“Our assumptions about what is environmentally friendly don’t always stand up to scrutiny.” Recent research by the Ministry of Environment and Food in Denmark, published by the DEPA (Denmark Environmental Protection Agency), – Executive summary in English begins on page 13 – reinforces claims I’ve made here for years. The replacement for plastic shopping bags are … Read more
Chicago recently instituted a new $0.07 per bag tax on plastic grocery/store bags. No price is too high to save the environment, right? What if the “environment” is the city budget? Roughly 70% of that green-tax will go directly to the city to plug holes in the municipal budget. The stealth tax does not quite … Read more
Update: this will be topmost for a while – newer posts after this one Nice. As Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit says – punch back twice as hard. Here is the video: Here is the background: I am a co-founding member of the NH TEA Party Coalition and I believe in the TEA Party’s three (and … Read more
The people driving the gay marriage movement have, for years, been very honest about their intentions. End marriage as an institution. Demanding marriage rights for homosexual couples was always just a step toward that greater goal. Sorry gay couples who thought “they” really cared about your feelings or believed you had a right to marriage. … Read more
Banned book week began Sunday, September 22nd, and runs until Saturday the 28th. They even have their own web site. http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/ I’m always a bit cautious when people start tossing the censorship thing around and the “banning books” crusade is as likely as any to declare the refusal of a group (school, library, whatever) to … Read more
I spent this afternoon at a gathering of good friends where the purpose was to get out of the house, have a chance to yak, consume some good comestibles – and shoot guns! Handguns, long guns; small calibers and larger ones (not quite .50 cal, but long range); semiautomatics, revolvers, and bolt action. I’ve shot … Read more
I just received this list, ostensibly from the World Health Organization, involving the latest murder statistics for various countries in the world. I haven’t cross-checked the statistics and information, but the list would seem to logical and only common sense….
I think it is appropriate to add this picture (right) to Susan Olsen’s post. The one with the ‘Journalist’s Guide To Firearm’s Identification.’ This is my refrigerator door. It was modified by the manufacturer to accommodate an extra magazine capable of holding all manner of ‘lethal’ ordinance. Soda. Beer. Water, in those earth destroying plastic … Read more
douche bag: (noun) “An individual who has an over-inflated sense of self worth, compounded by a low level of intellegence, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears.” —Urban Dictionary
A woman was kicked off a plane for wearing a shirt that read, “If I wanted the Government in My Womb, I’d F*** a Senator.” There are plenty of things wrong with this. First, it assumes that the Senator in question would be both male and adequately equipped to achieve the implied destination.
Remember when I wrote about LA looking to ban paper and plastic grocery bags?I included this quote… Coliform bacteria, suggesting raw-meat or uncooked-food contamination, was in half of the bags, and E. coliwas found in 12 percent of the bags. Running the bags through a washer or cleaning them by hand reduced bacteria levels to … Read more
Democrats don’t think things through. (Progressive Republicans are no different, to be fair.) They enact policies in response to the echo chamber of voices in their ideologically isolationist heads, all the things Edmund Burke warned us against centuries ago. The result is almost always bureaucratic nonsense, another small loss of freedom, massive expense with little … Read more
“Law, without force, is impotent.” —Blaise Pascal The City of Manchester, in its infinite wisdom, seeks to enact an anti-scavenging ordinance prohibiting the scavenging of recyclable items from curbside bins. Under the new measure, violators would be slapped with a fine. If this ordinance is enacted, the homeless and ‘ner-do wells’ who scavenge cans bottles … Read more
It should be a rhetorical question but after Tweeting John Edwards latest declaration of Ass-hattedness to Twitter and Facebook (http://ow.ly/4Y3HP -sorry the Grok link plug in is glitching) the question was asked:
(Picture courtesy of NH GOP – Elliot Lasky caught in the act) Seems like Harrell Kirstein, NH Democrat Party Communication dude, has some ‘splainin’ to do. OK Harrell – where does "getting caught absolutely red handed and in the act" appear on your Political Correctness scale? So, yet another incidence of theft by high ranking … Read more
Major Kirk here- back with the second part of my series on Christians in south Baghdad. (Part 1 here) The truth is- I can’t tell the story in just two parts, so here is the penultimate chapter in my tale, with the final installment to come before you open presents on Christmas morning. . The author … Read more
Major Kirk here with another edition of Dragon Soup… . Babel Pontifical College (seminary) which became Coalition Outpost Amanche in March ’07 but is now known as COP Blackfoot Christmastime in the Granite State…I don’t know about you, but some of the happiest times of my life have been spent celebrating the holidays in New … Read more
PRC-1 "Suitcase" spy transmitter (WWII era) Starting Saturday morning at 9 am! . …. ..Pat Hynes Skip Murphy Doug Lambert . Once again, this week’s broadcast version of GraniteGrok and AnkleBitingPundits brings an array of items and guests for your consideration– ALL STARTING AT 9AM! As always, thanks to the technical wizardry and … Read more
Reusable Grocery bags have a larger carbon footprint than thin-film plastic bags, but Greens demand we switch. They also spread deadly diseases and bacteria from food (outside the current hysteria I’ve dubbed virus-socialism). All of which Vermont has decided to ignore.
You’ve heard the story. Convenience plastics must be banned in America (and New Hampshire) to save our oceans. That’s two lies in one. First, most of the plastic that makes it into the ocean comes from Asia. Second, a new study proves that once there, nature will break it down.