and finding that she really shouldn't have gotten rid of one. Which made me run through a quick mental inventory...
Let's see, a thumb-break shoulder rig for a 2" .38, one for my Officer's Model .45, the belt slide Dad made me years ago, another one I made, a Kydex paddle, and the Sparks IWB I bought about a year or so ago. And a nylon "It even holds a spare clip!" one that came with the pistol. Yeah, I think that's it...
I bought the IWB because A: I wanted to try that style and B: it was inexpensive(can't really say 'cheap'). I found that I like it better than the slides(it stays in place much better), and it's better at concealing than the Kydex paddle. The 'inexpensive' caught up because the mouth wasn't reinforced with anything more than a stitched-on strip of leather and didn't stay open as well as needed, so I finally cut the stitching and took it off, cut and shaped a piece of saw blade to fit, then stitched the strip back over; it made a world of difference. And, with a couple of exceptions, it's what I've worn ever since. When I next used the slide it felt exposed, and didn't stay in place; tended to slide back & forth a bit(that's not supposed to be why they call it that). The paddle stays right in place, but being outside the pants it just doesn't feel as hidden. My pants fit better, but I'll trade somewhat snug pants for better concealment and no movement(if I have to reach for it, I want it to be RIGHT THERE).
Right now I'd love one with a stiffer body, but this here retirement thing kind of prevents any "Let's look at Midway!" extravagance, especially this time of year. I need to find out either a way to stiffen leather better than what I know now, or find some leather that, after molding, stays stiff. I've got some spring clips, and I've made holsters before, so that's not a problem.
By the way, anyone else notice the variance in waistbands? I've got three pair of Wrangler jeans, all the same size, and the waist on each is a bit different in size: one holds the 1911 just fine, one's snug and the other's just too damn tight.
Maybe I should sue?
Monday, December 07, 2009
On some things, I give up
I mentioned once before a friend who's a True Believer in AGW(All the REAL scientists believe, etc.) Well, couple of days ago I decided to violate my 'never mention the subject again' rule because I thought the stuff coming out on the fraud was just too important to not pass on.
Damn.
Apparently out of the whole damn piece I linked to her the only thing worthy of notice was something near the bottom from a AGW clown that "most scientists agree", etc. Oh, and running 'round the net looking for info = "You live in an oil run media" etc. ad bullshit. I'd never have believed it, but she actually believes the 'Oil companies run everything' conspiracy crap.
I give up.
Damn.
Apparently out of the whole damn piece I linked to her the only thing worthy of notice was something near the bottom from a AGW clown that "most scientists agree", etc. Oh, and running 'round the net looking for info = "You live in an oil run media" etc. ad bullshit. I'd never have believed it, but she actually believes the 'Oil companies run everything' conspiracy crap.
I give up.
I just looked at the weather for Copenhagen,
upper 30's--low 40's next couple of days. So I have a proposition:
Take away the limos.
Take away the private planes; NONE involved in any way with this meeting allowed in-country.
Take away ANYTHING except public transport, bicycles and walking.
Take away 'heatist' things like central heating.
Take away all food not grown and preserved locally. WITHOUT those nasty CFC-using refrigeration systems having been used, of course.
THEN let these hypocritical power-hungry bastards have their meeting. And if we really want to help them feel that we are the good guys, the selfless saviours, and they are the bad guys, they have to sign on to not using those things to get home, either. Or use them in their daily life. Ever again.
Of course, they wouldn't agree to any of that; after all, they're important people doing important work so they rules they want us chained to shouldn't apply to them...
Take away the limos.
Take away the private planes; NONE involved in any way with this meeting allowed in-country.
Take away ANYTHING except public transport, bicycles and walking.
Take away 'heatist' things like central heating.
Take away all food not grown and preserved locally. WITHOUT those nasty CFC-using refrigeration systems having been used, of course.
THEN let these hypocritical power-hungry bastards have their meeting. And if we really want to help them feel that we are the good guys, the selfless saviours, and they are the bad guys, they have to sign on to not using those things to get home, either. Or use them in their daily life. Ever again.
Of course, they wouldn't agree to any of that; after all, they're important people doing important work so they rules they want us chained to shouldn't apply to them...
In local news, it looks like if you vote for the new MAPS tax,
you're going to get screwed. Twice.
As predicted FOLKS. The COUNTY is coming after Oklahoma City RESIDENTS for 400 million MORE dollars to fund the boondoggle that is the county JAILS.
YES ….COUNTY TAXES ON TOP OF MAPS TAXES.
So when you vote for MAPS….which raises the sales tax a penny…be ready to raise it another penny for the county.
If you read the rest, I think you'd agree with Shannon being opinionated on this. Well, so am I. There's been enough evasion(like the mayor saying someone 'needs to be called out' and then flatly refusing to debate) over this to bring the odor level to 'high'. At the least. And there are so damn many connections between people pushing for this and people who'll make money from it...
If it's too icy to drive in the morning, I can probably walk; my polling place isn't too far away.
As predicted FOLKS. The COUNTY is coming after Oklahoma City RESIDENTS for 400 million MORE dollars to fund the boondoggle that is the county JAILS.
YES ….COUNTY TAXES ON TOP OF MAPS TAXES.
So when you vote for MAPS….which raises the sales tax a penny…be ready to raise it another penny for the county.
If you read the rest, I think you'd agree with Shannon being opinionated on this. Well, so am I. There's been enough evasion(like the mayor saying someone 'needs to be called out' and then flatly refusing to debate) over this to bring the odor level to 'high'. At the least. And there are so damn many connections between people pushing for this and people who'll make money from it...
If it's too icy to drive in the morning, I can probably walk; my polling place isn't too far away.
A mystery of life
At the store the other day, Red Delicious apples were $1/pound. Except you could buy a 8lb bag for $3.
Wonderful, isn't it?
Wonderful, isn't it?
'Tis the Season,
ho freaking ho.
Tonight: Freezing drizzle likely. Cloudy, with a low around 31. East northeast wind between 6 and 8 mph.
Tuesday: A chance of freezing rain before noon, then a chance of rain. Cloudy, with a high near 43. East wind 9 to 12 mph becoming southwest between 17 and 20 mph. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 22. Windy, with a northwest wind 26 to 29 mph becoming north northwest 15 to 18 mph. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.
It's currently a balmy 34 degrees, with that to look forward to. Damn.
Tonight: Freezing drizzle likely. Cloudy, with a low around 31. East northeast wind between 6 and 8 mph.
Tuesday: A chance of freezing rain before noon, then a chance of rain. Cloudy, with a high near 43. East wind 9 to 12 mph becoming southwest between 17 and 20 mph. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 22. Windy, with a northwest wind 26 to 29 mph becoming north northwest 15 to 18 mph. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.
It's currently a balmy 34 degrees, with that to look forward to. Damn.
An update on the Barfoot flagpole situation
"It looks like this thing is growing legs . . . the law firm of Coates & Davenport have already gone into Damage Control Mode:
Statement from the Sussex Square Homeowners Association
Dec. 3, 2009
The Sussex Square Homeowners Association never intended its request that Col. Barfoot remove his flag pole as an affront to his patriotism.
This is not about the American flag. This is about a flag pole. And Col. Barfoot is not being forbidden from displaying an American flag.
With its request that he remove the flag pole, the association was discharging its duty to all the owners in the neighborhood. The association's position has merit and is supported by its Bylaws, Rules and Declaration of Restrictions and Covenants.
The association is optimistic that this matter can be resolved in a way that is mutually satisfactory to all parties and looks forward to Senator Mark Warner's involvement toward that end.
Anyone who wishes to offer comments may do so at colbarfootsflagpole@gmail.com
Thank you,
Coates & Davenport
Richmond, Virginia
So I went back and checked the story, as it was originally reported to me:
In December 2009, the HomeOwners' Association (HOA) of Sussex Square, where 90-year-old Van T. Barfoot lives in Henrico County, Virginia, ordered him to remove the flagpole from which he flies the American flag. The HOA retained a lawyer to help enforce their order. The Association's bylaws do not forbid flagpoles, but the HOA ruled Barfoot should not be allowed to use his "for aesthetic reasons". Mr. Barfoot is contesting the order.
I don't want to come off sounding like a barracks lawyer, but it sounds to me like Colonel Barfoot has a pretty good case going for him."
Statement from the Sussex Square Homeowners Association
Dec. 3, 2009
The Sussex Square Homeowners Association never intended its request that Col. Barfoot remove his flag pole as an affront to his patriotism.
This is not about the American flag. This is about a flag pole. And Col. Barfoot is not being forbidden from displaying an American flag.
With its request that he remove the flag pole, the association was discharging its duty to all the owners in the neighborhood. The association's position has merit and is supported by its Bylaws, Rules and Declaration of Restrictions and Covenants.
The association is optimistic that this matter can be resolved in a way that is mutually satisfactory to all parties and looks forward to Senator Mark Warner's involvement toward that end.
Anyone who wishes to offer comments may do so at colbarfootsflagpole@gmail.com
Thank you,
Coates & Davenport
Richmond, Virginia
So I went back and checked the story, as it was originally reported to me:
In December 2009, the HomeOwners' Association (HOA) of Sussex Square, where 90-year-old Van T. Barfoot lives in Henrico County, Virginia, ordered him to remove the flagpole from which he flies the American flag. The HOA retained a lawyer to help enforce their order. The Association's bylaws do not forbid flagpoles, but the HOA ruled Barfoot should not be allowed to use his "for aesthetic reasons". Mr. Barfoot is contesting the order.
I don't want to come off sounding like a barracks lawyer, but it sounds to me like Colonel Barfoot has a pretty good case going for him."
Speaking of idiot politicians dealing with troops,
In June, McChrystal noted, he had arrived in Afghanistan and set about fulfilling his assignment. His lean face, hovering on the screen at the end of the table, was replaced by a mission statement on a PowerPoint slide: "Defeat the Taliban. Secure the Population."
"Is that really what you think your mission is?" one of the participants asked.
In the first place, it was impossible -- the Taliban were part of the fabric of the Pashtun belt of southern Afghanistan, culturally if not ideologically supported by a major part of the population. "We don't need to do that," Gates said, according to one participant. "That's an open-ended, forever commitment."
But that was precisely his mission, McChrystal responded, enshrined in the Strategic Implementation Plan -- the execution orders for the March strategy, written by the NSC staff.
"I wouldn't say there was quite a 'whoa' moment," a senior defense official said of the reaction around the table. "It was just sort of a recognition that, 'Duh, that's what in effect the commander understands he's been told to do.' Everybody said, 'He's right.'"
As Ace puts it, The problem with these Obama folks is that they're so naive, so irreducibly ignorant of anything other than the inside of a classroom, they don't realize that when you give the U.S. armed forces a mission, they actually try to get it done.
What is this bullshit? "Oh, I told him to kill the Taliban, but I didn't think he'd take it so literally." What. The. Fuck.
"Is that really what you think your mission is?" one of the participants asked.
In the first place, it was impossible -- the Taliban were part of the fabric of the Pashtun belt of southern Afghanistan, culturally if not ideologically supported by a major part of the population. "We don't need to do that," Gates said, according to one participant. "That's an open-ended, forever commitment."
But that was precisely his mission, McChrystal responded, enshrined in the Strategic Implementation Plan -- the execution orders for the March strategy, written by the NSC staff.
"I wouldn't say there was quite a 'whoa' moment," a senior defense official said of the reaction around the table. "It was just sort of a recognition that, 'Duh, that's what in effect the commander understands he's been told to do.' Everybody said, 'He's right.'"
As Ace puts it, The problem with these Obama folks is that they're so naive, so irreducibly ignorant of anything other than the inside of a classroom, they don't realize that when you give the U.S. armed forces a mission, they actually try to get it done.
What is this bullshit? "Oh, I told him to kill the Taliban, but I didn't think he'd take it so literally." What. The. Fuck.
Ace had a post pointing to an article in the Times
on how a bunch of wounded British troops 'greeted' PM Brown; as he notes, when troops do this to their head of government, it tells us a number of things, none of them good:
Gordon Brown was snubbed by badly injured Afghan veterans when they closed curtains round their beds during a hospital visit and refused to speak to him.
More than half the soldiers being treated at the Selly Oak hospital ward in Birmingham either asked for the curtains to be closed or deliberately avoided the prime minister, according to several of those present.
The soldiers, who have sustained some of the worst injuries seen in Afghanistan, described his visit as “opportunistic” and a “waste of time”.
Personally, I don't doubt it was exactly both; take a look at some of the things Brown & Co. have done:
The concerns of the wounded soldiers appear to highlight a disconnection between front line troops in Afghanistan and Brown and his government. Earlier this year an official report suppressed by ministers revealed that soldiers’ lives were being put at risk by “endemic” failures at the Ministry of Defence.
It blamed a “political fudge” and Whitehall incompetence for the failure to provide soldiers in Afghanistan with adequate equipment, and said bungled projects were £35 billion over budget.
At the same time Brown has been accused of failing to give adequate funding to the military. As chancellor he oversaw a dramatic increase in government expenditure on education, welfare and health while the defence budget fell from 2.8% of GDP to 2.2%.
...
...while a month earlier the government took two injured soldiers to court in a test case that would have slashed compensation payments to injured soldiers.
Take a real good look at that last: it's been in the press before. Just what kind of miserable sonofabitch does it take to try that? Why, a socialist crapweasel like Brown, that's what.
The British Army, overall, has always been considered one of the best fighting forces around; despite being so often crapped on by government they've always tried to get the damned job done. For them to be pushed to this point:
“I wanted to find out how the guy’s head worked,” he said. “I was interested in what he had made of his trip to Afghanistan and what he had learnt from it.
“I feel that even if someone is a moron, he should have the opportunity to defend his moronity. [His response] all seemed rather textbook and not from the heart.
“It is quite obvious to anyone that Brown is not concerned, it is almost as if we [the soldiers] are the product of an unwanted affair.
“The straight fact is this: we don’t like the man, he has done nothing for us and continues to kick us in the teeth over equipment and compensation.”
means things are near or at a breaking point. The question that's been asked before is, looking at much of what these troops have done, "How do the Brits manage to keep men of this quality in the forces when they keep getting crapped on?" Well, I think that's going to change; and the Brit army and Britain overall are SOL if it does. To borrow the last stanza from Mr. Kipling,
You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!
Gordon Brown was snubbed by badly injured Afghan veterans when they closed curtains round their beds during a hospital visit and refused to speak to him.
More than half the soldiers being treated at the Selly Oak hospital ward in Birmingham either asked for the curtains to be closed or deliberately avoided the prime minister, according to several of those present.
The soldiers, who have sustained some of the worst injuries seen in Afghanistan, described his visit as “opportunistic” and a “waste of time”.
Personally, I don't doubt it was exactly both; take a look at some of the things Brown & Co. have done:
The concerns of the wounded soldiers appear to highlight a disconnection between front line troops in Afghanistan and Brown and his government. Earlier this year an official report suppressed by ministers revealed that soldiers’ lives were being put at risk by “endemic” failures at the Ministry of Defence.
It blamed a “political fudge” and Whitehall incompetence for the failure to provide soldiers in Afghanistan with adequate equipment, and said bungled projects were £35 billion over budget.
At the same time Brown has been accused of failing to give adequate funding to the military. As chancellor he oversaw a dramatic increase in government expenditure on education, welfare and health while the defence budget fell from 2.8% of GDP to 2.2%.
...
...while a month earlier the government took two injured soldiers to court in a test case that would have slashed compensation payments to injured soldiers.
Take a real good look at that last: it's been in the press before. Just what kind of miserable sonofabitch does it take to try that? Why, a socialist crapweasel like Brown, that's what.
The British Army, overall, has always been considered one of the best fighting forces around; despite being so often crapped on by government they've always tried to get the damned job done. For them to be pushed to this point:
“I wanted to find out how the guy’s head worked,” he said. “I was interested in what he had made of his trip to Afghanistan and what he had learnt from it.
“I feel that even if someone is a moron, he should have the opportunity to defend his moronity. [His response] all seemed rather textbook and not from the heart.
“It is quite obvious to anyone that Brown is not concerned, it is almost as if we [the soldiers] are the product of an unwanted affair.
“The straight fact is this: we don’t like the man, he has done nothing for us and continues to kick us in the teeth over equipment and compensation.”
means things are near or at a breaking point. The question that's been asked before is, looking at much of what these troops have done, "How do the Brits manage to keep men of this quality in the forces when they keep getting crapped on?" Well, I think that's going to change; and the Brit army and Britain overall are SOL if it does. To borrow the last stanza from Mr. Kipling,
You talk o' better food for us, an' schools, an' fires, an' all:
We'll wait for extry rations if you treat us rational.
Don't mess about the cook-room slops, but prove it to our face
The Widow's Uniform is not the soldier-man's disgrace.
For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!"
But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot;
An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!
Let's see what's out there...
Mt. Kilimanjaro: the ice cap ain't what Al Gore kept telling us, surpise!
You've probably already heard about this, but all the "More threats to Barack Obama than ANY OTHER PRESIDENT!!!" crap? It really IS crap.
He doesn't have the desire, let alone the balls, to want to win; neither does he have the integrity or balls to say "I'm withdrawing the troops". He wants to have eight years in the Oval Office so bad he'll do anything- including get troops killed playing games- to try to get them.
Some of the members of the American Physical Society are taking Climaquiddick very seriously:
What has this to do with APS? In 2007 the APS Council adopted a Statement on global warming (also reproduced at the tinyurl site mentioned above) that was based largely on the scientific work that is now revealed to have been corrupted. (The principals in this escapade have not denied what they did, but have sought to dismiss it by saying that it is normal practice among scientists. You know and we know that that is simply untrue. Physicists are not expected to cheat.)
We have asked the APS management to put the 2007 Statement on ice until the extent to which it is tainted can be determined, but that has not been done. We have also asked that the membership be consulted on this point, but that too has not been done.
None of us would use corrupted science in our own work, nor would we sign off on a thesis by a student who did so. This is not only a matter of science, it is a matter of integrity, and the integrity of the APS is now at stake. That is why we are taking the unusual step of communicating directly with at least a fraction of the membership.
If you believe that the APS should withdraw a Policy Statement that is based on admittedly corrupted science, and should then undertake to clarify the real state of the art in the best tradition of a learned society, please send a note to the incoming President of the APS ccallan@princeton.edu, with the single word YES in the subject line. That will make it easier for him to count.
"The Big Cutoff" refers, of course, to an end of the tips, free quotes, free background stuff, etc., that the climate-mongers have been offering Revkin. In other words, they're threatening to blacklist him from their rolodexes and no longer return his calls, leaving him a reporter without sources in the field he's supposed to be covering. (And doing a poor job of it even with those sources, note.)
Glad to see there's none of that "tribalism" among this claque! Good to put that particular false rumor to bed!
It also needs to be hammered again and again(just not the way he likes) just what kind of sleaze the 'Safe Schools Czar' really is.
Ace has something on British troops basically crapping on PM Brown, but that deserves a post of its own.
The wonders of Socialized Medicine demonstrated in California: poor women hurt most in this case.
There is a lesson there for small democracies. If they abide by democratic principles, sustain a united front domestically, and refuse to accede to the arrogance of Foggy Bottom and the White House, they can control their own destiny. (Hmm, seems to also have worked out in Israel.) That it should require such a Herculean effort to resist the strong-arming tactics of the United States is sobering and distressing.
Hey, we've got a 'Progressive'(i.e. socialist crapweasel) as President; you think he really respects the idea of a republic?
In news unrelated to, well, 'news', I wound up using the belt sander to take about .01" off the Pocket Hammerless magazine(harder steel than I'd expected, which is good), then polished it a bit with 220 wet/dry paper and hit it with cold blue(Van's, if you're interested). The original, at the point the trigger bow moves over, is .425", the aftermarket was .443". I didn't want to reduce the wall thickness too much, so only took it to .435"; I'll try it and see if that took care of it.
You've probably already heard about this, but all the "More threats to Barack Obama than ANY OTHER PRESIDENT!!!" crap? It really IS crap.
He doesn't have the desire, let alone the balls, to want to win; neither does he have the integrity or balls to say "I'm withdrawing the troops". He wants to have eight years in the Oval Office so bad he'll do anything- including get troops killed playing games- to try to get them.
Some of the members of the American Physical Society are taking Climaquiddick very seriously:
What has this to do with APS? In 2007 the APS Council adopted a Statement on global warming (also reproduced at the tinyurl site mentioned above) that was based largely on the scientific work that is now revealed to have been corrupted. (The principals in this escapade have not denied what they did, but have sought to dismiss it by saying that it is normal practice among scientists. You know and we know that that is simply untrue. Physicists are not expected to cheat.)
We have asked the APS management to put the 2007 Statement on ice until the extent to which it is tainted can be determined, but that has not been done. We have also asked that the membership be consulted on this point, but that too has not been done.
None of us would use corrupted science in our own work, nor would we sign off on a thesis by a student who did so. This is not only a matter of science, it is a matter of integrity, and the integrity of the APS is now at stake. That is why we are taking the unusual step of communicating directly with at least a fraction of the membership.
If you believe that the APS should withdraw a Policy Statement that is based on admittedly corrupted science, and should then undertake to clarify the real state of the art in the best tradition of a learned society, please send a note to the incoming President of the APS ccallan@princeton.edu, with the single word YES in the subject line. That will make it easier for him to count.
"The Big Cutoff" refers, of course, to an end of the tips, free quotes, free background stuff, etc., that the climate-mongers have been offering Revkin. In other words, they're threatening to blacklist him from their rolodexes and no longer return his calls, leaving him a reporter without sources in the field he's supposed to be covering. (And doing a poor job of it even with those sources, note.)
Glad to see there's none of that "tribalism" among this claque! Good to put that particular false rumor to bed!
It also needs to be hammered again and again(just not the way he likes) just what kind of sleaze the 'Safe Schools Czar' really is.
Ace has something on British troops basically crapping on PM Brown, but that deserves a post of its own.
The wonders of Socialized Medicine demonstrated in California: poor women hurt most in this case.
There is a lesson there for small democracies. If they abide by democratic principles, sustain a united front domestically, and refuse to accede to the arrogance of Foggy Bottom and the White House, they can control their own destiny. (Hmm, seems to also have worked out in Israel.) That it should require such a Herculean effort to resist the strong-arming tactics of the United States is sobering and distressing.
Hey, we've got a 'Progressive'(i.e. socialist crapweasel) as President; you think he really respects the idea of a republic?
In news unrelated to, well, 'news', I wound up using the belt sander to take about .01" off the Pocket Hammerless magazine(harder steel than I'd expected, which is good), then polished it a bit with 220 wet/dry paper and hit it with cold blue(Van's, if you're interested). The original, at the point the trigger bow moves over, is .425", the aftermarket was .443". I didn't want to reduce the wall thickness too much, so only took it to .435"; I'll try it and see if that took care of it.
Speaking of corrupt politicians like Sen. Max Baucus,
(I know, I wasn't, but just like the climate change fraud this needs to be hit again and again), it appears that Sen. Baucus shares some characteristics besides wanting to run our lives with Ted Kennedy:
You see, a decade or so ago Baucus's chief of staff, former CT congressional candidate Christine Niedermeier, accused the Senator of trying to include a physical relationship as part of her job duties. (mind you, this was right in the middle of the Senator's now lapsed marriage)
...
On that note, anyone really think that someone trying to bed a staffer in 1999 waited almost a decade before trying again?
It might be interesting to see if other former female Baucus staffers have landed plum jobs from his friends in the government and K Street, dontcha think? Like I said, this looks like a lifestyle for "Mad Max".
Over a decade ago, Republican Senator Bob Packwood was run out of office for exploiting his job so he could exploit women. We haven't much progress in improving the ethical standards of the Senate if people are now speculating that the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is up to the same monkey business.
Montana, the ball's in your court. Or do you people approve of this dirtbag? Hell even some media weenies are noting that this being ignored is not good; if THEY think so...
You see, a decade or so ago Baucus's chief of staff, former CT congressional candidate Christine Niedermeier, accused the Senator of trying to include a physical relationship as part of her job duties. (mind you, this was right in the middle of the Senator's now lapsed marriage)
...
On that note, anyone really think that someone trying to bed a staffer in 1999 waited almost a decade before trying again?
It might be interesting to see if other former female Baucus staffers have landed plum jobs from his friends in the government and K Street, dontcha think? Like I said, this looks like a lifestyle for "Mad Max".
Over a decade ago, Republican Senator Bob Packwood was run out of office for exploiting his job so he could exploit women. We haven't much progress in improving the ethical standards of the Senate if people are now speculating that the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is up to the same monkey business.
Montana, the ball's in your court. Or do you people approve of this dirtbag? Hell even some media weenies are noting that this being ignored is not good; if THEY think so...
Because, with the Copenhagen Climate Fraud Summit starting,
this crap HAS to be hammered over and over,
But more dramatic still has been the new evidence from the CRU's leaked documents, showing just how the evidence was finally rigged. The most quoted remark in those emails has been one from Prof Jones in 1999, reporting that he had used "Mike [Mann]'s Nature trick of adding in the real temps" to "Keith's" graph, in order to "hide the decline". Invariably this has been quoted out of context. Its true significance, we can now see, is that what they intended to hide was the awkward fact that, apart from that one tree, the Yamal data showed temperatures not having risen in the late 20th century but declining. What Jones suggested, emulating Mann's procedure for the "hockey stick" (originally published in Nature), was that tree-ring data after 1960 should be eliminated, and substituted – without explanation – with a line based on the quite different data of measured global temperatures, to convey that temperatures after 1960 had shot up.
A further devastating blow has now been dealt to the CRU graphs by an expert contributor to McIntyre's Climate Audit, known only as "Lucy Skywalker". She has cross-checked with the actual temperature records for that part of Siberia, showing that in the past 50 years temperatures have not risen at all. (For further details see the science blog Watts Up With That.) (link added)
...
I will only add two footnotes to this real-life new version of the old story. One is that, as we can see from the CRU's website, the largest single source of funding for all its projects has been the European Union, which at Copenhagen will be more insistent than anyone that the world should sign up to what amounts to the most costly economic suicide note in history.
The other is that the ugly, drum-like concrete building at the University of East Anglia which houses the CRU is named after its founder, the late Hubert Lamb, the doyen of historical climate experts. It was Professor Lamb whose most famous contribution to climatology was his documenting and naming of what he called the Medieval Warm Epoch, that glaring contradiction of modern global warming theory which his successors have devoted untold efforts to demolishing. If only they had looked at the evidence of those Siberian trees in the spirit of true science, they might have told us that all their efforts to show otherwise were in vain, and that their very much more distinguished predecessor was right after all.
And, speaking of Watts,
On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the “summit to save the world”, which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200. “We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention,” she says. “But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report.”
Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”
And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? “Five,” says Ms Jorgensen. “The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don’t have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it’s very Danish.”
But wait, there’s more!
Red bold mine. Just like Al Gore using enough energy in ONE of his mansions EVERY MONTH to take care of an average family for a year, like the UN climate weenie who's flown almost half-a-million miles the past year- all in first class, of course- to do 'global warming' business,we have the merry socialist nannies lecturing us to "Do what we tell you, don't worry about what we're doing."
But more dramatic still has been the new evidence from the CRU's leaked documents, showing just how the evidence was finally rigged. The most quoted remark in those emails has been one from Prof Jones in 1999, reporting that he had used "Mike [Mann]'s Nature trick of adding in the real temps" to "Keith's" graph, in order to "hide the decline". Invariably this has been quoted out of context. Its true significance, we can now see, is that what they intended to hide was the awkward fact that, apart from that one tree, the Yamal data showed temperatures not having risen in the late 20th century but declining. What Jones suggested, emulating Mann's procedure for the "hockey stick" (originally published in Nature), was that tree-ring data after 1960 should be eliminated, and substituted – without explanation – with a line based on the quite different data of measured global temperatures, to convey that temperatures after 1960 had shot up.
A further devastating blow has now been dealt to the CRU graphs by an expert contributor to McIntyre's Climate Audit, known only as "Lucy Skywalker". She has cross-checked with the actual temperature records for that part of Siberia, showing that in the past 50 years temperatures have not risen at all. (For further details see the science blog Watts Up With That.) (link added)
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I will only add two footnotes to this real-life new version of the old story. One is that, as we can see from the CRU's website, the largest single source of funding for all its projects has been the European Union, which at Copenhagen will be more insistent than anyone that the world should sign up to what amounts to the most costly economic suicide note in history.
The other is that the ugly, drum-like concrete building at the University of East Anglia which houses the CRU is named after its founder, the late Hubert Lamb, the doyen of historical climate experts. It was Professor Lamb whose most famous contribution to climatology was his documenting and naming of what he called the Medieval Warm Epoch, that glaring contradiction of modern global warming theory which his successors have devoted untold efforts to demolishing. If only they had looked at the evidence of those Siberian trees in the spirit of true science, they might have told us that all their efforts to show otherwise were in vain, and that their very much more distinguished predecessor was right after all.
And, speaking of Watts,
On a normal day, Majken Friss Jorgensen, managing director of Copenhagen’s biggest limousine company, says her firm has twelve vehicles on the road. During the “summit to save the world”, which opens here tomorrow, she will have 200. “We thought they were not going to have many cars, due to it being a climate convention,” she says. “But it seems that somebody last week looked at the weather report.”
Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. “We haven’t got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand,” she says. “We’re having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden.”
And the total number of electric cars or hybrids among that number? “Five,” says Ms Jorgensen. “The government has some alternative fuel cars but the rest will be petrol or diesel. We don’t have any hybrids in Denmark, unfortunately, due to the extreme taxes on those cars. It makes no sense at all, but it’s very Danish.”
But wait, there’s more!
Red bold mine. Just like Al Gore using enough energy in ONE of his mansions EVERY MONTH to take care of an average family for a year, like the UN climate weenie who's flown almost half-a-million miles the past year- all in first class, of course- to do 'global warming' business,we have the merry socialist nannies lecturing us to "Do what we tell you, don't worry about what we're doing."
Sunday, December 06, 2009
Pardon me for some crude wording: eco-passengers
my ass. They're either watermelons or general nanny-state jerks who want to run our lives; either by pretending to or actually believing the AGW bullshit.
No, I'm fresh out of charitable thoughts for these clowns.
No, I'm fresh out of charitable thoughts for these clowns.
Something very satisfying, when it's cold out,
when A: you try something new in the kitchen and it actually works and B: this results in a big pot of chicken stew. Which went very well with garlic bread.
So it's official: instead of Secret Service, some liberals want
a Praetorian Guard around Pres. Obama.
SCHULTZ: But I think this president deserves more. I think he deserves the absolute best around him. He doesn't deserve a cheaper cut or any less of an attitude and I would even go so far as to think it might not be bad to have politically like-minded people around the president in the Secret Service who would pledge allegiance to make sure that you go beyond the profession of a security that, you know, hey, that's my guy! That's my guy!
I realize that this might be a hard thing for Schultz and others like him to understand, but the Secret Service is, at base, a law enforcement agency of the United States. If agents start acting according to personal political views, they should be fired. That is not their damned job*. I have my problems with some of their actions in the past, but overall the Service Protective Detail is made up of the best they've got, people who are sworn to, if needed, put their life down to protect the people they are guarding. If that's not good enough for you, Mr. Schultz, you can piss off. We've got enough political bullshit messing up law enforcement in this country already without throwing crap like this into the mix.
*And the next step of that would be for the PG to 'protect' the President from being bothered by, oh, other elected officials or anypeasantspeople who dare to ask questions or something. I think Schultz would just looove that.
SCHULTZ: But I think this president deserves more. I think he deserves the absolute best around him. He doesn't deserve a cheaper cut or any less of an attitude and I would even go so far as to think it might not be bad to have politically like-minded people around the president in the Secret Service who would pledge allegiance to make sure that you go beyond the profession of a security that, you know, hey, that's my guy! That's my guy!
I realize that this might be a hard thing for Schultz and others like him to understand, but the Secret Service is, at base, a law enforcement agency of the United States. If agents start acting according to personal political views, they should be fired. That is not their damned job*. I have my problems with some of their actions in the past, but overall the Service Protective Detail is made up of the best they've got, people who are sworn to, if needed, put their life down to protect the people they are guarding. If that's not good enough for you, Mr. Schultz, you can piss off. We've got enough political bullshit messing up law enforcement in this country already without throwing crap like this into the mix.
*And the next step of that would be for the PG to 'protect' the President from being bothered by, oh, other elected officials or any
I do need to get around to reading some of his works
Oh how we burned in the prison camps, later thinking: what would things have been like if every police operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? If, during periods of mass arrests, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood that they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers or whatever was at hand? The organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt.
Couple of days ago had a post on the Death Tax
Here's some more. In particular, the thoughts of the socialists at Daily Kos:
And the difference between 45% above estates of $3.5 million and 55% of estates above $1 million? An estimated $234 billion in revenue over the next 10 years. That’s the gift which the Congress is giving to the rich, a gift which could pay for healthcare, or to eliminate the budget deficits of all the states, or any number of things which would benefit tens of millions of people, rather than the tiny number of people who are actually affected by this tax.
Note the 'gift' bullshit. So you work your ass off all your life, succeed, and these clowns think that you passing your estate to your family or whoever is a 'gift' the government 'gives' to them.
This is exactly the kind of word-twisting bullcrap I hate: you giving your kids something you worked for is a 'gift from government' if they don't tax the life out of it. And no, I can't spell the sound I made after writing that.
These bastards either do not consider or WILL not consider just what people can do with that money: start a business or invest in one, expand one already there, things that build companies AND MAKE JOBS; I guess they don't consider it a real gain if the government isn't in total control of it.
Look at these two comments:
*Whatever your parents estate is comprised off they acquired those material goods by exploiting a social and economic infrastructure that the society as a whole created. They did not simply take dirt and logs and create 3.5 mil + in assets.
*Somebody must pay– someone has to give up something in order for America to get out of this mess. It has to be the rich. And we in the middle class should force them.
Asshole number one: the vast majority of people who make millionaire in this country start out with little or nothing: they DO build that fortune by hard work. A concept you seem unfamiliar with.
Asshole number two: your attitude of someone else paying for everything is in large part what got us into this mess, and you think further armed robbery and extortion will help? Moron.
This is the kind of crap we're facing: clowns who think they have some divine right to have government loot you if you happen to have more than they do.
And the difference between 45% above estates of $3.5 million and 55% of estates above $1 million? An estimated $234 billion in revenue over the next 10 years. That’s the gift which the Congress is giving to the rich, a gift which could pay for healthcare, or to eliminate the budget deficits of all the states, or any number of things which would benefit tens of millions of people, rather than the tiny number of people who are actually affected by this tax.
Note the 'gift' bullshit. So you work your ass off all your life, succeed, and these clowns think that you passing your estate to your family or whoever is a 'gift' the government 'gives' to them.
This is exactly the kind of word-twisting bullcrap I hate: you giving your kids something you worked for is a 'gift from government' if they don't tax the life out of it. And no, I can't spell the sound I made after writing that.
These bastards either do not consider or WILL not consider just what people can do with that money: start a business or invest in one, expand one already there, things that build companies AND MAKE JOBS; I guess they don't consider it a real gain if the government isn't in total control of it.
Look at these two comments:
*Whatever your parents estate is comprised off they acquired those material goods by exploiting a social and economic infrastructure that the society as a whole created. They did not simply take dirt and logs and create 3.5 mil + in assets.
*Somebody must pay– someone has to give up something in order for America to get out of this mess. It has to be the rich. And we in the middle class should force them.
Asshole number one: the vast majority of people who make millionaire in this country start out with little or nothing: they DO build that fortune by hard work. A concept you seem unfamiliar with.
Asshole number two: your attitude of someone else paying for everything is in large part what got us into this mess, and you think further armed robbery and extortion will help? Moron.
This is the kind of crap we're facing: clowns who think they have some divine right to have government loot you if you happen to have more than they do.
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