That the majority of the folks driving on the snowy roads who either:

A. Cannot seem to understand that the snow reduces the coefficient of friction, necessitating a slight decrease in speed in order to remain in full control of the moving vehicle. (generally being found farther down the road either in a ditch or against a tree):

OR…

B. Go all wild eyed, panties in a knot, white knuckled grip on the wheel and drive at 7 MPH (when a slight reduction in speed would suffice)and hold up 2.75 miles of cursing other drivers. :

mostly all seem to have “Obama ’08” stickers (or “Hope and change” stickers) on their cars?

While it is a small sample, there has been a pattern that I have noticed several times this year.

Liberals. Gah.

Ya gotta ask yerself….WWJD?

Assholes. This is just wrong. And they cry when the Muslims do it to Christian spaces. If it was christians who did this, then they get to meet their maker with this sin on their heads.

Fundamentalist of all religions should be stoned to death once they begin forcing their religion on others, no matter what the means.

Me? I am not Wiccan. But I’d still shoot whoever did this without a qualm.

Let God remove those symbols He finds offensive.

The US Coast Guard shut down all but 5 of the LORAN-C stations on Monday. Not that they were used much since the constellation of GPS satellites was finally finished, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a backup if the GPS system is damaged or fails?

Defunded in it’s entirety by Mr Obama in October of ’09, in order to save $190 million (yep, just a drop in the bucket compared to his spending so far….).

The fact is, that while it might not be used much, LORAN-C would have provided a backup for long range navigation of air travel and ship navigation, and would have given the US a reliable backup navigation in and around the continental US that was effectively bulletproof, unlike the constellation of GPS satellites, which are easily struck by ASAT weapons.

Obsolete? Sure. Redundant? Yes. But it wouldn’t take much money to keep the system operating, and it sure would have made for a nice backup to the GPS system.

Bush considered killing the system, but chose not to, in order that the country would have a redundant system to GPS. Not so Mr. Obama. Expect the rest of the world to follow the lead of the US.

Perhaps his intent is to weaken this country slowly, incrementally.

Then again, “never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence”

It’s nice that we now have no real backup for our pilots and ships to use, if and when.

The Obama administration on Monday proposed a new agency to study and report on the changing climate

Yep, maybe we can get a few more pints from the cow, even if it is dead.

Gotta keep them klimate scientists werkin’ doncha know.

I guess it’s hard to give up your dreams of control, even when the “science” used as an excuse is proven to be bogus.

Seems that the Police Chief in King N.C. has declared a state of emergency due to weather. While this is perhaps no big deal, part of the new rules for the duration of said weather emergency is the banning of the carry of firearms outside of a person’s property. No one is allowed to carry on public property (streets, etc).

It would seem to me that this is exactly the time to carry a firearm. (I, of course, do so every day anywhere that I can legally do so (which is generally everywhere)).

Not that I am unsympathetic to the issues and problems that the C.O.P is no doubt encountering, but to be able to, by declaration, invalidate the second amendment is not something to be taken lightly.

One would wonder if the good citizens of King, NC will allow him to get away with this. I certainly wouldn’t, but so far my sheriff hasn’t tried (I don’t think that he is that stupid). Perhaps the laws in NC allow for such, but not in my home state.

Methinks, unless the citizens of King, NC are all sheep, he will be resigning shortly.

Personally, were it legal for me to carry before the “State of Emergency” I would continue to do so during and after. And, while not making a big deal about it while carrying (concealed, I might add) I would expect to be able to exercise my right unimpeded. If not, I would expect to deal with the issues afterwards. I’d not advertise, but neither would I do so surreptitiously

If he gets away with this, then we know 2 things:

1. never visit King NC
2. the citizens of that county are sheep, and there is no hope for them.

As I said: This should be interesting later.

YMMV

ETA: One thing I thought of after the original post is that if this IS legal…..Then anyone in power can crate an emergency, for any reason.

I am glad that MY state has laws preventing this.

Betcha that THIS is the next big bugword for those who can’t make it in the real world, and need government grant money in order to fund their miserable existence on the sweat of others research handouts.

I just betcha.

It’s just different enough to fool ’em, but it will not fail to cause those who believed in AGW to wet their panties (and probably their women too)

I mean, we had the ozone layer, global cooling, global warming, now “climate change…….This has to be one of the nex tones, if not THE next one.

I mean, let’s face it, these researchers gotta eat too.

Yew herd it here phirst.

But it IS an excellent ad.

(almost NSFW)

Me? I seldom drink beer, but this makes me want to go out and buy some Bud Light.

HT: AMCGltd.com

Never attribute to malevolence that which can be blamed on stupidity or incompetence.

YannowhatI’msayin’?

That the European Socialist paradises of Greece, Spain, Italy and possibly others are on the verge of failing. Much like our DNC controlled states (and cities) here in the US, the more socialist states seem to be failing, falling hard and fast into the abyss of fiscal failure.

Now, while the failure has many implications for the EU (and the Euro) what I want to know is if anyone has learned anything from the failures of these socialist societies?
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Nah, I didn’t think so.

And why our current screening methods will never, ever work.

We cannot ever be more than reactive in our current attempt to screen every person attempting air travel, or entering buildings for weapons. Especially with the TSA folks trying to stop them. Our current methods will never stop a determined suicide bomber (at least not one with a level of intelligence greater than that of broccoli).

We react, they will react. It ends up being a game of one-upmanship. And they only have to get it right one time, and people die. And until we realize that, we will always be on the losing side of things. In order to win this game, we must be rationl, and accept that some folks are a greater risk than others. Is it fair? Nope. But it is realistic. Our current methods suck. No matter how much PC we attempt, someone will get their sensibilities hurt, and we had better realize that and learn to deal with it.

Better we use the Israelis methods. They seem to work, and they really don’t care if someone gets pissed off.