tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59097282012-01-18T08:40:52.352-05:00Livin' In AmericaOccasional scribblings from Time's 2006 Person of the Year: An Irish guy living in Atlanta.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.comBlogger19771100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-21456070549952994452012-01-18T08:39:00.001-05:002012-01-18T08:40:52.360-05:00In response to a recent "Newsweek".Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-85912692530230291742012-01-10T13:23:00.001-05:002012-01-10T13:25:31.409-05:00Enjoy!Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-46576123397516270352012-01-10T07:55:00.000-05:002012-01-10T07:56:17.242-05:00They're not talking about Democrats.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-56981824244631458352012-01-10T07:49:00.002-05:002012-01-10T08:08:35.771-05:00When the country's going down the crapper, the craptaculous party.UPDATE: Hide the evidence!Most transparent administration evah!Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-47138688198226940062012-01-03T12:46:00.001-05:002012-01-03T12:49:10.417-05:00Boy! Amazingly little complaint from civil libertarians about this. Oh. Right. Democrat. So all's well, I suppose.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-9927403984326957512011-12-29T08:28:00.001-05:002011-12-29T08:28:50.949-05:00Typical Democrat voter.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-21317948330013184552011-12-28T09:49:00.002-05:002011-12-28T09:51:52.946-05:00Iraq is doomed.Still, The Won has his short-term political victory.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-68907504937105629502011-12-21T10:25:00.003-05:002011-12-27T10:26:07.850-05:00In Egypt, they're now burning books.The long Islamic night descends.UPDATE: More here.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-88840151519274439582011-12-16T07:41:00.001-05:002011-12-16T07:42:28.872-05:00Gather ye incandescent light bulbs while ye may.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-34659954149184200922011-12-16T07:37:00.002-05:002011-12-16T07:53:43.043-05:00Christopher Hitchens has died.More here.I will miss him.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-65250246412393836472011-11-18T16:14:00.000-05:002011-11-18T16:15:58.818-05:00The Won kills 200,000 jobs.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-20741609999594654002011-11-18T08:02:00.002-05:002011-11-18T08:09:22.352-05:00Ann Barnhardt, a hedge broker specializing in cattle and grain, is quitting the brokerage portion of her business, and has posted an announcement as to why.Money quote:I will not, under any circumstance, consider reforming and re-opening Barnhardt Capital Management, or any other iteration of a brokerage business, until Barack Obama has been removed from office AND the government of the United Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-13055980989189208372011-11-11T11:17:00.002-05:002011-11-11T11:18:21.834-05:00Here's what lies can do for you, here in America.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-62342719601840182232011-11-10T17:51:00.001-05:002011-11-10T17:52:06.841-05:00More American prosperity sacrificed on the altar of The Won's re-election campaign.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-14800685884654082062011-11-09T15:43:00.001-05:002011-11-09T15:43:56.962-05:00Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-36278863314997433652011-11-09T13:14:00.002-05:002011-11-09T13:20:06.506-05:00How Greeks see the world.More here and here.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-90112170084707263522011-11-04T09:48:00.001-04:002011-11-04T09:50:21.922-04:00The new Jim Crow. Brought to you by the Democrat Party - America's true racists.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-44311859046348509442011-11-01T11:01:00.002-04:002011-11-01T11:04:05.982-04:00The ACLU says The Won is authorizing agencies to lie - allowing them to deny the existence of documents and prevent judicial oversight.Hope and change!If a Republican administration were to do this, the shrieking from the legacy media would bring down the heavens.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-16144313213066213032011-10-31T07:14:00.003-04:002011-10-31T09:21:41.367-04:00Another black conservative, another high tech lynching.Tell me again, how long did it take the legacy media to report on John Edwards? Oh, and how about the total pass given to Bill Clinton?It's not just he double standard that gets me. It's the fact that they keep using the same old playbook.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-33893690589058318312011-10-28T13:28:00.007-04:002011-10-28T13:45:04.517-04:00Wherever you have more that one confessor to the Religion of Pieces, you're going to have trouble.If Muslims volunteer to attend a Roman Catholic university and don't like to be surrounded by symbols of Roman Catholicism, well, as we say in Atlanta, "Delta's ready when you are." The next time a Muslim complains about crucifixes at a Roman Catholic institution, some Roman Catholic should take a Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-89748501969753070282011-10-27T15:40:00.002-04:002011-10-27T15:42:25.296-04:00The Won may want to reconsider getting out of Iraq. If he does, where will he stash all the witnesses to his scandals?There's always Afghanistan, I suppose. Or Guantanamo, for that matter.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-30312402292648665902011-10-25T17:56:00.000-04:002011-10-25T17:58:02.373-04:00The Won: Nobel Peace Prize winner, Battlefield Commander.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-34542176773330022322011-10-25T12:52:00.002-04:002011-10-25T13:22:47.894-04:00The Won, either desperate for reelection or displaying the "smart diplomacy" we heard about, has managed to get us kicked out of Iraq. Forty four hundred lives, tens of thousands of wounded, and it's about to all be pissed away.There's a reason we're still in Germany and Japan, 60+ years after WWII: We steadied them as they grew their democratic institutions. Poor Iraq won't get the same help.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-20020782462302374232011-10-18T15:09:00.002-04:002011-10-18T15:11:00.475-04:00When you hear an Occupy Wall Street type talking about redistributing the wealth, issue a smackdown with this.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-29233085053541934342011-10-18T13:00:00.001-04:002011-10-18T13:00:45.064-04:00Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-71830916193966569412011-10-18T12:52:00.000-04:002011-10-18T12:53:05.660-04:00Stolen? Or repossessed?Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-28144330523589906372011-10-18T12:50:00.001-04:002011-10-18T12:51:08.770-04:00How odd! The Devil is not looking out for one of his own.Which, well, thank God for that.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-14293164078033122632011-10-17T15:12:00.003-04:002011-10-17T15:22:48.095-04:00It appears the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is working to hide documents that are subject to a Freedom of Information Act request.Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is a scam. The more light that's shone on the actors, the more they scuttle away, like cockroaches looking for rocks to hide under. Look at Algore. Having sated himself on the offerings of dupes and cynics, he's Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-65089798812275165832011-10-17T09:13:00.000-04:002011-10-17T09:14:23.343-04:00Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-60308144812980399322011-10-17T08:08:00.003-04:002011-10-25T18:02:27.218-04:00I was down at Everybody's Pizza yesterday afternoon. Across the road was a single smelly know-it-all hippie, holding up a sign that said "Occupy USA."The dozens of Emory types facing him, sipping their lattes and beers, eating their pizza and tacos, watched on. Even the kid with the gold hammer and sickle on his red Macbook Pro (Which, what's up with that?) (Yay, capitalism!) just sat back and Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-90223618214322163652011-10-17T08:03:00.003-04:002011-10-17T08:07:53.374-04:00Looks like The Won just invaded Uganda, with South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo coming up next.This has the feel of 1965. Could it be The Won wants to leave behind an unwinnable war for the Republican who succeeds his single term?Oh, and has the Nobel Award Committee ever revoked a peace prize?Worst President evah.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-65955476162406417692011-10-13T10:32:00.004-04:002011-10-13T11:11:49.929-04:00Dennis Ritchie just died.The first big system I ever developed, CTAPS, was done in C and SQL on a MicroVAX III running Ultrix. We even had GKS to display maps and allow for very crude airspace deconfliction.Anyway, having been working in FORTRAN 77 on a VAX 11/782 running VMS 4.7, it was such a pleasure to have utilities like sed, awk, make, grep, cut, vi, ctags, etc., along with the UNIX Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-27239223594069294552011-10-07T11:11:00.002-04:002011-10-07T11:13:47.020-04:00Occupy Wall Street paid protesters.Since they're not Tea Party types, you won't hear about this in the news. Mostly you'll hear about brown people from south of the border protesting America's racism, or some such.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-59755733997095934792011-10-06T17:54:00.003-04:002011-10-06T18:00:53.299-04:00The Won's bag man at DoE has resigned.I think that between the $ub$idie$ to "Green" energy and gun-running to Mexico, this administration is just about done. The next year will be all about scandal and resignations.Oh, and vacations. The First Lady has to get her world travel in, along with her "Senior Staffers," Malia and Sasha.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-73333114880732262592011-10-06T14:51:00.004-04:002011-10-06T17:45:17.832-04:00Huh. If you're occupying Wall Street, then The Won thinks you're expressing the frustrations of the American public.On the other hand, if you're a member of the Tea Party, you're a barbarian SOB hobbit.The difference, of course is that OWS is run by unions. More here.From here, we see that about 36% of government workers are unionized, as are about 7% of private-sector workers. Total union Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-68222076424475855632011-10-05T20:08:00.001-04:002011-10-05T20:11:06.677-04:00Steve Jobs is dead. What a terrible pity.The first desktop PC I ever used was an Apple II. I own a MacBook Pro and the wife has in IPad and iPhone. Awesome machines all.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-91275061249204126192011-10-03T13:45:00.007-04:002011-10-04T16:45:45.836-04:00Oh, BTW, The Won has had his DoJ smuggle automatic weapons into Mexico, to arm Mexican drug cartels.Imagine a Republican President doing this sort of thing. No. Wait. I can. In the case of The Won, however, well, he's a Democrat. So, free pass.UPDATE: An actual reporter begins to report on The Won's smuggling of automatic weapons to Mexican narco-terrorists. A DoJ spokeswoman calls to Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-39201453876984876182011-10-03T13:39:00.001-04:002011-10-03T13:41:40.058-04:00The next Solyndra.Damn! The Won is throwing loads o' cash to his friends.The$e $urely are "Green" project$.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-90683355629645730332011-10-03T12:17:00.002-04:002011-10-03T12:24:37.484-04:00The Won marched with the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) back in 2007.This probably explains Eric Holder's decision to drop voter intimidation charges leveled against the NBPP.What's the New Black Panther Party? This is the New Black Panther Party.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-983329319407357972011-09-28T14:28:00.003-04:002011-09-29T08:28:47.721-04:00Having wasted $535 million on Solyndra, The Won decides to throw another billion down the same rat hole.How much more damage will this lunatic do before we finally fire him?What boggles my mind is that he keeps making disastrous policy choices, and yet remains completely self-assured.UPDATE: The waste, explained. I wonder when we'll next hear Nancy Pelosi utter the words "culture of corruption"Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-18033678626519957092011-09-26T11:25:00.002-04:002011-09-26T11:29:53.454-04:00Tom Lantos remembered.Money quote:After the war, Lantos was awarded an academic scholarship to study in the United States on the basis of an essay he wrote about then-president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In August 1947, he arrived in New York City after a boat trip on a converted World War II troop ship. Onboard "there was a big basket of oranges and one of bananas," Lantos recalled. "I wanted toPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-67622404044469291352011-09-13T20:42:00.000-04:002011-09-13T20:43:35.219-04:00Do we really want electric cars? Again?Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-35963101762953554392011-09-09T10:46:00.004-04:002011-09-09T11:00:31.186-04:00The Won's jobs plan:"Give me $450 billion now, or your kids will get mercury poisoning."That wasn't a jobs plan, that was a campaign speech. Actually, it was a threat:"Give me everything I want, or I'll blame you for everything I've screwed up."There's nothing actionable in that speech, and he's presented no bill with legislative language. It's a hostage note, plain and simple, to be paid NOW!,Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-88956257507266069322011-09-06T14:23:00.003-04:002011-09-07T09:39:25.840-04:00This is going to be a very nasty election season.The President has nothing to run on, having bankrupted the country and run business into the ground. So, he's going to go nasty. He's going to tar the Tea Party as racist. He's going to tar his Republican opponent as racist. He's going to reach deep in to the mud to do everything he can to destroy the reputation of anyone who opposes him. Any Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-65815871257578568872011-09-02T10:58:00.004-04:002011-09-02T11:02:52.575-04:00More commentary on The Won's massive fail. Money quote:President Obama is going to address Congress and the country on Sept. 8 to announce—for the fourth time, or is it the sixth or seventh, I’ve lost count—that he has a plan to create jobs and grow the economy. Based on his past, and repeated, performances, there is no reason to believe a word he says. Not that he will be lying—I think he Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-18491967467524764482011-09-02T10:35:00.000-04:002011-09-02T10:36:20.456-04:00Obama lied, the economy died! Worst President evah!Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-42523330976864771282011-08-30T12:56:00.003-04:002011-08-30T13:01:24.171-04:00We'll see more of this, as Obamacare kicks in. The future for American medicine, under Democrat control, is two tiers: one for our political, cultural, and economic masters (you know, the Nomenklatura) - gold-plated and offering every convenience, and one for hoi polloi - a bullet in the head if we ever get sick. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-466512464649824312011-08-29T15:42:00.000-04:002011-08-29T15:43:03.429-04:00Since the obvious choice is to approve it, you can be sure The Won will reject it. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-30045438457509017332011-08-25T11:22:00.002-04:002011-08-25T11:24:07.764-04:00Fuckin' Democrats. BTW, please don't tell me Bloomberg is a Republican. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-72079178926200817602011-08-09T16:58:00.002-04:002011-08-09T16:59:57.639-04:00Note to The Won: class warfare has consequences. Though, as a student of Saul Alinsky, he'd probably welcome class warfare rioting. Remember: never let a crisis go to waste.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-35667647693202621232011-08-08T16:37:00.002-04:002011-08-08T16:42:58.177-04:00Sarah Palin is looking better and better. The Won has achieved something that escaped even Jimmy Carter: a downgrade of America's credit rating. Now, if he can ensure the Arab Spring ends in bloody suppression, he'll have exceeded Carter. And since The Won is not the sort of person to build houses for "Habitat for Humanity", God knows how he'll ever recover his reputation. Worst President Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-47763387523368206322011-08-07T13:20:00.002-04:002011-08-07T13:23:31.812-04:00 Democrats are raping this country's economy, mortgaging generations unborn, placing us in servitude to the People's Republic of China, to pay for this.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-54123014926778512162011-08-07T12:46:00.004-04:002011-08-07T13:01:07.234-04:00A great rant against The Won's disastrous economic policies.UPDATE: 67% say Obama economy causing family stress.UPDATE: The ultimate problem for The Won and his socialist hordes is that under socialism, you eventually run out of other people's money.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-34808000043319461342011-08-04T09:28:00.002-04:002011-08-04T09:32:04.666-04:00US borrowing hits 100% of GDP.Our political class won't deal with this. At current rates, we've got another five years of borrowing left in us. Then we'll be a super-sized Greece.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-56243048272529874552011-08-01T22:58:00.004-04:002011-08-04T09:33:05.636-04:00The US House of Representatives has voted to raise the debt ceiling. There was some talk of "cuts" in spending; they'll never happen.So, the United States now have a recognized debt of $14 x 10^12. In addition, they have $100 x 10^12 in unfunded liabilities. We're screwed. Actually, we're screwed, blued, and tattooed. China's going to have to take us into receivership. Which, given our Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-60813793945056259082011-07-27T09:38:00.001-04:002011-07-27T09:42:20.330-04:00Amazing color pictures from the Battle of Britain.Love the shot of the guy sitting on a park bench, reading a book.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-81395780346199501752011-07-22T18:15:00.004-04:002011-07-22T18:19:28.497-04:00It appears The Won and his criminal conspirators are working as hard as possible to put as many guns as possible in the hands of those not covered by the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.So the ensuing violence justifies vitiating the Second Amendment to the US Constitution,Because you never want to let a crisis go to waste, right?Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-83478399227691233822011-07-21T18:15:00.006-04:002011-07-21T18:24:15.296-04:00Of late I've been learning about parallel processing. I've been working in C, trying to talk to the GPU on one of my laptops (a Dell XPS M1530 running Ubuntu 11.04). Here's what I got, today:-----satan@satanslittlehelper:~/NVIDIA_GPU_Computing_SDK/C$ bin/linux/release/deviceQuery[deviceQuery] starting...bin/linux/release/deviceQuery Starting...CUDA Device Query (Runtime API) version (CUDART Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-28034999443150863942011-06-14T09:17:00.002-04:002011-06-14T09:21:15.193-04:00I wonder how much global warming will result from this?I mean, I remember when Mt. Pinatubo blew back in 1991. We had intense orange-red sunsets for weeks afterwards. My guess is that one volcano put up more greenhouse gas than years of human industry.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-26150613661573461832011-05-24T01:27:00.002-04:002011-05-24T01:30:32.648-04:00Who's the future Prime Minister of Israel, and who's the future President of the USA?Me? I'm converting to Judaism.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-21206236096972861162011-05-10T07:20:00.001-04:002011-05-10T07:20:37.667-04:00Guess the guy's religion.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-41028850971047325802011-05-04T16:00:00.001-04:002011-05-04T16:02:37.919-04:00Seven minutes over "My Pet Goat." Sixteen hours, a round of golf, a good night's sleep over bin Laden.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-10240060207657799332011-05-04T07:54:00.001-04:002011-05-04T07:54:58.950-04:00Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-5683035794651354782011-05-04T07:52:00.002-04:002011-05-04T07:54:21.820-04:00It took ten years, but he's done.One thing bin Laden was betting on was that democracies and representative republics wouldn't have the staying power to track him down. He was mistaken. In the end he was forced to run, and die tired.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-16755380945896674122011-04-12T18:52:00.002-04:002011-04-12T18:56:36.929-04:00After the last public employee union has bankrupted the last municipality, this is the model all municipalities will move to.And it will requite bankruptcy: Democrats will fight to the last taxpayer to protect the steady flow of union contributions into their war chests.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-35373301520632561422011-04-09T14:05:00.002-04:002011-04-09T14:07:11.514-04:00Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-86795942399338115342011-04-09T12:09:00.001-04:002011-04-09T12:09:49.142-04:00The Won loses Oprah.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-55028639793445115372011-04-02T08:35:00.000-04:002011-04-02T08:36:49.778-04:00Brcause America needs more changin'.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-24132285480025778852011-03-30T19:44:00.000-04:002011-03-30T19:45:03.859-04:00The Arab world is about to join the space race.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-13499528238865262872011-03-21T09:33:00.003-04:002011-03-21T09:34:57.155-04:00So, it seems that we are at war with Libya.The Won took this action after consulting the UN, the Arab League, the Prime Ministers of France and Great Britain.Everyone except the American people.Still, he won, so I suppose it's OK.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-90669001292593372652011-03-20T12:04:00.000-04:002011-03-20T12:06:30.826-04:00Nobel Peace Prize Winner Enters Third War.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-16984540488480094032011-02-06T06:29:00.003-05:002011-02-06T06:34:39.365-05:00Once upon a time, when I was living in Reading, I happened to come upon evensong at Salisbury Cathedral, as they were playing this.There was a moment in it when I thought I'd died and gone to England...Heaven. I mean Heaven.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-37628848761318650722011-01-30T14:09:00.000-05:002011-01-30T14:10:23.723-05:00Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-17902461605975223312011-01-30T01:21:00.001-05:002011-01-30T01:21:57.743-05:00Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-23883164373827374152011-01-30T00:11:00.004-05:002011-01-30T00:14:57.228-05:00This is interesting.Apparently, the British Met Office puts out two sorts of long-term weather forecasts. One, for public consumption, is a global warming scare piece, and is also wildly inaccurate. The other, for internal consumption, predicts a cold winter, and is accurate."Global warming" is one of the greatest scientific frauds of all time.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-82657108587890055822011-01-28T09:45:00.002-05:002011-01-28T09:47:56.216-05:00It looks like Egypt is heading into chaos.The White House response? Crickets chirping.What if Egypt goes Islamist and shuts down the Suez Canal?Carter II is the best possible outcome for The Won.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-27852406027223719352011-01-27T14:15:00.002-05:002011-01-27T14:17:45.364-05:00Obamacare Won’t Hold Down Costs and You Can’t Keep Your Plan.In other words, the President lied, and lied, and lied, and the Democrat party amplified the lies.Democrats. Jesus.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-48631403220724763962011-01-25T14:32:00.003-05:002011-01-25T14:35:03.931-05:00Drinking game for this evening's State of the Union Show:0. For each justice of the SCOTUS who doesn't show, one drink.1. For each mention of "investment", one drink.2. For each mention of "civility", one drink.Blackout within 30 minutes.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-91179876837942010022011-01-24T15:13:00.000-05:002011-01-24T15:14:09.449-05:00When you've lost Colin Powell, well, you've lost.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-59422383338659929172011-01-24T15:11:00.001-05:002011-01-24T15:12:28.964-05:00When will the country wake up to the fact that Obamacare is just a giant shakedown?Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-30624560427003779502011-01-24T14:36:00.001-05:002011-01-24T14:38:32.992-05:00Looks like it's time to check whether the ChiComs are building arcs in the Himalayas.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-8257752246110637422011-01-23T10:08:00.001-05:002011-01-23T10:08:28.217-05:00Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-10991516984300946022011-01-15T20:27:00.001-05:002011-01-15T20:28:39.114-05:00Royal Marshall has died.The world is much poorer.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-24488927839107658672011-01-06T07:03:00.004-05:002011-01-06T07:08:52.042-05:00Oceania is at war with Eastasia: Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.Oceania was at war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs - all had to be rectified at lightning speed. Although no Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-76822867783104060862011-01-02T01:45:00.002-05:002011-01-02T01:55:11.025-05:00Happy 2011!My Predictions:1. Hillary will leave the Obama administration to begin a run for President.2. Attorney General Eric Holder will leave the Obama administration ahead of Congressional investigations.3. Germany will pull out of the Euro.4. The Yen will collapse.5. The US housing market will collapse - again, and take several major financial institutions down with it this time.6. Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-74135763432012226572011-01-01T00:22:00.014-05:002011-01-01T10:40:30.955-05:00Happy New Year!Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-46640241313550306192010-12-31T13:24:00.002-05:002010-12-31T13:26:53.238-05:00Take a look at this.Most of it is environmental wackos from 1970 predicting we'd be frozen to death within 30 years.And now we're waiting to boil.Ho hum.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-31067418060330028792010-12-26T00:32:00.001-05:002010-12-26T00:34:26.813-05:00I got everything I wanted, and then some, and I'm only now finishing my last drink of the day.Thanks, Mrs LivinInAmerica.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-12050270915896007982010-12-17T13:44:00.000-05:002010-12-17T13:45:08.446-05:00Look! A death panel!Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-88745936099662486582010-12-11T01:27:00.002-05:002010-12-11T01:30:17.933-05:00This cannot possibly be true, and yet it is: The Won turns over duties to Bill Clinton.Honestly, it's an improvement.I have nothing but scorn and contempt for Democrats who voted for The Won.Democrats. Jesus.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-44184716026718401052010-12-10T09:22:00.001-05:002010-12-10T09:24:33.906-05:00UN Climate Kooks vote to ban water.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-30447716203796604462010-12-10T09:11:00.001-05:002010-12-10T09:12:31.197-05:00ObamaCare kills children.Democrats. Jesus.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-9464070341465670472010-12-07T08:52:00.001-05:002010-12-07T08:53:57.226-05:00I really don't understand The Won.Yesterday evening he agreed to a deal on the Bush tax cuts which gives Republicans everything they wanted, *and* guarantees the tax cuts will be an issue in the 2012 election.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-85168216896272470722010-12-05T20:19:00.001-05:002010-12-05T20:19:45.557-05:00I'm going back to the mall.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-68591057631850826952010-11-28T12:58:00.003-05:002010-11-28T13:08:06.012-05:00Cornel West says The Won hates black people.Which, well, who would have imagined it?I think there's actually a larger issue here, and it's the slavish devotion of black people to the Democrat party.Consider: in every election, black people vote 90% for the Democrat party. The Democrat party, knowing it owns the black vote, sees no reason to service the needs of black people. The result is thatPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-63422967835793519882010-11-26T21:44:00.002-05:002010-11-26T21:46:25.735-05:00When Canadians and Americans work together.LOVE IT!!!!!It's not quite D-Day, but it's pretty good.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-7243299394650966102010-11-25T20:01:00.000-05:002010-11-25T20:02:28.911-05:00William F. Buckley is still dead. And still alive.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-72891330623353528772010-11-18T20:11:00.003-05:002010-11-18T20:25:33.225-05:00In the first test of its policy of criminalizing the Global War on TerrorOverseas Contingency Operations, The Won and his DoJ obtain a conviction that amounts to one month in jail per murder.At this point, the only real options The Won has with regard to Ghailani is to let him go, or have him shot "while attempting to escape."One hopes The Won will learn from this. Chances of that are slim, as Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-27734821166035833872010-11-16T16:35:00.001-05:002010-11-16T16:35:51.605-05:00Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5909728.post-39267144501181835012010-11-16T09:05:00.002-05:002010-11-16T09:08:01.935-05:00Nine years ago 19 Muslim terrorists hijacked four airliners and used them to kill about 3,000 people.Today, Muslim TSA agents are groping Roman Catholic nuns.There's just something wrong about that.Patrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06869462913568377801noreply@blogger.com0