20th Anniversery of OJ

Not to my taste.  But the newsies, all of 'em, NPR, Fox, ABC are all running reminiscences of the OJ trial from 20 years ago.  The event must really mean something to newsies, since they cover it so lovingly.  We have terrorists taking over Iraq, the economy sliding down the tubes, Russians taking over Ukraine, terrorist kidnaping schoolgirls, airliners mysteriously disappearing at sea, Republicans massing to take over the Senate, and all the newsies want to cover the OJ trial, again.
Talk about a slow news day. 

Cookie Pushers begin to flee the Bagdad embassy

Let's hope to doesn't look as bad as the  bugout from Saigon 40 years ago.
I heard our good old State Dept had 5000 cookie pushers stationed in Bagdad.  I wonder what they do, other than draw their pay.

Do you believe this?

Man changes his name to "Human" and runs for the NH house.  Fortunately he is a Democrat.  This same guy went to court to get a vanity plate reading "CopsLie".  Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Ya run what ya brung

Old car racing adage.  Sense of which is, once you get the car to the track, it's too late to soup it up.  There comes a time when more tinkering at the last minute either won't do any good, or worse, break something. 
  Iraq is like that.  The enemy is at the gates, to survive, the Iraqi army must fight off the terrorists with what they have, now. There is no time for training, more US equipment, political reforms, anything.  When the enemy is at the gates, the only thing to do is fight, and win.
  All the Sunday pundits were full of ideas for reinforcement, re equipment, training,  air support, you name.  Sorry. It's too late for that.  Iraq will stand or fall on the fight the Iraqi army can put up.
   The only thing we can do, now, that will work, is send a division of US troops.  They might get there in time. 

Obama visits an Indian Reservation, skips Williston ND

So Obama fired up Air Force 1 and went junketing.  He stops at some Indian reservation on the North Dakota/South Dakota border, and makes happy talk about improved education and stimulating the sale of Indian handicrafts.  Cool.  Youngest son, who is out there tells me this reservation only has about five maybe ten thousand residents, which ain't much.  Heck, Littleton NH has more voters than that. Hardly worth the jet fuel to fly there.
   Obama should have visited Williston, ND, a very small town, in the center of the oil field.  Williston has grown from nothing to 40,000 people in just the last couple of years.  Unemployment is so low they can't measure it, jobs for everyone, McD's is paying $17 an hour to start, and not finding enough people. 
    It would show our ivory tower pres what real prosperity looks like.   Of course, the Williston people aren't real Obama voters, and might start asking embarrassing questions for which Obama lacks good answers....

Detroit should try these new features

Detroit cars need something to help sales.  They don't do styling anymore, they don't race NASCAR or NHRA.  They paint them all gray or mud color.  So here are my ideas for a better car that would sell better.

1.  A "vent" mode that actually brings in fresh air.  Right now, the duct work for "vent" runs near the hot engine, and so the vent air comes in as hot air.   Tolerable in the winter, but a pain at any other time of year.  To keep the interior cool, short of rolling down a window, I have to run the air conditioner.  Which isn't the end of the world, but air conditioner air always smells damp and musty.  Fresh air smells much better.
2.  A "close all" button for the power windows.  Nice summer day, I roll down all the windows to enjoy the fresh air.  End of the drive, park the car, and I gotta push four "up" buttons to get the car rain tight so I can leave it.  Not only push "up" but hold it down till the glass gets all the way up.  I'd like a single button, that I touch once, and walk away while all the windows roll up, nice and rain tight.  
  I know the safety guys would freak on that one, fearing that some one or some pet would have its head out the window when a kid pushed the close all button and strangled the some one or some pet, but there oughta be a way. 
3.  Car thermometer accuracy.  Especially right around the freezing point.  It's night, we have precip. Big question, is that black slickness on the road ice, or just rainwater?  Makes a difference.  So how good is that thermometer?  Is the sensor placed somewhere out of the wind and road splash?  Away from the heat of the engine?  On my Mercury not so good.  Park the Mercury in the sun and the the thermometer will read 10-20 degrees high until you get the car moving and some air flowing over the sensor. 
4.  A windshield washer that holds a full gallon of washer fluid.  They sell the stuff by the gallon.  It would be so nice to pour in a gallon, and chuck the empty bottle.  Can we do that?  Nooo.  You always have a quarter of a bottle left and you gotta open the trunk and stow it.  PITA.

I don't have a clue

Why Eric Cantor lost his primary.  I don't live in his district, I don't know anyone in his district, I don't get the same TV, newspapers, and blogs as Eric's district does. I'm not on Facebook in his district.  Eric got redistricted this time around.  I have no idea what that meant to his re election. 
   But I see lotsa pundits, with no more information than I have (which is zilch) offering opinion after opinion as to why the upset, and what it means.
   "All politics is local." Tip O'Neill said once (I lived in Tip's district once upon a time).  Could well be that Eric's defeat was caused by strictly local issues.  Or it might not be. 
  I doubt that any of the TV pundits making so free with opinions, actually know anything.