Happy Holidays

And that means Merry Christmas AND a Happy New Year and Feliz Navidad :)

Amrican Czars...who thought it was a good idea to copy the Russians?

Stunning !

There are very few of us who know just what all of Obama's Czars do, as

they quietly go about their "work" in the nation's capital. Now this listing of

their names and job descriptions should be educational to all Americans, no

matter what your political leaning. If you resent the existence of these

extra-governmental "officials", with their very generous salaries funded by,

you guessed it, you the taxpayer, then get angry with the one who put

these characters on the payroll.

OBAMA'S "CZARS"

See who they are and realize what they want to do:

Richard Holbrooke

AfghanistanCzar

Ultra liberal anti gun former Gov. Of New Mexico.Pro Abortion and legal drug use.Dissolve the 2nd Amendment

Ed Montgomery

Auto recovery Czar

Black radical anti business activist. Affirmative Action and Job Preference for blacks. Univ of Maryland Business School Dean teaches US business has caused world poverty. ACORN board member. Communist DuBois Club member.

Jeffrey Crowley

AIDS Czar

Radical Homosexual.. A Gay Rights activist. Believes in Gay Marriage and especially, a Special Status for homosexuals only, including complete free health care for gays.

Alan Bersin

Border Czar

The former failed superintendent of San Diego . Ultra Liberal friend of Hilary Clinton. Served as Border Czar under Janet Reno - to keep borders open to illegalswithout interference from US

David J. Hayes

California Water Czar

Sr. Fellow of radical environmentalist group, "Progress Policy". No training or experience in water management whatsoever.

Ron Bloom

Car Czar

Auto Union worker.Anti business & anti nuclear. Has worked hard to force US auto makers out of business. Sits on the Board of Chrysler which is now Auto Union owned. How did this happen?

Dennis Ross

Central Region Czar

Believes US policy has caused Mid East wars. Obama apologist to the world. Anti gun and completely pro abortion.

Lynn Rosenthal

Domestic Violence Czar

Director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence. Vicious anti male feminist. Supported male castration.Imagine?

Gil Kerlikowske

Drug Czar

devoted lobbyist for every restrictive gun law proposal, Former Chief of Police in Liberal Seattle. Believes no American should own a firearm. Supports legalization of all drugs

Paul Volcker

Economic Czar

Head of Fed Reserve under Jimmy Carter when US economy nearly failed. Obama appointed head of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board which engineered the Obama economic disaster to US economy. Member of anti business "Progressive Policy" organization

Carol Browner

Energy and Environment Czar

Political Radical Former head of EPA - known for anti-business activism. Strong anti-gun ownership.

Joshua DuBois

Faith-Based Czar

Political Black activist-Degree in Black Nationalism. Anti gun ownership lobbyist.WHAT THE HELL DOES A FAITH BASED CZAR DO???????????

Cameron Davis

Great LakesCzar

Chicago radical anti business environmentalist. Blames George Bush for "Poisoning the water that minorities have to drink." No experience or training in water management. Former ACORN Board member (what does that tell us?)

Van Jones

Green Jobs Czar

(since resigned).. Black activist Member of American communist Party and San Francisco Communist Party who said Geo Bush caused the 911 attack and wanted Bush investigated by the World Court for war crimes. Black activist with strong anti-white views.

Daniel Fried

Guantanamo Closure Czar

Human Rights activist for Foreign Terrorists. Believes America has caused the war on terrorism. Believes terrorists have rights above and beyond Americans.

Nancy-Ann DeParle.

Health Czar

Former head of Medicare / Medicaid. Strong Health Care Rationing proponent. She is married to a reporter for The New York Times.

Vivek Kundra

Information Czar

Born in New Delhi , India . Controls all public information, including labels and news releases. Monitors all private Internet emails. (hello?)

Todd Stern

International Climate Czar

Anti business former White House chief of Staff- Strong supportrer of the Kyoto Accord. Pushing hard for Cap and Trade. Blames US business for Global warming. Anti- US business prosperity.

Dennis Blair

Intelligence Czar

Ret. Navy. Stopped US guided missile program as "provocative". Chair of ultra liberal "Council on Foreign Relations" which blames American organizations for regional wars.

George Mitchell

Mideast Peace Czar

Fmr. Sen from Maine Left wing radical. Has said Israel should be split up into "2 or 3 " smaller more manageable plots".(God forbid) A true Anti-nuclear anti-gun & pro homosexual "special rights" advocate

Kenneth Feinberg

Pay Czar

Chief of Staff to TED KENNEDY. Lawyer who got rich off the 911 victims payoffs.(horribly true)

Cass Sunstein

Regulatory Czar

Liberal activist judge believes free speech needs to be limited for the "common good". Essentially against 1st amendment. Rules against personal freedoms many times -like private gun ownership and right to free speech.This guy has to be run out of Washington!!

John Holdren

Science Czar

Fierce ideological environmentalist, Sierra Club, Anti business activist.Claims US business has caused world poverty. No Science training.

Earl Devaney

Stimulus Accountability Czar

Spent career trying to take guns away from American citizens. Believes in Open Borders to Mexico. Author of statement blaming US gun stores for drug war in Mexico .

J. Scott Gration

Sudan Czar

Native of Democratic Republic of Congo . Believes US does little to help Third World countries. Council of foreign relations, asking for higher US taxes to support United Nations

Herb Allison

TARP Czar

Fannie Mae CEO responsible for the US recession by using real estate mortgages to back up the US stock market. Caused millions of people to lose their life savings.

John Brennan

Terrorism Czar

Anti CIA activist. No training in diplomatic or gov. affairs. Believes Open Borders to Mexico and a dialog with terrorists and has suggested Obama disband US military A TOTAL MORON!!!!!

Aneesh Chopra

Technology Czar

No Technology training. Worked for the Advisory Board Company, a health care think tank for hospitals. Anti doctor activist. Supports Obama Health care Rationing and salaried doctors working exclusively for the Gov. health care plan

Adolfo Carrion Jr.

Urban Affairs Czar

Puerto Rico born Anti-American activist and leftist group member in Latin America . Millionaire "slum lord" of the Bronx , NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from "sweetheart" deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes on middle class to pay for minority housing and health care

Ashton Carter

Weapons Czar

Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America.. No Other "policy"

Gary Samore

WMD Policy Czar

Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other "policy".for the Gov. health care plan

Adolfo Carrion Jr.

Urban Affairs Czar

Puerto Rico born Anti-American activist and leftist group member in Latin America . Millionaire "slum lord" of the Bronx , NY. Owns many lavish homes and condos which he got from "sweetheart" deals with labor unions. Wants higher taxes on middle class to pay for minority housing and health care

Ashton Carter

Weapons Czar

Leftist. Wants all private weapons in US destroyed. Supports UN ban on firearms ownership in America.. No Other "policy"

Gary Samore

WMD Policy Czar

Former US Communist. Wants US to destroy all WMD unilaterally as a show of good faith. Has no other "policy".

Terra Nova Take Two

Well, it would be unfair to judge the series by a single 2 hour episode, so we watched another episode last night.

There was no improvement in the writing or characters to be noticed :(
Issues were many and diverse.

1. Ineffectual father figure once again proved incompetent at daily life, being incapable of fixing a meal for his children and being unable to prepare them for bed, getting them bated and tucked in, having to wait instead for his uber competent wife to get home from a long day at work to do these simple chores that were beyond his abilities.

2. We have the wussy disarmed citizen pioneers unable to protect themselves from a flock of bird like creatures that turn nasty...seeing as no one has even a shotgun for protection.

3. We had the Econut Scientist pointing out that in nature animals never attack unless provoked and implying that the people who were going about their lives had in some way brought on the attacks from the bird like creatures.

4. Once again we see the Children being far more competent and skilled than the trained military personnel. The Military person is quickly knocked unconcious by one of the birdlike creatures leaving the children to save his bacon and the day by expertly handling the situation and even equipping and utilizing his weapon more capably and ably than the trained soldier could.

5, Humans once again turned out to be at fault and to blame as they had built their settlement on the bird things spawning grounds. The colony being unable to fend off flocks of birds turn to the econut scientist who in a matter of hours whips up 50 gallons/liters of the bird things pheromones which is used to lure the birds somewhere else to mate.

6. We find a crippled legless man pandering his wares on the street of the commune where all ones basic needs are provided free of charge to learn that there is in fact a currency in use after all and somehow he has accumulated quite stock pile of items to sell.

It is quite clear that the writing staff and creators have zero knowledge about real world pioneering, wilderness, animals or colonizing a wilderness. We see Hollywood emasculation of the men and the lionization of the women and children. This colony deserves to fail and fail big time.


Note, I am not saying Women cannot be uber capable, I actually know someone who reminds me of Friday in the Heinlein Novel of the same name. The sad thing about this is that Hollywood can't seem to write strong female characters without doing so at the expense of the males. Compare this show to Firefly or StarGate SG1 and you see it is a very sad attempt at an exciting show.

I hate Terra Nova

A show that is quite possibly the laziest, vapid, pandering ignorant writing of all time.

We had all the formulaic players, wussified father figure who lets his children and wife push him around and order him about while he ineffectually just takes it. The angsty teen boy who ignores authority and cannot be told anything, not one but TWO extremely competent highly intelligent beautiful teen age girls who know more than everyone around them and are wise beyond their years, the imbecilic baby who manages to wander off to feed the dinosaurs, the hyper intelligent female doctor who orders her hubby around and is the final word on any decision making even when it comes to the base commander.....an isolated colony with limited resources and power where groups of teens have all the free daylight time to steal one of the colony's highly valuable irreplaceable vehicles to go out to make moonshine amongst the dinosaurs. The colonists are all disarmed patsys with a small military force to protect them with guns that fire bullets that wont even pierce the skin of an animal (dinosaur), an ultra macho uber black woman who commands a break away village while everyone wastes vast quantities of resources, man power and energy on a continuing basis, a tough as nails bad ass base commander that lets a teenage girl off the hook, for participating in activities that got several people killed or maimed and required squandering enough ammunition to fight a small war.

Then there is the whole socialist commune life style which if anyone looked at history would realize that running such a colony in an isolated primitive society is always doomed to failure.
It is as if there is a scripted formula for this kind of garbage where the stereotype check boxes had to be marked off, the only stereotype that I did not see represented in this first 2 hour steaming pile was an openly gay person or gay couple with adopted kids

Remember

Not the politics, not the rhetoric and not the islamic excuses. Remember those who died just going about their lives, remember the heroes and the bravery. Remember the words "Lets Roll".

I got this from Brigid, and she got it from Frank Herbert

"Most civilization is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame."

Victor Davis Hanson Greatness

This Fourth of July, what remains is the Founders’ vision of a limited government; the idea of a population united by common values, themes, and ideas; a republican form of checks-and-balances government to prevent demagoguery, factions, and tyranny of the majority; the sanctity and autonomy of the nation-state; and individual freedom and liberty as protected through the Bill of Rights. Everything after and against that has proved a failure.

Indeed, what makes this Fourth different from recent celebrations is the ongoing repudiation of almost everything antithetical to the Founders’ views — the redistributive, all-powerful welfare state, the therapeutic arrogance that believes human nature can be altered by an omnipotent well-meaning government, the postmodern notion that nationhood and borders are passé, and the utopian idea that war can be declared obsolete and the need for defense transcended. From Greece to California such dreams are dead.

The European Union is unwinding for two very simple reasons. First, it is not a constitutional state, but a loose conglomeration of nations run by elites who are not responsible to the people. For decades the undemocratic nature of rule from Brussels was masked by politically correct edicts on everything from global warming to anti-Americanism. But as the money runs out, the elites’ fraud becomes impossible to hide.

For the whole thing go Here!

People one admires.

Every once in a while you get to meet or talk to someone you look up to and admire. When you do make personal contact you find out that what you thought you knew about the person was only a fraction of what was really there....some times that is a good thing and some times that is a bad thing.

Today I got to talk to a lady I have admired for a long time now...it was a fantastic chat, and a real pleasure and honor. Even our heroes and role models have to deal with the ups and downs of life but this lady manages in an exceptional manner and Im really glad I had the opportunity to connect with her.

To that lady I say, thank you for letting me in and having the chance to talk.

Not too shabby for 4 months of operations.

Memorial Day

No Flashy Graphics, no dazzling prose, just a moment of silence and a day of remembrance.

Snapshot of todays Solar Panel Performance.

A friend was asking about the array so I thought Id post what it looks like this sunny morning.

Not Like a Ponzi Scheme?

Well this explains it all :P

Bin Laden Dead 4/2011

Ding Dong the Witch is dead. Osama Bin Laden is dead. Watched President Barak Hussein Obama's speech. It was a decent speech however if Im honest with myself I feel he used the words "I, Me and My" way too often. Other than that it was good. To my brothers and sisters in arms those in the Intelligence services CIA, NSA and DIA and the Fantastic folks in the Special Operations Forces...Job Well Done!.....

This explains why Anti-Gun laws are Fundamentally wrong.

From Brigid's Home on the Range

My New Favorite political cartoon site

Battlefield315

Solar Panel Project

The panels are completely installed. 39 Panels at 235watts each, here are the pictures.






Now we have to wait for the State Inspectors to come round and give their blessing, and for the Power Company to replace our meter with a new Netmeter so we can sell power back to them

The Specs

Processor: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition 980X 3.33GHz (Six-Core) (Extreme Performance)
Motherboard: ASUS Rampage III Extreme (Intel X58 Chipset)
System Memory: 12GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair Dominator GT with DHX (3x4GB Sticks)
Power Supply: 1200W Corsair Pro Gold Series (CMPSU-1200AX)
Hard Drive Set 1: Operating System: 1x (160GB Solid State (By: Intel)
Hard Drive Set 2: Multimedia\Data: 1x (600GB Western Digital VelociRaptor
Hard Drive Set 3: Backup\Misc.: 2x (2TB Western Digital )
Optical Drive 1: DVD-R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 24x / CD-Writer 48x)
Video Card(s): 2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB)
Sound Card: Creative Labs X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional (PCI-Express Slot Based)
Extreme Cooling: Sub-Zero CPU Liquid Chilled System & Chipset + Dual Video Cards Liquid Cooling
H20 Tube Color: Red Tubing with High-Performance Fluid (UV Lighting Reactive)
Chassis Airflow: Standard Factory Chassis Fans
Internal Lighting: Internal Chassis Lighting System (UV)
CPU Boost: Stage 3: Overclock the processor between 4.2GHz to 4.6GHz
Memory Boost: Memory Fan Kit Only (Does not include memory overclocking service)
Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate (64-Bit Edition)

Highest temp under load was 45 degrees.....

The Beast

Custom built with custom cooling using TEC's or thermoelectric cooling to chill liquid to below 0 degree C.

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