Biden Administration is out of control.

Biden flouts Supreme Court opinions. This is a dictatorial overreach. Yet the GOP led House keeps funding this government out of some sense of fear of what the public will do in order to punish them. Or is that really the excuse for the GOP's inaction?

Rob Braxman: Be an internet ghost

This is easier said than done. Just the same, it's good to know.

Gary Lewis & The Playboys - Rare TV ( 3 Songs & Interview ) - 1965

2/24/24:
The culture changed big time in just a few years. Here's one of the most popular musicians of the era, according to one source ( I forget which). Gary Lewis and the Playboys sold more music than the Beatles? Seems that this was a recollection of what I've seen on the webs.


The video mentioned in the original has been taken down. That's the reason for the update, and the observation mentioned above.


Contrast the two videos of GFR and Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Did the critics hate GFR because of the long hair and the less than ideal character? GFR was featured on the Playboy channel once, don't you know. Anyway, GFR was cleaner in some respects than where the main part of the culture was going. It might explain the breakup of GFR. Mark Farner is a Christian, and that is what really bugged them the most, in my opinion. He wasn't pure, but he wasn't all corrupt like today.






end update of 11/17/14 post

Here is a rare TV performance of
Gary Lewis & The Playboys from 1965

The TV show was the Mike Douglas show, if memory serves.  This was a long, long time ago.  Nearly 50  years ago.  A different time, and sadly, a different place.

GFR: Live @ Shea Stadium, 1971

2/24/24:

Two things about this update. First, I'm still moving to my new home. It's nearly finished now, but there's more to do to mop things up.

Second thing, I was watching some other videos of GFR recently. This particular album, "Closer to Home", was the one that made me a GFR fan way back in the day.

GFR was hated by the critics. No doubt, I took a lot of kidding about liking their music. Some folks claim it really isn't music at all. Well, whatever. Nobody seems to be that concerned about what other artists do, but for some reason, the critics were all over GFR like hot molasses. Just made them even more popular, I think.

You cannot regulate these tastes. All it does is feed the rebellion. This seems to have its good sides, and its bad sides. Bad practices should be discouraged, but how does this get decided?



end update of 12/21/23 post, the original follows directly below:



Check out the stands, they moving up and down. That could have been a catastrophe. Maybe they made things better back then. A plane hit the Empire State Building and the building didn't collapse. But two planes hit the World Trade Center, and both collapsed with great loss of life.

Anyway, I feel that song about now. It was reported somewhere that troops coming home from Vietnam would sing that song as they were on their way home. It's a story, don't know if it's true. But I do feel that song about now.

I'll be changing addresses soon. You might say that I'm getting to closer to my (new) home.

Speaker Phelan in Texas Legislature faces primary challenge

2/24/24:

It appears that several members from the State legislature on the GOP side are being primaried. Plus there's one in my district, who is not running for reelection.

It's probably a bit of fallout from the impeachment of Ken Paxton. That impeachment was a self-inflicted wound. The GOP does things like this, when it ought to be more concerned about what the political left is doing.

My regrets are that I've not paid enough attention to local politics. Federal politics takes up too much oxygen, I suppose.



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Phelan and others backed the ouster of Paxton. But this may not have been the only time that the RINO faction went against the wishes of Texas voters. (The following assertion isn't confirmed here, so it has to be qualified as an example.) Speaker Phelan may have given committee chairs to Democrats, even the measure was voted down on a statewide ballot. What could be more revealing? ( if true)

But the author of the article linked in the tweet, uses the term "far right" for anybody who opposes such an anti-democratic act. Usage of such terminology is a dead giveaway for leftist influence. Nobody should fall for it. Leftism all to often employs dishonesty in order to further their goals.

Donald Trump endorses challenger to Republican Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan https://t.co/tfPpBd6bpk via @TexasTribune Comment: Good. Speaker Phelan and others may have been working against the wishes of Texas' voters.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) February 20, 2024

2020 Election crimes were a thing in Georgia

2/23/24:

Wouldn't want to compare the Dems to the Devil. At least the Devil could play the fiddle.





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Won't help now, as that ship sailed, and chucklehead is POTUS. What's being done NOW in order to stop it from happening again?

The Dems are already playing the next scam, which appears to be massive illegal immigration, and then having these illegals vote for them in the election. There's no effective opposition to this.

And “I will testify in a court of law with my hand on the Bible”

Georgia CONFIRMS MORE CRIMES,

— Dominion flips Trump batch to 75% Biden,

— SoS Rat Raffensperger falsified hand counts with FAKE BATCH to match Dominion counts and redacts evidence, so no eyebrows will be raised. https://t.co/IoTXnuznLH pic.twitter.com/btpjNSIzHl

— 🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 (@Real_RobN) February 22, 2024

Frank Zappa - Montana

2/23/24:
My moving project isn't to Montana. It's not even to El Passssssso. Nope. It's a short trip. Good thing, cuz it's taking way too many trips. But not on acid, no sirree Bob.
most recent update directly below:

12/1/22:

Re-inventing the wheel again.

The subject of Montana came up.  But not this song.  Yippy yi yo Tay yay!

Updated March 2022.

Originally posted Jan 2016.

Did you know that Tina Turner is said to have supplied the backup vocals on this tune?

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Original post......

I think I'll be moving to El Paso soon.  Raise me up a crop of dental floss and be a dental floss tycoon.

Like wow, man.

Is this a hipster message?  Not me.  I have no clue.

This was seventies, by the way.  Wtf???

Paul Ryan tries to flip the script

Who does he think he's fooling?

Paul Ryan Bashes ‘Trump Populism,‘ Says It‘s Now the ‘Establishment‘ https://t.co/Zjdln7SEij via @BreitbartNews Comment: This guy was once considered to be conservative. If Ryan's a conservative, I'm an astronaut.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) February 24, 2024

Anti-matter space drive concept

Starship could open up a new realm of possibilities. This concept could be enabled provided that Musk is successful. There are enormous opportunities just waiting to be exploited. Oops. Exploitation is a dirty word these days.

NO DILITHIUM CRYSTALS, THOUGH: Antimatter Could Unlock a Radical New Future of Interstellar Travel https://t.co/Al3g763Jwo Comment: These ideas are fun to think about. Now that Starship could become operational soon, this could become feasible.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) February 24, 2024

Mad man, Genius, or both?

Marcus House: How is SpaceX Starship Revolutionizing Our World!? The Epic Future Awaits!



Predictions are hard, especially about the future. Thus said the baseball great, Yogi Berra. One thing Musk has, it's this rather expansive and hopeful view of the future. But is it just dreamy, or a realistic possibility? He is well on the way to achieving at least a partly successful goal. First things first, though. He has to get the Starship into orbit. He has to get it to deorbit safely. Once he gets to that point, he will have achieved what a few others have already achieved.

But he wants far more. In order to make this economically viable, the Starship must be fully resusable. This will make each launch cheaper. When that is achieved, he intends to launch frequently. This too, will have the effect of making each launch more affordable. That's because each launch will be amortized over the many launches that are planned for each reusable vehicle. There will be a fleet of these ships. Each will be built inside of a factory. The factory is geared up to mass produce each ship. Of course, mass production lowers costs per ship. Consequently, Musk has conceived of, and now is in the process of executing, an economic plan to make a new profitable industry that will enable the colonization of new worlds. A heady achievement, if realized.

Is this madness? Or is it genius? Such may have been said about many things that we now take for granted. For a brief time in the late 19th and early 20th century, this kind of material progress was common place. Indeed, back in the beginning of the human presence in space, it was considered the normal thing that humans would colonize other worlds. However, in the last 50 years or so, human material progress has slowed down. It is thought that we may have reached humans' "limits to growth". Perhaps Musk will show a way that will disprove that, and a new burst of progress will be realized.

So, is it all just a dream? Perhaps. Or, perhaps there is a more suitable goal that we don't know about yet. Perhaps this, or perhaps that.

We could be living a dream come true. Others may say we may be end up in a living nightmare. Time will tell. I say, onwards and upwards. To our future. May it be a bright one.

AGW theory is worse than an Excedrin headache. AGW number 121

It may well be a cancer on the body politic. It's a cancer that may prove to be fatal to our way of life.

The mantra today is to "believe the science" with respect to what we're being told about climate change. While this may be good politics, it has nothing much to do with science. The politics of the issue says that the institutions of science are still highly-regarded, so the magic word "science" can be invoked, and the people are fooled yet again. Therefore, it's the politics, not the science.

But what does the science say? Can the public be warned in time? The politics of "climate change" will prove deadly in the years to come unless the warning goes out, and this madness is stopped in time to save us. For we need rescue from the politicians, not from the so-called poison of carbon dioxide.

There appears to be confusion. If science teaches us anything, it should teach us a healthy respect for the truth. In case you haven't noticed, politicians aren't necessarily reliable when it comes to the truth. Beware the politics of climate change, for the "disease" may not be truly a disease, and the "cure" isn't going to do anybody much good.

If you are going to believe the science, then stick to the science. The confusion is in who speaks for science. The scientists themselves or the politicians? If the politicians are controlling the scientists through the use of the public treasury, it is the same as the politicians doing the talking themselves. In other words, it's the science that has to speak, not the spokesmen for science that the politicians control. If you are going to listen to the "science", then listen to the science, not people purportedly speaking for science. For these people have a political agenda that has nothing to do with science at all. Money may talk, but talk isn't always the truth.

In the study of the issue here on this blog, it has been deduced that basic science as it was taught in high school can refute the entire premise of climate change. If that is true, then how can science be the guide? Something else is at work here, and it isn't science.

Such basic scientific basics such as the Universal Gas Law, Thermodynamics, and high school math have been put forth here as irrefutable truth that climate science is bunk. Do people who talk about this issue even discuss the science of the issue? Let's take the term "temperature" for example. If climate science is about anything, it is about temperature. Well, do people even discuss what temperature actually is? What does science say about what temperature is?

Common sense will tell you when something is hot. You don't want to put your hands on a red hot stove. But common sense itself can help you refute the proposition of AGW. It has been done here, but is anybody paying attention?

So who do you listen to? The politicians? Or spokesmen for science, who may be getting paid to say what they say, and do not represent science, but someone else's interests? Or do you listen to your own reason, education, and interests? For if the average voter were to do more of that, we may be able to avoid a catastrophe.

Green and Lean: Secreting Bacteria Eliminate Cost Barriers for Renewable Biofuel Production

2/21/24:

This post keeps getting clicks, so I checked for any new developments. There was this, which seems somewhat related.

The terms "Green" and "renewable" are not of particular interest at this time. None of these concepts seem to work out. It feeds a continual visit to Someday I'll, which is a destination that never arrives.

As for the linked article, the use of solar panels for liquid fuel production seems extraodinarily inefficent. Burning a fuel produced in such a way cannot be a solution as only a tiny fraction of the sun's energy can be used. For instance, a ICE efficiency is only in the twenties in term of percentage efficiency, whereas solar panels are even less. Such a pair of devices will never produce enough energy to be useful because it would take an enormous amount of solar panels to make sufficient fuel.

the original post from 5/27/11 follows directly below:

ScienceDaily (May 27, 2011) — A Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University research team has developed a process that removes a key obstacle to producing low-cost, renewable biofuels from bacteria.

More than one way to skin the energy cat. [Note:  While this comment may appear to be true, the latest update (2.21.24) is certainly not the ticket.  In order to get the final efficiency, you'd have to multiply two fractions, which produces an even smaller result.  For example, 20% times 20% equals just 4%!)  The math just doesn't work.]

Why does Mike Johnson need a protection plan?

The Democrats are in a quandary. They cannot get Ukraine aid unless Johnson advances it. The neo-cons are also in the same quandary. If Johnson does what these two factions want, he could be removed like McCarthy was. As long as Johnson doesn't advance it, the bill goes nowhere. If the two factions want the bill to pass, they'll have to change the rules, but will Johnson advance that? He can't without risking the same thing.

They are stuck unless Johnson moves the bill. He can't because he will lose the speakership if he does. Even if there's a shut down, so what? A shut down may be the only way to slow down an out of control DC.

House Democrat Floats a 'Mike Johnson Protection Plan' to Keep Him in the Speaker's Chair https://t.co/WTgPMYdXOA Comment:
Let the Democrats try to pass these aid bills via discharge petition. Perhaps they don't have the votes.
Just pass the Israel aid stand alone bill please.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) February 21, 2024

Should Trump shut up?

If somebody thinks that Trump embarrasses the nation with these comparisons, then ask why you are embarrassed. It is not a reflection upon Trump that he objects to a political persecution.

This IS a political persecution. The only reason they are going after him is because he is a threat to win an election. If he remained a private citizen, he wouldn't be bothered at all.

What the hell kind of thinking is this anyway? The politics of shut up belongs on the political left side, not on the side that opposes the left. By the way, to oppose the left doesn't make you "right" wing. That's a commie invention. The point of the invention is to minimize the opposition.

People like the author of this piece needs to get their minds right on that one. Shutting up only emboldens the political left. Get louder and prouder.

OPINION: Trump Needs to Stop Comparing Himself to Alexei Navalny https://t.co/mtPJ6MuUs8 Comment: I disagree. If Trump hopes to stay alive, he'd better keep making the comparisons. The opinion piece suggests he should wait. Wait for what? To die? The louder the better.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) February 21, 2024

Hot off the presses! Joe Biden didn't win Georgia in 2020.

It's the wolf v lamb type argument. The wolf is wrong, but force has the better of the argument. If you want to win these arguments, you need strength. A lamb cannot take down a wolf. Maybe a lamb stampede could.

The wolf doesn't care about the truth, he'll do whatever he pleases unless some greater force stops him. This is four years too late in order to do any good. What do you do to stop it from happening again?

Georgia: Joe Biden didn't 'win' Georgia in Nov 2020. https://t.co/GClfoEmv0z pic.twitter.com/k0ZS4hnFdT

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 19, 2024

Finger Lickin' Good Stragedy

Robert Ringer dot com post

Comment: I'd be worried about where their hands have been.

SpaceX runs into problems with Starship

The Angry Astronaut

There was an engine swap recently. Also, as the narrator mentions, the fueling procedure appears to have changed. Whatever the case, there seems to be an issue with the Starship which may delay launch.

SpaceX is juggling a lot of balls here. It shouldn't be a surprise that something can go wrong from time-to-time. It is a new system, and those require a lot of testing.

Starbase Update

NASA Spaceflight

They did a static fire back in December. What's with the delays?

Obligatory, 2/18/24

 It has been an exhausting day.  Up before dawn, and worked to sunset.   Got home and rested up a bit, only to realize the blog has been neglected.  Sorry about all that.

Tomorrow may be more of the same, but perhaps a bit less.  I should have access to a computer, and if so, I will get something posted.

This post won't have much meat on the bones, so to speak.  There's no "best of" type post to check in with, either.  So this short blurb will have to suffice.

There's no mystery here.  I'm moving.  It's a pain in the butt, I tell ya.  Much more needs to be done.  It will be over when it is over.

Now here's a blast from the past, but not to far into the past...