In This Dimension

New Element Discovered

Something light in this heavy day…

 
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.
 
The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
 
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
 
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. It can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than[…]

Hatin’ Palin [not!]

She’s not the reason Americans can’t stand their politicians.

By DANIEL HENNINGER

[Asst Editor, WSJ Editorial page and author of the regular WSJ column, “Wonderland.” Here is the link, but  it requires a subscription]

The abuse being heaped on Sarah Palin is such a cheap shot.

The complaint against the Alaska governor, at its most basic, is that she doesn’t qualify for admission to the national political fraternity. Boy, that’s rich. Behold the shabby frat house that says it’s above her pay grade.

Congress has the lowest approval rating ever registered in the history of polling (12%!). She isn’t the reason polls are showing people[…]

Big Oil

The following was written by Bill Phillips, a descendent of the Phillips oil family, creators of Phillips Petroleum Company and Phillips66 - now part of Conoco Phillips

“Big Oil”

Did you know that the United States does NOT have any big oil companies. It’s true: the largest American oil company, Exxon Mobil, is only the 14th largest in the world, and is dwarfed by the really big oil companies–all owned by foreign governments or government-sponsored monopolies–that dominate the world’s oil supply.

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With 94% of the world’s oil supply locked up by foreign governments, most of which are hostile to the United States, the[…]

Apologies, Irony and a Thank You?

Just when you thought Baby Boomers lacked any sense of irony, or that Liberals had no sense of humor, along comes Hillary with an Op-Ed in today’s WSJ hectoring the Bush administration for a lack of honesty.

Seriously. A Clinton lecturing on honesty.

Having lost the Democrat nomination, evidently Hill has decided to become a stand-up comedienne.

You can’t make this stuff up!
Separately the WSJ posts the following from The Hill:

“Congress is poised to approve a federal apology for slavery just weeks before voters consider electing the nation’s first black president.”

No word on whether

1. Muslims will be apologizing for capturing Black Africans and selling[…]

Shutdown Congress to Avoid a Vote?

Below are links to a conservative petition. (I am not posting this for you to sign it; that’s your call.)

http://www.grassfire.org/108/petition.asp?Ref_ID=1628&PID=17794089

Watch the second video of the two on the page.

The first is so much rah-rah from the GOP Congressmen staying in Friday when Pelosi shut down Congress to go on vacation in the midst of a Republican speech from the floor. She ordered the lights turned out, CSPAN’s cameras turned off and the sound system shut down. A Congressman re-started the sound system for a bit until she heard and shut it down again.

Why did she shut down Congress? As reported[…]

Iowa Flooding Responsibility

A couple questions from The National Review: 
 
Where are all of the  Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa  and helping the folks affected by the floods? 
 
Where is all the media  asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn’t solved the problem? Asking where the FEMA trucks (and trailers) are?
 
Why isn’t the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels in Chicago?
 
When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the levees that failed in Des  Moines?
 
Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?
 
Where are all  the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes and big screen television sets?
 
When will we hear[…]

Obama Walk vs Talk: Pay Women Less

The below is from this article.  

Hillary fans take note: Obama is NOT on your side in the pay-discrimination wars. McCain IS on your side.

“On average, women working in Obama’s Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator. That’s according to data calculated from the Report of the Secretary of the Senate, which covered the six-month period ending Sept. 30, 2007. Of the five people in Obama’s Senate office who were paid $100,000 or more on an annual basis, only one — Obama’s administrative manager — was a woman.

“The average pay for the 33 men[…]

What Are we Reading?

What we read does indeed matter. What future leaders read matters quite a bit - it forms their ideas of the world, their grasp (or lack thereof) of history, and their consciousness of how to move the culture and civilization forward.

The mother of a friend of one of our children recently walked into our family room and, upon seeing the filled bookcases lining one wall, asked, “Who reads?”

This is not a future leader, nor a parent raising one.

Here is an excellent article on the subject of kids posting you’ll-be-sorry-later content on FaceBook, and on what Harvard grads are reading. Fascinating.

As the[…]

Intelligentsia?

Defined here as, “intellectuals considered as a group or class, esp. as a cultural, social, or political elite,” these “intelligentsia” have taught us that cut-n-run means “victory,” and that teachers’ unions can improve education (regardless of the fact that education has declined for decades everywhere unions hold sway).

Hardly a day goes by that we aren’t told by the “intelligentsia” that the Left is correct, the Right is wrong, and that we the people must do yet some other thing at odds with history, education and common sense.

However well-intentioned these people are, the facts and history stand against them.

Getting rid of[…]

Words Matter

As long as columnists and pundits refer to the proposed drilling location in ANWR as a “wilderness,” these same columnists will contribute to a lack of domestic energy.

We use particular words for particular reasons, and “wilderness” connotes trees and shrubbery and mountains, lakes and streams unspoiled by civilization.

All well and good, but the picture forming in the mind from “wilderness” bears absolutely no relation to the ANWR drilling site. As long as the mind’s eye of the reader is “wilderness,” the writer will have done a disservice to his/her cause of communicating reality.

The site in question is well under 500[…]