Automate your home security
(Via Timebomb 2000) They also have a web site at The Sentry Project. This has possibilities….
“A rifle in one hand, a laptop in the other.”
This (fairly even-handed) piece on the NRA Convention and gunbloggers has started making the rounds, and already the anti-freedom forces are using the comments to…
2nd Amendment Blog Bash
OK, I’m late to the party. (I’m sure that, in the best liberal tradition, it is actually an unconscious reaction to my anger at being…
Is the ATF at it again?
Unknown-there simply isn’t enough information. But we could be seeing the beginning of the next Red’s Trading Post. Or the beginning of the end for…
Tactical Bacon?
And it doesn’t have rails, a white light, a laser or anything. How tactical can it be?
How does your state rank for freedom?
(Via Karen DeCoster) The ratings are in–see how your state does. North Carolina ranks #23 overall–that means we’re barely on the right side of the…
How about some good news for a change?
(Via Wired) How about a plane full of passengers who were likely saved from a mid-ocean water landing by an observant USAF noncom in transit…
So does this mean that the march toward neo-socialism is going to stop?
(Via the Drudge Report) President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance…
Well, that didn’t take long
It seems that yesterday’s idea of the government setting pay for executives in the finance sector needed improvement, and the bloviating Bwarney Fwrank obliges. Oh,…
Just for the record
The notion that banks were forced to take TARP money and cough up preferred shares to our benighted government is now confirmed as fact. Please…
And those green sprouts just keep coming up
Our Lord and Master, The Obama, along with his dedicated cheerleaders in the legacy media and his tame bureaucrat lapdogs such as Timothy Geithner, is…
And the sheep went willingly to the slaughter
Leaders of the health care industry have offered $2 trillion in spending reductions over 10 years. The goal is to make insurance more affordable so…
Dick Cheney, Snarkmeister
Asked about recent verbal broadsides between Limbaugh and Powell, Cheney said, “If I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I’d go with…
Trapped
For Mother’s Day, we left Mom alone for a change (which suited her just fine). Daughter is working at her summer job, and Son and…
Star Trek
If you haven’t went to see the new Star Trek movie… GO NOW. I watched the original series during it’s first run on TV. (Yes,…
Want to bet that there is an ethics complaint about the press release that the ethics complaint was dismissed?
(Via @AKGovSarahPalin) For some reason, Sarah Palin attracts more unreasoning hate than George W. Bush–and that’s saying something. To date, 9 of 14 harassment attempts…
But…but…ABC said we couldn’t do this
(Via Timebomb2000) “They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ‘Give me your wallets and cell phones,’” said George Williams…
The One is not invincible
(Via Days of Our Trailers) Normally I would sooner stick sharp objects in my eyes than link the the Huffington Dumber than a Post, I…
Captain Chaos has passed on
Actor Dom DeLuise Dead at 75 One of the things that sucks about the aging process is that you get to see all those people…
Here’s how a government runs a business
(Via Virginia Foxx on Twitter) This must be the day for old adages. This time, it’s the old investment advice, “Buy low, sell high”. Except…
Ah yes…class warfare
A Charlotte “resort” whose business model is “to cater to the high buck corporate client” has decided that a name change is in order bacause…
Stratfor on swine flu
The folks at Stratfor have some interesting information on the swine flu, plus some interesting and useful thoughts on pandemics in general and our reactions…
Is there something fishy about the Chrysler bankruptcy?
Let’s see…Obama bad-mouthing some creditors because they actually dared press their rights, junior creditors getting a better deal than senior creditors…read the article and see…
How to care for someone with the flu
While the pig pestilence doesn’t seem to be as bad as we thought it might be a week ago, this is good information on how…
Free market enterprise vs. government bureaucracy
(Via the Drudge Report) A Washington state biosurveillance firm raised the first warning about a possible outbreak of swine flu in Mexico more than two…
Allow me to suggest a solution
In a major victory for the Wake County school system, the state Supreme Court has given school officials the authority to assign students to year-round…
So, does this make me a mutant?
I’m a night owl–no bones about it. Left to my own devices, I’ll stay up until about 4 AM and sleep until noon. The only…
Oh, to be Politically Correct
(Via the Drudge Report) So, who do you want to piss off–pig farmers or Mexicans? Janet “The military is full of right wing extremists!” Napolitano…