An unexpected fan of intelligent design

If you don't know Richard Dawkins, well, no matter really. Let's just say he's one of the superstars of the Church of Darwin, where things just pop up out of nowhere.

Conversely, the idea of an Intelligent Design-er is totally out of the question.

I had the opportunity to DVR "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" where Ben Stein posits several questions to Dr. Dawkins about how life started on earth. It's in this clip that Dawkins actually puts forth the idea that maybe really smart aliens (highly evolved aliens, of course) might have gotten the thing started by planting a self-replicating seed here on this planet.

Aliens...a higher intelligence...from a distant galaxy...evidently millions or billions of years ago...coming to this one planet for the purpose of...a biology experiment?

And they have trouble with us because we haven't found Noah's Ark, yet.

What are ya', nuts?

Watch.

Worth Every Penny!

There's a recently discovered letter written by George Washington to his nephew back in 1787, supporting the yet-to-be-approved Constitution. They're estimating the document should auction off at about $2.5 million. Was able to find a copy of it.

I'm thinking that this section here, if we were to take heed of it, is worth the money.

"It is agreed on all hands that no government can be well administered without powers; yet the instant these are delegated, although those who are in-trusted with the administration are no more than the creatures of the people, act as it were but for a day, and are amenable for every false step they take, they are, from the moment they receive it, set down as tyrants; their natures, they would conceive from this, immediately changed, and that they can have no other disposition but to oppress."

Power, even when delegated temporarily, corrupts...and he knew that back then.

Breaking News! Leading Economic Indicator is pointing up up up!

You know something is up when Walmart starts rolling back their prices the other way. You gotta figure...


they're anticipating an upswing in the economy to start moving prices...up.

Heh.

My wife and I were grocery shopping during the Cowboy game (yeah, I had it DVR'd) this past Sunday evening. It is the BEST time to shop, as the store empties out. Anyway, my lovely bride spotted the pricing anomaly and it was time to whip out the camera phone.

Switzerland To Crack Down On Suicidal Tourism

OK, we're not talking about guys with explosives strapped to their mid-section. It's just the European equivalent of the graveyard elephants go to...when it's 'time'.

I can see their point. After all, the whole idea of having people visit your country is that they find the experience so nice they want to come back. When you're visiting with the idea this is your last stop, it pretty well scotches any return trips, unless someone's bringing along an urn with your ashes in it.

On the other hand, if you're really going to be a neutral country, shouldn't that include life or death?

What are ya, nuts?

Article is here.

Going Green Will Put Us In The Red or: The "Red Green Show"...in reverse

One of the cornerstones of the current administration's economic policy has been using 'green' to create new jobs and spur on the economy(you know, the Van Jones plan) to get us out of the 'red' and save the planet. As I've said, just about every bad idea I've ever heard of originated in Congress or the White House.

Heh.

Well, leave it to our precise Tuetonic friends to blow that idea out of the water with this study. OK, its 40 some-odd pages, but you can refer your green-o-phile friends to it. If you're wanting the Cliff's Notes, go here.

Now, if you've never seen the "Red Green Show", you may not understand the reference, so go here for a tutorial. It ran for 15 years and was an absolute scream. And just as an example, this is how you make apple juice the Red Green way. Note the liberal use of duct tape, the "handyman's secret weapon". If only the White House or Congress could be this creative...

So, the next time you hear someone extol the virtues of a 'green' economy, just say...

"What are ya, nuts?"

Hey Washington...40% of our taxes for the 'minimum payment'?

Just picked up this off the Wall Street Journal.

The reason for posting it is to encourage you (Huh? Forty % of my taxes are going to pay interest on 'the' debt and I'm supposed to be encouraged?)

Ahem. The reason for posting it is to encourage you to spread it around to everyone you know.

I mean, look at the numbers. If you or I had this percentage of debt eating up our paycheck, we would HAVE to cut the credit cards and start planting a garden, right?

So, what is our government doing? Maxing out their China-cards, making minimum payments, applying for new cards, transferring balances AND going shopping for all new stuff. Oh, and while they're at it, asking for a raise. Speaking of numbers, let's just look at a one trillion dollars, shall we?


This guy (well, the indistinguishable vertical tick-mark) in the corner is standing by 5,000 double-stacked pallets of $100 bills, equal to $200,000,000 each. That's a trillion. Stack that up 12 times and you have the current national debt as of Sept 30 2009. Un-sustainable.

Send this to all the people you know that may not have a firm grasp on stuff like 'monetizing the debt', but can understand what a shell game transferring credit card balances is, and the dead-end it leads to. Tell 'em to look at tic-mark guy in the corner.

Tell them that this IS the real crisis, and it can't be covered by a TARP(heh), healed by healthcare(oops health insurance) reform, or by capping it and trading it off to someone else to fix.

Tell your friends to pick up the phone and tell their representatives, "Hello. We have to cut spending and we have to stop borrowing, or we'll fire all of you. "

This is optional but they could also say, "WHAT ARE YA, NUTS?"

Simple.