Monday, August 04, 2014

HEH: Now that Richard Dawkins is attacking Muslims and feminists, the atheist Left suddenly discover he’s a bigot.
JUAN WILLIAMS: GOP has become almost a completely white party. Umm, Mia Love? Elaine Chao? Ben Carson? Tim Scott? Herman Cain? Allen West? Bobby Jindal? Nikki Haley? Susanna Martinez? These are Democrats?

I'm always surprised when the Democrats try this particular race card, since I can easily name a dozen or so non-white Republicans. When asked about non-white Democrats, the only two that come easily to mind are Rev. Al and Jesse Jackson.

The other thing I've noticed over the years is that the non-white Republicans are Americans first, and their ethnicity is second (if at all). For the Democrats, it's ethnicity first, then American (maybe).
PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH: Some Might Call It “Racism”. Methinks that Yousefzadeh is a bit naive; racism is standard operating procedure in Democrat politics.
INSTAPUNDIT: "You know, between this and all the affirmative-action stuff, I’m beginning to think that Democrats don’t much like Asians."

That's because Asians don't make good victims.
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES: Public 'servants' acting as public masters.

Actually I think the lede should have been written as 'Wannabe masters masquerading as public servants'.
TERROR STUDY GROUP finds 'sovereign citizens' and 'militia/patriot groups'” among greatest threat to U.S.

Note that the report is from a University consortium; not from any entity that deals with actual terrorism.

Progressives are truly frightened by anyone unwilling to submit to their 'enlightened' control.
D.C. COUNCILMAN AND FORMER MAYOR MARION BARRY involved in a wrong-way automobile crash on Pennsylvania Avenue. Barry has been going the wrong way for years.....
YES, LET'S MAKE SURE Detroit goes bankrupt:
1000 WORDS:


At a rally for Hamas in Washington D.C. on Saturday.

"Disgusting" is too kind a word to use for this....
NASA validates 'impossible' space drive.

Much more from Jerry Pournelle, who is rightfully still skeptical.

Sunday, August 03, 2014

NO ONE IS SAFE: Your USB drive can be hacked.
AMERICANS ARE SUCH DELICATE LITTLE FLOWERS: A majority of Americans have apparently been trained to think that the government is here to make them feel better when they're uncomfortable.
FIRE REID? Republicans rally to oust Senate Majority Leader. Obviously from the picture very few -- if any -- attended, but I wish I had been there to see for myself.
BACKWARDS, TO THE FUTURE: Obama and the road not taken.
CIVIL RIGHTS COMMISSIONER: Free speech should not be a civil right (on college campuses, at least). Twenty-somethings are such delicate little flowers that their brains "cannot properly process certain dangerous ideas."

The boob who wants to protect their delicate adolescent minds is a ... you guessed it ... Democrat.

Unfortunately I have to concede that he may have a point, since his adolescent mind was clearly infected when he was a student at Berkeley and Yale Law....
MOCK THEM, ROUNDLY. The Consumer Product 'Safety' Commission is still trying to crush buckyballs.

And save the magnets.
AIR FORCE for better, faster, cheaper weapons development. This isn't unique to the Air Force; the 'better, faster, cheaper' transformation occurs regularly in the DoD about every 10 years. And without exception, every time the bureaucrats step in to 'improve' the acquisition process, they muck it up.

This will be the 4th 'improvement' I've seen since I started working as a defense contractor.
INSPIRATION: the Acuity flagpole project.
BENDING THE COST CURVE: Florida’s biggest ObamaCare insurer hiking premiums over 17 percent.

ObamaCare is bending the cost curve ... just in the wrong direction.
LIBERAL NERD WORSHIP: There’s a difference between intelligence and wisdom.

Random thought: liberals may be intelligent (though I don't think that argument is supported by evidence), but conservatives are wise. It's a reality world vs. real world thing.