How Quickly We the MSM Forgets

Well, Hell.  They never really noticed now, did they?  But the MSM sure don't seem to have any problems finding hatred, extremism, violence, and "racism" in the Tea Parties, do they?  Here's a quick refresher, via Lex:



So... what happened to that fascist coup d'état, anyhoo?  Did BusHitler, Darth Cheney, and The Eeeevil Karl Rove lose interest?  I guess they were just frickin' amateurs when it comes to building a fascist state and the Pros From Dover might could be in power now.  Kinda looks that way, don't it?

From a Friend

Rate the President in a CBS News poll... link below.

Rate the President for CBS News!

Wow! Here's your chance. Everyone should take a shot at this. It takes all of 15 to 20-seconds and that's if you look at his current stats. 

 

If you haven’t seen it, this is important enough that I'm taking a recess from income taxes to forward it so that you can vote before it's pulled off the CBS web site. It's quick and you'll see what the rest of the US of A thinks about the job our president is doing as soon as you hit the submit icon.

 It appears that CBS has the guts to report honest results without fear of retribution from the White House. Take the poll yourself and when you submit your grading, a second page will come up showing you the current results of how America is voting.  Please note, this isn't Fox doing this. This is mostly people who watch CBS. That's telling. 

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/19/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry6116297.shtml?tag= 

I just took the poll and the results are astounding!  I might even watch CBS news this evening to see if they report the results honestly.  By that I mean pigs might actually fly, yanno?

Over My Head, But...

I've been struggling to write something sensible about yesterday's big news out of CERN in Geneva, to wit:

GENEVA, March 31 (Reuters) - Physicists at CERN, buoyed by their ground-breaking success in creating mini-Big Bangs, giving them a glimpse of the dawn of time, have set their sights on pushing closer to the very birth of the universe.

[...]

The aim is to increase in the coming months the flow of data on what happens when particles smash into each other at a total force of 7 million million electron volts, or 7TeV, and at a mini-fraction under the speed of light.

At those powers, the collisions came very close to simulating events just nano-parts of a second after the real Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago which led to the creation of galaxies, stars, life on Earth, and perhaps life elsewhere.

The Large Hadron Collider achieved its first collisions at 7 TeV yesterday, prompting this lil celebration (Do not adjust your set.  The video is from a webcam and it's jerky.):

I find this subject fascinating even though (a) I don't understand 99% of what I see or read and (b) the discussions tend to make my head hurt.  Speaking of discussions... Charlie Rose had two noted physicists involved with the LHC project... Lisa Randall of Harvard and Kyle Cranmer of NYU... on his show last evening.  The 30-minute discussion that ensued is highly recommended if you find the LHC fascinating and/or want to know more about what the physicists are doing with it.

And just to keep things in character here at EIP, lest you think I'm getting too deep... I have a new lust object:

That's a screen cap of Ms. Randall from last night's "Charlie Rose."  The woman is HOT.  "Talk nerdy to me, Baybee..."

Forgive Me...

... or indulge me.  Whatever.  Sakura... taken a few minutes ago:

I just love the delicate pinks and the contrasting copper-colored new leaves.  And no smart-ass comments about my manliness, OK?

You Don't Have to Be a Geek to Appreciate This...

But it helps... particularly the bits about the nautilus.  That animal and its geometric beauty has always fascinated me.

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Yeah... it's a video kinda blogging day.  We're not in the mood to bitch about politics or point out the stupidity of our fellow man, and Lord knows the news is chock-full o' that kinda shi'ite today.  

On the plus side... Our weather is quite warm... it's s'posed to hit 86 today.  We just might have to run the AC for the first time this year as it's too windy to put our awning down.  Or throw all the windows wide open... on account of the dust what's in the wind.  I had to wipe down all my flat surfaces THREE times last Friday because of wind-borne dust.  It can get ug-lee, but it sure beats snow.

My cherry tree is almost in full bloom but the light isn't quite right for pictures today.  That said, the tree IS a most pleasant sight and will bear considerable contemplation once Happy Hour arrives.  Me and the Japanese, yanno?

Heh

Poor Patrick...

But he does have a great grin, doesn't he?  This was from an 11-round shootout against Nashville last Saturday.  The Wings won, 1-0.

Today's Happy Hour Soundtrack

Little Feat...

"I've driven every kinda rig that's ever been made

Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed"

Which brought to mind an old, old joke from the way-back, to wit:

This ol' boy picks up a girl for their first date and takes her to a carnival that's in town.  They do the usual midway things... ridin' the rdes, eatin' bad food (funnel cake!), and hittin' this booth and that booth.  About a half hour into it the ol boy asks his date "What do you wanna do next?" 

"I wanna get weighed" she replies.

So it was off to one of those "guess your weight" thingies, where she won a stuffed teddy bear.  Rinse, repeat.  Every half-hour or so he asks her the same question and gets the same reply... "I wanna get weighed."  After about the fourth time this happens the ol' boy decides there's sumthin' seriously amiss here and decides to take her home, along with the armload of stuffed animals they've won.

He drops her off at her house and she goes inside where her mama is waitin' up.

Mom sez "How was your date, Dear?"

She kicks the stuffed animals into the corner and sez "Wowsy."

Badda-da-boomp.  And now it's back outside into the loverly 75 degree day... where things are most certainly NOT "wowsy."