Seems that the Daytona Track is falling apart, and no one could fix it quickly.

So we hadda wait for 1:45 until they could get the track safe and restart the red-flagged race. I understand that this was for the drivers safety, but for christ’s sake, you’d think that they could do better.

The point is that no one bothered to check the track, and that what is arguably the premiere track for NASCAR is falling apart and needs repaving.

You’d think that what with the price of tickets they’d have been able to put a few bucks back for maintenance of the track surface.

You’d think that NASCAR could do better than this.

Update:

And in happened again 36 laps later.

Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

A lesson NASCAR could learn.

Yanno: I kinda quit watching NASCAR last year due to the loss of comeptetiveness with the Car Of Tomorrow, and this was, to be honest, their first chance to make a bad impression, and they succeeded.

Seems that i missed this until now.

They guy who is credited with the invention of the frisbee: Walter Fredrick Morrison, has died.

If there is a toy that is less ubiquitous throughout the US and western Europe, I don’t know what it is.

Not a hero, not a criminal, just a guy who had a good idea and took the time and effort to develop it.

A perfect American Success story.

A small businessman’s open letter to Mr. Obama. And he is, as far as I can tell, fully correct.

Would that I too could sell my business.

But I am stuck with it.

I hope Mr. Obama doesn’t bend me over too hard in the next year.

comes off the bus

anyone, really.

Just vote the asshole out.

Me? If the choice was the north end of a southbound horse and Bayh, I’d vote for the horse.

But luckily, we have alternatives to the horse.

When the average “supermarket” has less than 3 days of food on it’s shelf in normal times, THIS is what happens when deliveries are temporarily delayed..

And this is why I prep for at least a weak without availability of food/water/fuel/electricity. etc.

When everyone rushes out just before a storm to buy french toast fixins’ (milk, butter, bread, eggs) then the stores just run out of food….JIT delivery fails when there are delays due to weather.

How long can you go without a trip to the store? Me? It’ll be a while before my roommates and pets need to worry.

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.