Talking Boats

This, of course, is Bio Solar One, also known as The Smug Boat, Al Gore's latest toy. It's supposedly "Toyota Prius of boats". Sure, because it doesn't take energy to push a massive boat through the water if you put a Prius logo on it.

Contrast this with Lunch Box One, the boat I've rented for the week. Sorry Al, I couldn't afford the extra smug. It's got a cinder-block anchor that shows signs of having smashed many toes before mine. There are old strips of duct tape on most of the rails, which, I suppose I could be used to hold on solar panels, but more probably are the only thing holding the rails on the boat.



It's not that I'm complaining. These same rental folks gave me a fine boat last year. I'm just happy to be on the water drowning worms. Give me an inner-tube and binoculars, ok, and maybe some garden shears, and I'm happy.

Fishing Continues

Mrs. Paul's isn't shaking in her boots.

Minimal Debates

Looks like the Obama campaign has decided not to go through with the town-hall debates they had agreed to. "But you promised," said the McCain camp. "But we're all about change," they replied.

"We are the poultry we've been waiting for."

Large Hadron Collider

Here are some great pictures of the Large Hadron Collider. May be a touch of dyslexia but I can never read "Large Hadron Collider" without doing a double-take. What a cool machine.

Also- I'll be going to the lake for a week starting today. (Sunday) Don't know about internet access so blogging could be light. I will have a computer with Photoshop and a Wacom tablet though, so if I can't blog, I'll spend time Photoshopping an extra 30 or 40 pounds onto any fish I catch.



from xkcd (embiggen with a click)

Pick Your Superhero

Who'd win?


Course, neither of them are superheroes. McCain knows that. Obama, well, who knows? Though I could be all wrong. It could be that Obama is a superhero; it depends on if you count being a Marxist as a superpower.

Who is Barack Obama?

Of course the appeal is charismatic. Nobody knows what he really believes. The latest flip is on oil drilling... well maybe it's not so bad, we can compromise. He still can't bring himself to credit the surge, but he was forced into admitting that Iraq has turned the corner. The sure-I'll-meet-with-anyone talks with Ahmadinejad evolved into a completely different stance....

Personally, I think these guys have him pegged:

NAFTA:
For the Canadians, a key point of concern was Obama's sharp criticism of the North American Free Trade Agreement. DeMora wrote Wilson that in the Chicago meeting, Goolsbee "candidly acknowledged the protectionist sentiment that has emerged, particularly in the Midwest, during the primary campaign" but reassured Rioux that Obama's NAFTA-bashing "should be viewed as more about political positioning than a clear articulation of policy plans." Three weeks later, Canada's CTV News reported that a "senior member" of Obama's campaign had phoned Wilson personally to advise him to "not be worried about what Obama says about NAFTA."

Wright:
"If Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected," Wright said. "Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls."

Reparations:
"Let's not be naive. Sen. Obama is running for president of the United States, and so he is in a constant battle to save his political life," said Kibibi Tyehimba, co-chair of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America. "In light of the demographics of this country, I don't think it's realistic to expect him to do anything other than what he's done."

Who We've Really Been Waiting For

"I don't mean to sound partisan, but if Bush was
any kind of president, he would have told us about
checking our tire pressure long ago. What has it been,
eight years? And we're just now finding this out?"

Let's Clear Up the Confusion

"We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. And by "we", I mean me, except for the second one, that "we" is you. But what I mean by the third "we" is me, again, and so on. You get the picture."

Nancy's New Book

This is a snip from Nancy Pelosi's Amazon page for her new book. Drudge is running out of pixels trying to keep up with its sales rank. (it was around 1300 when I checked) Look at the tags though: "waste of a tree", "horse manure", "boring". It looks like people have been busy making their feelings known. I'm proud of you, Amazonians.

Not that I get a lot of joy from the Speaker's failure. I probably wouldn't have even commented, but for her stunt this afternoon of pulling the plugs and turning off the lights on Republican members of the House who were speaking out on the failure to allow use of domestic oil resources. Since when is silencing your opponents part of the democratic process?

I tell you what, if these people get control of the congress and the presidency, we're in for a huge assault on our freedom of speech. The "Fairness" Doctrine will just be the start.

***Update: Hillary won't like it, but I've photoshopped Nancy in her place on the he-ain't-heavy-he's-my-brother picture. Then I submitted it to the "other images" on Nancy's book page.



And ***UpdateII: Ah, now it's clear why Nancy was in such a hurry to turn out the lights and lock-up "her" House of Representatives: She wanted to get on the horn to Amazon and get someone to delete comments and remove alternate images. The comments went from over 200 down to 13. Ah well, good try guys. Out of curiosity I think I'll check to see if liberal comment-bombs ever get taken down from books they don't like.

Happy Friday

Time for taser practice-


And... this time I'll let you off with a warning -