Updates at End Sometimes it takes years to see your predictions come true. Working for the federal government on large projects I am sort of used to that characteristic of things, but does take patience to actually have to wait years to see the dominoes slowly fall, one by one. Back in May of 2005, […]

Wow, we are seeing some major fireworks in Washington DC this evening. The government official responsible for overseeing the TARP funds and their use in bailing out troubled companies is laying into one and all today: Elizabeth Warren, chief watchdog of America’s $700bn (£472bn) bank bailout plan, will this week call for the removal of […]

We are about to learn how much backbone America has lost, or maybe has left in it. It seems Obama is going to make good on his claim to ‘change America’ – remember, McCain ran on a promise to change DC. DC is the cesspool, America is the heartland and soul of America. Right now […]

The latest unemployment report is out and its shows what I expected – continuing erosion of the job market. 8.5% and rising. So why hasn’t the Spendulus bill programs kicked in and starting creating all these wonderful new jobs the Democrats in DC promised? Simple, they will not be activated for many months to come. […]

All right! Another win for the GOP in a little noticed senate amendment battle – and it wasn’t even close: An Amendment was introduced by Senator John Thune (R-SD) on the Budget Resolution and its text is as follows: To amend the deficit-neutral reserve fund for climate change legislation to require that such legislation does not increase […]

This is a wonderful example to show mathematical and statistical illiterates that is not a good idea to take graphs at face value without understand the data and math behind them: I’ve seen a lot shakier plots used to justify some sweeping conclusions, and if those were justified, well, then I’m forced to conclude that Mexican lemons […]

This is too funny: “If the Republicans can’t break out of being the right wing party of big government, then I think you would see a third party movement in 2012,” Gingrich said Tuesday. The speech, to a group of students at the College of the Ozarks in Missouri, was recorded by Springfield TV station […]

Dominos – a really interesting hobby/sport. In those massive domino drops you never know where they will fall next (the designers do, but not those watching). Are we at a tipping point with the idiots in DC? Could be given how Senator Dodd (D-CT) is being politically crippled over the economic crisis and the failed […]

“Not in our lifetimes“, that is something to ponder. Not in the lifetime of anyone alive today who was born in the year World War I started (1914) onward. Not in 96 years. Think about that. Think about the fact the automobile was in its infancy, so World War I included legions of cavalry (horse […]

It seems we must equate “terrorism” (now aka “man caused disaster” – like there are no women terrorists or terrorism supporters) with the myth that CO2 is causing a warming of our global climate (which has actually been cooling for a decade). That is the only reason I see for the similarity between “man-made global […]