A huge CME on Wednesday set off an eletromagnetic frenzy. Wouldn’t it just be wonderful to see the Aurora Borialis just once? This one was taken in the past day or so, and looks like green smoke is rising up out of the snow.
It looks like winter passed us by. Is anyone interested in a Moonhowlings Meet Up at Mama Mia’s in the next couple of weeks? We can ask Steve to scout it out again. Maybe we can get some folks out we still haven’t met and of course we can extend an invitation to Cargo. Maybe we can even get another red velvet cake out of Chris.
Another CME is incoming. The picture on the right was taken in Iceland.
Aren’t you on their mailing list, SA? Why are you ranting about moveon.org? Are they even still out there? I think they were just an anti bush organization, sorta like the Tea Party is sorta an anti Obama organization.
Long may the Bulls run!!
Wasnt the bull run fabulous, Steve?
Stop into City Tavern and I will buy you a bull brewsky.
MH
Nah MH, just ranting about how totally opposite the congressional and media response is to what happened in Afghanistan. All I ever saw in the news was bitching about Bush, the wars, Gitmo, and water boarding. People even called Bush a war criminal, and yet we still have all the wars and Gitmo still in place, but alas no bitching. Wow, what a difference a change in party makes, and couldn’t be more obvious. Gone is MoveOn.org from the media along with all the antiwar sentiment. Same wars, different president. Utter nonsense. The Teflon prez!
@Second Alamo
There is no more war in Iraq. Obama ended it. Obama also killed Osama. President Obama is bringing the war on terror to a successful conclusion, something Bush couldn’t do.
However Starry, the complaints about the war ended the instant Obama was elected even though your examples didn’t occur for years later. If Bush had been in office when that soldier murdered those civilians do you honestly think that he would have escaped ridicule, or would not have been held directly responsible? The difference in media and organizational hype is so blatantly obvious that an intelligent person can only come to the conclusion that the media and the left are one in the same. Hopefully the voters are therefore ignoring most of the obvious media bias and looking to other sources for information.
Day 3 Doonesbury
http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/db/
SA, don’t you think some of that was more at Cheney and Wolfowitz and all the neocons?
@Second Alamo
I think the public has had it with the wars and, therfore, generally approve of Obama’s ending the wars. Those who disapprove probably do so because he isn’t ending them fast enough.
The latest numbers come from the Pew Research Center and show Obama’s job approval – probably the most important political statistic at this time of year – at 50%, against 41% disapproving. That’s a big boost – the nine-point favorable margin compares with a four-point margin last month and a four-point deficit in January. The poll, of 1,503 adults, including 1,188 registered voters, was taken March 7-11.
The survey also showed 59% of voters — including almost a third of Republican voters — saying they expected to see Obama win reelection. And it showed a notable improvement in the Democratic Party’s image among voters, with the public having an overall favorable view – 49% to 43%. The public’s overall view of the Republican Party was strikingly negative, 36% to 56%. Half of those surveyed said they would describe the GOP as “extreme” while only 35% said they would use that word to describe Democrats.
Gallup’s numbers for roughly the same period track fairly closely with the Pew figures on Obama. The Gallup three-day average for Friday to Sunday had Obama’s approval at 49%. As Gallup’s Frank Newport noted, that figure puts Obama “on the low end of the range of approval levels at which modern presidents have been reelected,” in other words, in range of victory, but hardly a sure thing. Gallup’s historic data has shown that a president’s approval ratings in the spring of the election year are a strong predictor of the November results.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-among-pollsters-no-consensus-on-obama-approval-rating-20120313,0,6543569.story
This is good.
LA Times? Was it the Spanish version? Worst case Obama is back for 4 more years, then this BS will end for sure……………unless he changes term limits, heaven forbid. By that time gas will be up to $8.50 a gallon, but we’ll make it up by selling the free contraceptives to illegal aliens. BTW, how’s Gitmo working for you?
http://www.stpatparade.net/
Come join the fun!
Well, I know Santorum was always going to have a problem with “women’s issues”….but now he’s promising to crack down on Internet Porn. That’s it for him. He’s gone too far now.
Santorum says Puerto Rico should adopt English if it hopes to be state
By Felicia Sonmez
Former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) on Thursday drew criticism from several prominent Puerto Ricans after he stated that if the U.S. territory wants to become the 51st state, it must adopt English as its main language.
Santorum’s comments, made Wednesday in English-language interviews with several local news outlets, led one of his supporters, Oreste Ramos, to request that his name be removed from Sunday’s ballot as a Santorum delegate in the territory’s Republican caucuses. Several other prominent officials on the island responded with anger at Santorum’s remarks.
Santorum’s camp has responded to the controversy by claiming that the GOP presidential hopeful was misquoted, although in his interviews with the several news outlets, Santorum repeatedly made clear his position on English as a “main language.”
In a phone interview Wednesday with El Vocero, a San Juan-based, Spanish-language newspaper, Santorum was asked whether he would support the admission of a state in which Spanish is spoken as the main language.
According to a Spanish translation of the interview posted on El Vocero’s Web site, Santorum responded that “as in any other state, (Puerto Rico) should comply with this and every other federal law — and that is that English must be the main language.”
It was unclear to which law Santorum was referring. No federal law stipulates a linguistic requirement as a condition for statehood.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/election-2012/post/santorum-says-puerto-rico-should-adopt-english-if-it-hopes-to-be-state/2012/03/15/gIQAAeBKFS_blog.html
Santorum is a liar.
@Second Alamo
If you don’t like the price of gas, ride a bike.
Starry, that is tough love. A little too tough. SA has a right to bitch about gas prices.
@Starryflights
Excellent job pointing out the lie Santorum told.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you…….the left.
Can you imagine if anyone from the right made that statement? Well here’s one for the left. If you can’t get free contraceptives, stop having sex!
Why don’t you self-described conservatives learn to – you know – “conserve” things like gas? You’re like the fat guy who complains when the price of Twinkies gets too high! You’re all about “living within one’s means” unless it comes to stuff like oil and energy, then it’s “drill baby drill!”
I’ll stick with “Goofus and Gallant” in Highlights magazine for my cartoon-strip entertainment, thanks.
@SlowpokeRodriguez Doonsebury is over your head.
Let me see, exactly how much gas would we have to cut back on to get the price down to say $250 a gallon? If I cut back on my gas use by 15%, then I would be missing a day of work every two weeks due to lack of fuel. I guess I’m just a fuel guzzling nation destroying tax paying neocon……….. and proud of it.
Sorry, the $250 a gallon is Obama’s long range plan. I meant $2.50 a gallon.
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@Second Alamo
Why would you be proud?
Carpool with some other guzzlers!
Would anybody miss you if you took a day off every two weeks?
I don’t see why anyone is proud of a gas guzzler. I drive one because I don’t have far to go and I have an SUV with 4 wheel drive. Its hard to find a 4WD that isn’t a guzzler. We need one in the family. I also have an old car. I don’t want a car payment. I would rather have electonic toys like ipads etc.
@punchak
That must be it.
I’m extremely proud of my gas guzzler. I plan to buy many more gas guzzlers. Driving in a Smart Car (oxymoron for that model) would have meant certain death in the rollover accident I had last year. The SUV saved my life. One needs to to be well protected against the stupidity of the other drivers on the road, especially the ones who are sexting instead of reading road signs and paying attention to stop lights.
Today was the warmest temp on this date — 77 — in Manassas
since weather records have been kept here.
Great Manassas St. Patrick’s Day Parade and I venture the largest
crowd ever to attend in the 13 year history of the event.
@Steve, did you wear a green hat?