Name That Group
OK, Guru, here’s one for you…
September 30, 2007
Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead
As a fan of both NL teams that will be playing tomorrow, all I can say is…
GO ROCKIES!
The Padres are falling apart, and would get squashed by the Phillies in the first round (as is usual with San Diego teams). The Rockies, on the other hand, could go all the way.
September 29, 2007
Govtrack.us Helping to Bring Transparency to Congress
For those who want to know what is happening in the 110th Congress, click here.
The National League Playoff Scenarios
If the Mets, Philadelphia and either Colorado or San Diego finish with the same record, New York and Philadelphia would play a tiebreaker Monday at Philadelphia for the division title. The loser of that game would then play a wild-card tiebreaker Tuesday against Colorado or San Diego, which would be in Colorado if it’s the Rockies, but Philly would play at San Diego if it’s the Padres, but if it’s NY instead of Philly then San Diego has to go to New York.
If Colorado, New York and Philadelphia win Sunday and San Diego loses, all would finish 89-73. New York and Philadelphia would play the NL East tiebreaker Monday; the loser would play a three-team, two-day, wild-card tiebreaker with Colorado and San Diego on Tuesday and Wednesday. In that scenario, Colorado (the team with the best head-to-head record among the three teams in the wild-card tiebreaker) would get the choice of having a bye on Tuesday or playing both games at home.
Got that?
Jeezy Creezy
The bar I was at today had two games on, the Padres (who lost, obviously), and the Buffs…
Wow. That was frakkin’ awesome.
Kudos PG, now change the avatar! 
Friday Night Not Punk- TOOL
I am suffering from withdrawal after handing the mantle to Dave (BTW, you don’t need to call it “Dave Edition” anymore) so the videos of two of my favorite songs from my favorite band (and they’re not even punk)…
“Prison Sex”
and “Ænima“
September 28, 2007
For those who love history
WWII German soldier Russian Front photographs (2,500 pics in total)
That should keep you busy for awhile. Really an amazing collection.
FNP - Dave Edition
Another double dose of FNP for your listening ‘pleasure’.
Agent Orange - I’m Too Young To Die
Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown put to video from Falling Down
A little bit of fun
The best comedians know how to make you laugh without words. It helps when the writers come up with a short scene this great and the director knows how to shoot something this insane without making it too unbelievable. This is from Newsradio, one of the best sitcoms ever made and I mentioned to Andre, the source of my picture on here. If you never saw it, you could check out a DVD or try to catch it on TBS (I think it airs at 12PM EST). I miss Phil Hartman, though.
September 27, 2007
We now know where all of Iran’s gays have gone
If you are ever in a mosque in the West Bank, try to ignore all of the toe tapping and whatever you do, don’t mimic it.
The Hamas-Fatah power struggle has descended into the gutter over the past few days, with both parties trading allegations about the involvement of their members in homosexual relations and adultery.
The alleged “sex scandals” are said to have occurred in the Gaza Strip, which fell into Hamas’s hands in June.
Shortly after the Islamist movement wrested control of the Strip, Hamas officials began talking about “embarrassing” and “damning” documents and films that were seized inside Palestinian Authority security headquarters formerly controlled by Fatah.
According to the officials, the Fatah men had been spying on several senior PA officials, some of whom were caught on tape having homosexual intercourse.
A DVD distributed among a limited number of Hamas representatives features a former PA official having sex with another man. The disc, according to a Palestinian journalist in Gaza City, is being sold on the black market for NIS 20.
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!
What Gutless, Greedy and Pathetic Cowards
In case you didn’t catch this already.
Mattel Apologizes to China over Recalls
LOS ANGELES - Mattel Inc. tried to save face Friday with Chinese officials, taking the blame for the recent recalls of millions of Chinese-made toys as it strives to mend a strained relationship with the nation that makes most of its toys and fattens its profit.
The world’s largest toy maker sent a top executive to personally apologize to China’s product safety chief, Li Changjang, as reporters and company lawyers looked on.
“Mattel takes full responsibility for these recalls and apologizes personally to you, the Chinese people, and all of our customers who received the toys,”Thomas A. Debrowski, Mattel’s executive vice president for worldwide operations, told Li.
When I first read this the family and I were eating at Chick Fil-a. My wife is starting to dread these little ‘discoveries’ of mine when we are together. Not only did she receive a fifteen minute history lesson on the historic arrogance of the Chinese and how they honestly believe that the universe revolves around them, but also a recap about how then Sec. of State Colin Powell had to apologize profusely and more than once because some hot shot fighter pilot was stupid enough to accidently ram one of our slow flying surveillance planes a few years back and paid for it with his life. The groveling at the time in an attempt to free our captured crew was gutwrenching but at least had a worthwhile objective. This pathetic lap dog effort played out on the world scene was downright embarrassing.
I also would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the Chinese for them poisoning thousands of our dogs and cats, putting anti-freeze in toothpaste, selling us shoddy goods and covering millions of our children’s toys in lead paint. I’m sorry.
Boycott China? How about boycotting Mattel?
Holy Progressives Batman, it’s the DLC
It seems that Carolina’s fair-haired boy is starting to falter. According to the NYT OPINIONATOR’S opinion Senator Edwards is in danger of being marginalized before a primary vote is cast.
How poorly is John Edwards faring in his bid to become president of the United States? Writing on his personal blog, Marc Cooper, a contributing editor for The Nation, suggests that “the already sputtering Edwards’ campaign” hit “a definitive speed bump” yesterday when Edwards failed to win the endorsement of the Service Employees International Union. Cooper thinks “the much-coveted endorsement of Big Labor’s biggest union seemed to slip one notch closer toward never happening.”
Keep in mind that this is the NYT blog saying this, and they use The Nation and The Huffington Post as foundation to back up their thoughts. Apparently the country’s biggest union is just plain running scared, and does not want to get burned again “Howard Dean Style” by a candidate that has no legs or a broad appeal. Cooper summed it up this way…
SEIU officials are openly concerned that their once-favored Edwards is running a distant third in most national and state polls (with the exception of Iowa) and may no longer be a viable candidate, no matter how many union resources are poured into his campaign.
September 26, 2007
Why they fight: and what it means for us
A good “know thy enemy” article from the Editorial Page of the Wall Street Journal. And hopefully helpful for those growing ‘weary’ in the long war against Islamofascism.
The conclusion:
The war against global jihadism will be long, and we will experience success and setbacks along the way. The temptation of the West will be to grow impatient and, in the face of this long struggle, to grow weary. Some will demand a quick victory and, absent that, they will want to withdraw from the battle. But this is a war from which we cannot withdraw. As we saw on September 11th, there are no safe harbors in which to hide. Our enemies have declared war on us, and their hatreds cannot be sated. We will either defeat them, or they will come after us with the unsheathed sword.
All of us would prefer years of repose to years of conflict. But history will not allow it. And so it once again rests with this remarkable republic to do what we have done in the past: our duty.
It’s Almost Hockey Time!
While visions of October dance in my head, here’s hoping the Avs don’t suck as bad this year as the last.
So just for fun…
And, of course…
Good times.
More on the Modern Day Mercs
Exclusive: Tabloid Attack Dogs Seek Next Victims: KBR and Blackwater
As a former mercenary, a title I claim proudly, these attempts by the media to portray Blackwater as the evil force in this war, while ignoring the enemy who launched this attack, were not surprising. Claims of civilian deaths had the media screaming for “justice”. May I ask…justice for whom? Contractors fight this war too, where it is impossible to distinguish civilians and insurgents from each other. Hiding behind women and children, these common thugs launch deadly attacks against contractors, then use shrill cries from the likes of CNN to spread enemy propaganda – using our own government and networks to turn the American people against our military and civilian contractors. Is that what we call justice nowadays?
For those crying for the removal of the armed contractors in Iraq, are you willing to send an additional 50,000 US troops into Iraq to replace them if they are forced to leave? The fact is they are an integral part of the armed strength that the West has in Iraq and have had no more questionable or criminal incidents that we have experienced with our regular uniformed military forces.
{See also my latest post on Blackwater : In Defense of Blackwater and the Modern Day ‘Merc’}
New Blogroll Addition
I have taken the liberty to add a new addition to our blogroll. The Fjordman files is the archived work of a Scandinavian blogger who is one of the few articulate voices in Europe to openly confront and analyze the destructive influences of Multiculturalism on Western Civilization and the unfortunate effects Islam is having on European cultures and peoples . I humbly submit that he is the best column writer I have ever read (that knocks DFV down to the 2nd spot) and strongly suggest you take the time to peruse his excellent body of work. He reminds me of Winston Churchill in the 1930’s sounding the lone voice of warning against the monstrousities gathering strength to threaten European Civilization.
We all know that we just love true intellectual diversity on this blog, and the Fjordman is neither an American nor a Christian. I hope that is diverse enough for all of you.
Go Padres, Go Rockies!
The Defiant One’s dream scenario: the Phillies choke, the Padres win three of four, and the Rockies finish their sweep and go on to squash the D-backs.
Padres and Rockies play a one game playoff for Division/Wild Card.
It could happen.
P.S. Nice last home game, Barry. Tee hee.
The best — and worst — movie battle scenes
This is actually interesting. It also adds to the list of movies I need to see again. Be sure to click on Read other CNN viewers’ best and worst movie battle scenes >> for some of the best battle scenes ever portrayed on screen.
September 25, 2007
Hearts and Minds
I’ve said before, and I mean it, that I hope we can somehow succeed in Iraq, but when stuff like this comes to light…
A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of “bait,” such as detonation cords, plastic explosives and ammunition, and then killing Iraqis who pick up the items, according to military court documents.
The classified program was described in investigative documents related to recently filed murder charges against three snipers who are accused of planting evidence on Iraqis they killed.
“Baiting is putting an object out there that we know they will use, with the intention of destroying the enemy,” Capt. Matthew P. Didier, the leader of an elite sniper scout platoon attached to the 1st Battalion of the 501st Infantry Regiment, said in a sworn statement. “Basically, we would put an item out there and watch it. If someone found the item, picked it up and attempted to leave with the item, we would engage the individual as I saw this as a sign they would use the item against U.S. Forces.”
In documents obtained by The Washington Post from family members of the accused soldiers, Didier said members of the U.S. military’s Asymmetric Warfare Group visited his unit in January and later passed along ammunition boxes filled with the “drop items” to be used “to disrupt the AIF [Anti-Iraq Forces] attempts at harming Coalition Forces and give us the upper hand in a fight.”
Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, said such a baiting program should be examined “quite meticulously” because it raises troubling possibilities, such as what happens when civilians pick up the items.
Whoever came up with this insane ”strategy” needs to be immediately relieved of command, and should probably be court marshaled.
I can guarantee you that when I was twelve or thirteen years old, if I found a box of ammo or some C-4 along the side of the road, I would have grabbed it and run off to show it off to my friends. I’m glad that didn’t equal a death sentence in C. Springs.
What the hell are we becoming?
Historical Anecdote of the Day
(Stormin’ Norman is on the Left in this AP photo)
That night I had a dream. Someone was chasing me through the locker rooms at West Point. I raced down long hallways, one after another, until I came to a dead end. I cringed against the tile wall and whoever had been chasing me whispered, “We are going to wound you,” not “We are going to kill you,” but “We are going to wound you.” I woke up in a cold sweat. Then I thought, “What a dumb dream,” and went back to sleep.
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September 24, 2007
Iran is a “gay-free” zone
Imagine if this site were in Iran and we didn’t have to deal with the pesky issue of gay people. Life would be so much easier. And the one or two that did get caught could just be put to death. Talk about Utopia!
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad skirted a question about the treatment of homosexuals in Iran on Monday, saying in a speech at a top US university that there were no gays in Iran.
“In Iran we don’t have homosexuals like in your country,” Ahmadinejad said to howls and boos among the Columbia University audience.
“In Iran we do not have this phenomenon, I don’t know who has told you that we have it,” he said.
They also don’t have nuclear ambitions either. Everything in Iran is just swell!
September 23, 2007
What Guru is listening to right now…
Perhaps not a new feature, but my musical tastes are shall we say, eclectic or even perhaps moody. Tonight I have been listening to a lot of my early 90s favorites…including this song by the Utah Saints.
General Jameson?
She’s a big Hillary fan, but undoubtedly Bill is a big fan of hers…
Sen. Specter Asks: Who’s This Jenna Jameson?
Specter himself seemed to know nothing of Jameson’s visit. He appeared genuinely clueless when confronted by our colleague Paul Kane, who, bless his heart, was brave enough to query Specter (who didn’t get his nickname, Snarlin’ Arlen for nothing) just off the Senate floor about a rumored meeting he was having with Jameson.
“I don’t recognize that name. Who? General Jameson?” Specter asked.
“No, sir, Jenna. She’s, well, she’s kind of an actress, in, well, uh, the adult film industry,” Kane explained.
“Paul, do you mean pornos?” Specter chuckled.
“Yes, senator, that’s what we’d call it.”
“I don’t think I’m meeting her,” Specter said.
THE WAR: A Ken Burns Film
THE WAR, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four quintessentially American towns. The series explores the most intimate human dimensions of the greatest cataclysm in history — a worldwide catastrophe that touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America — and demonstrates that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
I think Ken Burns probably peaked with his series The Civil War (how could one possibly top that?) but this should be good as well. He’s a talented story teller.
Profane Language Puts Student Editor’s Job On Line
There are still idiots running the Collegian
Both DFV and I used to write weekly columns for the Rocky Mountain Collegian. I believe I was paid $15.00 a column which came out to less than two cents a word. It was basically a worthless pinko rag at the time and, if you can believe it, is even worse now.
I still pick it up now and then when we are eating out at local restaurants that distribute it. The obvious attempts at indoctrination and zealous propagandizing for the ideologies of ‘Multiculturalism, Diversity, Political Correctness and Tolerance’ (and Liberalism in general) is incredibly blatant and unimanginative. There is not even the flimsiest attempt to appear objective when reporting the news which makes their shilling for the Left almost embarrassing. The have all the subtlety of the Commies pushing Pravda.
The Rocky Mountain Collegian published an editorial on page 4 of the paper Friday which read “Taser this … F*** Bush.” The last two words were in bold type, larger than most headlines. A caption below said, “this column represents the views of the Collegian’s Editorial Board.”
September 22, 2007
David vs. Goliath
The little nation of Israel continues to stand up to the Goliath of nations and peoples that seek its destruction. What the Syrians and the rest need to remember is that the Israelis rarely bluff. Lebanon and Hezbollah found that out the hard way last summer. How much of all this is true is certainly hard to say with 100 percent accuracy, but you can be sure that where there is smoke, there is fire. Events are starting to move quickly in the Middle East.
Israel to Syria: Use chem weapons & we’ll wipe you off map
Citing Syrian intelligence sources, the report claimed a team of Iranian and Syrian engineers were killed July 26 while trying to arm a Scud-C missile with a mustard gas warhead.
Syrian official news agency, SANA, reported that least 15 Syrian military personnel had been “martyred” and 50 others injured in the blast near the northern city of Aleppo on the Turkish border. It claimed the early morning explosion was caused by the high temperatures.
The SANA report mentioned nothing of Iranian personnel killed in the mishap.
Jane’s said dozens of Iranian workers were among those who died when a fire in the missile’s engine triggered the explosion and release of a toxic cloud of lethal chemical agents banned under international law.
And in a completely unrelated matter Israelis seized nuclear material in Syrian raid.
Israeli commandos seized nuclear material of North Korean origin during a daring raid on a secret military site in Syria before Israel bombed it this month, according to informed sources in Washington and Jerusalem.
The attack was launched with American approval on September 6 after Washington was shown evidence the material was nuclear related, the well-placed sources say.
Top Ten People Who Should Be Tasered
Feel free to add a few of your own. There are more than a few people who should be shouting ‘Don’t Tase Me Bro!’.
- The President of Iran (for obvious reasons including desire for the nuclear bomb, the urge to destroy Jerusalem in a deluge of fire, and wishing to usher in the reign of the Mahdi)
- Britney Spears (once again for obvious reasons, mostly for being a stupid ho)
- O.J. Simpson (he needs to settle down)
- Keith Olberman (for being the worst person in the world every single day, and for being responsible for that stupid bit in the first place)
- Al Gore (for polluting)
- DFV the Scribe (for being absent from the blog for an extended period without leave or explanation)
- Senator Obama (for trying to be too white, at least according to Jesse Jackson, oh, and for not caring about potential genocide in Iraq )
- Dan Rather (for being an idiot)
- President George Bush (for managing the Iraq war so miserably that it has cost the Republicans their majority in Congress, ended the Reagan Revolution, and for generally pissing off conservatives in general)
- All members of Code Pink and MoveOn.org (for being an embarrassment to the American people, aiding and abetting the cause of the enemy, and practicing sedition during a time of war)
A Nerd Moment
Wow! God bless DVR. I think Doctor Who is about to get VERY interesting…
The Doctor v. The Master, set to a little Franz Ferdinand
My apologies to those of you with lives.
Saturday Night: Mind if I lift that Riff
Killing Joke may not be a quintessential headbanging band, but the post punk group did influence a lot of the sound of grunge, metal, and rapcore. One of my favorite Joke songs is Eighties…
Now take a listen to Nirvana’s Come As You Are…
I think that may be a little more than influence, if you know what I mean.
Now listen to this mp3 comparison of Boston’s More than a Feeling and Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit.
It’s been said before, “good artists borrow, great artists steal.”
Teh Gays Can Has Teh Change!!!!!1!!
I haven’t linked to my favorite blog in a while, so what the hey…
Groundbreaking study affirms “gays” can change
Wingnut meets scientific method. What could possibly go wrong?
September 21, 2007
As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly…
Maybe Mr. Bernanke should have tried dropping something else out of the helicopter.
An event like this may have had more of an effect on the recent credit crisis than the rate drop by the Fed this week, at least according to Satyajit Das who just may be the world’s foremost credit derivatives expert. Using the dreaded baseball analogy, Mr. Das thinks we may just be listening to the national anthem at this point with all 9 innings of the game ahead of us…ultimately leading to a worldwide recession and bear market.
The liquidity factory was self-perpetuating and seemingly unstoppable. As assets bought with borrowed money rose in value, players could borrow more money against them, and it thus seemed logical to borrow even more to increase returns. Bankers figured out how to strip money out of existing assets to do so, much as a homeowner might strip equity from his house to buy another house.
These triple-borrowed assets were then in turn increasingly used as collateral for commercial paper — the short-term borrowings of banks and corporations — which was purchased by supposedly low-risk money market funds. According to Das’ figures, up to 53% of the $2.2 trillion of commercial paper in the U.S. market is now asset-backed, with about 50% of that in mortgages. When you add it all up, according to Das’ research, a single dollar of “real” capital supports $20 to $30 of loans. This spiral of borrowing on an increasingly thin base of real assets, writ large and in nearly infinite variety, ultimately created a world in which derivatives outstanding earlier this year stood at $485 trillion — or eight times total global gross domestic product of $60 trillion. Money quote…
While you might think that the U.S. Federal Reserve can help prevent disaster by lowering interest rates dramatically, as it did Wednesday, the evidence is not at all clear.
The problem, after all, is not the amount of money in the system but the fact that buyers are in the process of rejecting the entire new risk-transfer model and its associated leverage and counterparty risks.
Lower rates will not help that. “At best,” Das says, “they help smooth the transition.”
FNP - Dave Edition
Tonights Friday Night Punk is dedicated to perhaps the most famous of second wave Punk bands, the Dead Kennedys. I had the interesting experience of attending a speech/activism presentation by Jello Biagra at CSU with my brother many years ago. Jello had already left DK and billed himself as some sort of ideological/philosophical punk sage for the disenchanted, disenfranchised youth of the Western world. I was expecting some actual deep thought and interesting in-depth sharing of his views. Instead I received awkward poetry reading, a bunch of anti-Christian and anti-Bible rantings (he really hated the Bible Superstore in Ft. Collins for some reason, I can only suppose it was because they sold Bibles) , a shallow vision of an anti-capitalist crypto-anarchist future utopia, none to subtle hints to the audience to engage in acts of sabotage against ‘the system’ and society, and this great quote:
“Wouldn’t it be great if you could just go up to anyone, male or female, and say ‘do you want to have sex’. No? Well, then can we at least be friends ?’ “
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Test Your Civic Literacy
USA Today had an article the other day talking about how much, or how little, our college students know when it comes to the nation they live in and how it works. Seems that the Intercollegiate Studies Institute did a study where they gave a 60 question test to college freshmen and seniors. Neither group distinguished themselves. The best even our Ivy League schools could muster was a D+. USA Today summarized some of the reports findings…
•Average scores for the 25 selective colleges — chosen for type, geographic location and U.S. News & World Report ranking — were much higher than the 25 randomly selected schools for both freshmen (56.6% vs. 43.7%) and seniors (59.4% vs. 48.4%), but the elite schools didn’t add as much civic knowledge between the freshman and senior years. At elite schools, the seniors averaged 2.8 points higher than the freshmen vs. 4.7 points for the randomly selected schools.
•Harvard seniors had the highest average at 69.6%, 5.97 points higher than its freshmen but still a D+. A Harvard senior posted the only perfect score.
•In general, the better a college’s U.S. News & World Report ranking, the less its civic literacy gain. Yale, with the highest-scoring freshmen (68.94%), along with Princeton, Duke and Cornell, were among eight schools with freshmen outscoring seniors.
I will leave it to our Con Club educators to put the scores in perspective; as I am sure there are more than a few reasons as to the why of this. What I find especially sad is that these are ideas that this site is all about. I am sure that I am not alone in feeling this way.
I took the test, which you can find here, and scored a 91.67%. I missed 5 out of the sixty. Those five, of course, were either trick questions or the answer key was wrong. In reality I am embarrassed that I missed as many as I did, as the test was not hard. Most of the questions are high school level. I must confess I did do well in high school civics and government courses as they were taught by the baseball and football coaches. You always made sure you tried as hard as you could back then if you were an athlete and your teacher was the coach. Is that still true Wise One?
Maybe we should keep in mind test scores like this when we throw around stats like “70% of Americans think this…”
September 20, 2007
My Mayor
It’s amazing what can happen when someone you love is a dirty homo.
A tearful Mayor Jerry Sanders made a dramatic shift yesterday, explaining that he can no longer oppose same-sex marriages because he does not want to deny justice to people like his daughter, who is a lesbian.
Joined at a late afternoon news conference by his wife, Rana Sampson, the San Diego mayor announced he will back a City Council decision to support same-sex marriage before the state Supreme Court, where California’s ban on it awaits review.
“I decided to lead with my heart, which is probably obvious at the moment,” said Sanders, moments before he revealed his daughter’s sexual orientation.
Update: I changed the link because the original one I posted was so badly written, it made even me blush.
September 19, 2007
Dan Rather Sues CBS, Viacom for $70M
One of my few ‘claims to fame’ was the article I authored tracing the infamous ‘Post 47′ on FreeRepublic.com to the more influential blogs to the main street press and eventually to every television news show in the land. I was sitting around listening to the ‘talking heads’ on television all confessing they had no idea how Rather had been ‘outed’ as a fraud. Some hinted at dark conspiracies by Republican operatives and a possible set up by unscrupulous inside conservative plants at CBS. No one could believe that any of this could have been true. After yelling at the TV and to my wife about how stupid and ignorant they all were (I’d done my homework earlier that evening) she told me to do something about it which I quickly (after a few minutes of thought) did. About an hour later the column Post 47 and RAthERGATE: The story of how CBS was caught perpetrating a hoax on the American people was written, sent to my publishers and was soon appearing throughout the web the next morning. The ‘mainstream’ press was about 2 days behind me in reporting the sequence of events that had transpired. One of only two times I managed to ’scoop a story’ of any significance.
To this day no one has ever revealed what was on the Kinko’s tapes and what happened to them. No explanation was ever given, little follow up was ever done, and the true perpetrators of this hoax remain unknown and unaccounted for. There is some strong suspicion on who was behind this but it has never been proved. The security tapes at Kinko’s would have been very helpful in determining who was behind this amazing hoax that almost changed history.
Wednesday Night Blues: John Mayer Trio
John Mayer playing what he wants to play, not the crap that the record company wants. This collaboration with Pino Palladino on bass and Steve Jordan on drums showcases Mayer’s blues talent.
A Little Comedy
I haven’t been following the news this week, but I turned on CNN to find out what’s going on…
I guess OJ did something, and not much else happened, so all I’ve got is some stand-up:
Would this car ever sell in the U.S.?
One might have to “Think” outside of the box, but this electric powered car named the “City” just might show up in your neighbor’s driveway in a year or two. John Olaf-Willums, CEO of Think, is determined to shake up the automotive industry by offering a built-to-order vehicle with an assembly platform that will be easily scalable as the demand grows.
Willums’s pitch is this: He’s not just selling an electric car; he’s upending a century-old automotive paradigm, aiming to change the way cars are made, sold, owned, and driven.
Before you start thinking “never gonna happen just like all the other electric car prototypes in the past few decades” you may want to reconsider. His company has caught the attention of Google’s founders as well as inventor Dean Kamen, who is in the process of adding a Stirling engine to the battery powered vehicle, which could extend the range of a car like the “City” by hundreds of miles.
Could a car like this ever be more than a niche player in the U.S. market? Affordable electric vehicles that offer performance as well as extended range are close to becoming a reality in the U.S., but is the American consumer ready for such a drastic change in thinking? The “Think City” looks promising. Click here for more on the topic from the folks at Business 2.0.
Just how would it work?
“Many have threatened that there will be chaos, a bloodbath, when the United States redeploys from Iraq, and this in fact may be the case,” Murtha said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Monday. “If they continue to choose to spill blood, it will not be on the conscience of the United States.”
Can anyone explain this logic to me? Who will be to blame? Oh, Murtha did provide this great observation…
Murtha said ethnic violence in Iraq would be “a continuation of decades of its own conflicts, which they and they alone can solve.”
Well Jack, it has been centuries, but why quibble? Even given that, how does his logic work?
As an aside, to follow his, and the rest of his party’s leaders and candidates logic about a pullout that has no regard for its consequences, you must NOT believe an Iraqi is worth as much as an American.
