Monday, October 30, 2006

Will these folks ever learn?


Everyone who has ever visited from afar has complained, mightily, about the miserable, and memorable, traffic control getting into and, much worse, trying to get out of the AirFair. Each year it got worse.
Muskegon Events Inc. is asking the public for new ideas to "rejuvenate" the Muskegon Air Fair at two public forums at Muskegon Community College.
The first is scheduled for 6:30-8:30 p.m. Wednesday in MCC's Collegiate Hall. The second will be Nov. 9 at the same time and location.

CNN moves left?


How biased can they get and still sell advertising? Does someone at CNN think AirAmerica was making money? Maybe they think the "Fairness Doctrine" will bail them out.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10553
"There are people who are wondering why this is being run so close to election day," says the CNN employee. "The questions have been asked, but we haven't gotten a satisfactory answer. But as soon as we saw the Cheney segment, we knew what they were trying to do. It wasn't just about attacking Cheney. It was about building momentum for the other programming we are running. It's about counterprogramming Fox News."

Don't trust the polls!

or female, democrat grad students!



http://tinyurl.com/yayu33
Interviewers can inject bias in the results. The late Warren Mitofsky, who conducted the 2004 NEP exit poll, went back and found that the greatest difference between actual results in exit poll precincts and the reports phoned in to NEP came where the interviewers were female graduate students -- and almost all the discrepancies favored the Democrats.

How quickly we forget!



Dick Armey is correct in saying that Republicans in Congress have never recovered from Bob Dole's betrayal in the 1995 government-shutdown debacle -- except that he never mentions Dole:
A few months before the victory on welfare, we lost the battle over the federal government shutdown of 1995, when we were outmaneuvered by Clinton, a masterful political operator. After that fight, too many Republicans apparently concluded that America wanted bigger government. This misreading was the first step on the road away from the Reagan legacy.
We emerged as a wounded party; we stopped trusting the public; and we internalized the wrong lesson. Right. And the GOP then nominated Bob Dole as their presidential candidate in 1996, confirming that the Republican Party wasn't serious about limited government. Bob Dole never met a tax increase he didn't like or a farm subsidy he didn't co-sponsor.

Only 2 years now!



Interesting that this was sent to me by the McCain organization. They're sending out Mitt-dirt too.
Gotta start doing our homework!
There have been white-shoe clients. ........But there have also been plenty of scuffed-shoe customers. Giuliani Partners and its units have repeatedly become entangled in petty deals that seem unworthy of someone with national aspirations.

Sunday, October 29, 2006

Geeze, I wonder why he was terminated? Yeah, right..

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20061029/D8L2JF500.html
Hypocrites!!!!!!
Gallaudet Rejects Incoming President
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The board of trustees of the nation's premier school for the deaf voted Sunday to terminate the appointment of the incoming president, who had been the subject of protests, the board announced.
The vote at Gallaudet University came after a daylong closed-door meeting that followed a month of protests by students and faculty members. Jane Fernandes, the school's former provost, had been selected in May to take office in January.
"Although undoubtedly there will be some members of the community who have differing views on the meaning of this decision, we believe that it is a necessity at this point," the board said in a written statement.
"It has certainly been a difficult and trying time for our Gallaudet community," the statement said. "Now is the time for healing."

Is this why Holly-libs DON'T move to Canada?

http://www.macleans.ca/culture/books/article.jsp?content=20061030_135244_135244
And here's one that gave me a worse headache the more I thought about it. An Ottawa panhandler says he may have to abandon his prime panhandling real estate on a downtown street corner because he's being shaken down by officials from the panhandlers' union. But then we're told that these guys are fakes from a phony panhandlers' union, not the real panhandlers' union. Did I read that right? There's apparently a real panhandlers' union which exists to protect workers' rights? Er, hang on, non-workers' rights. If the union-negotiated non-work contracts aren't honoured, the members will presumably walk off the job and stand around on the sidewalk. No, wait, they'll walk off the sidewalk . . . No, let's try again. When you think about it, the fake panhandlers' union, panhandling genuine panhandlers and doing nothing in return for the dues they raise, is surely truer to the spirit of the mandate.

EURO=the end

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1061-2421880,00.html
the greatest political blunder of the past decade. That dubious honour will probably belong to an event most people still regard as a triumph: the creation of the euro.

This is war!

http://www.suntimes.com/news/steyn/114966,CST-EDT-steyn29.article
as Democrats say, ''all about the future of our children,'' then our children will want to know why our generation saw what was happening and didn't do anything about it. They will despise us as we despise the political class of the 1930s.

Friday, October 27, 2006

Another reasson to hate the Cowboys

The rest of us gotta pay extra for that!
http://lucianne.com/threads2.asp?artnum=304110
Cowboys coach claims familyfound dead rat in McDonald's saladAssociated Press, by Staff
Original Article
Posted By:Photoonist, 10/27/2006 4:49:57 PM
Dallas - Dallas Cowboys assistant coach Todd Haley is suing a suburban McDonald's, claiming his wife and the family's live-in baby sitter found a dead rat in a salad they took home and began to eat. The lawsuit filed Thursday in state district court seeks $1.7 million in damages, /snip/ According to the lawsuit, Christine Haley and Kelley had eaten part of the salad purchased June 5 at a McDonald's in Southlake before the rat was discovered.

Bummer for Michigan

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116182939406804241.html?mod=opinion&ojcontent=otep
Michigan's Messy DeVos
By SHIKHA DALMIAOctober 26, 2006; Page A18
DETROIT -- Besides the Tigers, the main thing on the minds of Michigan residents is the state's tanking economy. So when the state's most prominent Republican businessman entered the gubernatorial fray promising to turn things around, it should have been a home run. Instead, 10 days before the election, Dick DeVos has lost his 15-point summer lead over Jennifer Granholm, the Democratic incumbent, and is now trailing by more than eight points in most polls. The fault is not in his stars but in himself: At a time when Michigan needs economic leadership, he has so far shown little charisma, creativity -- or courage of convictions.

Liberal "news"


http://beta.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=6795275
Doesn't the fact that they could find only 100 malcontents say volumes about the overwhelming support for the war within the military? Not newsie enough?
"More than 100 U.S. service members have signed a rare appeal urgingCongress to support the 'prompt withdrawal' of all American troops and bases from Iraq, organizers said yesterday. 'Staying in Iraq will notwork and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to comehome,' reads the statement of a small grass-roots group of active-dutymilitary personnel and reservists that says it aims to give U.S.military members a voice in Iraq war policy. ... The unusual appeal --the first of its kind in the Iraq war, organizers say -- makes use ofa legal protection afforded by the Military Whistle-Blower ProtectionAct, which provides that members of the military, acting in theircapacity as citizens, can send a protected communication to Congresswithout reprisal." (10/25/06)

Will we fight for our own freedoms?


Who would have thought centuries after the Enlightenment thatsophisticated Europeans - in fear of radical Islamists - would be afraidto write a novel, put on an opera, draw a cartoon, film a documentary or have their pope discuss comparative theology?

This is socialism!


Remember this if you're tempted to vote Democrat.

Assuming it was a female dog, how did he know it was dead?

http://www.mlive.com/news/bctimes/index.ssf?/base/news-8/116170304311310.xml&coll=4
A 44-year-old Saginaw man remains jailed today on charges of bestiality after he was seen engaged in sexual acts with a dead dog, Michigan State Police troopers said.

Reprehensible!


http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5977
In short, the claims made in the Michael J. Fox political ads are false and reprehensible, an insult to the voters of Maryland, Missouri and New Jersey, and to all Americans.
Mary L. Davenport, MD is an obstetrician and gynecologist, and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Pretty cool!



There were a lot of things we couldn’t do in an SR-71, but we were the fastest guys on the block and loved reminding our fellow aviators of this fact. People often asked us if, because of this fact, it was fun to fly the jet. Fun would not be the first word I would use to describe flying this plane. Intense, maybe. Even cerebral. But there was one day in our Sled experience when we would have to say that it was pure fun to be the fastest guys out there, at least for a moment. It occurred when Walt and I were flying our final training sortie. We needed 100 hours in the jet to complete our training and attain Mission Ready status. Somewhere over Colorado we had passed the century mark. We had made the turn in Arizona and the jet was performing flawlessly. My gauges were wired in the front seat and we were starting to feel pretty good about ourselves, not only because we would soon be flying real missions but because we had gained a great deal of confidence in the plan in the past ten months. Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet. I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat. There he was, with no really good view of the incredible sights before us, tasked with monitoring four different radios. This was good practice for him for when we began flying real missions, when a priority transmission from headquarters could be vital. It had been difficult, too, for me to relinquish control of the radios, as during my entire flying career I had controlled my own transmissions. But it was part of the division of duties in this plane and I had adjusted to it. I still insisted on talking on the radio while were on the ground, however. Walt was so good at many things, but he couldn’t match my expertise at sounding smooth on the radios, a skill that had been honed sharply with years in fighter squadrons where the slightest radio miscue was grounds for beheading. He understood that and allowed me that luxury. Just to get a sense of what Walt had to contend with, I pulled the radio toggle switches and monitored the frequencies along with him. The predominant radio chatter was from Los Angeles Center, far below us, controlling daily traffic in their sector. While they had us on their scope (albeit briefly), we were in uncontrolled airspace and normally would not talk to them unless we needed to descend into their airspace. We listened as the shaky voice of a lone Cessna pilot asked Center for a readout of his ground speed. Center replied: November Charlie 175, I’m showing you at ninety knots on the ground. Now the thing to understand about Center controllers, was that whether they were talking to a rookie pilot in a Cessna, or to Air Force One, they always spoke in the exact same, calm, deep, professional, tone that made one feel important. I referred to it as the “ Houston Center voice.” I have always felt that after years of seeing documentaries on this country’s space program and listening to the calm and distinct voice of the Houston controllers, that all other controllers since then wanted to sound like that… and that they basically did. And it didn’t matter what sector of the country we would be flying in, it always seemed like the same guy was talking. Over the years that tone of voice had become somewhat of a comforting sound to pilots everywhere. Conversely, over the years, pilots always wanted to ensure that, when transmitting, they sounded like Chuck Yeager, or at least like John Wayne. Better to die than sound bad on the radios. Just moments after the Cessna’s inquiry, a Twin Beech piped up on frequency, in a rather superior tone, asking for his groundspeed. Ah, Twin Beach. I have you at one hundred and twenty-five knots of ground speed. Boy, I thought, the Beechcraft really must think he is dazzling his Cessna brethren. Then out of the blue, a navy F-18 pilot out of NAS Lemoore came up on frequency. You knew right away it was a Navy jock because he sounded very cool on the radios. Center, Dusty 52 ground speed check Before Center could reply, I’m thinking to myself, hey, Dusty 52 has a ground speed indicator in that million dollar cockpit, so why is he asking Center for a readout? Then I got it, ol’ Dusty here is making sure that every bug smasher from Mount Whitney to the Mojave knows what true speed is. He’s the fastest dude in the valley today, and he just wants everyone to know how much fun he is having in his new Hornet. And the reply, always with that same, calm, voice, with more distinct alliteration than emotion: Dusty 52, Center, we have you at 620 on the ground. And I thought to myself, is this a ripe situation, or what? As my hand instinctively reached for the mic button, I had to remind myself that Walt was in control of the radios. Still, I thought, it must be done – in mere seconds we’ll be out of the sector and the opportunity will be lost. That Hornet must die, and die now. I thought about all of our Sim training and how important it was that we developed well as a crew and knew that to jump in on the radios now would destroy the integrity of all that we had worked toward becoming. I was torn. Somewhere, 13 miles above Arizona, there was a pilot screaming inside his space helmet. Then, I heard it. The click of the mic button from the back seat. That was the very moment that I knew Walter and I had become a crew. Very professionally, and with no emotion, Walter spoke: Los Angeles Center, Aspen 20, can you give us a ground speed check? There was no hesitation, and the replay came as if was an everyday request. Aspen 20, I show you at one thousand eight hundred and forty-two knots, across the ground. I think it was the forty-two knots that I liked the best, so accurate and proud was Center to deliver that information without hesitation, and you just knew he was smiling. But the precise point at which I knew that Walt and I were going to be really good friends for a long time was when he keyed the mic once again to say, in his most fighter-pilot-like voice: Ah, Center, much thanks, We’re showing closer to nineteen hundred on the money. For a moment Walter was a god. And we finally heard a little crack in the armor of the Houston Center voice, when L.A. came back with, Roger that Aspen, Your equipment is probably more accurate than ours. You boys have a good one. It all had lasted for just moments, but in that short, memorable sprint across the southwest, the Navy had been flamed, all mortal airplanes on freq were forced to bow before the King of Speed, and more importantly, Walter and I had crossed the threshold of being a crew. A fine day’s work. We never heard another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast. For just one day, it truly was fun being the fastest guys out there.

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Another reason to vote GOPer

Jane Harman, the ranking Democrat on the committee, has protested strongly against the staffer's suspension. Harman for several years has been a responsible member on the committee. But during the course of this calendar year, she has been making more shrill partisan statements and fewer thoughtful critiques. The most likely reason: pressure from the Democratic left.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is said to be determined to replace her with Alcee Hastings, the former federal judge who was impeached by the House for bribery and convicted and removed from office by the Senate

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Doh!



"Oh shit, look what I've done," Wynn said, according to Ephron, who gave her account in a blog published on Monday.
Wynn paid $48.4 million for the Picasso in 1997 and had agreed to sell it to art collector Steven Cohen. The $139 million would have been $4 million higher than the previous high for a work of art, according to The New Yorker.

Monday, October 16, 2006

No soul...no wonder...

http://instapundit.com/archives/033283.php



NED LAMONT'S CONCESSION SPEECH: At the Huffington Post.
UPDATE: Reader Fred LaSor emails:
I read Huffington's draft of Lamont's concession speech with growing incredulity: the drafter(s) say Lamont should run on speaking out for what he believes in, not what the pollsters advise him to say. If CT's voters want a senator who says what he believes, the choice is evident: Lieberman. There's a candidate who tells it like it is -- so his party abandons him. Who's fooling whom?
And does this mean that so far Lamont has been just a tool of his campaign consultants? Does that explain why he's polling so badly? That's pretty damning, isn't it?

Friday, October 13, 2006

Science myths


The future?


A Christian woman has been banned by British Airways for wearing a small cross necklace to work - while muslims and sikhs are allowed to wear headscarves and turbans.

Doh!



"Everything that's supposed to be up is down....and everything that's supposed to be down is up......"
This is the earliest it has ever snowed in Detroit. According to the weather service, Oct. 13, 1909, previously held the record.

Yes Virginia...


...there is a difference between DemoCrooks and GOPers. We dump our crooks ASAP.


Ney did not immediately resign from Congress, and within minutes, Republican and Democratic leaders vowed to expel him unless he steps down. The White House also called for Ney's resignation.

Our border with Mexico

I wonder what political party Bhakta represents?
Heh!

http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=73201_0_10_0_M


In Brownsville, he witnessed half a dozen men swim under one of the international bridges “with complete immunity” which in turn prompted him to take the immigration issue to the next level. Bhakta decided to see if he could get an elephant accompanied by a six-piece mariachi band across the river. According to his Web site, he is in favor of “sensible immigration reform” and supports a border fence, local law enforcement assistance with immigration laws and the use of the National Guard troops to help the U.S. Border Patrol.“To my surprise, the band played on, the elephants splashed away, and nobody showed up,” Bhakta said of the stunt. “I’m astounded.”

With all due respect


HOW MUCH MORE TIME DOES THE WORLD NEED?
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia and China on Thursday opposed tough sanctions the U.S. wants to impose against North Korea this week for its claimed nuclear test, saying they want more time to work out a more moderate response to Pyongyang's nuclear brinkmanship.

In like liars, out like liars....

I listen to them whenever I'm out of town and can get a station. Nasty and not funny is a bad recipe.

Air America Radio, a liberal talk and news radio network, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a network official told the AP.
The network had denied rumors just a month ago that it would file for bankruptcy

Sounds good but....


...is this legal?


Muskegon's downtown has attracted the interest of a Midland developer, who wants to build a row of townhouse homes on Clay Avenue for those 55 and over.

Crash Sequence of the XB-70



Where do we get such brave men.....
Crash Sequence of the XB-70

YouTube joins liberal MSM



So correct me if I'm wrongI have seen hundreds of YouTube news clips. They are not flagged and removed. So, does this apply only to 17 second conservative clips?What gives?