I have a real, live MovableType consultant/guru working on a transferring the site to a host that is better optimized to run Movable Type.
Comments will feature a "Captcha" routine to prevent comment spam without anyone having to register to comment. And they will run faster...or at least they should [...]
I'll hand Jimmy Carter one thing--just this once and it's between us, and it is the deregulation of the telephone industry. In the sixties and seventies the biggest whipping boy in America was Ma Bell, and I put on hob-nailed boots and jumped on the carcass too, and she didn't [...]
It is a well known fact that machines that run under Windows are more prone to computer viruses than are their Mac counterparts. Members of the Church of Apple would have you believe that this is due to some sort of cluelessness on the part of Microsoft's programmers that Apple [...]
A come-hither look on the puss of the Hildebeest doesn't bother me. I figure that I alone am immune, unless that's the particular portion of hell to which I shall be consigned for the fairly disobliging things that I've said about Our Steatopygian Empress.
There is one thing, however, that we [...]
I don't have anything to go with this photo. I just wanted to see how high Theo's Creeped-o-Meter goes.
[...]Well, I have updated (almost) all of the templates and everything seems to be okay except that it takes the system over 30 seconds to post a comment. At this point I am thinking a having a real, live MT41 pro/consulatant have a look-see at the templates to see what [...]
This is a huge surpise. No, I mean it.
MSNBC has cancelled Tucker Carlson's show.
But it is not a surprise because a good show was cancelled....because one wasn't in this case. It is a surprise because anyone who is the least bit familiar with MSNBC's programming schedule would naturally think [...]
The last paragraph from the Spectator's Coffee House blog on the American election, by James Forsyth, is
With at least six weeks to go in this campaign, one wonders how brutal this will get. Already charges of racism and lying are being thrown around like confetti. If it goes on [...]
Caring nothing for sports, Hollywood, gossip, Nashville or what is termed, sadly and without irony, popular culture, I spend a lot of couch-potato time with documentaries: big construction projects, big events, the history of the universe, the planets and so forth.
I've been very pleased to notice recently several documentaries which [...]
The Urban Dictionary is a wealth of slang, a great deal of it very colorful. A lot of it is cynically manipulative and eons away from Leave-It-To-Beaverland, but at times there are definitions which shine a light very brightly.
For example, I found that I am, because of my endless [...]
I was wondering when someone was going to suggest that if one is truly looking for the best agent for Change (and Hope!) from what everyone describes as "politics as usual" that perhaps...just perhaps...that person is not likely to be borne of the nastiest and most ruthless and corrupt [...]
I would like to take credit for the win of Atilla the Hilla tonight in Texas and Ohio, but cannot without descending to the depths of, say, Michael Moore in thinking it's all about me all the time. Still, it was very gratifying and I still can't believe that I [...]
You would not know it from my near complete absence from posting but I have been working on the site a bunch. After learning about MovableType 4 and how it utitlizes different modules to put together a much more manageble blog site I have been re-coding and testing on a [...]
I did it. I voted absentee for Our Empress, and afterwards had to be helped to my car and driven home, there to lie down with a cold compress on my head.
When I told, out of honesty, people that I've known for all my life that I did indeed like [...]
As we know, Fidel Castro has hung up his black hood and retired, we are given to believe, from the day-to-day oppression of an entire nation. A man who was supported by the Russians until they could no longer afford him, or much of anything else; who invited the Russians [...]
To avoid the expense of proving that a murder on my mind was justifiable, I spent the weekend in El Paso. On the 42" HD television in the cave-like room of the Hyatt Place there appeared Hildog and Barack Hussein Obama in a debate and our Empress was intoning her [...]
Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of [...]
As early as next year widespread flooding by a rise in sea levels will create major upheaval for millions.
Oh, my. This is serious. And not because this prediction came from a secret Pentagon report that Chimpy McHitlerburton obviously tried to quash in order to protect his buddies [...]
The time has come," Theocritus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of votes--and polls--and delegates--
Of a bitch would be queen."
And I hope she gets everything, except the brass ring.
In the primary I shall vote for Hildog.
Imagine the world if the Holy Gore had been elected in 2000. He is a man [...]
Barack Hussein Obama is an attractive candidate and individual, free from rancor and he would make the first post-racist president, which is no bad thing. Although he does support the usual Balkanization of America along victim groups; still this does not set him apart from Hildog.
Hillary Clinton is the queen [...]
In order to restore the ability to comment I am resorting to more drastic measures. Resorting to drastic measures is not the same thing as increasing my level of competence so if this blog goes away for a while it is either because I am a complete boob or because [...]
In order to restore the ability to comment I am resorting to more drastic measures. Resorting to drastic measures is not the same thing as increasing my level of competence so if this blog goes away for a while it is either because I am a complete boob or because [...]
The question then arises: fair enough, guys, what would it take to alarm you? The other day, in a characteristically clotted speech followed by a rather more careless BBC interview, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that it was dangerous to have one law for everyone and that the introduction of [...]
The question then arises: fair enough, guys, what would it take to alarm you? The other day, in a characteristically clotted speech followed by a rather more careless BBC interview, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that it was dangerous to have one law for everyone and that the introduction of [...]
This is how CNN "maintains access" to oppressive regimes.
We have free education in this country and if Hillary or Obama have their way we will have "free" health care also [...]
This is how CNN "maintains access" to oppressive regimes.
We have free education in this country and if Hillary or Obama have their way we will have "free" health care also [...]
I have totally broken the ability to comment by trying to rid myself of comment spammers. Why do you ask?
The good news is that the comment spammers can't make an entry either, so while your personal assent or dissent is being crushed by the hob-nailed jackboot of my incompetence my [...]
I have totally broken the ability to comment by trying to rid myself of comment spammers. Why do you ask?
The good news is that the comment spammers can't make an entry either, so while your personal assent or dissent is being crushed by the hob-nailed jackboot of my incompetence my [...]
Since I started paying attention to politics in the 70s, it seems that there has always been a particularly loathsome senator. One whose meanness, ruthlessness, and partisanship roiled my gut. I recall my visceral loathing of Howard Metzenbaum, a liberal's liberal, and a congressional thug.
Another senatorial thug is Joe [...]
Since I started paying attention to politics in the 70s, it seems that there has always been a particularly loathsome senator. One whose meanness, ruthlessness, and partisanship roiled my gut. I recall my visceral loathing of Howard Metzenbaum, a liberal's liberal, and a congressional thug.
Another senatorial thug is Joe [...]
Mark Steyn wrote America Alone, which posits that in short order only America and possibly our Antipodean English-speaking cousins will have the fertility and cultural confidence to resist a return to the dark ages of fundamentalism, but this one an Islamic one. Steyn is a Canadian who lived in Britain [...]
Mark Steyn wrote America Alone, which posits that in short order only America and possibly our Antipodean English-speaking cousins will have the fertility and cultural confidence to resist a return to the dark ages of fundamentalism, but this one an Islamic one. Steyn is a Canadian who lived in Britain [...]
You may remember a Star Trek episode when the crew of The Enterprise is taken hostage by machines which are infinitely logical and which have bad designs on messy, sloppy, sentimental, emotional humans, as represented by the studly Captain Kirk, a man who is to acting what Atilla the Hilla [...]
You may remember a Star Trek episode when the crew of The Enterprise is taken hostage by machines which are infinitely logical and which have bad designs on messy, sloppy, sentimental, emotional humans, as represented by the studly Captain Kirk, a man who is to acting what Atilla the Hilla [...]
Is Midland experiencing a critical straw shortage? For the third time in two days, three different establishments were out of straws. I have this feeling of impending doom as the next crisis will be the lack of lids and then cups.
Thankfully, the wife bought a couple of sets of very [...]
Is Midland experiencing a critical straw shortage? For the third time in two days, three different establishments were out of straws. I have this feeling of impending doom as the next crisis will be the lack of lids and then cups.
Thankfully, the wife bought a couple of sets of very [...]
From this article in a Brit paper comes the news that fire brigade members are routinely attacked both while fighting fires and sometimes even when responding to hoax calls that are a setup for ambushes.
No mention of the demographics of the attackers are mentioned which bolsters my already strong [...]
From this article in a Brit paper comes the news that fire brigade members are routinely attacked both while fighting fires and sometimes even when responding to hoax calls that are a setup for ambushes.
No mention of the demographics of the attackers are mentioned which bolsters my already strong [...]
Wi-fi at city owned airports should be free. Further, I think that businesses that still charge for on-site wi-fi (I am talking to you, Starbucks) are making a mistake.
The Dairy Queen in Ozona had free wifi two years ago, but Fivebucks Coffee still charges?
Bad move.
[...]Wi-fi at city owned airports should be free. Further, I think that businesses that still charge for on-site wi-fi (I am talking to you, Starbucks) are making a mistake.
The Dairy Queen in Ozona had free wifi two years ago, but Fivebucks Coffee still charges?
Bad move.
[...]"We can no longer tolerate what's going on...What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail..."
Oh yes, there's more.
But it's not just moonbats like David Suzuki who wish [...]
"We can no longer tolerate what's going on...What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail..."
Oh yes, there's more.
But it's not just moonbats like David Suzuki who wish [...]
It seems the FTA's National Transit Database now has raw monthly data available. It is about time. So as a treat, lets look at EZ Rider's un-official 2007 ridership numbers. (no 2007 cost data is available, yet)
| NTD2004 | NTD2005 | NTD2006 | NTD2007 | |
| UPT Bus | 226,215 | 298,606 | 373,438 | 409,109 |
| UPT Para-Transit | 6,652 | 14,590 | 14,680 | 22,264 |
| Total | 237,867 | 313,196 | 388,118 | 431,373 |
So, it seems that EZ Rider enjoyed a 11.1% increase in ridership. [...]
It seems the FTA's National Transit Database now has raw monthly data available. It is about time. So as a treat, lets look at EZ Rider's un-official 2007 ridership numbers. (no 2007 cost data is available, yet)
| NTD2004 | NTD2005 | NTD2006 | NTD2007 | |
| UPT Bus | 226,215 | 298,606 | 373,438 | 409,109 |
| UPT Para-Transit | 6,652 | 14,590 | 14,680 | 22,264 |
| Total | 237,867 | 313,196 | 388,118 | 431,373 |
So, it seems that EZ Rider enjoyed a 11.1% increase in ridership. [...]
Over at KMID, ABC 2, BIG 2, permianbasin360.com they got a little confused on the ridership for EZ Rider:
Good news for West Texas travelers! Community National Bank has just christened a new EZ Rider bus. The system transports more than one million people a year has registered more [...]
Over at KMID, ABC 2, BIG 2, permianbasin360.com they got a little confused on the ridership for EZ Rider:
Good news for West Texas travelers! Community National Bank has just christened a new EZ Rider bus. The system transports more than one million people a year has registered more [...]
All the support for Ron Paul nationwide, including finishing second in the Montana Caucus, has given me hope that there are still a few people in the USA who aren't afraid of liberty.
Before this election cycle, I would've said Dr. Chuck Baldwin was right. He once said that in [...]
All the support for Ron Paul nationwide, including finishing second in the Montana Caucus, has given me hope that there are still a few people in the USA who aren't afraid of liberty.
Before this election cycle, I would've said Dr. Chuck Baldwin was right. He once said that in [...]
I've nothing against football, but nothing for it. I'm utterly agnostic as I am about soap operas, chat shows, although Jerry Springer can be tremendously funny when the bouncers drag drunk, hollow-chested, battling white trash apart and the man with no legs, or hips, walks across the stage on his [...]
This is cool. The Navy has been developing a rail gun which can fire a projectile at over five thousand miles per hour and hit a five meter target at 200 miles.
The comments are interesting though. They are full of the usual, "Can't work. Won't work. Not practical. Too [...]
The reviews are better than those of that book, It Takes a Village, that Hildog did not in fact write.
But look at the alternatives. Hildog, whom Bill Safire called "a congenital liar," who stood by her man while he lied and lied, or Obama, who is [...]
A debate review by Stephen Green.
Oh yeah, Green thought Romney did OK tonight and that McInevitableCain didn't. Good. And Huckabee was...go read the whole thing, along with his earlier drunkblog.
UPDATE: My earlier post was rethought and edited. Draw your own conclusions on the debate results from the [...]
Gun-grabber drops out of race and endorses Free Speech-abridger.
Meanwhile, in the Democrat primaries.....
[...]When I was a kid I was introduced to Pascal's wager on God. Simplified, it ran something like this. If you believe in God and there is one, then you're okay. If you don't believe in God and there is one, then you've got trouble so it's a better bet [...]
Once I was knew, well, someone who put a finger to his lips and said that on reflection he thought he was a progressive. Ever since that time the word progressive has been in bad odor with me. My gut feeling is borne out.
One of the vicious murderers that the [...]
No subsidies, no incentives....just good market-driven reasons to be downtown.
From the article:
This is the first privately driven project in the city's move to revitalize downtown, [MDC President] Henson said. He said Basic's presentation was for informational purposes.
Really? What about the entire city block directly west of the [...]
And Nixon was accused of the Imperial Presidency. This is a common complaint these days among leftist government types, after the Pentagon papers and the Church Committee, which gutted our intelligence agencies and is one of the reasons that we were caught with our pants down on [...]
This article reminded me of the time I was driving my (at-the-time) 13 year-old son and his friend somewhere and, while I can't remember why...probably answering the question of where to plug in the charger for the iPod...I had cause to refer to "the cigarette lighter".
Puzzled looks.
"Cigarette lighter?"
"Yeah, right [...]
It amuses me tremendously when people I don't like start tearing pieces out of each other: win/win. In 1984 Apple Computer, as it then was, showed the commercial introducing the Macintosh at the Superbowl. It was directed by Ridley Scott (Bladerunner) and the commercial, which surely you've seen, is a [...]
This may not be worksafe, only to protect your Very Important Business Computer from spewed coffee or Dr Pepper. You gotta love Photoshop. H/T Instapundit.
[...]
The Managed Competition Committee has begun meeting to try and discover ways to reduce the roughly $750,000 annual deficit that is run up by the ongoing operations of the Scharbauer Sports Complex. We wish them luck.
Ideally, we would love for them to find a bunch of unrealized [...]
I hold no particular love for John McCain, but if where I live, in Culo de Pecos, had a Republican primary, I'd vote for him.
He's irascible, which of course means that he has a temper problem. I've heard that he once got in a screaming match over who got to [...]
I hold no particular love for John McCain, but if where I live, in Culo de Pecos, had a Republican primary, I'd vote for him.
He's irascible, which of course means that he has a temper problem. I've heard that he once got in a screaming match over who got to [...]
Allan Melvin has died at age 84. I know that you have probably never heard of him, but if you are over the age of 45 you absolutely know him.
[...]Trying to determine who your nominee will be? Wondering if he or she has the staying power to make it past the conventions? Does their current rhetoric match their actions? Looking for a different point of view? Read this. The Texas primary is about 5 weeks away.
[...]The New York Times is reporting:
A Texas cable provider, Grande Communications Holdings, has tapped Waller Capital to evaluate its strategic opportunities, according to The Deal.com. ...... The company could sell for as much as $400 million, The Deal said.[...]
A Denver newspaper columnist is arrested for stalking a story subject. In Cincinnati, a television reporter is arrested on charges of child molestation. A North Carolina newspaper reporter is arrested for harassing a local woman. A drunken Chicago Sun-Times columnist and editorial board member is arrested for wife beating. A [...]
Theo Caldwell, National Post (Canada) Wednesday, December 26, 2007
An obvious choice can be unnerving. When the apparent perfection of one
option or the unspeakable awfulness of another makes a decision seem too
easy, it is human nature to become suspicious.
This instinct intensifies as the stakes of the give n [...]
During World War II American planes set down on some of the South Pacific Islands and from these huge silver birds emerged--things. Things which the natives had never seen, natives who possibly had never seen a wheel. Things that they wanted: useful things, such as tents, food, and shovels. Things [...]
From the Houston Chronicle (AP Story, January 16, 2008, 10:15PM)
Democratic officials filed a complaint in federal court Wednesday and asked a judge to declare Midland City Councilman Bill Dingus, a Democrat, eligible to run.The Republican Party of Texas sent a written notice this week to the state Democratic Party [...]
Kinky Friedman said that Carol Keeton Mao Rylander Beria McClellan Grandma Dear Leader Strayhorn would win the governorship if all her ex-husbands voted for her.
If all the bimbos erupted (pace Betsy Wright)...
[...]For all the talk about a "Midland Machine" in the last Mayoral election, it seems the good folks over at the Texas Observer (a left leaning Molly Ivins invention) have decided to expose the purported "Midland Machine" that is gearing up to defend Craddick's Speakership. In the [...]
Whaddaya mean, that I won't do anything with the big Mac confabulation going on? It didn't take me long to look at the thing.
This is what is being touted as being really, er, kewl, as one person I really like says so I hope she's being funny. [...]
Expect the usual lull in postings to singles/dating websites.
[...]Note to City Hall: This would be too much transparency in city government.
[...]"Put the whole [contract with the new City manager] on the city's Web site, beat them to the punch," [City Attorney Keith Stretcher] said.
First let me submit that it is what is contained in the contract and not the fact that the contract is posted on the city's website [...]
On December 29 I made a few ungenerous, ungenerous because true, comments about a certain Dave Lindorff, a blood-thirsty leftist who wants to kill people who disagree with him politically. He tried to lie to say that it was a satire, but satire requires a departure from form.
Michael Moore [...]
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Bitch.
All right, I'm being the bitch--so sue me. But I'll give the woman one credit: she's mean enough to be able to look at foreign leaders in the eye and tell them exactly what she thinks. I worry, ceaselessly, endlessly, [...]
If you watch the business news, the former Star Incentee of the MDC, CourtryWide is no more.
Hello Bank of America.
[...]I am, by far and large, a conservative. I don't like change for the sake of change because I'm a great believer in the law of unintended consequences: even the best-intentioned people can think hard and really screw things up.
This is why, I think, that the French are on their [...]
Quoth Texas Soulja
Don't know if anybody saw Matthews this morning discussing the polls. I agree with his assertion that the cause for the anomaly is that people lied to the pollsters about their intentions, because they knew "Obama" was what they wanted to hear. But then, once they got into [...]
You gotta love some things about our Empress. It's so seldom that we see perfection. Even Hitler wasn't perfectly awful--he got Herbert von Karajan to form a really good string section in the Berlin Philharmonic. But Our Empress is perfection of her own sort.
No, no, no. She's [...]
Mark my words: Algore is the most powerful man in the world. He may have lost the 2000 election and he cracked up over it--the weight gain, that ill-considered beard, and you can see the loopiness when you compare his public bulls now with anything you can [...]
How would you like for the thermostat that controls the heating and cooling in your house to be set by city hall and not by you?
Sounds far-fetched, huh?
[...]So how far back do you have to go to find a Midland City Council that is made up of a majority of registered Democrats?
[...]We are just past the 20th anniversary of the publication of Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind. Bloom whipped the university for teaching the idea that in essence there are no cultures or ideas which are intrinsically better than other ones. That it is foolish to [...]
On this vacation I've been dipping into The New Criterion, a publication of small circulation. It's rather deep water for me, since I have no training in literature or the arts, or none that is significant. A friend once said that I should not dismiss my eclectic knowledge but [...]
After the upset loss to Barack Hussein Obama and Senator Edwards, that sleazebag trial attorney whose pimping his wife's terminal illness seems to have paid off, Our Empress in Waiting, Senator Clinton, gave a concession speech in which she declare it good news for the Democratic party in that people [...]
2008 is a watershed year for our country. This presidential election cycle will be critical to the direction the country takes in 2009 and beyond.
Bedrock conservative principles are few and far between in the campaigns as I have watched so far. I remain optimistic that the ideas that the [...]
The Site Administrator has brought our attention to the egestion of Dave Lindorff in his smug, splenous, sniffing call for the extermination of people who disagree with him. Not discussion, not persuasion, but the literal death. The extermination. And it gives me the same sort of grim satisfaction that I [...]
