Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics

We're doomed!

Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics
"In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers."

Renewable energy standards gain momentum in Michigan

Renewable energy standards gain momentum in Michigan
"renewable portfolio standard in Michigan - which would require electricity companies to ensure that a certain percentage of their energy comes from renewable sources."

Doesn't anyone realize this is simply a plan to divert tax dollars from fixing roads and other state needs to rewarding democrat contributors, the eco-charlatans whose companies can't survive ("make a profit") without subsidies.

And now they want every resident in our state (AND BUSINESS!) to pay millions of dollars extra for our energy just to fund these phony companies?

Who Stole the American Spirit?

Who Stole the American Spirit?
"Something else is going on – namely a cultural rut of pessimism that is draining our collective energy, blinding us to possibilities, and eroding our position in the world"

I'll nominate the depressed liberals who control the TV, newspaper and radio waves.

And the liberal politicians who pander to our lowest common denominator of depression.

Every snippet of news has a negative spin.

Temperature warmer-global warming!

Temperature cool-global climate change!

Interest rates up-no one can afford to borrow money!

Interest rates down-old people who invest in CDs are getting less income!

And on and on and on.....

Hopefuls rush to get names put on ballot

Hopefuls rush to get names put on ballot
"Some of the heavy competition for county board seats can be attributed to Jay Jurkas, a longtime county sheriff's deputy who has organized an employee-based movement to challenge incumbent commissioners."

Amazing what one person can do!

Avoid Traffic: Take a Helicopter to the Hamptons

Avoid Traffic: Take a Helicopter to the Hamptons"For prices between $28,000 and $82,000, Blue Star Jets is offering membership in what the company is calling the first-ever helicopter club to the Hamptons. They claim it will eliminate the woes of traffic on the Long Island Expressway."

Kinda nice the prosperous "eco-nuts" won't have to mingle with the normal Long Island riff-raff.

Schwarzenegger to propose borrowing against lottery

Schwarzenegger to propose borrowing against lottery
"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose borrowing against future state lottery revenue to help close a budget shortfall estimated as high as $20 billion"

Selling out the future?

Miss. Democrat wins House seat in special election

Miss. Democrat wins House seat in special election
"It's becoming a disturbing trend for Republicans: losing traditional GOP strongholds to Democrats in some hard-fought congressional races.
It happened again Tuesday, as Travis Childers beat Greg Davis in a special election to replace Republican Roger Wicker, ........
Childers' win gave Democrats a 236-199 edge over Republicans in Congress.
Earlier this year, Democrats captured the Illinois district long represented by former Republican Speaker Dennis Hastert, who resigned from Congress. This month, Democrats claimed a seat in Louisiana that Republican Rep. Richard Baker vacated and that the GOP had held since 1974."

The GOP is in serious trouble.

The Volokh Conspiracy - -#1210603337

The Volokh Conspiracy - -#1210603337: "In Arizona, the only state that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, more than 38,000 voter registration applications have been thrown out since the state adopted its measure in 2004. . . . More than 70 percent of those registrations came from people who stated under oath that they were born in the United States, the data showed."

Facts Trump Charm

Facts Trump Charm: "McConnell charged that Obama and top Democratic leaders 'get up every morning with three things on their minds: more taxes, more regulation and more litigation.'
He added: 'It's pretty clear to me that the Democratic agenda is to turn us into France.'"

The Volokh Conspiracy - -#1210603337

The Volokh Conspiracy - -#1210603337: "as much as conservatives may whine and scream to the contrary, liberalism and conservatism are not moral equivalents. Because, on the one side you have the thinkers and activists who have advanced freedom, social justice, and human rights, and on the other, you have those who have attempted to thwart all those things."

Who Is Really Responsible For The High Prices You Pay For Gasoline?

Who Is Really Responsible For The High Prices You Pay For Gasoline?: "For the last 28 years, Democrats in Congress and a few Republicans have again and again opposed our drilling for oil in Alaska's ANWR area when we knew it contained at least 10 billion barrels of oil we could be using now."

McCain Differs With Bush on Climate Change

McCain Differs With Bush on Climate Change

Senator John McCain sought to distance himself from President Bush on Monday as he called for a mandatory limit on greenhouse gas emissions in the United States to combat climate change.
Mr. McCain, in a speech at a wind power company, also pledged to work with the European Union to diplomatically engage China and India, two of the world’s biggest polluters, if they refuse to participate in an international agreement to slow global warming.

Is this the end of McCain's chance to win the Presidency?
Catering to the Algore left is a sure way to guarantee a win for BHussein.

Deadly mob beating unnerves Cleveland neighborhood

Deadly mob beating unnerves Cleveland neighborhood: "The attackers sent word that anyone helping police could face retribution, according to City Councilman Kevin Conwell. He described the assailants as gang members."

A Gulf in Giving: Oil-Rich States Starve the World Food Program - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

A Gulf in Giving: Oil-Rich States Starve the World Food Program
"United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his top lieutenants on Monday are convening the first meeting of the U.N.’s Task Force on the Global Food Crisis. Ban says it will “study the root causes of the crisis,” and propose solutions for “coordinated global action” at a summit of world leaders in June.
Ban might want to consider convincing the oil-rich nations of the Middle East to provide more than the near-invisible amount of money they currently give to the World Food Program (WFP), the U.N.’s food-giving arm, which is charged with alleviating the food crisis.
WFP internal documents show that the major oil producing nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) gives almost nothing to the food organization, even as skyrocketing oil prices and swollen oil revenues contribute to the very crisis that the U.N. claims could soon add 100 million more people to the world’s starving masses."

anti-Smoking NAZIS in America

Can anyone explain why, in America today, a person who owns a business could be prohibited by the force of law, from allowing folks to enter his/her business using a legally allowable substance?

Think about it.

You own a bar/resturant.

You want to attract smokers.

Totally legal.

Everyone is OK with your business plan.

But assholes who will never come to your business want to stop EVERYONE from going to your business because ....... well..... just because...

This is 1984 personified.

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (xhtml)

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

"We wonder how she has survived to her current 20-ish age in a society that obviously requires boldness, courage and improvisation"

Excellent movie.

See it at The Harbor in Muskegon.

But this review, while mostly accurate, ads a typical dollup of pure liberal-think.

It is amazing that Ebert would suggest that survivors in Communist Romania require "boldness, courage and improvisation".

Survival in Communist Romania required quite the opposite.

Those who possessed "boldness, courage and improvisation" had escaped the country or were brutally killed or imprisoned.

And equally amazing is he never uses the word "communist".

Must be a lib-thing....

But he does equate American pro-life efforts with Romanian anti-abortion laws.

See the movie and thank God you live in our wonderful country.

Patriotic Barack Obama lapel pins unveiled honoring all 57 states

Patriotic Barack Obama lapel pins unveiled honoring all 57 states
"Yesterday The Ticket broke the stunning news of America's acquisition of seven, maybe eight, new states, according to future president Barack Obama.
He was speaking at the start of a two-day swoop through Oregon, which is already a state.
In Beaverton, which is not a state yet, the Democrat let it slip that during this marathon 16-month party presidential nomination struggle against a bunch of dropouts and this female political zombie from New York who won't surrender short of a silver stake, he had already visited 57 states with one more to go"

Myanmar referendum backing junta rule: reports

Myanmar referendum backing junta rule
"Myanmar's military-backed constitution has apparently won significant support in a referendum, even though many in the country were unable to vote as they tried to cope with the devastation of a cyclone which left many thousands of dead and missing in its wake, media reports from the region said Saturday.
Local counting of ballots indicated that an average of 80% to 90% voted in favor of the draft charter, the Associated Press reported."

Mucho thanks to the AP for this "unbiased" report!

Remember when they were amazed at Saddam's 100% victories?

No wonder we do wonder... about the American, anti-Anti-American MSM.

The bummer, dude is that millions of human beings are at risk.

Total bummer to interfer with glowing "election results"!

First-class stamp prices rise 1 penny to 42 cents Monday

First-class stamp prices rise 1 penny to 42 cents Monday:
"The cost of mailing a letter goes up a penny to 42 cents on Monday, the latest in what are expected to be annual price adjustments by the Postal Service."

A new law regulating the post office makes it easier to raise rates as long as the agency doesn't exceed the rate of inflation. Rates are to be adjusted each May.

And the libs want these folks to run our entire health care system?

Oh yeah..... there's this too.....

The increase comes just a week after the post office announced it had a loss of $700 million in the second quarter of the fiscal year, blamed largely on declining mail volume and rising fuel prices.

County goes with local, not lowest, bidder

County goes with local, not lowest, bidder
"Muskegon County commissioners have no official policy saying they have to favor local companies that bid for county contracts.
But when the bidding is close, commissioners clearly can be expected to favor a Muskegon-area firm over an outsider, even if the outsider is the low bidder. .....

Then the board voted 5-3 to award the contract to Jackson-Merkey Contractors of Muskegon, a regular county contractor that finished second in the bidding, $23,306 higher than the Grand Rapids firm.



Aley and Engle joined commissioners Chuck Buzzell, Lew Collins and Roger Wade in supporting the bid of the Muskegon County firm. Snider, Mahoney and Commissioner Louis McMurray supported the low bidder.