tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70085660330818685412012-02-09T23:46:34.090-05:00Brazellnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1001100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-61863843655438209412009-04-25T23:22:00.002-04:002009-04-26T00:05:15.660-04:00

For shame! I forgot this even existed...Anyway, I guess I should introduce myself. As my username suggests, my nickname is Lucky, although my real name is Pashalis...however, I'm sure any of you may read this (ha!) already know as much.I graduated from Assumption College in 2007 with a degree in International Business, and after a summer of doing pretty much nothing, I ended up at a very large

luckyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15978673830670622748noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-69868124564150599712009-01-29T23:50:00.004-05:002009-01-29T23:52:08.816-05:00

I saw a link about state-by-state joblessness, and it was setup like an electoral map where you could hover over different states, and so on, and it was interesting... but reminding me of the electoral map, I wanted to compare. Joblessness Map of the United States 2008 Electoral Map Now the article from the joblessness page: While some states fared better than others, December was a cruel

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-55047616303523865572009-01-28T14:53:00.000-05:002009-01-28T14:53:31.772-05:00

I'm a sceptic now, says ex-NASA climate boss • The Register"As Chief of several of NASA Headquarters’ programs (1982-94), an SES position, I was responsible for all weather and climate research in the entire agency, including the research work by James Hansen, Roy Spencer, Joanne Simpson, and several hundred other scientists at NASA field centers, in academia, and in the private sector who worked

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-31358720850220786402009-01-14T12:28:00.001-05:002009-01-14T14:53:18.440-05:00

Few things turn me sour more than the philanthropic "Facebook Status Donation," which left-minded individuals (and some right-minded) "dedicate" to various causes when they feel the political or social bug. Many people will recall the "I have donated my status to Barack Obama," or John McCain, back in early November. The latest that I've seen in several status messages has been some 100-

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-67841934308711788882009-01-05T14:23:00.000-05:002009-01-05T14:23:31.114-05:00

Kathryn Jean-Lopez interviews Caroline Glick about the Israel-Gaza conflict and its media attention. Like usual with media reports of Israel, all of the news focuses on Israel defending itself, rather than the year of Hamas attacking Israel, and the recent massive increase in rocket attacks that started about a month and a half ago. Of course, you only hear about it once Israel does something

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-77461586790543977082009-01-04T12:38:00.000-05:002009-01-04T12:40:16.522-05:00

I wish that all of my friends would use Gmail's chat feature over AIM, or integrated with AIM.  Because its so much better to everything else and it actually works.  The auto-archiving and searchability right then and there, not to mention, the offline emailing system, just works.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-45036275633686009582008-12-25T23:19:00.002-05:002008-12-26T00:13:23.712-05:00

We just got back from seeing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which seemed interesting, despite my reservations against moves that use an excessive amount of alliteration in their titles... and, well, despite this movie being a triumph of the human spirit ... uhh.. a celebration of life... and... uhm, any other stupid film review cliches that I can come up with... it is really one thing: bad

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-1797589088193404322008-12-23T22:00:00.001-05:002008-12-23T22:12:39.966-05:00

Just to remind everybody, 2008 was the coldest year on record, of course, making this decade one of the cooler decades of the last 150 years (since scientists have been collecting data).As serious scientists repeatedly explain, global cooling is here. It is chilling temperatures — if not the climate alarmists’ fevered expectations of so-called “global warming.”And what of the melting ice caps?

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-68753746454863192892008-12-23T21:52:00.000-05:002008-12-23T21:52:55.640-05:00

Check this out --Al Franken, the idiot comedian who dabbles in failed political projects, is contesting the very close Minnesota senatorial election and while he lost the original race, he's gained significant votes in the recounts. The Minnesota Star-Tribune has a story showing some of the ballots that have been dropped after being "contested" by Franken... claiming that while voters circled in

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-33600190891901264032008-12-23T18:40:00.000-05:002008-12-23T18:44:59.838-05:00

Some talk has come recently about permitting a "conscientious objection" amongst pharmacies and health providers from performing acts or offering services that the provider considers morally objectionable.  It is another saga of the abortion debacle, a strict derivative of the Courts poorly handling the abortion debate in the first place -- and a problem that would not exist if it weren't for

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-5330483629120479622008-12-23T18:02:00.000-05:002008-12-23T18:06:40.298-05:00

Charter Communications finally added new HD Channels for the Worcester, MA area.  The channels are the following: WeatherHD:  725 FoxNewsHD: 726 AnimalPlanetHD: 730 TLCHD: 731 FoodNetworkHD: 733 VersusHD: 767 GolfHD: 768 DiscoveryHD: 776 FXHD: 794 I am exceedingly happy about this.  I sent an executive email carpet bomb during the summer and was assured that they would be adding more networks

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-77573380731598237682008-11-23T13:29:00.000-05:002008-11-23T13:34:41.083-05:00

So, I have a pinched nerve in my left hand and its immobile.  Basically, its lilke my hand has been completely numb for ~14 hours.  I can only type with 1 hand and Im going to  a neurologist tomorrow.  Cant play guitar.  I can use four of my fingers from beyond the last finger joint, but I cant move them other tjhan that.  Its very odd. So anyway, thats the news for me.  I'll show everybody how

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-72441446152579241072008-11-19T00:12:00.000-05:002008-11-19T00:21:43.641-05:00

Alright, brief videogame post. So we've been struggling through Horde mode, basically usually three - five of us every night and have not been able to get past Level 20 on Hardcore.  I know, I know, laughable for anybody who has already beaten Level 50 on Insane, but whatever, we have jobs.  Blood drive was pretty good for us for a while, taking opposite sites of those two rooms on top of the

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-77652456457998973992008-11-16T18:42:00.000-05:002008-11-16T18:42:36.446-05:00

The world has never seen such freezing heat - TelegraphChristopher Booker discovers why October 2008 wasn't the warmest month on record. In a year where temperatures are much lower and alarmists are calling for the possibility of another global freezing period, October 2008 stood out as a strange anomaly. What was the reason for the warmest month on record? Russia was repeating temperatures

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-19699281179748657322008-11-16T16:42:00.000-05:002008-11-16T16:51:14.906-05:00

I'm on BestBuy.com because CircuitCity is going out of business and I want to buy a big TV before Thanksgiving... Well, CircuitCity sucks as bad as anywhere but their site always had a review system which wasn't that bad of a system; it had some honest reviews by people who usually knew a few things.  It wasn't AVSForum or anything, but it was still alright. Well, Bestbuy.com implemented this,

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-66919486275065090152008-11-14T14:05:00.000-05:002008-11-14T14:05:29.065-05:00

This is such an awesome article, I have to reprint it. I'm always hoping to do things like this but, fortunately, I'm never in the position to do so. Click the link (like all links from here, this opens in the same window)Man Submits Drawing Of Spider Instead Of Payment For Overdue AccountI usually attach short notes to bills and other services, as my personal dig at the system... and of course

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-56440204913140019422008-11-13T10:22:00.000-05:002008-11-13T10:22:59.072-05:00

The New York Times has a great story today about these two guys who made up a campaign advisor to McCain, dropping stories into the press, some with truth, some false, with bloggers and media folk running with the stories. I specifically remember these stories tickering up throughout the media over the election season, and the latest that actually burst the bubble was the Sarah Palin / South

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-1644761311118263352008-11-09T19:43:00.000-05:002008-11-09T19:43:51.890-05:00

Michael Crichton’s Question: How do we separate Science from Religion in Environmentalism?

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-36773074326556809602008-11-09T18:01:00.000-05:002008-11-09T18:11:26.130-05:00

One of our workstudies from Admissions once told me about JuicyCampus, which I had never heard of, even being a veteran of internet scenes.  She described it as an anonymous rumor mill website that specializes in college rumors, and it has pages for different colleges.  It was around then that I started to hear the phrase come up in meetings, of various levels, and what some schools were doing

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-64587095573760378362008-11-06T13:49:00.000-05:002008-11-06T13:49:57.751-05:00

Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wagesSome folks are getting a taste of what it's like to be promised everything, and delivered much less."It should have been $480. It's $230," said Imani Sankofa. "They gave us $10 an hour. So we added it. I added up all the hours so it was supposed to be at least $120. All I get is $90," said Charles Martin. "I worked nine hours a day for 4 days and

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-52272873297277692282008-11-06T12:10:00.000-05:002008-11-06T12:13:09.818-05:00

I had e-mailed this to somebody, but I'll post it here as well. Moments ago I sat down with a former professor of mine and an author of a 2007 book about cultural nihilism in academia (who also happens to be a Catholic priest), and he said to me, “Mike, it’s odd, but I woke up on November 5th after going to bed early, unsure of what to feel the night before, but on the 5th, I felt, of all things

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-78419497105681889042008-11-06T10:10:00.000-05:002008-11-06T10:10:13.914-05:00

Barack Obama may have helped California Proposition 8 gay marriage ban pass - TelegraphProposition 8 was the controversial amendment in California that would ban gay marriage, and in a moment of liberal paradox, many multiculturalists are realizing that it was affirmed (banning gay marriage) specifically because of the increased Black and Latino vote throughout California. 70% of African

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-60111474135947170232008-11-06T10:01:00.000-05:002008-11-06T10:01:32.523-05:00

Excerpted from a book review in 1976...The more that Sociologist Daniel Bell peers into the future, the more he seems to respect the past. It would be hard to find anyone more at home in such a variety of contemporary disciplines—economics, politics, the arts, popular culture. Yet Bell is not happy with the trends in any of them. Something precious has gone out of life, he feels. The deficiency

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-26599302778976092012008-11-06T09:53:00.000-05:002008-11-06T09:53:07.640-05:00

Russia Gives Obama Brisk Warning - washingtonpost.com:"The threat, which came just hours after the conclusion of the U.S. election, appeared intended to signal Moscow's priorities to the American president-elect. It could present an early foreign policy test for Barack Obama, who says he supports a missile defense system against Iran but has also accused the Bush administration of exaggerating

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-36237811613372108442008-11-05T17:05:00.000-05:002008-11-05T17:05:01.450-05:00

Somebody has to tell the AP that headlines like this have to wait until at least 2010.The Associated Press: Stocks fall as investors ponder Obama presidency

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-77859224504898600472008-11-05T17:03:00.000-05:002008-11-05T17:03:52.897-05:00

Asians uneasy over Obama trade stance: Associated Press Business News - MSN Money

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-50512160865347175782008-11-05T10:07:00.000-05:002008-11-05T10:15:31.105-05:00

Barack Obama easily won the presidency last night;  Democrats easily pursued their majority in the House and Senate.  The country decidingly pointed left in what is an abject rejection of the Republican party over the course of the last eight years.  John McCain, during his campaign, hammered on the idea that "we came to change Washington and Washington changed us," its a fair description,

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-38145546762799500282008-11-05T09:48:00.001-05:002008-11-05T09:48:54.471-05:00

Spike Lee said with approval on CNN that history will now be remembered as "BB" and "AB," Before Barack and After Barack. Let the healing begin...

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-16257679811378027632008-11-04T15:59:00.000-05:002008-11-04T16:05:28.752-05:00

Just a few stories today about politics as usual. GOP Election Board members have been tossed out of polling stations in at least half a dozen polling stations in Philadelphia because of their party status. (link) ACORN registering convicted felons, voting from prison (link) Black Panthers blocking polling stations in Philadelphia (video below) Line of the video: Camera man: "You're holding a

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-17207439180934915242008-11-02T22:45:00.000-05:002008-11-02T22:45:25.097-05:00

Grooveshark Lite - Listen to Music OnlineThe internet is awesome.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-16324118894904544282008-10-30T15:38:00.000-04:002008-10-30T15:43:03.295-04:00

Two reasons to love the internet today. http://mixturtle.com/ -- Go there, search for a band, hit "play."  You can add the song to your playlist by hitting the plus button, adds to a playlist.  If you have an account, it saves your playlists.  Quality is great.  Hushie.com is a similar site but I like the layout of this one more. Another reason to love the internet, Fleet Foxes.  Nick burned this

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-41487727159479272142008-10-27T16:15:00.000-04:002008-10-27T16:15:48.753-04:00

From Stone to Silicon: A Brief Survey of Innovation - FPRII'm actually surprised to say that I agree with this list of the 25 top innovations, which is normally something that I despise. #1 innovation, Spoken language. I couldn't possibly agree more. #12, religion as a social institution, ahead of the concept of science (which is actually phrased correctly as natural philosophy), which I

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-38602288773167790822008-10-27T16:07:00.000-04:002008-10-27T16:07:08.338-04:00

Damn it all, what wouldn't I do to the man who first invented God! Hanging on a bitter aspen tree would be too good for, him.''There would have been no civilisation if they hadn't invented God.''Wouldn't there have been? Without God?''No. And there would have been no brandy either.'

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-84183136052726941562008-10-16T23:36:00.000-04:002008-10-16T23:37:13.068-04:00

Well this was a little disapointing I can believe it's not butter. from Michael Murray on Vimeo.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-70916754284827968962008-10-10T13:40:00.000-04:002008-10-10T13:40:00.325-04:00

Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley writes, Sorry, Dad, I'm Voting for Obama.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-89547458035982277352008-10-10T13:09:00.000-04:002008-10-10T13:10:11.873-04:00

The radio commercials for AirTranny, who we flew with to Vegas, are awesome.  I lul regularly while listening to them.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-77715621903131725202008-10-08T15:55:00.000-04:002008-10-08T15:55:40.643-04:00

Barack Obama urges Americans not to panic over economy:"'The American people can't take four more years of John McCain's George Bush policies,' Obama said to loud cheers."Note to Barack Obama: You endorsed George Bush's $700,000,000,000 bailout.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-68370789697786973612008-10-08T12:58:00.000-04:002008-10-08T12:59:35.577-04:00

I don't know about you, but I think I preferred Biden / Palin more:

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-39385587239080509892008-10-07T23:54:00.000-04:002008-10-07T23:54:38.238-04:00

Hamas blames Jews for global crisisIn other breaking news, water is wet.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-27943439568961773982008-10-07T23:07:00.001-04:002008-10-07T23:59:20.977-04:00

A whole lot has been said about so-called "golden parachutes" for CEOs with this $700,000,000,000 bailout bill (that has climbed to be much more now). Everybody and their mother is coming out against executive compensation, and I'm against it too, but can we stop for a moment and see what we've come out for in the process of being against executive compensation? Executive compensation made up

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-85000257554341443282008-10-05T16:40:00.001-04:002008-10-05T16:40:34.370-04:00

Thunder-sticks. Take a note Milwaukee Brewers.-----This was sent via my cellphone.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-77148204102192605442008-10-03T13:56:00.000-04:002008-10-03T14:09:09.728-04:00

When I was watching the debate last night, and Joe Biden brought up Lebanon, he started to say a number of things that didn't quite resonate with me.  Lebanese politics are a bit of a pet-project for me, at least, more so than other areas -- I reached the apex of my interest in international relations during the Israeli/Lebanese War of 2006, and my favorite blogger, Michael Totten, helped me a

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-88259259495032109382008-10-03T13:53:00.000-04:002008-10-03T13:55:08.228-04:00

Well, with the few billion dollars of sweeteners, the $700b bailout bill passes (WBZ with the story). The final vote, 263-171 in the House, capped two weeks of tumult in Congress and on Wall Street, punctuated by daily warnings that the country confronted the gravest economic crisis since the Great Depression if lawmakers failed to act.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-69578077829597434222008-10-02T22:19:00.000-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.884-04:00

Just a quick note:  City on a Hill was originally John Winthrop... but... that's irrelevent.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-75176194324838134192008-10-02T21:55:00.001-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.884-04:00

She is beautiful, though.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-8418326645239455162008-10-02T21:46:00.000-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.885-04:00

This answer is why I've always liked Joe Biden.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-35401295594408913822008-10-02T21:37:00.001-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.885-04:00

"Under the constitution, same sex couples should get the same visits..." etc. Under the constitution?

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-56931565562493334402008-10-02T21:30:00.000-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.886-04:00

Tough question on this because public perception is not up to date with the latest science, specifically that IPCC scientists who have turned their backs on their 2006 report.  These years have been the coldest since the 1800s, and many scientisits have started to consider that we could fall into states of cooling. Great points on bringing up India and CHina though not by name.  Gotta do that. 

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-83410690019806318232008-10-02T21:29:00.000-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.887-04:00

Biden's charge was not true that Palin and McCain are against it, so Palin jumping back to energy.  Bad form by dodging the question, but Biden is wrong about the charge.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-71989895474875292512008-10-02T21:26:00.001-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.887-04:00

I don't care who proposed it, I'm against Windfall tax proposals.  They're bogus.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-84190000944989635062008-10-02T21:19:00.000-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.888-04:00

Good points here, very good points from Biden on McCain's healthcare plan.  Compared to a universal program, it's much more desirable, but the criticisms of the healthcare plan are legit -- it shouldn't be changed at all.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-82685313410223423482008-10-02T21:18:00.000-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.888-04:00

Nice!

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-10598622966761408422008-10-02T21:16:00.000-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.889-04:00

Dropping the redistrobution bomb. I love how Biden and Palin smile at each other.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-50416497270164860092008-10-02T21:15:00.000-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.889-04:00

Biden: "Fairness."  Fairness is a euphemism for socialism.  Always is.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-5241216759597482422008-10-02T21:09:00.002-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.890-04:00

"Greedy lenders, risky homebuyers" at fault ...?  False dichotomy in that question. Good answer to start out with "Darn right it was Wall street..." from Palin politically -- though I disagree.  But Palin is trying to hit her strong points too much -- hockey moms, joe sixpack, etc., referring to her hits too much at this moment.  Good answers thus far about personal responsibility. Biden -- 2

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-83555858924286971322008-10-02T21:07:00.000-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.890-04:00

They're talking to one another a lot more than the previous election. THey seem congenial with one another ... it's kind of hot.  Biden / Palin love child?

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-21749329930147999142008-10-02T21:06:00.000-04:002008-10-03T00:14:31.891-04:00

Every post from here on will be about the debate tonight. Palin seems nervous. Biden willing to reach across the isle?  WHAT?  8th most partisan senator inw ashington, compared to McCain at 65th.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-41128572591058442552008-10-02T18:35:00.001-04:002008-10-02T18:40:11.506-04:00

1) The All-Tel Wireless "Chad" Commercials2) The Mastercard, "Baseball tickets, $20, hotdog $4.50, eternal pestulence: priceless"3) The Charles Schaub commercials that are cell-shaded.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-39189876797320769352008-10-02T14:31:00.000-04:002008-10-02T14:31:01.043-04:00

A new dispatch from Michael Yon inside Afghanistan. Like his other excellent posts from Iraq and elsewhere, they're photo heavy and let the pictures tell their stories. Link: Michael Yon - Online Magazine

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-84722714829519796972008-10-02T14:13:00.001-04:002008-10-02T14:35:59.050-04:00

The Wall Street Journal chronicles What They Said About Fan and Fred: A collection of quotes from some of the noble politicians (Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer, Chris Dodd, etc), who fought tooth and nail against Fannie and Freddie reform until the economy collapsed. Of course, now, these are the same hypocrites criticizing Republicans for not acting. If you'd rather watch something than read it,

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-61702436196647840412008-10-02T10:55:00.000-04:002008-10-02T10:55:28.228-04:00

If you're a DishNetwork subscriber, you may have noticed a new channel on your television lineup: The Obama channel. Particularly strange that an advocate of The Fairness Doctrine -- the one that would require privately owned radio stations to fire conservative radio hosts and replace them with liberal radio hosts (despite that liberal talk radio has failed time and again) -- would buy his own

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-17666832958850640902008-09-30T14:01:00.000-04:002008-09-30T14:03:15.980-04:00

Here's a true test of courage.  Watch this video and tell me how many seconds it takes before you just can't take anymore of it.  I almost made it all the way through before trying to drown myself.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-20879894131645857462008-09-30T09:53:00.001-04:002008-09-30T10:03:03.698-04:00

The $700b spending bill, given the moniker of "The Bailout Bill," failed for a number of reasons -- despite advocacy by Senator John McCain, Senator Barack Obama, President George Bush, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Majority Leader Harry Reid, the bill failed, evidence that the United States is not run merely by cronies and elitists. In a CNBC poll today, perhaps not the most accurate poll of

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-57353588010210873562008-09-29T14:18:00.000-04:002008-09-29T14:18:05.599-04:00

House Rejects Bailout For US Financial Marketsuhm. What do we do?

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-24596390101348831982008-09-26T22:01:00.001-04:002008-09-26T22:01:55.308-04:00

Mccain's debate theme. at 959pm mccain took over over this debate with a great monologue on wars and his involvement. it was a good moment that everybody in out room shut up on. obama is really realing right now. -----This was sent via my cellphone.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-348765992581325582008-09-26T21:31:00.001-04:002008-09-26T21:31:32.823-04:00

Obama giving up energy? that hurts-----This was sent via my cellphone.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-88465672132756990782008-09-26T21:21:00.001-04:002008-09-26T21:21:14.097-04:00

Aaah! killer gas!-----This was sent via my cellphone.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-77715765120440724962008-09-26T18:28:00.001-04:002008-09-26T18:30:18.264-04:00

Girl in Port from Michael Murray on Vimeo.Let's see how video works on this.Turned out fine. Does Vimeo skip for anyone else?

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-228566922588207142008-09-26T15:24:00.000-04:002008-09-26T15:24:49.560-04:00

This is such a backwards mentality. In the future, all sports will be played by your brain, where the object is to do as little action as possible... such is the case with BrainballGod help us.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-34943385176171594222008-09-26T08:59:00.001-04:002008-09-26T09:01:36.983-04:00

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all. We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: But we

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-75060614895410016122008-09-25T15:38:00.000-04:002008-09-25T15:49:52.294-04:00

So this blog project is called Counter Revolution.  I'm indifferent to the name, and by indifferent, I mean I sort of wince when I think of it, but like I had mentioned before, it came together in Adobe Illustrator, and the domain was mostly there, so it stuck. I'm going to write this in a mix of first and third person. Lucky and I have launched this new blog project.  I had my site for a few

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-23717107210445795062008-09-25T09:44:00.000-04:002008-09-25T09:44:34.938-04:00

According to Andy Kessler for the WSJ... The Paulson Plan Will Make Money For Taxpayers

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-29940877045411003042008-09-24T22:56:00.004-04:002008-09-24T23:25:48.640-04:00

Today is September 24th, the 2008 elections are fast approaching and most stories are concerned about the national election -- McCain vs. Obama.  Most people have made up their mind about this already, but there's a slew of ballot initiatives and local elections that you'll see on your ballots and you may not know how to vote.  To eliminate the need for any thought process, I'm going to offer

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-67189239521204970912008-09-24T14:04:00.000-04:002008-09-24T14:04:02.186-04:00

The 2008 Smart List: 15 People the Next President Should Listen ToWired posted a list of "The 15 People the Next President Should Listen to," and I took one look at their list and groaned a very exhaustive groan. But then I read the comments, and I was given hope... almost every commenter writes this off as, definitively, a list of people and ideas that every president should avoid at all costs.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-27615546194896460512008-09-24T12:19:00.000-04:002008-09-24T12:19:45.823-04:00

The New York Times has an article this morning about the financial crisis, and in its typical New York Times flavor, the first line begins by removing blame from anybody worth blaming and instead focusing on some inane human desires or habits."GREED -- and its crafty sibling, speculation -- are the designed culprits for the financial crisis." No, they aren't. It is so tiring to see everything

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-61537068518576729042008-09-24T12:01:00.002-04:002008-09-24T14:44:30.649-04:00

WHO CAN READ THIS!? It is seriously UNREADABLE.n .. a .. e ..a .. t backwards G or E? w or M b?! WHAT THE HELL!? This is precisely the reason why the internet sucks. Anybody who disagrees is an idiot.Edit: The image is gone now, but for sometime, it was total nonsense "type the image that appears in the box" thing that was entirely unreadable.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-39005385137287633412008-09-24T01:12:00.000-04:002008-09-24T01:12:07.491-04:00

RealClearMarkets - Articles - The Mortgage Mess Began on Main StreetListening to this sort of chatter, it’s easy to forget that this mess began with a heap of bad mortgages made by American consumers who never came within a hundred miles of the card sharps on Wall Street. The inability (and in a good deal of cases, the unwillingness) of these same ordinary Americans to pay back these loans, many

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-51727405167199463972008-09-24T01:10:00.000-04:002008-09-24T01:10:10.989-04:00

RealClearPolitics - Articles - The Man Who Never Was The public image of Obama as an idealistic, post-race, post-partisan, well-spoken and honest young man with the wisdom and courage befitting a great national leader is a confection spun by a willing conspiracy of Obama, his publicist (David Axelrod) and most of the senior editors, producers and reporters of the national media. Perhaps that is

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-84220073875609800042008-09-23T18:20:00.001-04:002008-09-23T18:21:21.704-04:00

Two articles about the market crisis, one from the NRO and the other from Fareed Zakaria, expert on all things and perhaps my favorite liberal commentator.Of Interventions and Conservative Principles by Donald Luskin:What’s a principled conservative to think of the Bush administration’s proposed $700 billion authority to allow the U.S. Treasury buy illiquid securities? On the one hand it would

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-45681303860301156592008-09-23T17:58:00.001-04:002008-09-23T18:14:22.360-04:00

So this is the first major blog change that I've had in about three years. Two and a half years ago, perhaps a little longer, I really can't remember, I made the jump from the tired and old LiveJournal to a hosted Wordpress blog that I kept on my own servers. I wrote more than 500 articles for it, made about enough money to keep the blog running with server costs (almost entirely on one key

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-61025705833877071202008-09-23T13:59:00.001-04:002008-09-23T16:35:56.967-04:00

There's a lot of confusion in the popular press about what Google Android is. Originally, Android was known colloquially as the much rumored "Google Phone," which was being talked about before even Apple's iPhone. Android is not a Google Phone, it isn't a phone at all, it is an open source operating system that sits on top of existing cell phone hardware. The iPhone is a device made by Apple

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-65748264150242795892008-09-23T13:42:00.000-04:002008-09-23T13:42:13.446-04:00

DO WANT.Video: Android walkthrough on T-Mobile G1 - Engadget

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-20625391739024148872008-09-22T18:31:00.000-04:002008-09-22T18:31:17.618-04:00

You Suck At Photoshop: Season 2 -- You Suck At Photoshop #11: Smart ObjectsThis is so damn funny. Informative and freaking awesome. I'm watching them all, and learning too.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-19982883382568368632008-09-19T13:58:00.000-04:002008-09-19T15:07:50.431-04:00

A brief history of what brought us to the point that we've been in for the past week and "who is to blame." For those who don't have an attention span past a 30-second McCain YouTube clip or an Obama soundbyte, the too-long-didn't-read summary is that, surprise, both Republicans and Democrats are at fault for the credit crisis and housing readjustment, and it was a natural progression from the

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-63290848700689741832008-09-17T11:20:00.000-04:002008-09-17T11:20:40.035-04:00

In continuing a trend of soviet-related news, this story appears today on RCP... Case closed: The Rosenbergs were Soviet spies.As you can glean from the title, the article cites Morton Sobell who was one of the co-defendants with Ethel and Julius Rosenberg who, as he is admitting now that he is 91-years-old, were Soviet spies.To this day, this received wisdom permeates our educational system. A

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-47496973982552313592008-09-17T11:03:00.000-04:002008-09-17T11:07:22.232-04:00

The New Republic tells us a little bit about Russians propagandist history in The Problematic Pages. It may be TNR, but it's worth the read.To quote an author of one of the chapters of the book,"You may ooze bile but you will teach the children by those books that you will be given and in the way that is needed by Russia. And as to the noble nonsense that you carry in your misshapen goateed

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-58960993933926291312008-09-17T09:46:00.000-04:002008-09-17T09:47:33.926-04:00

I just happened to catch this article from the Washington Post this morning, entitled The Recess Regimen, which details how schools are bringing in nonprofit "recess coaches" to coach kids on how to play during recess. It forces me to believe that something fundamental has changed with "kids" in the last 15 years. When we went out for recess, all of the boys in the school yard naturally

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-3124584181455880572008-09-06T14:10:00.000-04:002008-09-06T14:18:43.173-04:00

I have a few great ideas for making some postings on Craigslist, after having posted my USB dongle that makes computers freeze and my 19" CRT monitor. I like to write really strange descriptions for my sales, like on Ebay when I sold 7 videogames and the pictures of them were taken from inside my freezer, microwave, and other odd places -- along with this super convoluted story about space aged

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-68401920192175112162008-09-03T23:10:00.001-04:002008-09-03T23:10:48.160-04:00

SARAH PALIN.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-36337082766083333802008-09-02T23:44:00.001-04:002008-09-02T23:45:29.782-04:00

I wrote this while debating with someone else about Joe Lieberman's quote from tonight's Republican National Convention speach, where he asked for us to choose between our party or our country.As many of you know by now, I'm a Mitt Romney supporter... after I came to my senses in my younger years, I came to love Mitt and Kerry Healy, his Lt. Governor. When the Republican pack started to emerge,

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-37694842157179946632008-09-02T23:42:00.001-04:002008-09-02T23:43:44.104-04:00

I wrote this while having a debate with somebody over the "John McCain is George Bush" theme from the 2008 DNC.The DNC made its 2008 theme that John McCain is as close to George W. Bush as you can get, and when they came out with this strategy, it struck me in two particular ways. The first, is that this is the strategy that they use against anybody who doesn't tow the party line on nearly every

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-13163611107727376722008-08-29T16:15:00.001-04:002008-08-29T16:15:16.389-04:00

Bestbuy sucks.-----This was sent via my cellphone.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-30520121104000968662008-08-29T15:13:00.001-04:002008-08-29T15:14:22.295-04:00

I posted this elsewhere, but I'm copying it over.I got a chance to hear Palin's acceptance speech on the radio ... I liked it, she had a fire to her voice that was better than Romneys or Pawlenty's, who are too calculating to be exciting.WIth consideration to history (and in here, I'm thinking outside of the campaign), this could have a strange effect. Feminism has, obviously, belonged more so to

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-22909132759513581162008-08-25T18:39:00.000-04:002008-08-25T18:39:48.525-04:00

Exit Petraeus, Without Fanfare - WSJ.comThe Wall Street Journal mentions briefly today about the impact that Petraeus has had, noting in general that his exit from Iraq is much less media-covered than the beginning of his tour. Why? Because his Iraq plan, supported by President Bush and opposed by almost all Democrats, has been an unbridled success -- the success story of 2007 and 2008.General

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-7690726565807129722008-08-25T17:36:00.001-04:002008-08-25T17:36:34.249-04:00

"Think of all that we learn about the world from men's belief in Santa Clauses, and all that we learn about the soul from those who believe in them." (Alan Bloom)-----This was sent via my cellphone.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-90117804157926857262008-08-25T12:47:00.001-04:002008-08-25T12:47:32.408-04:00

All day meetings today and tomorrow. ugh. I'll be working on site components this week and getting ready for an early Sept launch window. Stay tuned.-----This was sent via my cellphone.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-11110956396005213372008-08-25T01:10:00.001-04:002008-08-25T01:10:23.608-04:00

Patriotism is not an attachment to Americanism, it is an attachment -- a willing defense -- of American values, of equality, constitutionalism, and so on. The geography itself doesn't entirely matter, or at least it shouldn't. The American experiment can be confirmed as a success or a failure by how well it detatches from the American continent.-----This was sent via my cellphone.

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-73054527663938584792008-08-25T00:18:00.000-04:002008-08-25T00:18:35.318-04:00

Thomas Boswell - They Made the Buses Run on Time - washingtonpost.comAs a sort of Olympics overview, Thomas Boswell makes a point that a lot of people are left with after these Olympic games. In describing this needlessly complex system of "knee-high tape mazes" for keeping queues of reporters going in and out of their hotels, you can't help but think of this monstrous bureaucracy of decision

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-37845354233705968872008-08-24T22:01:00.001-04:002008-08-24T22:01:13.052-04:00

Im going to try and mo-blog let's see how this works...----------Sent from my Verizon Wireless mobile phone

Brazellnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7008566033081868541.post-8808359005172983662008-08-24T21:37:00.000-04:002008-08-24T21:38:39.907-04:00

Just adding some basic text and trying to get the posting-via-SMS working. If not, I'll have to post via phone e-mail/MMS which I don't really want to do but will if I have to. Adding the iPod Touch to my Christmas list for that reason.

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