ketchup,” Biden said to the cashier. “Do you put the ketchup on it or do we do that ourselves?”
For the president?
“I’m going to have a basic cheddar cheese burger, medium well, with mustard,” Obama said. “Do you have spicy mustard? I’ll take that.”
The president then asked about some fries.
“Are your fries pretty good? Can you vouch for your fries?” he asked.
Unfortunately, Ray’s doesn’t serve fries. But they had some cheesy tater puffs, so the duo got an order of those.
To drink, Biden got a root beer and Obama a bottle of water.
The president then ordered some extra food for his staff. Each fetched cash from his pocket and paid, Biden paid for their meals and Obama paid for the staffs, and then the pair stood like the rest and waited for their number to be called before going to a table.
Hat Tip: Who Else but Jim Treacher! Who, it should be noted, cogently pointed out:
Somebody shoulda pointed out that every glob of spicy mustard HE got was a glob of spicy mustard somebody else DIDN’T get.
Filed under: Cult of Personality, MSM, Obamunism |
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May 5, 2009
Gary Graham: The Party of ‘No’
This’ll get you psyched up:
Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Dianne Feinstein, et al, have gone on record to call the Republican Party ‘The Party of No’.
Why? Because we say NO to socialism? NO to racism? NO to weak foreign policy footing, kowtowing to despotic world leaders? Because we say NO to socialized medicine? NO to fomenting class-warfare, NO to raising taxes on the affluent? NO to killing babies in the womb, NO to redefining traditional marriage? NO to calling returning veterans extremist nut-jobs to be placed on a watch-list? NO to thinking we can spend and tax our way back to prosperity by saddling our grandkids with a Mt. Everest sized debt?
Okay…maybe they’re right; maybe we are the party of NO. But I’d like to offer a slight amendment to that moniker (thanks, Dr. Kloor):
We are the Party of ‘Know‘.
We know the principles upon which this country was founded. The principles you Lefties are always dragging through the mud. Little things like individual liberty. And respecting the flag. And love of God and country. And respect for our fighting troops. And smaller, limited government. And a dedication to our international autonomy. And the belief in peace through strength. Trust, but verify. Rugged individualism and personal responsibility.
I was gonna paste s’more in here, but I want you to go read the whole thing for yourself, and get it in your gut, and get enthused, and throw it right back in their smug, collectivist faces:
We are the Party of Know, you clowns. Your game is UP!
Filed under: Cheers, Conservatism, Energy, Good Guys, Good vs. Evil, Heroes, Justice, Libertarianism, Patriotism, Philosophy, Politics, The Future, The Revolution |
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