Cash for Clunkers = Euro Technocrat Fail
As you can see if you visit the scrappage article at Wikipedia the program in the US is not hope and change, but rather just another failed program borrowed from the Technocrats in Europe.
Congresswoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) is fond of pointing at the German program, but if she had [...]
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I uploaded the photo montage video of my train trip from Anchorage to Fairbanks in Vimeo, and the quality is much higher on playback than you get at Youtube.
Thanos Visits Alaska from Thanos on Vimeo.
Some Good Questions on Healthcare
Since this health care bill has been 100 percent crafted by West state urban Democrats, what are the long term effects and unforseen consequences to rural and suburban clinics, hospitals, and services? Even if they have the best of intentions they also have some inescapable urban bias due to their lack [...]
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An Artery of Opium
Please take a visit to Michael Yon’s where he shows the import of the current campaign, the conflicting views, and the critical need for more air support and transport at the Forward Operation Bases.
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A Boat on the Reef With a Broken Back
… And I can see it very well.
To follow up on my earlier post about the real story of the collapse of Obama’s mandate and political capital on the reef of realpolitik and Dem infighting in Congress I proffer a few links:
The Hill: July has been a [...]
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On Google Books & The Settlement
Not many are aware of the breadth of the Google Books initiative, or the controversies it has created. I became aware of it from reading Vernor Vinge’s “Rainbow’s End“.
Here’s Google’s Alexander MacGillivray talking about the service, the legal challenges, and the settlement.
This makes it worthwhile to get a library card [...]
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If you look at the power structure of the Democrat party you see that almost their entire leadership is from Western states
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Obama & The Real Story
The real story for Obama is grim right now: unemployment is at new-century record highs, his first six months in office are a failure, his budget is delayed, transparency is delayed, health care reform is on the rocks, and dissension within his caucus is at an all time high as they [...]
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Kasey at the Fence
Kasey typically barks when people come by, generally not in a mean tone, more of a “please come over here and play” tone. The exception is when the garbage truck comes. I think she worships it and all of the interesting smells it brings with it.
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Grunge Rolling
Now you can Grunge roll someone…
From the Youtuber’s page to give credit where it’s due:
DJ Morgoth is an excellent mashup creator and DJ based in Germany. He runs an awesome night called Mashup Your Bootz.
He made this great mashup, so I made a video of it for him.
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Rick Astley [...]
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7-20-1969
On that day I was 12 year old boy, visiting my Great-Grandfather for what was the last time in Bull’s Gap Tennessee. We had stopped to see him on our trip from Ft. Bragg in North Carolina to Ft. Wainwright in Alaska where my father was due to be stationed.
My Great Grandfather was 98 and [...]
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My friend and I were getting out of Winter, set on a mission to escape the island of Fairbanks gripped in it’s vast ocean of arctic snow with immense depths of cold in the skies above it. So New Year’s we got a wild hair, packed a few things, and started driving South down the Alcan highway in a beater Vega station wagon with a couple of jerry cans of Gas in the back
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Maoist Machinations
The World Bank has been feeding the Maoist cadres of Chairman Prachanda (or Prachandra, both spellings appear ) in Nepal as part of the peace accords, but ceased that today when they found that the numbers were being inflated in a scam. Former PM Prachanda is unavailable for comment as he’s suddenly fallen ill.
More [...]
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Hurricane Gulch Alaska
Here’s a photo of Hurricane Gulch Alaska, it’s not the greatest quality since it was taken through the window of a moving train. I had to get this because on our many spur of the moment roadtrips to Anchorage in my youth it was traditional to always stop midway across the highway bridge [...]
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Natal: Coming to an Office Near You?
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In an earlier post I speculated upon the future uses of Microsoft’s new full body motion detecting system, Natal, which is coming for the X-Box. I took the sensor from the X-Box, and speculated on what could happen if this moved to offices and factories in combination with other [...]
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Obama: The Fail Part II, Nothing
I’ve been among those saying that there’s plenty to slam our President on without making stuff up as some kookspiracist bloggers are prone to do, and you don’t need to wish him to fail. In my previous post I noted that President Obama is failing at least for his first [...]
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Health Care Reform Costs Visualized
1000 Pennies is at it again, this time showing how much health care reform will cost in visual terms.
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60
The NRSC has launched a new Youtube ad, 60, which highlights the power the Democrats control now and how the Republican hopes of the balance voters effects coming into heavy play in the 2010 elections. With Campaign kitties low and donations to the actual party thin, expect the Republicans to focus mostly on the Senate [...]
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Carwash Terror
Kasey gets terrified when the rollers go over the car in the carwash…
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Of Kings and Queens and Freedom
Driving across the plains a couple years back I was musing while returning home from visiting my son and soon-to-be daughter-in-law. Rolling through the countryside across gentle hills and through green valleys I marveled at this land and our people. There were a thousand vistas along the way that would [...]
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