This “agnostic” thing isn’t working out well for me.

I sense a profound change in the air.

BZ

A COMPILATION OF VERY IMPORTANT BUT LITTLE-KNOWN SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES related to Certain Peculiar Laws of Inexactitude, Perversity and Whimsey in Scientific Endeavor.

MURPHY’S LAW: If anything can go wrong, it will.

SKINNER’S CONSTANT: That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should have gotten (this is known in some circles as Finnegan’s Fudge Factor).

HORNER’S FIVE-THUMB POSTULATE: Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.

CAHN’S AXIOM: When all else fails, consider reading the accompanying instruction sheet.

SPARE PARTS PRINCIPLE: The accessability, during recovery of small parts which fall from the work bench, varies directly with the size of the part — and inversely with its importance to the completion of the task underway.

GUMPERSON’S LAW: The probability of a given event occurring is inversely proportional to its desirability.

THE ORDERING PRINCIPLE: Those supplies necessary for yesterday’s experiment must be ordered no later than tomorrow, noon.

TRANSCRIPTION SQUARE LAW: The number of errors made is equal to the sum of the “squares” employed.

CHISHOLM’S LAW OF HUMAN INTERACTION: Anytime that things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

RIDDLE’S CONSTANT: There are coexisting elements in frustrational phenomena which separate expected results from achieved results.

THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PHILOSOPHIC ENGINEERING: In any calculation, any error which can creep or slink or sidle in, will.

RULE OF ACCURACY: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

COROLLARY TO THE RULE OF ACCURACY: Provided, of course, that you actually know there is a problem.

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BZ

Bushwack, under his newly-revamped blog American and Proud, has a wonderful post about the clear and significant contrast between the USS Ronald Reagan, CVN 76, and the USS William Jefferson Clinton, CVS1. Please check out the post and note the historical, mechanical and operational differences. Bravo, Bushwack!

In keeping with this theme, I should like to submit my views of our future military, impacted as it likely shall be if the Democrats are completely in charge of the House, Senate and Presidency. Though these images are indeed disturbing and not for the faint of heart, please note: no Republican bytes were harmed in the creation of this post.

To wit:

Two Democratic womyn have made headlines recently and no, they haven’t much been truthful or nice. Yes, I know, here comes the sound of cheeks being slapped. Shut up!

Barbara Boxer: Role Reversal?

For whatever reason, Fornicalia Senator Barbara Boxer decided it was time to unload on Condi Rice yesterday when the Secretary of State spoke in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in support of President Bush’s strategic change in Iraq with regard to the addition of troops.

According to the New York Post, Boxer barked:

“Who pays the price? I’m not going to pay a personal price,” Boxer said. “My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young.”

Then, to Rice: “You’re not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families.”

Slap. Right cross. Uppercut.

(As an aside: this is the same military staffed, according to Charlie Rangel, only by po’ black folk and other minorities with higher melanin counts — not. See this report from the Heritage Foundation.)

Here’s what happened: Barbara Boxer essentially said that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is an ineffective leader and cannot make appropriate, lawful, logical and cogent decisions regarding the war in Iraq because she has no children to sacrifice to this war.

Let’s stand back and examine this, on its face.

First: the prior Democratic administration, that of William Jefferson Clinton, he of the most ethical presidential administration in history (he said it), did not find it within himself to appoint a black Secretary Of State. Nor a black female SOS. Nor a black unmarried female who has chosen career over child-rearing.

And, am I wrong in thinking that the Democrats are the party of not only tolerance but that of diversity on all levels? How much more diverse is Condi Rice? Black? Female? Career woman?

But you see, in truth, as the Democrats have clearly revealed here, it’s not about tolerance or diversity. It’s about agenda.

Besides, as Barbara Boxer has so wonderfully explained with her insulting and ridiculous comments here, she considers Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice nothing more than Bush’s House Nigger and, as the BHN, subject to any inane blathering or series of insults she wishes to heap upon Secretary Rice, the quintessential political professional, so much so that many openly advocate her running for President in 2008.

Rice, of course, made good account of herself in response:

I guess that means I don’t have kids. Was that the purpose of that?” Rice said. “Well, at the time I just found it a bit confusing frankly. But in retrospect, gee, I thought single women had come further than that. That the only question is are you making good decisions because you have kids?”

I like to put the shoe on the other foot, so I ask: did this little act make anyone’s MSM page 1? Anywhere? Takers? Links? Proof? I thought not. The DEM (Defeatist, Elitist Media) have buried this little gem back a few pages near the produce ads for Piggly Wiggly.

But what, Boys and Girls, do you think would have happened had a GOP’er made a similar comment to a black, female, career DEMOCRAT? Or if that commenter had been, even worse, a male and (Heaven forbid!) Caucasian?

Boxer, you’re an idiot.

Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi: A Fishy Minimum Wage?

On Wednesday, January 10th, the House voted to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour. That’s an issue for another post entirely. Absent that, the bill also brings, for the first time ever, a minimum wage to the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands. However, it exempts American Samoa, another Pacific island territory numerous miles to the southeast, that would become the only US territory not subject to federal minimum-wage laws.

But wait: why would that be?

Could it be because Del Monte Corporation, which owns StarKist Tuna, has its global headquarters in San Francisco which — ta-da!! — is represented by Speaker Nancy Pelosi?

But wait; there’s more: one of the largest opponents of the federal minimum wage in Samoa is StarKist Tuna, which owns one of the two packing plants that together employ more than 5,000 Samoans, or nearly 75 percent of the island’s entire work force.

The Democrats were all about how theirs would be the flowering Dawn of a New Era. Again: not. And now that they’ve come into majority theirs, so ridiculously soon, is nothing more than hypocrisy abetted by the DEM.

Insults, coverups and lies from the Dems’ sterling womyn — and it’s only the first month.

BZ

There are certain things that many of us suspect regarding the denizens of New Orleans — to include the city administration as well — things that might have something, perhaps, to do with the molasses-like repair of the city itself. I really do not believe I have to be any more precise or explicit than that. I’m sure you’re reading adequately between the sentences.

So it should come as no shock to you — and clearly was no shock to me — to recently learn of the following situation in the city of New Orleans abetted by their current (but elected!) do-nothing administration. From the Associated Press:

Thousands marched on City Hall on Thursday (January 11th), seeking an end to the violence that has claimed nine lives in this struggling city since New Year’s Day.

Further, the story indicates:

Mayor Ray Nagin, the object of many marchers’ jeers and protest signs, watched from behind a podium but did not take part in the rally at the behest of organizers.

“We want to open a dialogue, but this was not the time. It would have been too big a shift from listening to the people to suddenly have a politician talking,” said Baty Landis, a Tulane University professor and music club owner who helped organize the march.

Oh fine. Enough with the punch-pulling. New Orleans is a corrupt city, in a corrupt state, run by corrupt, cerebrally-challenged officials led by Mayor Ray Nagin who is himself, on the finest of days, a complete dolt, not to mention a racist.

Nagin no more has an idea how to stop these murders than does my friend’s hamster, Wally. And sadly, no one within that city can stop the murders, should further murderers decide to continue the trend. Oh, and a little statistic for you: New Orleans had 161 homicides last year, the lowest total in 60 years. But the population was way down from its pre-Katrina total of 455,000, and is still only about 200,000. In comparion: Sacratomato City and County in Fornicalia has 1.7 million people. Last year there were a combined total of 58 homicides.

New Orleans is a morally and culturally bankrupt city, inhabited by many morally and culturally bankrupt citizens and “managed” (sorry, I absolutely could not bring myself to write the word “led”) by a morally and culturally bankrupt administration.

For Christ’s sake people, you re-elected the fool — what did you think you would get?

BZ