The new legislation, the “Pay for Performance Act of 2009,” would impose government controls on the pay of all employees — not just top executives — of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It
Ok, this is just starting to be funny… Richard Locker is turning into the Star Trek movie series of the Commercial Appeal. First, his bias appears to know no bounds. Not surprising, given the company he works for. But, then, he tries to hide that bias,…
Yesterday, I received a monitor for computer that was dead at the time of order and delivery (but now is barely working), and a hard drive enclosure for a drive extracted from a very dead laptop. Today, I picked up 1000 rounds of .223, for an upper I do…
After some relatively careful thought and consideration (I know, I know, how strange for me, eh?), I can only come to the conclusion that I am Simon Jester:
I can hardly put together a coherent response to this news:
It is my hope that the steps I am announcing today will go a long way towards answering many of the questions people may have about the future of GM and Chrysler. But just in case
The below blockquote came from a forum I routinely read, and the sources for this information are alleged to be eployees within the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, and thus are requesting to remain anonymous (for obvious reasons, given the nature of the below allegations). I present the quote…
Wow. I have to admit to being somewhat impressed. It would appear as though the Commercial Appeal somehow managed to go over a full week without putting up another hoplophobic, anti-rights editorial. At least it gives me something to write about, right?
Once you dig past the self-demonization of the human species, the environmentalist claptrap, and the “we did it to ourselves” self-flagellation, this could be an interesting problem:
IT IS midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light.
It is gos-se like this that makes me positively disgusted at what portions of America, and American culture, have become:
With the Oakland Police Department mourning the violent deaths of four of its own, a group Wednesday staged a vigil for the man authorities say gunned down the
Well, after all this time, my short-and-sweet review of the Battlestar Galactical finale is this: “That was predictable.” For those who are concerned about spoilers, I would recommend against reading any farther, because I am going to get all manner of spoileriffic. But, suffice to say, this series could…
Apparently, when I turned off my computer by way of its power button (due to my monitor being unable to display anything, and me not remembering the keystrokes necessary to shut down Vista), my sole, solitary hard drive decided to go and kick the bucket as well. I have…
Posting, commenting, or doing much of anything else computer-related might be somewhat difficult for the forseeable future, on account of my monitor deciding to go and die on me last night. And while this whole “Internet-on-the-phone” thing is undeniably shiny, it is far from a long-term solution.
I am not sure which is more amusing: Option 1 – Our glorious President’s transparent teleprompters have been replaced with a big-screen television us peons can only dream of having in our living rooms (TOTUS would like to make it clear that it was still…
One of the things all of my engineering, management, and even english classes repeatedly stressed is that, “Pictures are good things.” If you can express your concept in an accurate, representative graphical construct, then you probably stand a much better chance of getting your point across to your audience than…
Rather than just repeat the Brady Campaign and VCP talking points, some reporters and journalists actually head down to Mexico and gather some first-hand information:
As it turns out, they couldn’t wait to invite me over to their place on a Friday night to show me their
Make no doubt about it – I consider moving from Kalifornistan to Tennessee to be a net positive change. Furthermore, I have been generally very impressed with the people we have representing us at the state level, and their response to feedback from their constituents. However, as with all…
If you took the hoplophobe’s arguments at face value, firearms are just an excuse for people to shoot each other, and guns themselves are nothing but demonic injury-inducers and crime-perpetrators. As such, one would think that hobbies like hunting would start to become prohibitively dangerous, given groups of armed men…
The mayor said there is another option – and that would be declaring martial law. The governor would have to declare it and then the National Guard would come in. The mayor said it’s more for a transition to
After eating at a “Calhoun’s – Taste of Tennessee”, and being generally unimpressed with both the quality of the food, and the flavors of the BBQ sauces, I cannot say as though that particular chain of restaurants was very high on my list of place to go back to. However,…
For those of you who were waiting for Dollhouse to start “being good”, or somesuch stuff, before you started watching it again, you should have turned it on again last Friday. It took Joss a little while, but we are finally getting somewhere…
This is not a difficult differentiation, but you would be amazed at the number of people who succumb to the misuse of these two words with very different meanings.
File this under “Things I Should Have Weblogged About”. Back when the British Prime Minister gave our glorious President a pen holder crafted from the timbers of the HMS President, and a framed commission of the HMS Resolute (the same ship who gave her timbers to be the President’s…
A federal judge today blocked a last-minute rule enacted by President Bush allowing visitors to national parks to carry concealed weapons.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought by gun-control advocates and environmental groups. The Justice Department had sought
For a book that centers around a hardcore, Von Clausewitz-reading, Sun-Zu-preaching, live-by-the-sword-die-by-the-sword, mercenary badass, the author said some pretty stupid stuff concerning firearms:
On the first, three brand-new 9mm automatic Berettas, compact calibers with high rapidity of fire, twenty-four-round capacity triple-chamber magazines, and a pistol machine gun Uzi. On
Like a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar, our glorious President has decided to continue funding veteran healthcare for wounds, injuries, or disabilities caused by their service to our country:
“In considering the third-party billing issue, the administration was seeking to maximize the resources available
When it comes to resources on monolithic scope mounts for AR-15s, or anything else with a dorsal picatinny rail, this is pretty much the best one out there. Some of the information may be a little out-of-date, and some of the newest options on the market may not…
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