Queenfish: A Cold War Tale - New York Times

Queenfish: A Cold War Tale - New York Times: "A new book, “Unknown Waters,” recounts the 1970 voyage of a submarine, the Queenfish, on a pioneering dive beneath the ice pack to map the Siberian continental shelf. The United States did so as part of a clandestine effort to prepare for Arctic submarine operations and to win any military showdown with the Soviet Union."

HMAS Sydney found off Australia's west coast

"sunk with all hands".

How does that happen?

Rest in peace, brave sailors.

HMAS Sydney found off Australia's west coast - Telegraph: "The Sydney, a cruiser, was the biggest ship from any country to be sunk with all hands lost during World War II."

Liberalism is gone – don't let tolerance pass with it | csmonitor.com

Liberalism is gone – don't let tolerance pass with it csmonitor.com: "Few dare to say it, but it's time we acknowledged a sad truth about American politics: liberalism is dead – and it has been for 40 years"

DRUDGE REPORT 2008®

DRUDGE REPORT 2008®: "MAJOR POLITICAL BOMBSHELL: DEVELOPING"

The Barack Obama Double Standard -- Doug Patton -- GOPUSA

The Barack Obama Double Standard -- Doug Patton -- GOPUSA: "Imagine in 1999, that a videotape had come to light showing the pastor of Texas Gov. George W. Bush's church making vicious, hateful comments about America and cruel, racist statements about Americans of color."

Excellent US economic stats site

http://www.bls.gov./eag/eag.us.htm

The Cactus Cuties Sing the National Anthem

Listen to these little gals blast out our national anthem.

CARPE DIEM: The Cactus Cuties Sing the National Anthem

Core Principles: This is how state government does business

Core Principles: This is how state government does business: "After a funding dry spell, the state is gearing up for the largest higher education building boom ever in an effort to kick-start the economy and replace some deteriorating campus buildings."

Oops - CNBC's Cramer Said 'Don't Move' From Bear a Week Before Collapse

Oops - CNBC's Cramer Said 'Don't Move' From Bear a Week Before Collapse: "But, on March 11, Cramer told an e-mailer not to sell the beleaguered investment bank’s stock on his show’s Web site:

“Dear Jim: Should I be worried about Bear Stearns in terms of liquidity and get my money out of there? --Peter
Cramer says: “No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble. If anything, they’re more likely to be taken over. Don’t move your money from Bear.”"

Love Client Number Nine

Love Client Number Nine: "Love Client Number Nine
[To the tune of 'Love Potion No. 9,' with apologies to Lieber & Stoller. . . and Elliott Spitzer"

Muskegon casino info

An e-mail going around town about opposition to the indian casino plans for Muskegon.
The entire set of e-mails is in the "comments" section below.

Some of you live and/or work in the City of Muskegon. Apparently the mayor and majority of City Commissioners are unwilling to even entertain discussions with anyone ‘outside’ Muskegon---despite the fact that a casino would devastate the entire region, not just this wonderful, reviving small community. Even more unthinkable would be multiple casinos established by multiple tribes—which Commissioners’ Municipal Service Agreement made with the LDV tribe recently notes is possible.

How Minimum Wage Hurts Teens

-- How Minimum Wage Hurts Teens
"the Bay State's minimum wage, now at $8 an hour and the highest in the nation."

Obama's church

No wonder the inner city culture is so disfunctional
"Senator Barack Obama is not a Muslim, contrary to invidious rumors. But he belongs to a Christian church whose doctrine casts Jesus Christ as a 'black messiah' and blacks as 'the chosen people'. At best, this is a radically different kind of Christianity than most Americans acknowledge; at worst it is an ethnocentric heresy."

THE MCGREEVEYS' SECRET 3 Way

Just how sick are our politicians?

Just watch!

THE MCGREEVEYS' SECRET Three-Way Orgy

"A former driver and aide for former N.J. Gov. Jim McGreevey says Dina Matos McGreevey must have always known her husband was gay - because he was the other man in bed with them."

JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share

HOLY SHIT!

The "SMART" guys are telling us that no one has a clue how to price the "innovative" investments the "smarter than us guys" have created.

Monday is gonna be a bitch!

My Way News - JPMorgan to Buy Bear for $2 a Share: "JPMorgan Chase said Sunday it will acquire rival Bear Stearns in a deal valued at $236.2 million - or $2 a share - a stunning collapse for one of the world's largest and most venerable investment banks."

Ionia Free Fair-June 21-22

B93.COM Country Music & Video for West Michigan

Poll says citizens approve gun ownership

The Volokh Conspiracy - -#1205637836#1205637836: "In the WaPo poll, 72% of respondents said that they considered the Second Amendment to be an individual right, not just for militia only"

Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued?

Think about this.

Extreme muslims have realized that lawyers (mostly in America and the free world) are more powerful than suicide bombers.

Will the west ever long for the days of those silly suicide dudes?

Muslims nations: Defame Islam, get sued? - Yahoo! News: "leaders of the world's Muslim nations are considering taking legal action against those that slight their religion or its sacred symbols."

D.C.'s Gun Ban Gets Day in Court

D.C.'s Gun Ban Gets Day in Court: "The nine justices, none of whom has ever ruled directly on the amendment's meaning, will consider a part of the Bill of Rights that has existed without a definitive interpretation for more than 200 years."

University of Michigan athletes steered to professor University of Michigan Academics and Athletics

University of Michigan has a stink that may cover all of Ann Arbor

"John Hagen was, as he has been for decades, close to some of the most recognized athletes at Michigan. University records obtained by The News show that the veteran psychology professor has taught at least 294 independent studies from the fall of 2004 to the fall of 2007, and 85 percent of those courses, 251, were with athletes."

Watch An Upright Piano Get Shredded

If you have "issues" about those long ago piano lessons, try this video.

CARPE DIEM: Watch An Upright Piano Get Shredded

Who could vote if Michigan re-does primary?

I voted for Romney. He's gone. Now I want to vote again!
Heh....

Will GOPer voters be the difference in the Michigan primary?
"Obviously they would have to make those decisions how they're going to run this, how they're going to pay for it in the next two weeks. The legislature is only in for the next two weeks, and then they go on break, and then it's too late. So, really, within the next two weeks they have to make a decision on this.'"

Turtle fence still sucking up money

No problem. Michigan has oodles of moolah, right?

WZZM13 GRAND RAPIDS
Muskegon - Michigan's Department of Transportation says it plans to repair winter damage to the controversial Muskegon County "turtle fence" during the spring.
"The money for the fence came from a federal enhancement program only to be used for aesthetic or environmental purposes."

CARPE DIEM: Another Economist Says NO Recession

CARPE DIEM: Another Economist Says NO Recession: "We still don’t have conclusive evidence that we’re in a recession, and we might avoid one altogether. A credible case could be made that we’re facing just one quarter of negative growth, and that GDP growth will be back in positive territory during the remaining three quarters of 2008."

Dark Roasted Blend: Airplane Oops! Situations, Part 2

Dark Roasted Blend: Airplane Oops! Situations, Part 2

Media Bias Basics

Media Bias Basics

More facts to support he media's liberal bias.

NBC Nightly News Finally Calls Spitzer 'Democratic Governor

Gordo's Rule: If the media does not report the perp's political affiliation, the perp is a demo-crook.

NBC Nightly News Finally Calls Spitzer 'Democratic Governor': "The big three broadcast networks have gone out of their way to avoid labeling scandal-scarred New York Governor Eliot Spitzer as a 'Democrat.'"

Horny nerds cause crime?

This can't be good for the abstinence crowd.

Instapundit.com -

SEX EARLIER IN LIFE REDUCES DELINQUENCY?

Makes sense to me.

Most of that juvenile-delinquent behavior is just an effort to get laid anyway, so . . . .

posted at 09:55 PM by Glenn Reynolds"

Heights struggles to fix pervasive road problem

OK. I get it.

We let the Heights run their city into the ground, literally.

We quietly watch as they scare away all business. Wouldn't want to be called "racist" by the Chronicle, now would we.

We applaud as the Heights uses up their entire 30 year tax millage on a new school that doesn't do no educatin'.

And now the Chronicle front-pages the sad story of a bankrupt city filled with pot holes.

Grab your wallets, folks!

Heights struggles to fix pervasive road problem

"If you're going to spend $90,000 to put a new roof on the Strand, but not to fix roads, that's a waste of money,' Heights resident Otis Turner complained to the city council last week"

Billionaire mauled

I sure hope my tax dollars don't go to help this dope out.

Billionaire mauled

"Joseph Lewis, the second-largest shareholder of Bear Stearns Cos., may have lost $US850 million ($906 million) on Friday after the securities firm took emergency funding from the New York Federal Reserve and JPMorgan Chase & Co."