tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35634902012-01-28T10:40:43.539-05:00Opinion, Politics, mostly True Stories, and Plain Tomfoolery as only New England Yankees can do it, don'tcha see.JAEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01328200953737878802noreply@blogger.comBlogger20101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563490.post-63292267097180720072012-01-28T10:40:00.002-05:002012-01-28T10:40:43.559-05:00

Some times great minds think alike. In this case Gerard Vanderleun attacks one of the “insidiously deceptive lines of the socialist-liberal agenda” which is “Violence doesn't solve anything.” As the story he links to states: Pacifism is a sickness, an actual moral perversity, and dangerous when its effects spread to anyone else beside the pacifist. You may choose to walk to the cattle car,

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"...but I do not think it means what you think it means.” And what word would that be but the favorite accusation hurled by the Left at the drop of a hat whenever someone dares disagree with someone from one minority group or another? Racism. The Left bandies that word around like a bludgeon, figuring that by making the accusation they'll be able to stifle any disagreement with their agenda.

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Now that the manufacture of 100W incandescent light bulbs has been banned in the US, with 75W, 60W, and 40W bulbs to follow, we must look at the history of the allegedly “better for the environment” replacements, primarily compact fluorescent lights (CFL) and LED lighting. The scorecard for CFLs isn't all that great, with far too many of them failing to live up to the hype, specifically in

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I just finished watching the State Of My Chances To Get Re-Elected The Union address. It sounded pretty, full of all kinds of hopeful rhetoric and broad promises. In other words, typical of an Obama campaign speech. One of the things I did to amuse myself during the 1 hour and 5 minutes of the speech was keep track of how many times the president uttered certain words. I have three main word

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We dodged a bullet, weatherwise. It snowed yesterday in New England, but for the most part we were on the fringes of the storm and got about an inch of snow. But because it was so fine (due to the well below freezing temps), the roads got pretty slick in a short period of time. The few errands I had to run yesterday required me to use 4WD most of the time while I was out on the road. The small

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We've all heard news reports about thieves stealing things like copper pipes and wiring from empty or abandoned buildings. It's not all that surprising considering the price of scrap copper and other metals. (Some thieves have gone so far as to steal bronze plaques from grave yards and buildings.) We've heard about Darwin Award nominees trying to steal electrical cables from power poles (usually

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I caught the end of tonight's World News on ABC. Since it was Friday their usual last feature is Person of the Week. This week it was the three mayors of Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Mesa, Arizona. What is it that moved ABC to select them as Persons of the Week? They want the federal government (specifically Congress) to stop dickering around and do something about America's crumbling roads.

DCEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473492838008371044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563490.post-7272939436684093252012-01-19T16:28:00.002-05:002012-01-19T16:28:14.513-05:00

Thought the SuperBowl is still a little over two weeks away, some TV ads slated for the Big Show are already making an appearance on YouTube. This one will probably be one of my favorites. I'm glad that Volkswagen and Lucasarts were able to come to terms over the use of some of the Star Wars music and imagery. It's worked out for both of them.

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As bad as the real estate bubble and subsequent meltdown was here in the US, the bubble in China is worse and the meltdown will be far more spectacular. Unlike the one in the US, the Chinese meltdown includes entire cities built in anticipation of demands for housing, manufacturing, and consumer spending. It is this last that shows just how badly the Chinese government has overestimated the

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We know the strangest things come out of California, including social fads, weird fashion, even weirder laws, and totally FUBAR'd educational theories. But going to war against vampires? But not all is as it appears to be. California has declared war on vampires, but this time it's no Hollywood monster flick. The state will be the first in the nation to target so-called vampire battery

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BeezleBub spent the weekend split between work at the farm and his high school's FIRST robotics team...for the most part. He tried to do some work at the farm this morning. With temps well below zero he couldn't get any of the tractors started even with the block heaters plugged in overnight. No tractors meant no work. He was home from work this morning by 9:15AM. After warming up and indulging

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One of the most difficult concepts that many people have problems understanding is that of diminishing returns. This applies to many different areas in our lives and in our society. I don't know whether it's a lack of education, a failure in their upbringing, or something inherently lacking in the people themselves. Perhaps it's a little of all three. Going hand in hand with this concept is one

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Winter weather finally arrived, albeit about a month late. We got about 7 inches of snow here at The Manse, and unlike the first two snowfalls we experienced at the end of October and just before Thanksgiving, this was pretty much all powder. It made for slick roads, snow drifts, and the occasional white out. It required the use of 4WD to make it up the rather steep driveway this morning.

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Very little surprises me about the ever more nonsensical, illogical, and incompetent Obama Administration. Two of the latest examples of this dysfunction: federal fines placed upon fuel companies for failure to blend certain biofuels in gasoline and diesel even though those biofuels don't exist; and new regulations imposed by NOAA that seriously cripple the New England fishing industry even

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With about 54% of the districts reporting, it looks like Mitt Romney has won the New Hampshire GOP primary with ~37%, with Ron Paul coming in second with 24% of the votes.

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After work I headed down the our local election polling place, in this case located in the gym of our middle school. One thing I noticed right off was not so much something that was there but something that wasn't: volunteers holding election signs. There were none. It wasn't until I got to the entrance to the school that I saw a few campaign signs lying side by side on the ground. But no

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It's voting day in New Hampshire, where the voters will make their preferences for president known. More to follow later!

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It's been a quiet weekend here at The Manse, with the most exciting thing being the kickoff for the annual FIRST robotics competition. BeezleBub is participating again this year, and he and some of his teammates made the trip down to Manchester to attend the kickoff activities. About the only other excitement was the trip Deb and I took to Center Harbor yesterday to do some yarn shopping. (Yes, I

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Over at Ace of Spades is a list of the things the Left fears should Obama lose the election come next November. Are their fears unfounded? In some areas, yes. But for the most part they are right to fear that much of the damage done by the Congressional Democrats since 2007 and President Obama since 2009 will be undone should Obama lose in November. When you come right down to it, the upcoming

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The GOP primary madness in New Hampshire is starting on its upward swing, with so many media people in the Granite State that you can barely go anywhere without running into someone from the multitude of media. I figure we've just about reached saturation, with the peak to come some time Tuesday after the polls open. One thing I have noticed is the very large number of campaign signs,

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Deb called me on her way to work this afternoon, telling me the news. My new monitor was here! Once I got home I unpacked it, checked it out for any damage, swapped it in for the malfunctioning monitor, then hit the power switch on the UPS, computer, and monitor. And once more the Official Weekend Pundit Main Computer System is whole! Now I've got to package up the 'old' monitor

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I got a bit of sticker shock today when I pulled up to the gas pump at our local BJ's Discount Club. The Thursday before Christmas regular was $3.079 per gallon. Today, just a day shy of two weeks later, it was $3.229, an increase of 15¢. Asking around it turns out the price went up just yesterday by 7¢. Other prices around the area had jumped as high as $3.279. It made me wonder why,

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Now that we've made it past the first of the year, the focus here in New Hampshire turns in two directions: the upcoming Presidential Primaries and annual town/state budgets. Of the two, the primaries are receiving the most attention by both the populace and the media. With the New Hampshire primaries scheduled for January 10th, the media attention has been cranked up to “11”. The various

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We here at the Weekend Pundit Manse celebrated the New year's quietly, with Deb arriving home from work about 10 minutes before midnight. For the most part New Year's Day has been quiet, with the most exciting thing being watching the New England Patriots overwhelm the Buffalo Bills, 49-21 in Foxboro. The rest of the day was pretty mundane, with laundry and taking down the Christmas tree being

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Is the UK on the verge of abandoning the EU? It's looking more like a more attractive option as the monetary/finance crisis deepens and threatens to pull the UK irrevocably into a bankrupt and less democratic European superstate. What options does it have to preclude this out come? Only two variations on a theme, that being withdrawal from the EU. That leave them with two possible options once

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As you dozen or so regular readers know, the LCD monitor on the new Official Weekend Pundit Main Computer went on the blink 14 days ago. According to the fine folks at HP, I was supposed to receive the replacement monitor by yesterday. (I even have the e-mails with the expected delivery date stating the December 28.) Last night around 8PM I received an e-mail from HP stating my monitor was

DCEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473492838008371044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563490.post-64926312578751021452011-12-29T12:33:00.001-05:002011-12-29T12:33:23.494-05:00

I know, I'm a few days late on this, but I'm still trying to catch up. Gimme a break. I've been sick. Now that government subsidies for ethanol have ended, as have the tariffs on Brazilian ethanol, what will the effect be fuel prices? In the end, probably not a whole lot. After all, ethanol is only 10% of the volume in E10 gasolines. Assuming Brazilian ethanol becomes more popular with blenders,

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Some of the latest housing news shows that home values are still falling. That's not really a surprise, is it? But prices are rising in 2 cities, Washington DC and Detroit. Detroit? Yes, Detroit. When you think about it it makes sense. Its real estate values plummeted to the point where the median price for a house was less than $7000. (The large number of abandoned homes and buildings in the

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Here it is, I thought I was past the effects of the stomach bug that hit on Christmas night, but early this morning I was up again paying a visit to the bathroom about every 15 to 20 minutes. This precluded me from joining Deb and BeezleBub for a trip down to the WP In-Laws. This being sick shtick is gettin' old real fast. UPDATE: Deb and BeezleBub got home from the In Laws around 8PM. Deb

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We pretty much managed to make it through Christmas unscathed. (One exception. See below.) Deb had to work Christmas day and BeezleBub had animals to feed at the farm, so we did not travel on Christmas Day. However we do plan to pay a visit to the WP In Laws this coming Wednesday, one of the rare Wednesdays that Deb has off (her schedule was juggled around because she worked Christmas Day).

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We here at Weekend Pundit want to wish you a very Merry Christmas. Now shut off your computer and go spend time with your family and friends!

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Yes, I know it's Christmas Eve. I could easily do a feel-good Christmas story since there are appear to be a plethora of them out there this year. But that smacks far too much of me-too-ism. And while I am just as guilty as many bloggers out there of doing that from time to time, I don't want to do that today. No siree. Instead, I'm going to focus on something incredibly stupid that only a

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By way of Instapundit comes this piece about all weather radials versus snow tires. I can say the results were not surprising. From personal experience I can tell you snows make all the difference here in the snow belt. With the exception of the trusty Ford F150 4X4 (my present form of transportation), I have for the most part driven cars with front wheel drive. With one exception, I always put

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We've been hearing about the financial turmoil in the EU, with Greece just this side of total bankruptcy, and Portugal, Italy, Ireland, and Spain no too far behind. There's lot's of finger pointing, with very few pointing the finger at Brussels and he unaccountable EU Parliament. One of those doing willing to do so is the CEO of Ryan Air, Michael O'Leary. He slams the EU bureaucracy, the

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Don Surber gives us a list of the Ten Things Obama Got Wrong, though I think he could have easily gone well past ten to fifty or a hundred. A few of my favorites: 2. He got Obamacare wrong. Along those lines, President Obama saw how Hillarycare went and decided to do the opposite. Or likely more accurately, the president heard that Hillary lost on health care because it was written in the

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After spending an hour and a half on the phone with tech support yesterday I convinced them that the Official Weekend Pundit Main Computer's monitor was indeed malfunctioning, they decided that it needed to be replaced (under warranty, of course). I received confirmation via e-mail today that a 'new' monitor is on its way. (By new, they mean a reconditioned monitor. If I had to guess the 'new'

DCEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07473492838008371044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3563490.post-42365329141564684472011-12-18T21:00:00.001-05:002011-12-18T21:00:24.870-05:00

The computer problems continue, with the monitor on my machine unwilling to display anything other than the power up screen before going to sleep. Even the forums have been unable to help me figure out how to wake it up. I think it's going to require a call to HP Tech Support, meaning I'll be in phone tree hell. *********** As Christmas approaches I have to admit to my annual Christmas anxiety/

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It isn't that I have had nothing to blog about or haven't wanted to do so. On the contrary, I have wanted to but have had to deal with computer related problems since yesterday afternoon.First, there was a UPS failure that caused problems because of issues with bypassing it. I had the choice of running the cable modem and router or my computer. The modem and router won that one.Then, after

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By way of the Barrister at Maggie's Farm comes links to two related posts dealing with wealth and how the wealthy actually deal with it. One has to admit that the wealthy handle their wealth in different ways, running between over-the-top ostentatious displays of how much money they have to being frugal and appearing no different than any other middle income family. An example of the second:

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After watching this ABC News story about how the Treasury has come to its senses and stopped minting dollar coins no one wants, I had to ask this question: Why did ABC come to the wrong conclusion about these coins? On more than one occasion I have posted about how the government has gotten it wrong when dealing with the dollar coin. I've posted about it three separate times this year alone.

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It seems yet another EU country is reconsidering its reliance upon the euro. This time around, it's France. Not that France's economy was all that great before they switched from the franc to the euro. The issues with the euro has merely made it worse. The French have growing reservations about the euro: 36% want to withdraw from the eurozone and go back to the franc, the old national

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The impromptu Christmas party at The Manse was a success. I think everyone enjoyed themselves. I dealt with the aftermath this morning, cleaning up the leftovers, washing dishes, and getting everything else squared away. *********** The New England Patriots played the Washington Redskins in Maryland, defeating them 34-27. While I hope the Patriots keep winning, I don't think they're ready for

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It's Christmas party evening here at The Manse, with friends of Deb, BeezleBub and yours truly in attendance. Therefore today's/tonight's post might be late in coming.

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Call this one a two-fer, covering two different aspects of AGW skepticism. First, comes a peer reviewed article in Science that covers a study questioning the sensitivity of Earth's climate to CO2 concentrations. In particular, the study suggests that the probable sensitivity of the earth’s climate to increases in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is far lower than the

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Verizon has shed itself of many of its less profitable operations, specifically landlines, with sales to HawaiiTel, FairPoint, and Frontier. It appears Verizon did not let the money they received for those assets sit idle. The billions they got for the sale of of their more rural landline systems were put to good use, expanding their wireless and FiOS offerings. With Verizon's recent purchase

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Now that Herman Cain has dropped out of the race I must admit to not being sure who, if anyone, I will support for the New Hampshire Primary, just a wee bit over a month away. I don't particularly care for Newt Gingrich one way or the other. I have no love of Romney as he seems a little too bland for me. (He was governor of the People's Republic of Massachusetts, and had to deal with a

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Yesterday BeezleBub experienced the trial most college-bound students must endure: taking the SATs. While he doesn't think he did all that well, we really won't know until we get the results. I did tell him that he can take them again if he doesn't like his scores from this one. Frankly, the SATs aren't as important as they used to be as more colleges no longer require them. The school BeezleBub

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I promised myself I wasn't going to give any more coverage to the Occupy Wall Street protests, but this was too good to pass up. This came by way of my friend at work, Cathy. Adam Corolla nails it when it comes to the OWS protesters. As Cathy writes, “This is what happens when you have a generation of 'No one is wrong, no one loses, and we all get trophies.' ” (Warning: Strong Language.) A

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Is it possible Booing might get its way in regards to the NLRB action trying to block it from opening its new Dreamliner plant in South Carolina? If this AP report is accurate, the answer might be yes. However, this 'win' for Boeing might be a Pyrrhic victory as it was contingent upon a new four year bargaining agreement with the Machinists union. The National Labor Relations Board filed a

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I could write volumes about the continuing ClimateGate scandal, but more than a few people have beaten me to it. One of them is James Delingpole in a WSJ opinion piece. But as good as his piece is, it is in the comments we find a few gems. Probably one of the better ones was penned by Michael Rivero as he reduces it to a few salient points as well as illustrating the actual motivation behind so

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I was going to wow you with a punched up version of “Why all your wireless stuff doesn't always work” as well as a few other related tidbits. But then I stopped by Fred Lapides' site (NSFW) and realized I had to chuck that idea until tomorrow. Instead I will be regaling you with a video that explains The History Of English...In Ten Minutes. I couldn't have done any better myself. But he did

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The warm weather here in New England has helped melt away the pre-Thanksgiving snow we received, leaving the roads, driveways, and rooftops clear. Not that all of the snow is gone. It's not by any means, but there is a lot more bare ground showing around here. The ski areas up north are certainly happy, seeing as the 10” plus snowfall certainly helped them during this long holiday weekend. ***

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After weeks of hullabaloo about the various OWS protests across the nation, it appears the whole thing was much ado about nothing. Between unfocused or contradictory messages, hypocrisy, mob violence, rape, murder, theft, drug overdoses, totalitarian 'councils' confiscating donated money, and just plain foolishness, the Occupy Wall Street protesters have proven one thing to the public at

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I think it's time to buckle down and get back to some of the allegedly more important doings around the world. In this case we'll delve back into the It's-All-The-Fault-Of-The-Evil-Humans Anthropogenic Global Warming shtick. I have to admit that I was goaded back to this subject by the WP Brother-In-Law as we discussed the matter post-Thanksgiving dinner. He had moderated his viewpoint quite a

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It was Thanksgiving dinner here at The Manse, with a good portion of the Weekend Pundit clan in attendance, including my dear brother, his missus, one of this three offspring. (Another of his kids, the oldest, stopped by before dinner to show off his new offspring before heading off to Thanksgiving dinner at his girlfriend's father's home.) Two of the WP sisters made it as well, the oldest with

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We didn't have to wait very long, that's for sure. We got about 6 inches of snow here at The Manse overnight, giving us an opportunity to try out the new Official Weekend Pundit Snowblower. I have to admit it took a little getting used to because its controls are so different from the previous Official Weekend Pundit Snowblower. For instance, the positions of the traction control and

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It only took a few weeks, but we finally took possession of the new Official Weekend Pundit Snowblower. The local BBH/A/L/GS finally called, informing us the snowblower we purchased three weeks ago was finally ready for pickup. The timing couldn't have been better considering we're under a Winter Storm Watch at the moment, with a still unspecified amount of snow expected tomorrow. I know how

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I saw this ad on TV for the first time the other night. It's to the point and describes our fiscal problems in language even Congress and Obama can understand. Our government is addicted to spending money we don't have, the same disease that has been such a big affliction in the EU.

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No post tonight: the New England Patriots are playing the Kansas City Chiefs in Foxborough tonight!

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It's been more firewood stacking here at The Manse. Farmer Andy delivered another cord of wood yesterday afternoon, meaning we had two cords to stack in the garage today. That leaves one more to be delivered, probably next weekend. If nothing else we'll have enough to keep us warm until next April. *********** Last night was the final performance of our local high school's rendition of Sound

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As Cap'n Teach reminds us, no good deed goes unpunished. And so it is in regards to one of the biggest unintended consequences of more high fuel efficiency vehicles hitting the roads: dropping revenues from fuel taxes. Another thing driving decreasing fuel consumption and fuel tax revenues is high fuel prices. This one-two punch has left both the federal and state governments scrambling to raise

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Deb and I had a night out, something we don't have very often considering our conflicting work schedules. In this case we had a chance to eat out at one of our favorite local pubs, something that's pleasurable this time of year because the only patrons are locals now that the tourists are gone until the ski season starts next month. We didn't have to wait to be seated and the food was delivered

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It's only a matter of time before this kind of nonsense kills someone here (assuming it hasn't already): In Scotland, fire officials who were so hidebound to official health and safety procedures allowed a woman who'd fallen down a collapsed mineshaft to die rather than allow rescue personnel to retrieve her and get her to treatment. Her fall had given her life-threatening injuries but if she

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I had a little bit of a malfunction with the Official Weekend Pundit Main Computer yesterday (I lost connection to the network), but I think I've got it all squared away. Speaking of getting things squared away, it appears Bogie's problem with the iHeartRadio app for her Android phone that was misbehaving after being upgraded has been resolved, or at least partially resolved as a newer version

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It was firewood stacking time at The Manse yesterday. Deb and I moved a pile of of our first cord of seasoned fire wood from next to the garage, stacking it inside the garage and out of the weather. We have three more cords to be delivered and then stacked before winter finally closes in. There is one change I made inside the garage in order to make for a more orderly stack of cords wood.

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Yes, I know there was no post last night, but I have a good excuse. I was attending one of the rare gala events in our small town: the opening of our new supermarket. Well, it's not really new so much as it's in a new location, with more retail space, more selections, a new sushi bar (must be for the tourists as most of us up here at Lake Winnipesaukee prefer our fish cooked), fancy new

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My missus showed me this video, stating quite accurately that it depicts exactly what we go through every morning with Cole, with one exception: Cole can't wield a bat...yet. I figure it's only a matter of time. For more cat cartoons, videos, and pictures, head on over to Simon's Cat.

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It is said the truly smart will learn from the harsh lessons of others' failures. I can say that one member of the WP clan is that smart, that being the youngest of the WP sisters. (As she says, she made her own mistakes while growing up that our parents never found out about.) It would be great if the political class presently ruling the US was as smart as my youngest sister. Unfortunately

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A busy night tonight, so to cheat a little bit here's some more on American quirkiness. One astute observation: As you can read here in the comments: “The” United States may exist as a political entity, but for every strange (or quirky) behavior you will find another American who makes fun of it, generally so spot on and convincing that they beat every foreigner who may try the same. Spot

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I came across this indirectly by way of Maggie's Farm. If nothing else it illustrates the quirkiness of America and Americans as seen through the eyes of folks from outside the US. Some of the observations are amusing, some poignant, and a few quite condescending. Some provide us with some of those “Gee, I never really noticed that before” moments. Some are valid and some are totally friggin'

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You did remember to turn your clocks back, didn't you? Personally, I think this semi-annual clock change has outlived its usefulness. I don't have a problem with getting up when it's still dark out to start my day. I'd prefer to have the extra hour of sunlight in the afternoon during the short winter days, but that's just me. *********** Almost all the snow that fell last weekend is gone, with

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I saw this the other day but waited until I had a chance to show it to a friend who, like the fellow in this video, grew up in the old Soviet Union. His opinion of the people advocating the elimination of capitalism and replacing it with socialism: “Useful idiots, just as Lenin and Stalin labeled them!” As my friend pointed out, these people are insane. Because they have allowed themselves to

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The Jawa Report has a handy dandy checklist comparing the Tea Party folks to the #Occupy folks. Again, it's no surprise the OWS folks come out on the short end of this one. There are also a couple of related links at the bottom of the list you should check out. (H/T Maggie's Farm)

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As time passes we get closer and closer to what has been called The Singularity. I call it getting closer to Star Trek. The latest step towards that vision is something called biophotonic instrumentation . Now that we've named it, it's time to learn what it does. At the moment when it's necessary to monitor a patient's heart rate, blood pressure, or blood glucose level a nurse or technician is

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It is with heavy heart that I must announce the passing of Bagheera The Magnificent. He died late this morning in the arms of my wife Deb. He was an opinionated, stubborn cat, a leader of the feline members of the Weekend Pundit Household. He was also an occasional contributor to this blog, covering topics of import...to him. As snooty as he was, he was also a great companion, a comfort during

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Is it possible the Occupy Wall Street protests might succeed where indoctrination has failed? While the OWS protests are obstensively supposed to show “the people” the evils of capitalism, it is having an unexpected side effect. It's teaching the OWS protesters the evils of socialism up close and personal, by way of Ayn Rand. Not surprisingly, Occupy Wall Street has become a magnet for

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The snow certainly arrived earlier than usual this year, at least snow with a substantial accumulation. The lack of a snowblower certainly made cleaning up after the 12+ inches of heavy wet snow deposited by the storm a rather difficult task. Bogie has even more snow to move than we do. While Deb and I accomplished our primary mission, finding replacements for the furniture that was damaged when

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I saw this by way of Instapundit. It reveals some harsh truths the #OWS folks won't admit to, but something We The 53% understand completely. We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn’t hear America complaining when the market was

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While snow is expected here in New England every winter (and sometimes in late fall), I admit to a little surprise and dismay to find snow on the ground when I left for work this morning and another 4 to 8 inches expected to fall by sometime Sunday. We have not yet secured a new Official Weekend Pundit Snowblower, but the missus has suggested buying it sometime tomorrow (but not until after

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I don't rightly recall, but I may have mentioned that one of the Weekend Pundit nieces is in the United States Army and presently deployed to Afghanistan. I recently received an e-mail from her by way of my sister-in-law and my lovely missus which points to a WaPo piece about her unit and the training she and the others went through to prepare for their tour of duty. The article covers the

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Something I got from a friend at work. “More cowbell!!”

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I'm beginning to wonder if President Obama will end up being the president to issue more executive orders than any other. It certainly seems he's headed that way. With his latest I-won't-waste-my-time-going-through-Congress-to-get-this-passed edict that changes the entire student loan system, including payment caps and 'forgiveness' clauses, he shows he really doesn't like the rule of law.

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Taking a look at many of the protesters involved with #OWS, you realize most of them are quite young, generally college age. This is quite telling as in the past it has been the so-called 'enlightened' youth that have led protests and revolutions. But in this case their cause célèbre is not one of justice or rights or racial harmony. Instead it's borne of a belief in entitlement to things of

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It's another typical fall weekend here in New England, with cooler days predominant and fast fading foliage colors. The foliage wasn't as good this year as seen in past years, not so much for the actual colors than the scattershot timing of it. Usually the leaves will change in rough unison, but not this year. Instead the timing of the change has been far more random, as seen here in the Lakes

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Oh my, here we go again. It seems the pseudoscience quacks are at it again, this time decrying the dangers of Smart Meters used for Smart Grid applications. To hear them tell it Smart Meters will irradiate you with high levels of RF, causing all kinds of maladies including cancer, high blood pressure, scurvy, baldness, erectile dysfunction, higher taxes, and chronic halitosis. (Yes, I know

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I saw this over at Maggie's Farm and knew I had to share it. We've all seen pictures and videos of magnets suspended in mid air over some superconducting material bathed in liquid nitrogen. That in itself is pretty neat. But the video below goes beyond that, showing something called quantum levitation, where the superconducting material is held in place over magnets in such a way that it keeps

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One would think that if the Obama Administration was serious about jobs that it would at least make sure that it didn't do anything to make it more difficult for those Americans who are fortunate enough to still have jobs to actually get to work. Just before 3 this afternoon I received a phone call from my missus, informing me she was stuck in traffic on her way to work. As she described it,

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As the presidential campaigns heat up, charges of racism are being thrown by the Left towards the right because in their twisted view of reality, everyone on the Right are racists. It doesn't matter if the Right supports a black candidate. The fact that the candidate is a Republican automatically equates to racism by the Right. And if the Right doesn't support a Leftist black candidate then it's

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As the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests continue, the media still tries to paint them as something entirely grass roots despite the fact that many of them are anything but grassroots. As Bruce Kesler put it, they are nothing more than “Potemkin” protests. [Occupy Wall Street] is a big media promoted event, one that fits its liberal-left memes, organized by radical "community organizers",

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It's been blustery all weekend, with the temps hovering at the point where you can't decide whether it's just a little too cool or just warm enough. The wind and the temperature allowed me to hang two loads of laundry on the Official Weekend Pundit Clothesline to dry, but I still had to put them into the clothes drier to 'finish' them. For most of the day yesterday we had the windows open while

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I've seen this both at Instapundit and on a friend's Facebook page. It's too good to pass up, so I knew I'd have to link it. While the so-called 99% are protesting for free stuff, we, the 53% who actually pay for that 'free' stuff, are voicing our own opinions about it. One shot from the site: Yup, I'd say that covers it.

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As the foreclosure crisis drags on, it appears banks holding some of the foreclosed properties are taking drastic measures to lighten their burden. As we've seen in Detroit, foreclosed and abandoned homes have been demolished. In a number of the hardest hit suburbs empty housing developments, some with hundreds of empty never-occupied homes, are being bulldozed to remove the need for the banks

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Herman Cain's move up in the polls now has him in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney. Not bad for someone who's never held public office. His 9-9-9 plan is taking some heat, though the more I look at it the more I like it. Like any plan, it isn't perfect and it needs some tweaking, but it's a lot better than any of the others I've heard, including Obama's “secret plan” that is still secret. Is

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The shoving match between states in regards to the upcoming presidential primaries and caucuses is heating up, with New Hampshire threatening to move their primary to early or mid December if Nevada goes forward with their plans to move their caucuses to early January. That is certainly going to screw up campaign schedules and make the campaign season far too long. It's too darned long now, and

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It's another in an irregular series – it's another Tech Tuesday! We've all seen how computer hardware has progressed at an astronomical rate over the past 40 years or so, going from something that would fill a room and use magnetic core memory, reel-to-reel magnetic tape drives, and fanfold paper pouring out of printers to something that fits in the palm of your hand with millions of times more

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This theme – Higher Education Bubble - is appearing more often, maybe because it has a heavy dose of truth buried within it. As so many of us have written again and again, we've all been sold the idea that in order to get a good job that we had to go to college to get a degree. It's almost become gospel. The only problem with that idea is that it is dead wrong. While some kind of education

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Summer weather has returned to Lake Winnipesaukee, with temps both yesterday and today well into the 80's. It has certainly had an effect on both the tourist trade, with leaf peepers showing up in increasing numbers, and summerfolk working to close up their camps and cottages for the winter. Yesterday one of my friends posted on her Facebook page that it was what she called “a Donzi day”,

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Via Facebook: That's the best way I know to do that. Unfortunately too many on the Left seem to think it's easier to steal...uhh...tax it away from the very people who made it to begin with.

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By way of Instapundit comes this from Professor Jacobsen in response the rather vague Occupy Wall Street protests. The silent majority. The ones who pay the bills, and the taxes, and the tuitions, and the pensions, and the benefits, for the people who falsely claim to be the 99%. The ones who did not graduate from the school of perpetual expectations and handouts. The ones who falsely

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It was just before lunch when I received a phone call from my wife, Deb. She was taking a lunch break from her microbiology class at the local college when she called. You may ask “What was so important that she had to call DCE during lunch?” I can tell you on three words: She. Was. Livid. During the morning lecture her professor, in the midst of talking about microbiology, went

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