RANDOM THOUGHTS from the retirement lane. I was out in the yard today, looking at all the branches that have been brought down by recent high winds. That, in turn, reminded me of the wisdom of the ages about inequality: "Sometimes you get the short end of the stick."

Any day now I expect a new Obama administration executive dictate: All sticks shall henceforth have two long short ends."

THERE CAN BE honor among thieves, but not among liberals.

"THIS IS STARTRAM, a proposed launch system that would use magnetic levitation trains, a 1000-mile tunnel, and a superconducting cable to reach low Earth orbit. Amazingly, we already have the technology to do it...at far less than the cost of rockets."


This concept, along with space elevators, has been a staple of science fiction for many years; it's nice to be able to see it as a potentially viable candidate for future space transportation.

OBAMA is running for reelection as a troll.

EIGHT SECRETS about gas prices every Liberal needs to know.

WHY MAJOR ACQUISITION PROGRAMS FAIL. A longer, but better and much more entertaining explanation can be found in Norm Augustine's book, Augustine's Laws.

COMMENT OF THE DAY:

It is not that “Progressives” don’t understand business.

“Progressives” don’t understand reality…

The post is here.

DON'T MESS WITH RUSH: Advertising boycott fails. I'd join the boycott but, alas, I never subscribed to either.

HOW TO COPE with Obama BS (bumper stickers).

OBAMA'S (part-time) economic recovery.

HEH: Even European airlines are fighting against the EU's emissions trading system (carbon tax).

BILL AYERS: Breitbart was a radical right “bombthrower”. This, from a confessed real bomber. Revolting.

SPACE CHRONICLES: FACING THE ULTIMATE FRONTIER: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on how space exploration -- especially human voyages -- can profoundly inspire scientists and technologists of the future, and charts the path for missions to Mars and beyond. Too few of us are left who can remember the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs.

There is also a podcast version available at the link above.

WE THE PEOPLE petition the Obama administration to: resign.

BARACK OBAMA has a new campaign ad out running against -- of all people -- Sarah Palin.

The assumption, I suppose, it that the American public is as stupid as the average liberal and can't recognize the association fallacy (Sarah Palin is evil; Sarah Palin is a Republican; therefore, all Republicans are evil).

They also failed to recognize that Palin is a hockey mom and that hockey moms bite!

Exhibit A ... is an absurd new attack ad President Obama has released taking my comments out of context. I’m not running for any office, but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about....

Just off the top of my head, a few of these concerning issues include: a debt crisis that has us hurtling towards a Greek-style collapse, entitlement programs going bankrupt, a credit downgrade for the first time in our history, a government takeover of the health care industry that makes care more expensive and puts a rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats between you and your doctor (aka a “death panel”), $4 and $5 gas at the pump exacerbated by an anti-drilling agenda that rejects good paying energy sector jobs and makes us more dependent on dangerous foreign regimes, a war in Afghanistan that seems unfocused and unending, a global presidential apology tour that’s made us look feeble and ridiculous, a housing market in the tank, the longest streak of high unemployment since World War II, private-sector job creators and industry strangled by burdensome regulations and an out-of-control Obama EPA, an attack on the Constitutional protection of religious liberty, an attack on private industry in right-to-work states, crony capitalism run amok in an administration in bed with their favored cronies to the detriment of genuine free market capitalism, green energy pay-to-play kickbacks to Obama campaign donors, and a Justice Department still stonewalling on a bungled operation that armed violent Mexican drug lords and led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.

I’m sure I missed a few things, but the list is just for starters. Along with millions of others, I’m willing and free to discuss these issues with the President anywhere, anytime....

Ouch!