davidl on February 10th, 2008

It is insane to use food stuffs for motor fuel.   It causes more damage to the environment and increases the cost of food.   Stephen Leahy. Environmental Journalist:L

Feb 8 (IPS) – Biofuels are making climate change worse, not better,

Continue reading about Stephen Leahy: FoodEthanol Worse Than Gasoline

davidl on February 8th, 2008

It is a basic fact of biology, sex is immutable.   If you are born a male, you will die a male.   There is absolutely nothing any mortal can do about that.   Yet for some strange reason, we seem to think

Continue reading about Sexual Stupidity

Eric Florack on February 8th, 2008

Someone at Fox posted these yesterday, so I’ll pass them along.

[wp_youtube]4Ryh7NVK7Yo[/wp_youtube]

[wp_youtube]rM96OOXyOVo[/wp_youtube]

[wp_youtube]VyWIfzuyT68[/wp_youtube]

And here’s the text.

First off, even absent any other source material, it sounds to me like the place is packed with McCain supporters. But add

Continue reading about Looking At McCain’s Speech Yesterday

Eric Florack on February 7th, 2008

Two men, one woman killed in raid, child injured

Posted: 05 Feb 2008 02:51 PM CST

Two men and a woman were killed during an intelligence-driven raid on a suspected terrorist cell, which involved a small arms fire exchange between

Continue reading about Centcom Post: 2/7/08

  • You can call it what you want to, David, and I suppose Romney and his comments this afternoon there were worth some consideration, with regards to the questions I was asking this morning.  That said, I am immediately suspicious whenever

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: What Now, WP Update in Early, McCain’s CPAC Speech

Eric Florack on February 7th, 2008

Henke, this monring:

In light of the possibility that a Democrat could win the Presidency in November, giving them control of the White House and both houses of Congress, it’s worth pointing out what Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said

Continue reading about Wading Through a Series of Unattractive Options

davidl on February 6th, 2008

The weather outside is frightful.   Good day to be a duck.

Mitt Romney:   I voted for Mitt.  He would make a good president.   Sad to say, Romney is just one horrible candidate, a modern day Jack Kemp.   Romney has won

Continue reading about Breakfast Scramble

Eric Florack on February 6th, 2008

Have you ever noticed how similar the liberal views of change and diversity are?

The liberal view of “diversity” is a black guy, a white guy, and a woman all espousing the same ultra-liberal ideas as they run for the

Continue reading about No Kidding, John

Eric Florack on February 5th, 2008

Note these are early numbers, not necessarily calls.

As of when this is posted, 22:15 eastern, here’s the leaders so far:

Alabama: Huckabee/Obama

Alaska: Not in/Not in

Arkansas: Huckabee/Clinton

Colorado: not in/Not in

Deleware: McCain/Obama

Georgia: Huckabee/Obama

Idaho: Not in/Obama

Continue reading about Vote Counts: Here’s What I’m Seeing So Far

Eric Florack on February 4th, 2008

I note with some degree of satisfaction, McQ saying:

Ed Morrissey brings us his take on the surprise chat between John McCain and Hillary Clinton on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday:

Part of the conservative complaint against McCain is his

Continue reading about The Things That Get Exposed on Live TV….

  • Yes,I know, I didn’t comment last night as regards the Superbowl. I’m just as glad New York won. Not that I’ve ever been a Giants fan, but the last few seasons I’ve been less of a Pats fan, particularly since

Continue reading about Nightly Ramble: Super Bowl, Halftime, Playing Both Sides, Le Miserable, McCain And the Trust Issue

Eric Florack on February 4th, 2008

Ron Coleman:

Here’s something … conservatives must understand if they don’t want to relegated to a fringe: The electorate is not all that conservative. We will not win the Presidency with a strong conservative candidate. You can’t deduce anything from

Continue reading about Any Real Republicans Out There?

Eric Florack on February 3rd, 2008

A while ago, while addressing a different (And very personal) topic, I wrote about change versus transformation.

If I take a rock, and in the other hand I take a large hammer, and I hit the rock with the hammer,

Continue reading about Is Change What’s Needed?

Eric Florack on February 3rd, 2008

I’ve settled long ago on Winamp because of the way it handles the rather large MP3 collection I have here.

However, I thought I’d post what plugins I’m using with Winamp to make the system more livable.

First, I’m using

Continue reading about Winamp

davidl on February 1st, 2008

As it stands, as of Noon 20 January next, well have a President who does not believe in personal liberty.  I find that thought more chilling than this morning’s ice storm.

I give B.J. Clinton, but not Mrs. Clinton, credit

Continue reading about Morning Scramble