Night Walk

At 10pm in Anchorage it's still light. Pretty neat

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Anchorage

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Amazing tale of incompetence

The News and Observer's series on the NC SBI is an amazing tale of absolute incompetence.  Intentionally incompetent, it seems.  I read it with great disbelief.  The folks mentioned in this series had one thing in common, none had science degrees.

Unbelievable

Droid App

Blogger for Droid seems to work pretty well.  Comes up with the last on you used.  Will how it works.

Droid app

Checking Droid

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Bath Project

The new toilet is in.  The new vanity is in.  Had a bear of a time getting the drain in so it didn't leak.  Bought a Price Pfister Avalon kit.  The cheap plastic drain and pop up assembly was beyond my ability to install so it didn't leak.  I had to buy a steel ($25) assembly to get it to work. 

Demel Multi Max

I bought a Dremel Multimax     for a flooring replacement project, largely because the ads looked pretty neat and I needed a saw for door jambs.  The tool worked as advertised.  When I did my part, it cut neatly, quickly and accurately.  Looks like a good tool to have around for home projects.

Sustainable Biomass?

This article   
from the NYT on sustainable electricity from burning trees points out a bunch of problems with this whole green concept and leaves a few out.  It takes 20 years of tree growth to produce pines that might be usable.  The amount of land for growing trees to sustain one 47 mW plant is huge.  Pine is not as good as the slower growing hardwoods.  Pine is more polluting.  In fact, wood is as, if not more, polluting than hard coal.  Emissions controls would need to be as, or more stringent, than coal plants.  The high moisture content makes the fuel less efficient.  Bark and chip burning plants generally die pretty quickly based strictly on economics.  The article certainly doesn't mention the cost of the electricity produced or how much of the cost in the form of price and subsidies the public gets to pay.  Not a good idea

HT Instapundit 

Obama's Expensive 10 minutes

The presidential desparation to sell the stimulus as working was estimated to cost $500,000 to $1,000,000 for a 10-minute speech.  In honor of the presidential speech, construction workers were laid off with no pay for the day. 

It's time for real results and not fluff and nonsense.

Inexcusable Federal Obstruction

The oil-sucking barges work and the Coast Guard shuts it down. The Feds are bound and determined to make this tragedy worse than it has to be.  It is past time folks started getting fired.

hat tip Drudge

Obama Plan

Obama's plan is BP bad, BP gonna pay.  Tonight he did little to assure me that there was any real plan to protect the coasts and restoration.  Cap and Tax, stopping drilling, and beating up BP will destroy the country.  Just how many gallons of oil does a lawyer suck up?


We have been had by absolute lack of experience.

Good bye Merc

Cute article from Time on the demise of the Mercury.  I guess I never saw much difference, except price, between the Mercury and the comparable Ford model, so I never owned a Merc. 

Federal Response to the Oil Spill

I watched the joint press conference today. Napolitano and Salazar said the same thing: 1. BP is responsible; 2. We will hold them responsible; 3. We are making it a priority mission for a group of government scientists to figure out just how much oil is spilled; 4. We've been on it since day one and have been to the coast 4 times; and 5. BP will pay.

This is about the dumbest conference I've heard. The Feds have no plan, no ideas and are doing nothing to move things along. The only plan they have is fixing the blame. Why do either Napalitano or Salazar have jobs with any responsibility?

Show me your papers

Rather bad press by the President and others. As a US citizen I carry and, depending on the situation, can be expected to show: driver's license, retired military ID, voter registration card, car registration, car insurance, fishing license, boat and trailer registrations and others. If I were illegal, could I get by with less?

Graduation

Last child graduated.  Absolutely beautiful, sunny day to enjoy the show.

A minivan trumps anything

But a ragtop of any kind. Car lust is a great website

Car Lust

Really neat blog on cars

Nelson on Greta

Listened to the interview with Nelson from Nebraska.  Either he is the dumbest senator who ever broke bread or his is the worst liar.  He apparently didn't know about the kickback, then said it was a placeholder because they didn't have time to score it.  Asked about the rush and he just didn't know.

The US would be better off if the good folks in Nebraska elected him but then requested he not go to work.  Absolutely disgusting.

Half the Bathroom is coming together

Walls painted, shower in and hardware in.  Shower doors will be added tomorrow.  Just too lazy to drag them up the stairs tonight.

Peace in Our Time

Chamberlain's quote is about all that is missing from the current strategy of apology, discussion, deferring to our avowed enemies, kicking our friends and the newly announced nuclear policy.