Fracking

Pamela Geller shows us where the opposition to fracking is really coming from: Putin! She links to an article by Jack Wheeler of To the Point News, and then minces no words about Obama being Putin's "pathetic puppy:" http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/04/putins-pathetic-puppy-obama.html

Always look on the bright side of life

Jeffro at The Poor Farm links to a video showing an EPA bureaucrat duplicating Roman tactics (crucifixions) to scare industries into compliance. http://www.mrctv.org/videos/epa-official-al-armendariz-crucify-oil-companies
Jeffro has a video of his own (Monty Python) and a cartoon by Chip Bok here: http://crazedpw.blogspot.com/2012/04/always-look-on-bright-side-of-life.html

He said no.

This story from China makes me very uncomfortable. Go here to find out why: http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/thread-744542-1-1.html
via http://althouse.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-tried-to-be-professional-and-detach.html

How would you react?

If you saw this sign at the beginning of the belt leading to your cashier, how would you react? The sign was put up by the store manager of a grocery store in Rochester, New York after a Muslim cashier complained that she was uncomfortable ringing up these products.
http://alwaysonwatch3.blogspot.com/2012/04/meanwhile-in-rochester-new-york.html

Let's help her fulfill this fantasy!

"It is hard to sneak around and do what you want," Michelle Obama said today. "I have done it a couple of times. But you know one fantasy I have, and the Secret Service they keep looking at me because they think I might actually do it, is to walk right out the front door and just keep walking."
 http://alwaysonwatch3.blogspot.com/2012/04/michelle-obamas-fantasy.html#more

Bach for Cello

I dedicate this post to my son Greg, who loves his viola and also loves to spin around on the floor, as seen at the end of this video.
http://alwaysonwatch3.blogspot.com/2012/04/musical-interlude.html

Where there is a real war on women (You won't hear about it from the feminists)

"One can only hope that during this hectic election season, the editors and producers pushing the phony war on women in America come to their senses and do some reporting on the very real war on women in Turkey, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, and the countries affected by the Arab Spring."

“Families of disgraced girls are choosing between sacrificing a son to a life in prison by designating him to kill his sister or forcing their daughters to kill themselves,” said Yilmaz Akinci, who works for a rural development group in the region. “Rather than losing two children, most opt for the latter option.”

Read more here:  http://aina.org/news/20120428112333.htm
Update: More on Turkey here (They average one honor killing per day): http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2012/04/war-on-turkish-women.html

A pathway

Want an inspiring story? Read Lindsay H. Jones' piece in today's Denver Post about the Denver Broncos first pick in the 2012 NFL Draft. Derek Wolfe is a guy who didn't sell himself short: http://www.denverpost.com/broncos/ci_20506096/broncos-top-draft-pick-derek-wolfe-reaches-his

Ideas

Newt Gingrich is being pilloried because he ran for president despite not being financially prepared. But, he had ideas. One of his ideas is that America should not abandon the space race. Romney and Santorum both ridiculed him in Florida when he presented those ideas, which were mainly based on encouraging private funding. However, here is one blogger who says Gingrich was right: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-23/let-the-shuttle-s-demise-awaken-gingrich-s-space-dreams.html?cmpid=BVshare

Grope and Change

Mark Steyn has some questions about the men who protect our president. I think he has covered all the angles: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/296640/grope-and-change-mark-steyn

One accomplishment

Smitty at The Other McCain makes the point that since it is his ONLY accomplishment, Obama should keep reminding us about his administration's successful capture of Osama Bin Laden. By doing so, according to Smitty's theory, it will bring into stark contrast the absence of any other accomplishment of the Obama administration.
http://theothermccain.com/2012/04/28/weekend-at-bin-ladens/

Questions about politics

Can anyone explain to me why such an overwhelming percentage of African Americans vote Democrat? The Republican Party was founded on ending slavery. Remember Abraham Lincoln? In my lifetime Dwight Eisenhower sent federal troops to Arkansas to escort nine African American students to and from school every day. Each time civil rights legislation was presented, the percentage of Republicans who voted for it was always greater than the percentage of Democrats. More schools were desegregated during the presidency of Richard Nixon than in any other presidential term in history.

Do Republicans have to learn how to play to the mob? How to pretend to be extending their hand out to the little guy while taking campaign cash from the crony capitalists and union thugs? How to use Saul Alinsky tactics to pit Americans against each other on the basis of which victim groups can deliver the most votes in November?

Easier said than done!

This is a big weekend for people who enjoy professional sports. It started with the NFL draft. Here in Colorado, thanks to second-year Broncos executive John Elway, we already got our superstar quarterback, a future Hall of Famer and brother of this year's Super Bowl champion quarterback Eli Manning. Elway and his draft team did not add any more sure-fire superstars, but hopefully they brought in the kind of guys who will "leave it all on the field."

Today begins the NBA playoffs for the Denver Nuggets. They have the dubious honor of playing a best-of-seven series against the championship-tested L.A. Lakers. The Nuggets do not have any superstars. The Lakers have Kobe Bryant, who may be the best player in professional basketball, and who has a history of raising his game to new levels in the playoffs. As if that were not enough, they also have Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum. The Nuggets, however, sometimes really play the game like it should be played, with unselfish hustle at both ends of the court. The problem is that they get careless at times with dangerous passes that don't hit their mark.

Kobe Bryant has already set the bar higher for his teammates by sitting out the last game of the regular season to rest up for the playoffs. He did this despite the fact that he had an opportunity to win the league's scoring title. Instead, Kevin Durant of the Okalhoma City Thunder won it for the third year in a row. Bryant's teammates will surely get his message: it is a team game, and it's all about winning in the playoffs.

The Lakers are always contenders for the NBA championship. They know how to do this. However, until game seven, they will be without some guy named World Peace, who is another experienced, very physical player. The reason he is out until the seventh game is that he has a long history of taking his physicality a bit too far, and is being punished for that by the league. So, my advice to the Nuggets is to win it in six or less games, which will be a lot easier said than done!

 Update: Game one is not even close: Lakers 103 Nuggets 88.

"If he isn't going to act presidential, he should not be President!"

Here is a link to a story that gives us some idea how nasty the Obama people are getting. They are trying to intimidate Romney donors. Read the whole thing here: http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/romney-obama-election-2012/2012/04/27/id/437368?s=al&promo_code=EC54-1

The University of Colorado is a busy place!

The University of Colorado has been in the news for three weeks running. First there was the fizzled out protest to legalize pot, then Obama came to tout his plan to ease student loan paybacks, now this bear falls out of a tree after being tranquilized near a residence hall.
Via http://ace.mu.nu./

Demonic

Who knew? Ann Coulter's book Demonic is a history book! In it she makes the case that liberals like mobs. She goes into great detail about the French Revolution, which she compares unfavorably to the American Revolution. She writes about the despicable Weathermen terrorists Bill Ayres and Bernadine Dohrn, early advisors to Barack Obama. She criticizes Martin Luther King for being willing to sacrifice young people to Democrat Bull Connor's dogs to keep King's non-violent movement going, even though civil rights had already been achieved through legislation supported by Republicans and opposed by Democrats.

Ann Coulter was an early and steadfast supporter of Mitt Romney. Wouldn't it be fun to see him reward her by appointing her to head the Justice Department or be the White House Press Secretary?

The next ethanol disaster

Ethanol has had disastrous effects on our economy. So what is being planned by Obama and his crony capitalists who benefit from the ten percent blend of ethanol? They are planning to increase the blend to 15%! Here is what one blogger has to say about that:
"Ethanol collects water, which can cause engine stalls. It corrodes plastic, rubber and soft metal parts. Pre-2001 car engines, parts and systems may not be able to handle E15, which could also increase emissions and adversely affect engine, fuel pump and sensor durability. Older cars and motorcycles mistakenly (or for price or convenience) fueled with E15 could conk out on congested highways or in the middle of nowhere; boat engines could die miles from land or in the face of a thunderstorm; and snowmobiles could sputter to a stop in a frigid wilderness.

Homeowners and yard care professionals have voiced concerns that E15’s corrosive qualities could damage their gasoline-powered equipment. Because it burns hotter than gasoline, high ethanol gasoline engines could burn users or cause lawnmowers, chainsaws, trimmers, blowers and other outdoor power equipment to start inadvertently or catch fire, they worry. 

As several trade associations have noted in a lawsuit, the Clean Air Act says EPA may grant a waiver for a new fuel additive or fuel blend only if it has demonstrated that the new fuel will not damage the emissions control devices of “any” engine in the existing inventory.


E15 has not yet met this requirement. EPA should not have moved forward on E15 and should not have ignored studies that indicate serious potential problems with this high-ethanol fuel blend.
Largely because of corn-based ethanol, U.S. corn prices shot up from an annual average of $1.96 per bushel in 2005 to $6.01 in 2011. This year we will make ethanol from 5 billion bushels of corn grown on an area the size of Iowa. E15 fuels will worsen the problem, especially if corn crops fall below expectations. 

Ethanol mandates mean more revenues and profits for corn growers and ethanol makers. However, skyrocketing corn prices mean beef, pork, poultry, egg, and fish producers pay more for corn-based feed; grocery manufacturers pay more for corn, meat, fish and corn syrup; and families see prices soar for almost everything on their dinner table. 
 http://www.masterresource.org/2012/04/folly-e15-antihydrocarbon-policies/#more-19741

Top Ten Positive Climate Changes

Recently there was something called Earth Day. Here is a blog that believes many positive developments are taking place on Earth. His top ten:
10) The growing season across the Northern Hemisphere is expanding;
9) Precipitation has increased across the mid-to-high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere (where most of the world’s crops are grown);
8 ) Higher CO2 levels are leading to more productive plants, including crops such as corn, wheat, and rice …
7) … and contributing to an increasing global output of food products;
6) The combination of the above is leading to a true “greening” of the environment;
5) Global tropical cyclone activity has been declining over the past 20 years and is now near its 40-yr low;
4) The rate of sea level rise has slowed during the past decade;
3) The rate of global temperature rise has remained moderate and likely below the central value of climate model projections for the past 30 years;
2) Evidence continues to mount against high climate sensitivity values.
And, the NUMBER 1 positive climate development for Earth Day 2012,
1) Together, these beneficial trends, along with enhancement of our energy and other technologies, has the net result of increasing public health and welfare. For example across the globe, the life expectancy at birth is the longest it has ever been, and continues to climb upwards.

 http://www.masterresource.org/2012/04/earth-day-2012-top-10-positives/

He has slipped a bit in the polls

CBS and the New York Times have done a new poll that reveals that John Edwards is not as popular as he used to be. What would we do without the obsolete media?
http://troglopundit.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/quite-possibly-the-most-pointless-pollever/

GSA Recruiting Center

President Obama was in Boulder, Colorado yesterday. Someone put this hot tub out on the street as a means to recruit new employees for his General Services Administration. The GSA, you will remember, was in the news a while back for partying a bit excessively in Las Vegas.