Category Archives: Scribbles

Skywalking

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Another, more frightening view, of that pretty crazy idea. I’m just not that trusting, I guess. So it’s still, you first.

UPDATE  More on the wonder (or eyesore, depending on your view):

"Skywalk is a solid three hours southeast of Las Vegas, mostly on rural two-lane roads through long-forgotten towns like Dolan Springs, home of the Wishing Well Saloon, a VFW and little else. Along the way, you pass more abandoned trailers–and some that should be–than you can count. Their dusty lots are adorned with rusted pickup trucks, caved-in sheds and enough broken fence line to keep an army of ranch hands busy for decades."

Gore’s energy conservation

"The only place Al Gore conserves energy these days is on the treadmill. I don’t want to suggest that Al’s getting big, but the last time I saw him on TV I thought, ‘That reminds me — we have to do something about saving the polar bears.’"  –Ann Coulter
Even a crank is funny sometimes. For those who want the link

Hiding the pea

When a political party manufactures a phony scandal, like abhoring "political reasons" for the AG’s recent sacking of six political appointees, we should look for the vanishing pea under the moving cups. Don Suber says the pea is the anti-war movement’s sudden escalation to office takeovers of their Dem supporters. Quick, hide the pea!

The Italian Stallion

No, not that one. Rudy.

"Nobody even knows how many Italian-Americans there are. The 2000 census reported almost 16 million, making them the fourth largest white ethnic group – and the only one that experienced growth in the last decade. The National Italian American Foundation puts the number at 25 million, close to 10 percent of the population. Either way, it is possible that there are more Italian-American voters than either blacks or Hispanics."

If they voted as a bloc, which they probably wouldn’t. Still, Rudy will be the first to run seriously.

Via Fresh Bilge 

Hillarity rides again

Sen. Clinton wants U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign for firing six U.S. Attorneys, because the AG’s reasons were political. Big whoop. U.S. Attorneys are political appointments and serve at the pleasure of their masters. As Sen. Hillarity knows very well. No wonder no-experience Obama looks so good next to her.

UPDATE  The Fat Guy, a sometime confidant of US Attys, has a good comment on this sham scandal.

The lunatics are loose

A global warming crusader, a pol in North Carolina, is proposing that incandescent light bulbs be banned there. Better there than here, thank you very much. Dim bulb. This is not, however, surprising. The MSM and politicians love bandwagons. Everyone gets to ride. The rest of us get screwed.

Via Instapundit 

See-through floor

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Here’s a bit of lunacy that opened today at the Grand Canyon. Walk out on the glass? Higher than the world’s tallest buildings? You first.