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Whiner-in-Chief:
"[W]hether the grumbling is about Republicans on Fox or bloggers in pajamas, there's a word for what the president and his aides are doing. That word is "whining." And nothing [...] does more damage to Obama's credibility or authority than the sense that a popular president is becoming the whiner-in-chief."
- John Nichols, Nation Magazine - 10/12/09
I’m back
The housewarming this weekend was great, but I am exhausted … and I’m also swamped this morning with work to catch up on – please consider this an open thread as I know there are topics out there to discuss that I haven’t been able to blog about yet. Hopefully I’ll be able to resume blogging this afternoon but if not, definitely tonight.
BTW, have I mentioned how much I dislike Mondays? 
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Awe…. Here’s a hug for ya..
suck up.
Ugh, Mondays…this one has been particularly rough. The only redeeming thing so far is that we have a pair of red tailed hawks nesting in the woods just outside my office. I’m on the 4th floor, and they have been flying around all day putting on a show. They come by about 2 feet off my wall of windows.
Beautiful birds…
Other than that, yech.
Karl, The hug was for me!
Here is a piece today in the Wall Street Journal that has the following text:
How will the left respond to these statistics? By smearing and discrediting people.
The truth is that crisis mentality drastic steps and hobbling our economy aren’t solutions. Dealing with environmentalism with science and ration ideas are what’s needed when determining solutions.
Here is an another article that talks about the environment. It has the following text:
No surprise Bak, if they admitted that things weren’t as bad as they say, it would affect their funding. Money is corrupting science in ways that I used to, in my naive days right after getting my degrees, would have never thought possible. Witness the ongoing global warming hysteria, with alleged scientists lying thru their teeth about data, supressing data that doesn’t agree, and flat out inventing data (like extropolating an entire worlds worth of temp data from ONE FREAKING TREE!!!). Because global warming hysterial sells, and gets funding.
good stuff Bak. I was just having an
argumenterr…discussion about this, and i cross posted those articles.The point is that they love to create drama using faulty arguments and misleading facts.
Like the democrats protecting McCarthy, they jusitify it on morals grounds, that it depends on interpretation (what is the definition of is maybe) and rationalize it because they feel it serves a higher purpose.
I figure,in my naive way, that if the truth cannot carry your argument to victory, then maybe the problem is with your position.
But what do I know, i am just some ignorant blogger.
Whine, whine whine…you sleep too much, anyway. Get to work!
Karl wrote, “they jusitify it on morals grounds”
Yes. The ends justify the means because conservatives are “evil”. Yet they don’t even know what we believe.
How about the fact that I WALKED TODAY!!!!!!!!
I got up with crutches and was able to do 2 laps around the rec room! My therapist was so pleased that she said I could skip using the walker and go straight to using the crutches!!! I was kind of happy about that too, since using a walker at 36 years old would definitely not be cool!!!!
The legs felt pretty good. They were very tender after only two laps so it’s going to be a long road, but it was definitely a good start!!
It’s still hard to believe it actually happened, it seems like years ago since I was injured, but it was the best Monday I can remember!!
Congratulations NC Cop! That’s excellent news, we’re all rooting for you here. That sounds like an outstanding start…at least someone had a good Monday!
RIGHT ON CHAMP!!
That is outstanding !!
Keep it comin’
Congratulations NC!!!!
This is very good news. – Lorica
NC, though I do not know you, I give you big congratulations on your efforts and achievements.
I cannot begin to fathom the diffulty and the pain you have to deal with, keeping your spirits high and in a good mood, while even coming in here and giving us your time also is amazing.
Right on NC! Hippity hop mob, no stop! Great news. I hoped I’d hear from you today! Congrats or as we say in Japan – Omedito gozaimas NCsan!
- Yo NC!. You go guy…..
- Bang
AWESOME, NC Cop!
Outstanding NC!
ST – Are you watching the Canes game? 5-5 in OT.. Former Moorhead Spud has his second goal of the playoffs in tonight’s game.
Nope not watching it – I need to check ESPN to see what’s happening!
Canes LOST!!!
My Rangers LOST!!!!
I’m goin to bed!!!!
P.S.- I know I said it before, but thanks again for everyone’s support and kind words. It really does make a difference!!
NC Cop,
Don’t know you. Don’t know your story. All the best to you anyway, and I pray God grants you a complete recovery.
NC Cop,
A bit late but Congratulations, that is great news!!!
just wanted to leave all the local caners a friendly rub and thank you all for the commanding lead in the series last night
Plenty of deep chilled Canadian brew if you want to catch game 3 up in Montreal, and not that 3% stuff either. All sports jabs aside, great game, real wild one.. Looking forward to the full series.
Today Bush, “urged lawmakers to expand tax breaks for the purchase of fuel-efficient hybrid automobiles.“
Bak, How about some common sense regulations for vehicles? My 97 T-Bird gets 20 city and 33 highway. My daughter’s 88 T-Bird gets 25 City and 31 highway. With some tweaking, I could get better out of both cars. If there were more E85 stations, and the government was willing to do without some tax revenue, I could be pursuaded to convert both cars to burn E85.
I’m all for it. I was just posting a little tidbit out of a Yahoo story that was headlined (wup Yahoo changed the headline – damn), well they had a headline that made it seem Bush was against hte environment because he was easing restrictions to do with Ethanol so that prices could drop (which they did immediately on the wholesale market to the tune of 8 cents per gallon).
My post was for liberals so that they could SEE that Bush was FOR environmentalism – (for fuel-efficient hybrid automobiles). As liberals will be in tunnel vision reading Bush anti-enviro stories as if they know what is in Bush’s motives or thoughts.
Bak, the problem is that Libs don’t want to solve problems. They just want to restrict property rights and other personal liberties to obtain energy and such without government limiting and doling it out.
I had a 78 Buick Skylark that I had tuned using OLD mechanic techniques that was cleaner than the 1980 models. I got pulled out of line at a voluntary test in Clear Lake, IA, as the smog nazis went over that Buick with a fine toothed comb trying to figure out what I did.
I’d do the same again with my cars. I’m all for efficiently burning fuel, but some of the stuff the EPA and Congress mandates is crap that doesn’t work.
Some do. Many do. Just many are misinformed and instead of hearing the misleading headlines it’s nice to give them a different set of sentences to chew on.
I was there. I know. I was brainwashed pre 1991.
I do agree that they are mislead into beieving that property needs to be seized and energy companies need to be punished for selling a legal product, etc.
I had a Ford LTD Country Squire station wagon that had better hydro carbon and Carbon Monoxide and sulphur readings than my ex’s 4 cylinder Toyota Camry. Not to mention that it could scoot. It had a 5.0 V8 that was detuned to 160 HP and 285 ft lbs of torque. I towed trailers with it and it did pretty good for a car.
What’s my point? Well… That the liberal mindeset is sort of shallow. More education about the pollutants are needed. Strong, reliable, well maintained cars polluting less than throw away, gone in 4 years Geo Metros are what’s needed. Who maintains a Geo Metro anyway? How is that good for the environment? 80% of car pollution is made by cars that aren’t well maintained.
Just keep a positive attitude. I know I fail sometimes but really liberals need more info from us. It’s our duty to inform. Some will come around as some have for me.
Bak,
I sell repair and maintenance parts for Geo Metros. They are high priced and hard to get in large quantites. Usually a Metro owner gets frustrated and buys a Hyundai. When they start looking for headlights, tranny fluid, filters for the Hyundai, they are really frustrated people.
BTW, The LTD was a 1991 vehicle and the Camry as a 1990 vehicle and the readings were done in 1998.
I am in no way saying that today’s Toyota Camry pollutes.
I’m saying that YOU PEOPLE
need to maintain your cars. The 1990 Camry had a valve issue where many of the cars had an issue starting and running where it polluted more. It’d cost up to $1,000 to fix and most don’t because it passed smog and it didn’t pose a reliability problem.
Hey, Any ideas on how to make my Mercury Villager minivan with the 3.3 liter V6 more efficient?
Only 20 MPG. I’m riding the bus now to get to work.
I don’t need 170 HP and or 200 lb of torque. There should be a way to tell the computer to do something differently. That’s my view.
Bak,
Get my email from the good sister. I have a friend that can supply you with a chip for your engine’s computer to give you a more economy tune. Also, google ASP. They make underdrive pulley kits for Fords that work well. I have one on my T-Bird. I get 2 MPG more in town with those pulleys on. Also, replace your paper air filter with a K&N air filter. Should net you another 1 MPG, but you’ll never need to buy another air filter again.
NC Cop, if you keep this up, I may have to hire Richard Simmons to get into shape to keep up with you. Big Congratulations.
Heres an story about a possible energy source we may be using in a few thousand years, not that it will help us at the pumps now, but theres always hope!
- On another note, I have two things to add to the “cheap renewable, non-polluting energy” disscussion. For those of you that are not physicists, the main problem is and always has been, not so much the generation of the power economically, there are many ways to do that, but the long time storage efficiently, so it can be used as needed. One way that NOBODY is talking about is “kenetic storage”. I won’t go into a lot of detail. But it uses gravity. You build a vert very large heavy construct, it could be the building housing the control center for instance, and you place it on slides into a large water filled sealed base in the ground. Solar panels in a large “farm” with high energy collectors provide the energy to “pump” up the building in off hours, (you have as many of these as you want with some in operation and others being power “charged” or lifted), and then allow the building or weight to “settle” pushing the water underneath through electrical generators. the problem with solar has always been the “night” hours, and this would completely solve that.
- On another front I am involved in ongoing experiments on an energy form that was discovered way back on the late 20’s, but largely forgotten as a curiosity, because no one can seem to figure out where the “energy” comes from in the process or what form it takes. Some think its actually “anti-gravity”, others that its some form of new “kenetic” propulsion. In any event for decades it was considered just aa novalty because it seemed it would never be practical in what it could do, however lately theres been a revival of interest, even at NASA who are already thinking of using a already working design in space “steering” jets on sattelites. Breakthroughs in development in just the past year are showing really interesting promise. So take heaart. You may be zipping around in “Gravi-cars” in the not to distant future folks! No more gas stations!
- Bang
Bang, what about those frozen methane deposits off the southeast US coast for a source of energy?
Ummm… Not aware of those PCD…. but sounds interesting, at least as a stopgap measure. What we really want to do is get away from burning any of the hyrocarbons, and move to Hydrogen, which happily is the most common element in the known universe and makes one of the ingrediants for tea as its by product when it burns. Water. We get two for one.
- Bang
Well, Bang, it turns out that those deposits are the new theory for the Bermuda Triangle. I think Discovery Channel and Learning Channel have both had shows on university experiments that shows large and sudden bursts of huge volumes of methane lower the buoyancy of seawater to the point large ships sink.
The methane can also smother aircraft engines in these size quantities.
Now, don’t I sound like a liberal junk science advocate?
- I think I may have seen something on that, but when they start talking about Elvis leading a band of LGM’s in his dayglow colored UFO, with Nessie in the parade, and you better be quiet or the Red headed Major is going to take you out to the desert, I generally nod off.
- I did see a show where they think sudden eruptions of carbon dioxide/methane/monoxide from under lakes and bodies of water explains massive cattle/animal kills in several parts of the world over the ages though. Was always a mystery before. Wonder if thats what happened to Flight 19.
- Bang
Dick Meyer piece that is interesting