Say Anything: Reader Blogs

Update on anna, redux

Proof — 2009-01-20T17:43:00+00:00

Oops! Wrong picture!

Just heard today, she is out of the hospital and feeling better. Incommunicado for Internet connection at an undisclosed mountain location (possibly Dick Cheney’s!). She’s staying with relatives as she recovers.

One more surgery needed in a week or so to remove some scar tissue (Internally. Externally, she’s her same beautiful self! Well…except for the zipper! ) Heh.

So, keep her in your thoughts and prayers. -Proof

Update on anna

Proof — 2009-01-16T22:39:00+00:00

Our good friend anna, who optimistically posted that she was back, kinda, may have been a bit premature.

She had emergency surgery last night around midnight, but I’m told she is “recovering nicely”.

I will send her this link so that she can see the warm wishes and prayers of her friends at Say Anything to get well soon!

Separated at Birth?

Proof — 2008-06-08T00:57:00+00:00

AP Photo of the Day:

Bill Clinton

Walter

Cross Posted at Proof Positive

Clinton Looking Forward to More Time With Hillary

Proof — 2008-06-04T09:57:00+00:00

In an awkward moment of candor, Bill Clinton demonstrates how much he is looking forward to spending more time with Hillary after the campaign.

Cross posted at Proof Positive

Hypocrisy, Thy Name is…Well, You Know!

Proof — 2008-05-24T01:27:00+00:00

I thought this would be appropriate for the Reader Blogs, in light of the subject matter that gets posted here from time to time!

Reality based cartooning.

Deadbeat Dem/Hillary superdelegate/CA Congresswoman Welched on Her Mortgage, Taxes, & Utility Bills

Proof — 2008-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

Someone’s soulmate Michelle Malkin posts a story worthy of…someone, only it’s a “D” instead of an “R”!

Democrat Calif. Rep. Laurie Richardson yesterday denied a Capitol Weekly report that she had walked away from her half-million-dollar-plus, second-home mortgage. Mounting evidence contradicts her denial.
Also: I am checking with California government officials to try to get an answer to WLS’s good question about whether Richardson, who was a California state assemblywoman when she purchased the now-abandoned home, was “receiving tax-free per diem from the State of California to pay for the mortgage [on the house]…which she elected not to pay in order to pump money into her campaign for Congress.” Stay tuned for that.

Meantime, last night, the AP published more details of the Hillary superdelegate’s financial woes. Turns out she didn’t bother to pay utility fees and property taxes on the house, either:
Property records on file in Sacramento show Richardson bought the three-bedroom, 1 1/2-bath home on West Curtis Drive for $535,500.

The bill collectors started knocking soon after, according to records reviewed Wednesday by The Associated Press.

In June 2007, the city’s utility department placed a lien on her property for $154 in unpaid bills, according to documents on file at the Sacramento County Recorder’s Office. In December, Richardson received a default notice from the collection agency of Washington Mutual Inc., her lender. At that point, she owed $18,356. …Records on file at the Sacramento County Tax Collector’s Office also show Richardson is delinquent in paying $8,950 in property taxes.

Heh.

A Public Service Announcement

Proof — 2008-05-22T01:12:00+00:00

Public Service Announcements - PSA’s as we used to call ‘em in the radio biz! Used to be, they’d turn up in the wee hours of the morning, telling you to buckle your seat belt or prevent forest fires (only you could do that!)

Nowadays, you see a lot of pseudo-PSA’s on TV. The “star” of some network program will impart some gem of wisdom under the rubric of “The More You Know”, or some such:

"It’s better to hug your kids than beat them! The more you know!"

“Don’t feed your pet ferret bad calamari” -NBC cares!

Well, in keeping with that spirit of The More You Know, here is a public service announcement for Say Anything. (This could come in handy if the Democrats win in November and reinstitute the “Fairness Doctrine”!)

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

-The Tenth Amendment

Because Say Anything cares!

Cross Posted at Proof Positive

Tribute or Protest?

Proof — 2008-05-19T23:02:00+00:00

Posting tonight from the Belly of the Beast…Cruising through Kerry and Kennedy Country, I saw an interesting display by the side of the road today, a few miles south of Ashland MA. I saw, what I first thought might be a flag welcoming home a local service man. There was a flag stuck above a hand lettered poster stapled to a telephone pole. Then, the next pole had a flag that was definitely not American, above another hand lettered sign.
A third, further down the road, appeared to be an Italian flag, with an Italian name, so I thought, “Maybe they’re be celebrating the diversity of their community?”
The further I drove, the more flags I saw. More signs with the name of individuals, country of origin, and what looked to be the soldier’s age.
All of the signs looked to be lettered in a similar hand, and the multi-national flags were all the same size.
I suppose, this could have been a tribute to all these brave young men who had given their lives to free Iraq from tyranny. I looked online to see if I could discover who had done it or why. I suspect, that in the liberal enclave of Massachusetts, this was meant to be a reminder of “how President Bush is killing people around the planet.”
Eye of the beholder, I guess.

Cross posted at Proof Positive

Sara Tucholsky’s First (and Only) Home Run

Proof — 2008-05-18T02:28:00+00:00

Bit of a tear jerker, tonight. At 5’2”, Sara wasn’t much of a power hitter, but she finally hit one over the fence! Then, things got interesting!

Hat tip Ace of Spades HQ

Cross posted at Proof Positive

Weighty Matters

Proof — 2008-05-17T19:41:01+00:00

One of the problems I have always had with the so-called “man made global warming” has to do with the accuracy of the instruments used to make the measurements. What good is knowing there is a tenth of a degree* rise in temperature over the last hundred years, if the instruments you took the measurements with a hundred years ago, were only accurate give or take a degree?

A similar dilemma faces scientists today:

GAITHERSBURG, MD.—Forty feet underground, secured in a temperature- and humidity-controlled vault here, lies Kilogram No. 20.

It’s an espresso-shot-sized, platinum-iridium cylinder that is the perfect embodiment of the kilogram—almost perfect.

In the more than a century since No. 20 and dozens of other exact copies were crafted in France to serve as the world’s standards of the kilogram, their masses have been mysteriously drifting apart.

The difference is on average about 50 micrograms—about the weight of a grain of fine salt. But the ramifications have rippled through the world of precision physics, which uses the kilogram as the basis for a host of standard measures, including force of gravity, the ampere and Planck’s constant—the omnipresent figure of quantum mechanics.

In essence, no one really knows today what a kilogram is.

Just when you thought there weren’t enough things in the world to worry about, is our kilogram gaining weight or is theirs losing it?

So, you have two samples, that should be identical, which differ by about the weight of a grain of salt. What to do?

Peter Becker, a physicist at Germany’s National Metrology Institute, thinks he has a simpler solution: Count atoms. The idea is to define the kilogram as the number of atoms of a specific element.

Becker’s hopes ride on two silvery croquet-ball-sized spheres of the purest silicon that cost $3.2 million to make. They are the roundest objects ever made—within 30 nanometers of perfection, about the width of a few atoms, he said.

I’m surprised that Congress didn’t come up with this solution! Spend $3.2 Million dollars to verify a measurement that used to be:

“...the mass of a liter of distilled water at the temperature of melting ice.”

And now we get to the crux of the problem:

“The French government created the kilogram in 1795...”

Ah! That’s what we get for trusting the French! Heh.

Cross Posted at Proof Positive