Entries from April 2009

April 30, 2009

How Can You Tell When a Chicago Politician is Lying?

His lips are moving.
FACT CHECK: Obama’s Job Creation, Deficit Claims Questionable

April 30, 2009

I’m Apparently Saving the Planet

Artists have helped end wars and topple governments. Can they help save the planet, too? That’s the question posed by ECO-ART: Artists Respond – Reclaim, Reuse, Recreate, a show opening May 8 at Hand in Hand Gallery in Flat Rock. …
ECO-ART also features the work of John Burtner, a blacksmith who works out of [...]

April 29, 2009

Ignore the 747 and the F-16

Frank Taylor’s got the best post on the Air Farce One flyby:
A 380,000 pound, 4-engine airliner will be zipping around the Statue of Liberty at 1500 feet, but you have to keep it a secret

April 28, 2009

Congatulations!

You, the US taxpayer are now part owner of a failed international mega-corporation!
P.S. You got screwed in the deal too.

April 28, 2009

The Bill of Federalism

Randy Barnett has proposed ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
More info here.  You can comment too.
The bill itself is here (6 page pdf).

April 26, 2009

Michelle, ma belle…

Sont des vêtements qui vont tres mal ensemble…

Paging Miss Stacy London and Miss Clinton Kelly!  You’ve got work to do!
Sorry if my French is incorrect.  I never was good at that language.  And apologies to Paul McCartney.

April 26, 2009

Greening up the Mountains

Sylva’s spring festival went pretty well.  Sales were OK, and I made some good contacts.

April 26, 2009

100 Days, 100 Mistakes

72. On Earth Day, Obama took two flights on Air Force One and four on Marine One to get to Iowa, burning more than 9,000 gallons of fuel.

April 24, 2009

Three Links

There have been a few crazy years like 2009 in American history — 1860, 1929, 1941, and 1968. And given what followed all of them, it might be wise to prepare for even crazier times for us ahead.
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President Obama’s global warming agenda has been losing support in Congress, but why let an irritant like democratic [...]

April 24, 2009

If Sarah Palin Wore This…

…The MSM fashionistas would rip her up, down, and sideways.  When Michelle 0bama wears a bizarre outfit the press says nothing.