Congratulations to William & Kate

According to the TV hanging in McDonald's, the baby is a boy, 8 pounds 6 ounces, born at 4:24 PM.  British time we can assume?  That's 10:24 AM Eastern Daylight Savings Time, or maybe an hour later, depends upon British time.  The Brits used to have "double summer time" two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.  In that case it's 11:24 our time, otherwise 10:24 our time. 
   Congratulations to the happy parents and to all their countrymen.  And all the honorary Brits all over the world, of which there are a lot. 
   Good Show. 

Infrastructure in NH

Democrats did a lot of whining about lack of infrastructure maintenance in NH.  It was so bad they wanted to hike the gas tax for it.  Jeeze to hear the democrats talk, you'd think we were going back to dirt roads.
Yesterday they started resurfacing Streeter Pond road.  I'll grant that Streeter Pond was in pretty bad shape, but it's so low down on the totem pole, it isn't even a second class road, it's third class or fourth class, as low as a road can go.  I only use it to get to Varney & Smith's lumber yard from Franconia.  Other than that, only the few farmers who live on it, care.
  They had a big ole yellow road grader taking up the old pavement, right down to the dirt.  Plain old brown dirt, none of your pricey gravel fill up here.  This is more than the usual slap on another coat of asphalt quickie repair. And they didn't have to hike the gas tax to get 'er done.

Anti Gravity

You don't believe in anti gravity?   Then what is it that pops the piece of trash right back up out of the trash basket?  The trash does a trampoline act and bounces out on the rug, sneering at you to bend over and pick it up?  I say it's antigravity.

The Black Community is mad about the Zimmerman verdict

I can understand where they are coming from.  Teen aged boy is shot dead.  They don't believe Zimmerman's story of self defense, even though the jury did believe it.  They just want revenge.  That's natural.  They used to declare blood feuds over less. 
  The purpose of courts and the justice system is to prevent just that.  The blood feud was still alive as recently as the Hatfields and the McCoys.   Responsible public officials are supposed to talk about the progress that has been made and to discourage violence.  
  The black community has things that anger them that go way back, back before the Civil War.  Things like slavery, poverty, lack of respect, rotten schools, and others.  A lot of these issues trotted out and attached themselves to Trayvon Martin.  Yesterday's demonstrations are partly about Zimmerman's acquittal and largely about those other issues. 
  The civil rights movement of fifty years ago addressed the legal and political side of this.  The movement had concrete policies, desegregation and voter registration that had concrete remedies in laws.  Those laws got passed, and are still in place. This ground was well covered by the end of the sixties.  Today's black leadership cannot think of anything else that could be addressed by law.  So instead they talk about "having a discussion on race", which is a code phrase meaning, "We don't have any ideas to fix things, but we are still unhappy."
  

Words of the Weasel Part 29

Revenue.  That is Democrat speak for "taxes".   "We need more revenue" sounds better than "Let's hike taxes."
Investment.  Democrat speak for "spending".   "Let's invest in our schools" sounds better than "Lets spend more money on schools."

On the Cover of the Rollin' Stone

We always knew that Rolling Stone was low life, and this week they proved it again.  They put a glamorous picture of Boston bomber Tsarnaev on the cover.  I gotta admit, he is cute, plenty of girls would like to take home a boy toy like that.  Betcha he wouldn't be on the cover if he wasn't so cute. 

This oughta teach 'em

Detroit is declaring bankruptcy.  A whole bunch of banks, and other money places loaned Detroit billions of dollars over the years to meet operating expenses.  Now they ought to loose all their money, just to make a point.
  The point?  It is irresponsible to waste precious capital lending to dead beats who won't be able pay it back.  It was perfectly clear to anyone with an IQ above room temperature, that Detroit was in a death spiral and would never be able to repay the humungous loans it took out.  The banks should not have made those loans.  Since they were stuck on stupid, and made dumbass loans, they oughta hurt for it.
   Capitalism works if capital is used constructively, to finance new factories, new products, and business operations.  If precious capital is pissed away on see-thru office buildings, Ninja mortgages,  Solyndra, mortgage backed securities, dirivatives, and credit default swaps, ethanol, and electric cars, we all get poorer.
  Let's hope the loan officers responsible for lending to Detroit get fired.