bfwebster on August 31st, 2009

Conservatives have long complained that liberals screaming about “massive cuts” in government programs are actually talking about reducing the hard-wired growth of spending — that is (for example), a plan to limit the year-over-year growth of a welfare program to, say, 8% instead of 10% is a “cut”. With that context, I guess you can [...]

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bfwebster on August 31st, 2009

An oldie-but-goodie. For a modern twist, go read The Adventures of Bunky and Biggo. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on August 30th, 2009

Time Lapse Test: Station Fire from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo. The above is a timelapse video of some of the wildfires in the LA area. Frankly, it looks spookier than most of the other things coming out of Hollywood these days. Hat tip to Gawker.  ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on August 30th, 2009

What can I say? She’s a natural for the job. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on August 29th, 2009

Your Saturday morning entertainment, with a hat tip to The American Spectator. ..bruce w..

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bfwebster on August 23rd, 2009

As Rasmussen reports this morning: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14. These figures mark the lowest Approval [...]

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bfwebster on August 20th, 2009

I’ve got a new camera (a Nikon D-5000) and have been trying it out. This (above) is Howling Wingnut, known simply as Winnie. And here’s her sister, Barking Moonbat, aka Marti (short for Martian — which Sandra thought she looked like as a puppy): Here’s Winnie again, showing off her fierceness: Meanwhile, here’s Marti with [...]

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bfwebster on August 20th, 2009

For the last three or four days, Winnie has spent much of her waking time standing out by this portion of the fence, staring along the side of the garage. She was trying to actually dig her way under the face — moving the rocks with her paws — which led me to put the [...]

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bfwebster on August 19th, 2009

[Hat tip to Ace of Spades for the photo; no, that's not me, but I wish it were.] Sandra and I are flying from Denver to Washington DC next month to march on the Capitol on 9/12. As someone who was a registered Democrat for 37 years until last fall, I am appalled at the [...]

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bfwebster on August 16th, 2009

Three years ago, I participated in Project 2,996, an effort to remember all those killed in the 9/11 attacks. I was randomly assigned Rob Peraza; in the process of writing my tribute to him, I ended up having contact with his family and was able to express my heartfelt condolences to them. Project 2,996 is [...]

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