I gotta give this Daily Show guy credit for making it thru this interview.
Nice job, letting code pink make themselves look foolish. Just letting them talk is enough.
-Colonel Steve
July 09, 2008
July 08, 2008
Hypocrisy In Action?
This kind of thing almost sounds like Al Gore and his home power usage. Two multi-course meals, before talking about the world food crisis? What a faux pas.
-Colonel Steve
June 28, 2008
Just Shut All Research Down
We've been hearing that we shouldn't drill for more oil because of how long it would take to come online. They say we should be depending on developing alternate fuels (even if that would take just as long to come online).
Now comes the news that some solar energy projects are being halted over....get this....environmental concerns (via Instapundit). Great! So NO power is good power.
I think they'll even complain about the possible use of kudzu for ethanol (HT: 21st Century Paladin). Not like we're using it for anything else.
-Colonel Steve
June 23, 2008
Maine's "Vacationland"
Last fall, Lady Colonel and I traveled up to Maine and back on vacation. Before we left, we were warned of the dreaded black flies in Maine. We didn't run in to them much last year, but they seem to be plentiful up there.
The biggest reasons they are so proliferate are due to environmentalists. Now that streams are so much cleaner (that's a good thing), the fly's reproduction rate is way up. But Maine, unlike Pennsylvania, is not doing anything to stop that reproduction (that's not such a good thing).
Maine's standard license plate has the word "Vacationland" emblazened on it. May not be for much longer if those flies proliferate more.
(HT: Gina Cobb)
-Colonel Steve
June 17, 2008
Latest From Al Gore
Speaking of hypocrites, have you heard the latest about Al Gore's mansion? He's made his home more environmentally friendly. I'm sure that really cost him some green stuff....money that is.
It's continuing to cost him more money as well, since he's using 1,638 kilowatt hours (kWh) MORE per month in electricity than before the improvement. His home is now using, in the past year, 213,210 kWh of electricity. Enough to power about 232 average homes per month.
I just went and did a little math. If the numbers above are correct, an average home uses 919 kWh per month. I figured from my past bills that I use almost twice that average myself. People like Al Gore would label me an eeeevil polluter. Yet it's OK for him.
I've been taught by the media that hypocrite = conservative. Wrongo! My dictionary says hypocrite = environmental wacko = Al Gore.
-Colonel Steve
June 01, 2008
Ejected Clinton Supporter
Watching this several times today, I had to remind myself of the liberal motto: The Republican party is full of hate and racism! Maybe she's really a republican plant. Yeah, that's it!
-Colonel Steve
May 30, 2008
Around The News Today
Susan Sarandon has stated that, if Senator John McCain is elected, she will move to either Italy or Canada. My vote is to help her plan her move. Anyone see some sort of movie star watch list for this election, I'd sure love to know.
Speaking of watch lists, John Fund at the Wall Street Journal speaks of Barack Obama's history of gaffes. He is sure making enough of them for someone to have a watch list going for the gaffes. Could be a full time job.
We've got computers being trained to read our minds. Sure would help some of us men. Finally, we could do those things our wives assumed we could do.
Closer to home, the University of Louisville's Rauch Planetarium is running the show "The Planets", narrated by Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway on "Star Trek: Voyager
-Colonel Steve
Words Mean Things
The video of Father Michael Pfleger's comments has been floating around the internet over the past day or two. Now the damage control is going into overdrive.
In video circulating on the Internet, Pfleger said the former first lady expected to win the nomination before Obama's sudden popularity.
"She just always thought that, 'This is mine. I'm Bill's wife. I'm white.' ... And then, out of nowhere, came 'Hey, I'm Barack Obama." And she said, 'Oh damn, where did you come from? I'm white. I'm entitled. There's a black man stealing my show,'" Pfleger said at Trinity United Church of Christ. He then went on to parody Clinton, sobbing and wiping his face with a handkerchief. "She wasn't the only one crying," he said. "There was a whole lot of white people crying."
Obama said he was "deeply disappointed" by Pfleger's comments.
"As I have traveled this country, I've been impressed not by what divides us, but by all that that unites us," he said in a statement. "That is why I am deeply disappointed in Father Pfleger's divisive, backward-looking rhetoric, which doesn't reflect the country I see or the desire of people across America to come together in common cause."
Pfleger, the white pastor of predominantly black Saint Sabina Roman Catholic Church on the city's Southwest side, said he regretted his choice of words.
"These words are inconsistent with Senator Obama's life and message and I am deeply sorry if they offended Senator Clinton or anyone else who saw them," Pfleger said.
Father Pfleger only regrets his choice of words because it reflects poorly on the guy he wants to win the presidency. However, he knew what he was saying when he said it. Watch him again. He means it. Those words mean things to everyone in the audience. They mean things to us who have watched it after the fact..
My parents always attempted to teach me that those I hung around with defined who I was. I sure have taken that to heart as an adult. I'm seeing folks like Barack Obama's friends helping me define exactly who Barack Obama is.
-Colonel Steve
May 13, 2008
Global Warming Pics
Oh the power of man. That we could cause such terrible things to happen in nature. Such strength, to cause global warming and such as that.
Wait. You mean all this isn't caused by man? But some volcano in Chile? You mean to tell me that God's nature is more powerful than man?
Wow. I think I've been led astray.
-Colonel Steve
May 06, 2008
Surprise Agreement
I'm in rather surprised agreement with a Courier-Journal editorial today, concerning Eight Belles' tragedy in this past Saturday's Kentucky Derby. Their comments are some of the most balanced I've ever heard from them.
On the more unbalanced side comes PETA's request to have Eight Belles jockey suspended. The Kentucky Horse Racing Authority yesterday has defended Gabriel Saez's actions as her jockey. Wise move by the authority.
As much as I was pulling for Big Brown on Saturday, my memories of the 134th Run for the Roses has been seriously clouded by this accident. Yet that is was it was...a very bad accident. I hate accidents as much as anyone else. In today's society of posting blame on someone or something, we've taken way too much away from what amounts to an accident of life.
Yes, I agree with those who wish to make sure this does not happen again to one of life's beautiful animals. Much as we've made automobile and aircraft travel safer thru the years, so should we do the same for these magnificent thoroughbreds. Let's not let a blame game get in the way of moving forward.
-Colonel Steve
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