An overall view of Monterey Bay, Fornicalia — which shows the very deep canyon just a few miles offshore to the west. Click to expand the view, and you will see the city of Santa Cruz to the north, and Monterey to the south.

That’s it. I’ve temporarily had enough.

It’s time for my wife and I to leave work and our stress behind.

I made reservations for five nights at one of the premier hotels in Monterey, Fornicalia. This is a late birthday present/anniversary for my wife. We are celebrating five years. Five years, what’s that? A paperclip?

We’ll be in a 540-square foot suite with a direct top-floor view of Monterey Bay, at the height of whale-watching season.

Time for a visit to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Bubba Gump’s Shrimp Company, and a host of other wonderful places on the ocean, to include J&S Surplus in Moss Landing — a wonderful store full of military memorabilia, paintball equipment, surplus, clothing, books, knives and collectibles!

Boys and girls, if it’s Friday, we’re driving there right now.

Posting will not stop. I hope to have, however, some updated photographs on our tours and travels.

Excelsior!

BZ

The motel where we’ll be staying. It is situated directly on the bay, just north of Breakwater Cove, the US Coast Guard station and Fisherman’s Shoreline Park, right on Cannery Row.

At last night’s CNN debate, the candidates were asked to describe themselves in one word:

• Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX): Consistent
• Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA): Courage
• Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA): Resolute
• Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich: Cheerful

The one word descriptor conspicuously missing?

Conservative.

BZ

From Heritage.org’s The Foundry:

This year’s Index of Dependence on Government presented startling findings about the sharp increase of Americans who rely on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid or other assistance. (See last week’s chart.)

Another eye-popping number was the percentage of Americans who don’t pay income taxes, which now accounts for nearly half of the U.S. population. Meanwhile, most of that population receives generous federal benefits.

“One of the most worrying trends in the Index is the coinciding growth in the non-taxpaying public,” wrote Heritage authors Bill Beach and Patrick Tyrrell. “The percentage of people who do not pay federal income taxes, and who are not claimed as dependents by someone who does pay them, jumped from 14.8 percent in 1984 to 49.5 percent in 2009.”

That means 151.7 million Americans paid nothing in 2009. By comparison, 34.8 million tax filers paid no taxes in 1984.

How does this happen? How can a full 50% of Americans pay no income tax whatsoever?

The Demorats talk and rail about “fair.” How is it “fair” that FIFTY PER-CENT of my very own — I can only hope — lawful citizens pay NO income tax whatsoever?

So it really does come down to two versions: PARASITES — those who pay no income tax — and are likely the ones demanding their “full share” of entitlements. . .

Or HOSTS — who pay everything else. Like me.

Explanations, anyone?

BZ

This time, applied to cars:

Let’s examine the Chevy Volt (Thanks, Frank!):

Eric Bolling (Fox Business Channel’s Follow the Money) test drove the Chevy Volt at the invitation of General Motors.

For four days in a row, the fully charged battery lasted only 25 miles before the Volt switched to the reserve gasoline engine.

Eric calculated the car got 30 mpg including the 25 miles it ran on the battery.

So, the range including the 9 gallon gas tank and the 16 kwh battery is approximately 270 miles.

It will take you 4 1/2 hours to drive 270 miles at 60 mph. Then add 10 hours to charge the battery and you have a total trip time of 14.5 hours. In a typical road trip your average speed (including charging time) would be 20 mph.

According to General Motors, the Volt battery will hold 16 kwh of electricity. It takes a full 10 hours to charge a drained battery.

The cost for the electricity to charge the Volt is never mentioned so I looked up what I pay for electricity.

I pay approximately (it varies with amount used and the seasons)
$1.16 per kwh — 16 kwh x $1.16 per kwh = $18.56 to charge the battery.

$18.56 per charge divided by 25 miles = $0.74 per mile to operate the Volt using the battery.

Compare this to a similar size car with a gasoline engine that only gets 32 mpg — $3.19 per gallon divided by 32 mpg = $0.10 per mile.

The gasoline powered car priced out at about $15,000, while the Volt costs $46,000. So Obama wants us to pay 3 times as much for a car that costs more that 7 times as much to run and takes 3 times as long to drive across country.

Go here for Eric Bolling’s video.

Doing the math and applying logic can sometimes seem so terribly unfair, can it not?

BZ

I. Thanks, Obama, for ruining the fiscal future of our infants and children:

II. Thanks, Obama, for making sure that nothing is done to deflect gas prices ($106 per barrel today), to ensure that Canadian help in the matter is turned down via Keystone, and that your “green energy” programs are comprised of smoke and mirrors funded by billions of taxpayer dollars for businesses gone bankrupt:

III. Thanks, Obama, for instilling the worst confidence in our nation since Carter:

IV. Thanks, Obama, for doing your best to enable the Illegal Invader Mexican Invasion so that you can benefit from pandering votes for Free Cheese, as in “Immigration enforcement to be shut down“:

V: Thanks, Obama, for enabling the continuance of evil racial politics (just ask Walter Williams, a Conservative and — ahem — unfortunately, a black man):

VI: And finally — thanks, Obama, for ensuring that Baby Boomers like myself can never retire. At least I’ll get a portion of my initial retirement; further generations won’t even acquire that due to your incalculable debt increases:

Thanks, Mr Obama.

Thank you very much.

BZ