About that $100 Million Budget Cut

You knew BO's budget cut is less than smoke and mirrors - here it is, illustrated in pennies.

The plane, the plane!

I had a few thoughts cobbled together on the Air Force One flies over strafes Manhattan incident. You know, poor communications, bad idea, what if Bush,
etc. But Jon Stewart and the Daily Show do it much better than I ever could:

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Unintended Consequences

Whoever said that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" should get royalties from the environmental movement. We have seen that banning DDT (against scientific evidence) has lead to the unnecessary deaths of countless people in malaria and dengue fever plagued areas. In an attempt to reduce carbon monoxide from car emissions the government mandated that methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) be added to gasoline. MTBE reduced fuel economy, resulting in more fuel being burned than was necessary. It was banned because it poisoned ground water if underground tanks leaked.

Now comes word that the Army's "green" training ammunition may be carcinogenic. In the 1990s the Army came up with a lead free round to be used in training. In order for the training to be of any value the round had to have the same ballistic characteristics as the lead rounds used in combat.

Sometimes the devil you know really is better than the devil you don't know.

Girl Talk

My sister in law e-mailed me the following pic...



The caption? "Bill thought he was the President, too."

2013 can't get here fast enough...

Wow.

She's almost 48... and, uh, not a supermodel. As I watched this over at Hot Air I thought I was going to see some nice woman humiliated on British TV and the Internet.

Wrong. She pwns them all:

Susan Boyle on Britain Got Talent
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My Next Bumpersticker

From American Digest... Full size image suitable for printing:

SkyCar!

Here's a talk from an advocate of 'personal airtravel'. Sorry, not Jetsons music: