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- A-Day game. ESPN. It’s all good.
- I did some business with 1000bulbs.com this week. They appear to be a great source for 130V incandescent light bulbs. We run a lot of CFs, but in stuff like bathroom vanities and dimming applications, we prefer the old, bad, rainforest-razing, polar bear-killing light bulbs. If you run 130V ones, you’ll get dramatically increased life. (The ones that came in my house are only just now burning out, most of nine years later). The trade-off is you give up a little brightness (a 75W bulb looks like about 66, for example).
- The general reaction by a lot of the left to the tea parties isn’t particularly disappointing to me simply because it’s so predictable (and, I believe, ultimately useful). Hey, let’s see how many “teabagging” jokes we can make. That’s funny. Continue the ridicule, please. Nothing to see here. Nothing politically threatening at all about these “Astroturf” efforts.
- If that ATM doesn’t look right, it might not be. Here’s a story of a guy who found a “skimmer” attached to an ATM he wanted to use (the card goes through the skimmer to get to the real slot). Never forget: some of the cleverest people in the world are criminals.
- Great Britain continues its liberty death march.
- The paper wasps really want to live in my gas grill this year. Ah, it is the rare problem indeed for which such an effective and satisfying solution is so readily available.
- Blogroll addition: Uncoached. Scantily clad women, crass social commentary, and sports, roughly in that order.
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Gee whiz. We wake up thinking alike some days.
Wasps determined to nest in my grill too. I stun them with the grill scrub and then bring the whole beast up to 600 degrees in some insect version of “Saw.” Character from Microserfs was named Bug Barbeque…Douglas Coupland rules.
Having lived in DC for four years (2004-2008) and having to listen to all the anti-Bush sentiment and the anti-war protests, I am totally cool with the left not *getting* it about the tea parties. What they fail to see is the fire being lit under the conservative movement. We have spent too long being quiet and not getting riled up about things. It’s time we shake ourselves up a bit and dust off the cobwebs. I think THAT is what is so disconcerting to them. They are about to witness a great turnaround…. I believe the conservatives took notes about how the liberals won the office with such an inexperienced candidate. They had 8 years to grow momentum. It didn’t matter WHO they put in as long as Democrat was on the ticket, and they rallied for him and against Bush. We learned their tactic and are ready to use it for our own movement. What they failed to do was really watch the policies of Obama. Unfortunately for them, all the independents that got swelled up in their waves of the election propaganda are ripe for the picking… and they’re gonna come to the right.
Who was that masked hero?
The problem for the right (and I definitely lean that way) as I see it is that we don’t seem to have a dead-bang candidate for 2012 yet. Not that I see, anyway, though I’ll admit I’m certainly no expert.
Newt Gingrich? Sarah Palin? Mitt Romney? Bobby Jindal? One or more of those candidates may blow you away personally, but do you see any of them being able to unite a majority of Americans in order to take the White House back?
Of course, the next presidential election is a few years away, so who knows who will rise to the forefront between now and then.
I’m laughing a little, NHFalcon, because while you do have a point, it seems the last election was centered around “anybody but Bush,” and it worked. I know it isn’t as simple as that.
Susan: I hear what you’re saying on inexperience, but I’m not so sure. Obama is easily the most talented political orator since Reagan, and the first black President narrative was/is appealing as well. It did matter who he was.
I think you’re dead on in talking about the swings and independents. He swept a lot of middle grounders and other pluckable constituencies, but he’s done damned little to keep them since getting in. He hasn’t thrown one-issue pro-lifers the slightest bone, for one thing. That is a serious and eminently exploitable error.
nhfalcon: Agreed, though it’s really not a problem right now. There could fail to be an obvious torch-bearer for another year and it would be fine.
Newt is extremely smart and the Republican restoration effort needs him badly, but not in public. It is singularly unhelpful for him to allow there to be any question whatsoever whether he’s running in ’12. I believe he is permanently damaged as a candidate.
I never had an ounce of passion for Romney, but who knows? And Jindal is definitely promising. Don’t overvalue his relatively poor showing giving the response to Obama.
I still think it might be Palin. At some point she’s going to have to lie low for just a bit, a la Reagan in ’69. I don’t think her continuing press coverage has hurt her yet, but it will eventually. A reintroduction, with careful research and planning and not the make-it-up-as-we-go approach that was so disastrous during the campaign, will serve her (and the country) well.
‘seester: I agree that there was a lot of “anyone but Bush,” but there’s little doubt Obama’s personal appeal put him over the top. Don’t forget, Bush would have lost in ’04 had the Democrats run anyone with any appeal whatsoever. That was defeat snatched from the jaws of victory of a scope we haven’t often seen. The Dems had a deeply polarizing sitting President, the legitimacy of whom was still openly questioned by millions. It was a slow hanger straight over the plate, and they sent a two-thirds strength Ted Kennedy in to try to hit it.
I acknowledged that it wasn’t as simple as that. But remember, as charismatic as Obama is, he was a complete newcomer on the political scene 4 years ago. His only really public appearance was addressing the DNC.
I’m really not worried about the highest office anyway. It’s the people’s people who really matter right now. Congress.
Yes, you did. I apologize. I don’t want you prickly. You might go off on me. 😉
SS is a right wing nut job to the core. Gotta watch out for ’em.
I actually liked Jindal’s response to Obama, so I’m not sure why everybody found it to be disappointing. Help me out?
nhfalcon: I think its content was fine, for the most part. I think its execution was mediocre. In my view, most of it had nothing to do with Jindal’s delivery, but with the setting. I think it was supposed to convey executive authority, but it seemed badly stilted.
I suggested at the time: would putting him in a pullover and having him in a leather chair next to a fireplace have been too radical?
I love me some PBJ. That speech was very uncharacteristic of him. The only other times I’ve seen him really talk was in a more casual setting – outdoors, sleeves rolled up, no jacket. But, jeez, the media is going to have a FIELD day with his little observation of an exorcism so gird for that.