Oct
28
Gaming the Electoral System: Then and Now
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Old School reward for election fraud: Democratic Majorities! New School Proposal: Lengthy Prison Sentences. In three easy steps: 1. Investigate. 2. Prosecute. 3. Incarcerate
Oct
28
TSA Full Body Scan Etiquette and the NEW Modesty Shield™
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As I and many others travel by air while the TSA pursues it’s quest to examine our innermost orifices or outermost appendages with its newly deployed ‘full body scan recorders”, I wonder if some etiquette is called for? As one with an outermost appendage (a male traveler), I wonder if I it is proper [...]
Oct
28
Voter Fraud
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Instapundit has this: VOTER FRAUD: Daytona Beach Commissioner Arrested On Fraud Charges. Drudge has this: Daytona Beach Commissioner Charged With Absentee Ballot Fraud..
Oct
26
Vote Fraud? From Ace: OMG: Electronic Voting Machine In NC Fills Out Straight-Ticket Democrat When Voter Attempted Straight-Ticket Republican At Drudge: CHICAGO: ‘Glitch’ with vote-by-mail system; Hundreds of thousands of voters may be disenfranchised… On Instapundit: SUSPICIONS OF FRAUD IN NEVADA And Michelle Malkin has this: 9th Circuit overturns AZ proof-of-citizenship voting rule From KisP [...]
Oct
23
Democrats Call Lisa Murkowski A Liar by Dan Riehl All the while, Lisa Murkowski’s campaign has been engaged in a smear campaign against Joe Miller. Now, out of the blue, Democrats come out and call her an outright liar? It was troubling when Murkowski broke her word to voters and refused to abide by the [...]
Oct
23
h/t TheDrunkCanuck.com
Oct
22
Texas Wins!
Category: Homefront |
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The Texas Rangers win the American League Championship Series in game 6 against the New York Yankees. Final score: 6 – 1. Final strike-out: A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez). Next up: The World Series!
Oct
22
More News about the Importation of South Korean M1 Garands and Carbines
Category: Gun Stuff |
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Bill would allow M1 Garands, M1 Carbines to be imported Little Chicago Review Washington, D.C. – A couple weeks ago, U.S. Representatives Cynthia Lummis and Joe Donnelly (D-IN) introduced H.R. 6240, the Collectable Firearms Protection Act. The bill would prevent the State Department from interfering with the legal importation of surplus collectable firearms from South [...]
Oct
22
Barbara (Don’t Call Me Ma’am) Boxer
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Call Me Senator from RightChange on Vimeo. … Best anti-politician video ever from David Zucker (Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret!, Scary Movie, etc.). “(She) worked so hard to get that title” – of Senator … it’s time to call her ma’am again.
Oct
22
Voting completed. Lots of turnout noted at the poll today despite the start of light rain. The writing is beginning to appear on the November 2 wall.
Oct
21
Wealth Creation - Bill Whittle’s What We Believe, Part III h/t The Smallest Minority
Oct
21
Video. h/t The TexasFred Blog
Oct
20
20/10/2010
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Just in case you missed the 10/10/10 10:10:10 calendar oddity earlier this month, we also had 20/10/2010 20:10 today.
Oct
20
Trip Notes – London to Dallas
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Today’s flight took me about 1/4 the distance around the globe (6 Time Zones from London to Dallas / Ft. Worth) and solidly into Executive Platinum status on American Airlines. It did make for a long day – I was at the airport 10:30 AM London Time or 4:30 AM Central Time, arriving home at [...]
Oct
20
What could possibly go wrong? 739,000 acre “Welcome Mat” for border invaders
Category: Border Security, Homefront, Politics |
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A 739,000 acre “Welcome Mat” for border invaders is the latest disaster being planned in New Mexico. New Mexico Senators Udal (D), a member of the Progressive Caucus, and Bingaman (D) have sponsored two conservation bills, S.874/H.R.5334 in northern NM and S.1689 in southern New Mexico’s Dona Ana County. Jim Hoft (Gateway Pundit) has much [...]
Oct
19
The “I will steal the money from your unborn children” party versus “The hell you will!”
Oct
19
Is the EPA trying to Murder the USA? Alan Caruba posits a legitimate (and substantial) question.
Oct
19
Sarah! Calls out to reawaken and restore American exceptionalism and ‘refudiates’ the media in the process
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Video! P.S., to the historical ignoratti who don’t get the reference to 1773: There was a Party in Boston. Tea may have been involved.
Oct
19
New Flight-Speed record claimed in the UK
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13 notes per second – New World Record for playing flight of the Bumblebee: one minute and 3.356 seconds. Flight of the Bumblebee played in record time h/t to Bill genes at Daily Pundit
Oct
19
Ramshackle
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ramshackle adj (esp of buildings) badly constructed or maintained; rickety, shaky, or derelict [C17 ramshackled, from obsolete ransackle to ransack] Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003 Related Words ramshackle – in deplorable condition; “a street of bedraggled tenements”; “a broken-down fence”; “a ramshackle old pier”; “a [...]
Oct
18
My affable colleague regales us with many stories at work … tonight’s episode was bird shooting with one of the many Saudi Arabian princes. 30,000 quail loosed on the hunting grounds. He attended equipped with not one, but two Purdey side-by-sides. Fire two, and your ammo bearer passes you the second shotgun re-loaded and ready. [...]
Oct
16
On a hunting trip to South Dakota, Ted Nugent had barely stepped out of the SUV driven by Black Hills preserve operator Tom Lauing late Friday afternoon when the first rooster pheasant flushed. It didn’t flush far. Rocker Nugent blasts his way into Black Hills visit
Oct
16
Colorado Governor’r Race: Tom Tancredo (ACP) Continues to Close The Gap on Hickenlooper (D)
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The Tank moves within 4%. via Rasmussen
Oct
16
Iowahawk haz genius post. Go read whole thing Iowahawk ROCKS! h/t Random Nuclear Strikes >^C >^C >^C I’M SORRY, THERE IS NO ESCAPE KEY. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO? > WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO? > WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO? > WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO? > WHAT DO [...]
Oct
15
I have nothing to add to that statement.
Oct
15
What We Believe, Part 2: The Problem with Elitism
Oct
14
October’s e-Postal Match is up at Traction Control. This month is ” Circles”. See details for submitting your entry here.
Oct
12
Soldiers’ Angels Article on the Gunblogger Rendezvous
Category: Gun Stuff, Support for Our Military |
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Soldiers’ Angels article on the Gunblogger Rendezvous From Guns to Laptops A group of gun enthusiasts led by blogger “Mr. Completely” recently turned their love of firearms into laptop computers for wounded warriors. For the third straight year, the Gunblogger Rendezvous in Reno, NV has made Soldiers’ Angels Project Valour-IT its fundraising focus. In addition [...]
Oct
12
h/t Every Blade of Grass
Oct
11
Click for absurdly large version. My favorite Ted Nugent quote on the .50 cal., is something like “… spreading freedom – 1/2 inch at a time.” Heh.
Oct
11
Democrat candidate goes for his gun in WV campaign Ad. Related: Hot Air has this.
Oct
11
Relative to the Great Britain Pound (GBP) the US Dollar has lost 10% of it’s purchasing power in just the last 100 days. Were this trend to continue until Election Day 2012, the Dollar would be worth between $0.39 and $0.43 relative to the exchange rates in May 2010. At $0.39, that shiny new KIA [...]
Oct
11
Zoom: Maybach 57s
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Not one or two, but three Maybach 57s zoomed out of the parking lot beside me yesterday afternoon. All three left under hard acceleration, all the while remaining eerily quiet. Kewl. Here’s some Maybach 57s pix.
Oct
10
Message to Air Travelers
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Another message to air travelers at: 106 w wilson ave, murray, ut Latitude: 40°39’4.90″N Longitude: 111°53’42.44″W Heh. Seen at FailBlog.org
Oct
10
10/10/10 10:10:10
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Posted: 10/10/10 10:10:10 (London Time)
Oct
9
One of thousands from Failblog.org.
Oct
9
In his soft-spoken style, Bill Whittle explains the Tea Party Movement – and the history of human events that led us to where we are now. h/t to Ed at Hot Air
Oct
8
Congrats to New Father: Frank J.!
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It’s a baby! Sweet. Be sure to visit Babies”R”Us (Registry #: 45484417)
Oct
8
English “Problem Words”
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Everyone should be aware that “flammable” and “inflammable” mean the same thing. “Famous” and “infamous” are pretty close, too. Some things are “standard” and some are “substandard” but have you ever heard of something that was “stantial” instead of being “substantial”? Less than “stantial” is apparently good, I’m guessing “super-stantial” would be really bad. If [...]
Oct
7
Straight or Twisted Letters: The Phonetic and Non-Phonetic Alphabet
Category: Ingenuity |
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It was painful listening to a co-worker spelling his name for someone on the other end of the phone today. He got all the letters wrong. He said, “It’s spelled M-I-K-E. “M” as in Mumble, “I” as in “I Don’t know”, “K” as in “Kite” and “E” as in Egg”. I was about to say, “No. That [...]








