Men like petite busty women? No kidding? Genius

Petite, leggy women with big busts are the most sexually attractive, study reveals
These guys are geniuses. Not because of what they discovered but that someone probably paid them for this study.

I’m in the wrong business.

Rosanne, I mean what can you say about her?

Apparently at her web site Rosanne Barr laid into Angalina Jolie, Brad Pitt and Jon Voight.  Now Voight I understand.  He is a bit right for Rosanne… But it seems that Angalina hasn’t been fast enough to endorse Barack Obama. 

“Miss Jolie says she likes McCain too and hasn’t decided who to endorse … huh?” Roseanne wrote. “Aren’t you supposed to be somewhat enlightened, or do you not know that the African daughter you hold in every picture had parents who suffered and died because of the Republican party’s worldwide economic assault on Africa over the last few decades since Reagan?”

Umm, has she paid attention to the reaction President Bush gets everytime he visits Africa?  I don’t think so.  Hell even Bob Geldolph seems to think he’s done good there.  Bono and Bush have had numerous conversations on Africa.  But again that doesn’t fit the small world view of a great star like Rosanne.

Rick Warren? Most powerful evangelical

The economist has an article about Rick Warren comparing him to Billy Graham as the most powerful evangelical in America. I have to say while I’ve heard the name before, until the questioning of John McCain and Barack Obama I wouldn’t have been able to tell you anything about the guy.  Of course I’m not an evangelical follower but I live in Colorado Springs.   Home of “Focus on the Family”. So religion isn’t completely unknown to me. 

Rick may be a great guy and certainly the forum for McCain and Obama was a lot better than the MSM has been able to conduct.  But how much power due evangelicals really have?  Are they united as some would suggest?

I suppose we’ll see.

Ex-Marine indicted

A former Marine sergeant facing the first federal civilian prosecution of a military member accused of a war crime says there is much more at stake than his claim of innocence on charges that he killed unarmed detainees in Fallujah, Iraq.

I don’t know the details of this case but I wonder if this isn’t yet another waste of time and money.   I guess if we continue we will (must) find someone, anyone guilty of war crimes.

Why should Georgia matter to the US?

Tribute to Georgian Soldiers

Tribute to Coalition Partner ~ Georgia

They are side by side us in Iraq.

Thanks to Gazing at the Flag.

The British Invasion

The British invasion

The Mudville Gazette has a chronological account of the British approach to Iraq. Using media reports from 2003 to 2008.

“they tried very hard not to be American”. “They succeeded”.

They made deals with the devil and failed in Basra. This also happened in Afghanistan.

The British soldier I would fight side by side with any day but their military and civilian leadership is failing them.

What happened to Britain?

Women thrown on Tracks for Telling Kids Not to Smoke.

WTF. Seems like everyday there is some random act of violence in Britain. Gun control sure has done wonders there hasn’t it? I’m sure crime will end soon.

Welcome to the world of the Olympics

AUSTRALIAN track star Tamsyn Lewis has
become totally disillusioned with her sport and says she knows she will
race against drug cheats in Beijing. Lewis says she is fed up
with her rivals gaining unfair advantages by using
performance-enhancing substances and has called on drug-testing
authorities to do more to eliminate cheats.

Sorry Tamsyn but that’s the Olympics. I don’t like it much and generally have quit watching. Besides the Olympics have always been more about endorsements, politics, and money than sports.

Since the WWE has taken over it’s just not the same. What? WWE isn’t running this? Humm

All bad news in economy

Falling oil prices: The downside

Oil prices rise = bad news
Oil prices drop = bad news
More people spending = bad news
More people saving = bad news

I wonder what in economics = good news

Energy and offshore drilling.

Why would we, a major user of oil let our country become dependent on Middle Eastern nations when we have the resources available right here? Because we have let the activist determine our needs based not on facts but feel good solutions. These are the kind of solutions that are almost never the correct solutions to any problems.

It may feel good to say we aren’t risking the environment by not drilling but doesn’t it seem kind of un-fair that some other country must take the risk so we can fuel our society? It’s not that I’m overly concerned with the welfare of other countries as much as I hate seeing us dependent on others.

I haven’t seen any real evidence that drilling off shore is detrimental to our coastlines anyway. I’ve heard the doomsayers give the worst case scenario but hell we could do that to any industry. Take Nuclear energy. We lost valuable time with our decision to stop building reactors. Now we are looking to this energy source once again. Yeah it’s got problems. Not the overblown world disaster problems but handling of expended fuel rods.

Wind doesn’t seem to be the answer to our energy needs although it might help and solar has yet to produce efficient amounts of energy.

Can we save energy with simply making more efficient homes and automobiles? Yes, but this will only work when we begin to build homes that are actually insulated and cars that get good fuel economy with a price tag we can afford. A modern American home has very poor insulation factors. The cost to make a home more efficient isn’t cost effective at this time. A new car even if it gets a ten more miles to the gallon doesn’t help if the car cost me more than I’d spend on fuel in my lifetime. My vehicles are paid off so it will take one heck of an incentive to buy a new car now.

It seems both presidential candidates have come to realize that a balanced approach is necessary as they both now seem to endorse some for of off shore drilling, although the Speaker of the House doesn’t grasp this yet.

The answers to our energy problems will not be a single solution but multiple. Multiple solutions also will remove the oil companies as the only real source of energy. Off shore drilling won’t take us completely out of the “crisis” we are in but it will help. Combined with other options we can reduce our dependence while we search for more alternatives.

Oh and one last note. Real science must be involved. Wishing it so doesn’t make it happen. Once the science is in place economics plays the next largest role in a new form of energy