Rumble Strips|You have been warned!

The worlds longest insect as a matter of fact. Phobaeticus chani. But I wonder if it is a brand new species or one that was just discovered. How would you know?

In every one of these stories about the discovery of new species, of which there are many, you will have a comment something like this:

For Bragg, who works as a schoolteacher and catalogues stick bugs as a hobby, the discovery showed the urgency of conservation work.

“There aren’t enough specialists around to work on all the insects in the world,” he said. “There’s going to be stuff that’s extinct before anyone gets around to describing it.”

You can’t save something you don’t know anything about. You can’t even know it’s extinct unless you find a fossil. The eco-fanatics are just too arrogant to admit that they really don’t know anything about the ecology other than observing and cataloging it.

I remember my dad calling the bank and saying he was going to buy a car and the banker told him just swing by whenever he could to sign the loan papers. Back in the 70′s, that was. During the oil boom.

Anyone who can remember the oil-driven boom times of the 70′s should be all for McCain/Palin regardless of political ideology. Just think, we could be awash in oil money if it weren’t for the fanatically green liberals putting a cork in the bore hole almost 30 years ago. Just think of the trillions of dollars that would still be here in America instead of going to the middle east in the past decades if the liberals had not so arrogantly refused to produce our own energy. How many people have suffered because of that selfish ideological policy?

Oil Producing and Exporting Countries have accumulated so much of our money over there that they can build islands in the ocean, build the world’s tallest building, build and support a network of madrases all around the world, build nuclear weapons, and maybe even defeat the US in a war.

Revive the domestic oil business and tens of thousands of jobs would be created almost overnight; credit would be an afterthought.

Warren Buffet says now is the time to buy stocks: “Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.”

I agree whole heartedly. Now is the time to scoop up on bargain prices… if you have any money.

CBSNYT Poll: Obama up by 14 (Link)

I wonder where they polled, Disneyland? The only thing that could account for such a sudden and huge swing in a general opinion poll is that the polls before were wrong. I can’t believe they had the audacity to publish such nonsense. Especially when Rasmussen and Zogby are still within 5 and 4 points, respectively. Zogby reports 7.5% undecided. Doesn’t that make more sense. Has the nation gone mad?

Obama could get caught fornicating with a goat and the media would report that Obama’s ratings are up with goat fuckers.

 Another Dem treats a woman like a piece of crap. Listen to this recording of Florida Congressman Tim Mahoney. Unbelievable! Mahony is not a smart guy to talk like that on the phone. Idiot.

And from another sotry:

Senior Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives, including Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL), the chair of the Democratic Caucus, have been working with Mahoney to keep the matter from hurting his re-election campaign, the Mahoney staffers said.

I think they are miscalculating the scope on this.

Looking at some HDTV reviews at Amazon, I thought this one was funny:

This is a fairly large TV, however it is surprising light to handle. I was easily able to lift it into the back of my van and once I got back to my pad it was no problem getting it into my home and up the stairs into my Man Cave. I’ve been in here now for several days, haven’t decided to come out yet. I’ve got my old lady sliding food and stuff under the door while I sack out in here watching TV for hours. I’ve got this sucker hooked up to a 5.1 digital surround which is nice. I’m drinking green tea and eating chocolates, really enjoying this new HD TV. Hey man, this TV came with an HDMI cable, which was cool. Be sure to use an HDMI cable in order to get the most out of your new Vizio 47″. Since I’ve bought mine, I have convinced a friend in Colorado to buy one as well. He likes his too! We both thank God for making such awesome TVs. I want to take the opportunity to thank God for this mighty fine television. Thanks God! (Spoken while pointing both index fingers toward the Heavens!)

Take your little government checks and put em where the sun don’t shine. My family qualified for $1,800 on the last government stimulus rebate but I never saw any of it. I got a letter from the IRS instead saying the government needed it worse than I did. It was all an illusion that was more real for some than others.

On the other hand, the recent drop in gas prices is real, leaving several hundred extra dollars in he bank every month for many, many people, myself included. That goes double for almost every small business. Get the price back under $2 where it should be and a small business running a few trucks could easily save a couple thousand bucks each and every month. That is real stimulus.

Cheap fuel may be the only thing that can save the US economy from the ash heap at this point. If we don’t get something going before the government tries to fix it again, we are screwed. Raising taxes and the implementation of policies that cause high energy prices will seal our doom.

With the steep decline in fuel over the last week and this weekend in particular, there is a good chance stocks could go up sharply today before profit takers knock it down again. You can’t blame the profit takers as many of them are most likely far from making a profit. But eventually things will settle out and the trend will take us back to about 10,500. Then everything will depend on what is happening politically. We could stagnate like the past five years, or start the inexorable climb to 20,000.

I don’t have a 401(k) but I have an IRA and if it lost half it’s value it would amount to only a couple thousand bucks. I’ve drained my retirement investments down over the past four years or so in order to keep my mortgage paid and the kids fed.

For the past week or so I’ve asked each acquaintance I’ve encountered how much money they’ve lost in the stock market with their 401(k). What I found out is that other than the professional people, the vast majority don’t have money in the stock market, or anywhere else. They have property tax bills they can’t pay, but not 401(k)s. But the headlines scream, “Two trillion dollars lost in retirement plans in last 15 months.” I’m sure you’ve heard it or read it at least once in the past few days.

Of course after any catastrophic event the government in general and liberals in particular never miss an opportunity to seize more control of whatever they can, always making things worse. Seems many Democrats of the socialist bent, which is to say most of them, have long been unhappy with the whole concept of the individually controlled 401(k) plans and have longed to be rid of them. House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, were mentioned in the article.

Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economic policy analysis at The New School for Social Research in New York, which I have never heard of, testified before Miller’s committee, outlining how the government can better serve the people.

All workers would receive a $600 annual inflation-adjusted subsidy from the U.S. government but would be required to invest 5% of their pay into a guaranteed retirement account administered by the Social Security Administration. The money in turn would be invested in special government bonds that would pay 3% a year, adjusted for inflation.

If someone came up on the street and explained something like that to me I would immediately suspect a scam where I give you several thousands of dollars in return for $600 and a promise of something better far in the future. At the very least it sounds like a 5% raise in social security taxes. I wonder long a 5% SS tax increase would stave off the bankruptcy of the failed Social Security program.

Ms. Ghilarducci also said:

“I want to spend our nation’s dollar for retirement security better. Everybody would now be covered”

What do you say to a comment like that? Ms. Ghilarducci must think very highly of herself. Only a socialist/communist could point to the failed Social Security program for the model of how to make something better.

Stinking Stinging criticism of Obama and his campaign from CBS reporter Dean Reynolds.

The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.

That’s so racist. Dean Reynolds is so over. But what a distinction, in this, his last article for CBS, Reynolds was able to draw between the way the two candidates conduct business.

This is what has always baffled me about the liberal media. They don’t seem to understand that if the socialists ultimately win the culture war the free press will be one of the first casualties — unless they are part of the propaganda ministries operation. The New York Times should be okay.

I don’t even have a blog category for a mainstream media guy telling the truth about something, especially something so dang politically incorrect.  Have to file it under something else.

Australian scientists have claimed hundreds of new species have been discovered.

Hundreds of new marine species and previously uncharted undersea mountains and canyons have been discovered in the depths of the Southern Ocean, Australian scientists said Wednesday.

A total of 274 species of fish, ancient corals, molluscs, crustaceans and sponges new to science were found in icy waters up to 3,000 metres (9,800 feet) deep among extinct volcanoes, they said. (Link)

So what I want to know are these brand new species, or just undiscovered until now. How would you know the difference? Maybe there are places like the depths of the Southern Ocean that are news species factories.

In other news, depending on who you believe, either half of all mammals are in decline or a quarter of all wild mammal species face extinction.