Starting with local stuff, last night the town of Grove

in northeast OK hit 13 below, and it's currently -9. Which just flat sucks. Here it's a whole +7.

National stuff, hmmm... GE, that used to be run by one of Obama's appointees, gets big benefit from an exemption to new EPA rules. Yeah, Hope and Change, folks.


Insty says Canada needs a serious free speech movement; it also needs a bunch of Human Rights Tribunal clowns to be introduced to tar and feathers.


This will get even more interesting:
The federal judge who struck down the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling after the Gulf oil spill held the Interior Department in contempt Wednesday, and ordered the federal agency to pay attorneys' fees for several offshore oil companies.

U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman chided the department for its "dismissive conduct" after he overturned the agency's decision to halt any new permits for deepwater projects and suspend drilling on 33 exploratory wells after the Deepwater Horizon blast, which killed 11 workers and triggered the massive spill.

After Feldman overturned the government's moratorium in June, the agency issued a second nearly identical suspension.

"Such dismissive conduct, viewed in tandem with the reimposition of a second blanket and substantively identical moratorium and in light of the national importance of this case, provide this court with clear and convincing evidence of the government's contempt of this court's preliminary injunction order," he wrote.


Colonel Dinnalsyn would love this:
the pic and the weapon both(pic courtesy Theo)


When the media and Democrats
A: Give this as much coverage as they have lies about the tea party and
B: Condemn these people and their words as loudly and openly as they bitch about conservatives,
THEN I'll consider that they actually mean they want to take the nastiness out of political arguments.


Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack doesn't care if your engine is trashed, as long as he's giving subsidies to a 'green' industry:
The existing 10% ethanol-blend gas has problems, but the good folk at Popular Mechanics are concerned about what happens when a few drops of water get into the fuel tank when E15 is used:

How does water get into the fuel tank? It’s possible that water dripped into the tank at the gas station or ­refueling depot, or a stray raindrop or snowflake made its way into your tank or jerrycan, but most water infiltration is from condensation. As the temperature in a tank changes, air has to be vented in and out or the tank will bulge or split. Incoming air carries moisture. When the H2O in the gas gets above a critical percentage—its saturation point—all of the water and alcohol drops out and settles into the bottom of the tank. This is what chemists call phase separation; the various components of the fuel are no longer a homogeneous mixture.

Water in your fuel is bad and more ethanol in fuel can make this a real problem, especially for drivers in regions that experience large temperature variations – but that’s not the only issue with E15. Heat is a problem too. Ethanol burns hotter than regular gas and that’s bad news for your expensive catalytic converter:

General Motors biofuel implementation manager C. Coleman Jones said that the increased ethanol levels caused problems in at least half of the engines tested. E15 made engines run hot, compromised catalytic converters and even damaged cylinder walls. Jones added that E15 could leave motorists stranded on the roadside.

The new EPA-approved gas blend is bad for cars of a certain age, but that is just the beginning of a list of problems with ethanol:



Bishnu Shrestha, the Gurkha with the big knife and testicles, is being decorated. And rightly so.


The DBD comment on Valerie Jarrett:


Ref the Obamacare ruling the other day, sweet words:
Vinson brought down the whole house of cards when he found that a) the coercive "individual mandate" that would have required every citizen to purchase health insurance was unconstitutional and b) that without the mandate, as the administration itself argued, the law would be unworkable.

"Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire act must be declared void," he wrote.


The People's Republic of MA: Live Free or There indeed.


I'm now going to let the Security Staff out to defile the snow some more, and get the end of the driveway cleared. Hopefully, I'll be back.