Category Archives: Blogosphere

Climate Czar of Mars

Posted on February 18, 2012 | Comments Off on Climate Czar of Mars

The usual shrill babble and punchy trailer clips are flogging John Carter, Disney’s remake of Edgar Rice Burrough’s 1917 novel Princess of Mars, but it looks like a kiddie combo of Hercules and Avatar.

The bad guys burn coal, you see, and are damaging the Martian atmosphere. Uh oh. John Carter is a Confederate soldier mysteriously transported to Mars. There he engages in a lot of sword play, some love scenes steamy enough for 14-year-old boys, and I’ll bet more than a few ecology speeches about sustainability and global warming. Face palm.

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Peaceful Israel

Posted on February 17, 2012 | Comments Off on Peaceful Israel

“From outside of Israel, one would think that buses and bombs explode here every day; that armed soldiers patrol the streets searching [for] (and probably finding) terrorists on a daily basis.”

Sure was quiet where we went (even in J-Lem and especially on the Golan Heights) last spring and we expect it will be again when we return in late June. Proof that you cannot trust the MSM and its biased and usually conflict-oriented viewpoint. It’s like seeing the world through a porthole.

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Scott’s good cancer news

Posted on February 15, 2012 | Comments Off on Scott’s good cancer news

Valentine’s was an especially nice day for my old blog buddy and Web master Scott Chaffin of San Antonio:

“The docs say that the chemo has achieved it’s goal and stabilized the tumor, so it’s shrunk “a considerable amount” and isn’t growing any more. There’s been no spread of cancer (or metastasis) to other parts of my beat-to-hell body.

“And a rib, what was broken about a year ago, and was a spot of concern — the lesion there has shrunk, which could be normal healing or the chemo killing cancer…don’t know, can’t know really. So, I am getting a 90 day stay from more treatment, [while] hopefully, I can start regaining strength and some capacity for doing something besides sitting on my tukus.”

Meanwhile, he’s looking forward to seeing whether the Rangers’ new $107.7 million Japanese pitcher, Yu Darvish, will be able to help get them back in the World Series—where third time just may be the charm for the boys from Arlington. Unless Darvish sucks, as most transitioning Japanese players have.

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The politically-inspired food pyramid

Posted on February 14, 2012 | Comments Off on The politically-inspired food pyramid

“The food pyramid that was released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 1992 quickly became a recognizable nutrition symbol for Americans. However, during the same period of the 1990s, Americans gained more and more weight. Is the food pyramid to blame?”

How could it not be, since it advises eating copious amounts of carbohydrates in the form of starches, grains and sugars? Moreover, it’s taught in the public schools. Mr. B. learned about it in second grade. He even had a test on it.

Via Instapundit.

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Would Raid work on Shelob?

Posted on February 10, 2012 | Comments Off on Would Raid work on Shelob?

Probably not. Shelob was altogether too mean and much too smart to be more than extra annoyed by a measly can of Raid. Or even twenty cans.

But how about Spiderman? Hmm.

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The importance of being Ernie

Posted on February 9, 2012 | Comments Off on The importance of being Ernie

Miriam has a funny post.

It’s a “what if” about the face on a thousand thingies that’s so ubiquitous nowadays nobody notices it any more.

What if the Left’s favorite Commie thug Che had been plain old Ernie Guevara?

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Mooch ain’t the only moocher

Posted on February 7, 2012 | Comments Off on Mooch ain’t the only moocher

Mooch, as some call the ever-vacationing Michelle Obama—the first First Lady in my memory with a penchant for expensive hotels and fancy restaurants on the taxpayer’s tab, is merely following a national trend for living on other people’s money.

Ours, says a new book reviewed by the Instapundit, is a nation of moochers.

“In today’s America, government benefits flow to large numbers of people who are encouraged to vote for politicians who’ll keep them coming.  The benefits are paid for by other people who, being less numerous, can’t muster enough votes to put this to a stop.”

And we’re not talking about the poor-on-welfare here, but the upper-middle like Michelle and, someday, there could be more moochers than makers.

Via Instapundit.

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