Doing drugs on a daily basis.

Hypertension sucks.

Diabetes really sucks!

Van Jones Town Pitchforks!

As Pat the Pernicious Peevish Girl has now officially claimed:

"The commenter formerly known as K-Rod"

Oh my!!!!

Oh shit, was there a bounty on K-Rod? Is K-Rod dead?

What would Swift do?

Soft Water

Lake Vermilion official ice out April 2nd!

That is a new record! The previous was April 6th 2010 and before that was April 10th 1945.

Daisy Bay was clear of ice March 30th.

Docks are in...

M.O.B. Yoda

Prescient blog post.

Hmmm, foresaw I did, mayor to be. Now that it has happened, look to Mr D.

Office of the M.O.B. mayor.

City Hall.

The election.

I'm thinking I could be the official MOB Yoda or some sort of cabinet department of.... or secretary of the force...

Obama mandates a volt in every garage; on your dime.

First the Liberal Fascists ordered:
"you have to pass the bill to find out what's in it."

ObamaCare forces citizens to purchase a specific product, in this case health "insurance"... The penalty of breaking this law could range from a fine/tax or even possible imprisonment...

When challenged, the Liberal Fascists now say 'don't act now, just wait and see how ObamaCare unfolds'...

Because they know that once its roots take hold you will never get rid of it no matter how much it hurts our country!

What's in a name?

New school can’t be Cougars because middle-aged women might be offended

Students at a new Utah high school are facing disappointment after their choice for a new school mascot was rejected for one of the strangest reasons possible: Board members deemed it might be seen as offensive to middle-aged women.

*facepalm*

Black Cat

F1100 Turbo LXR

Medical technology R&D

New material could offer hope to those with no voice

The team led by Langer and Zeitels has now developed a polymer gel that they hope to start testing in a small clinical trial next year. The gel, which mimics key traits of human vocal cords, could help millions of people with voice disorders—not just singers such as Andrews and Steven Tyler, another patient of Zeitels'.

About 6% of the U.S. population has some kind of voice disorder, and the majority of those cases involve scarring of the vocal cords, says Sandeep Karajanagi, a former MIT researcher who developed the gel while working as a postdoc in the Langer lab. Many of those are children whose cords are scarred from intubation during surgery, while others are victims of laryngeal cancer.

Other people who could benefit are those with voices strained from overuse, such as teachers. “This would be so valuable to society, because every time a person loses their voice, say, a teacher or a politician, all of their contributions get lost to society, because they can’t communicate their ideas,” Zeitels says.

Don't give up hope. Medical technology has come a long way and the best is yet to come. I've moved on from developing cardiac devices and am now on the forefront of implantables and devices for microsurgery and implantable biologics.

The Closer

Congrats to Brad!!!!

Great show!!! You had me laughing at the start... "...members of congress..."

Nice current events in the middle...

And some excellent insider-sports-rube-ness at the end...

Bravo!!

Obama stays the course!

Bravo President Obama! Better that you, instead of Bush, invaded Pakistan to take out UBL, at least in the eyes of the lefty progressives. What would Wellstone! say?

At least behave

Because being careful is no guarantee.

It is possible to be out snowmobiling... going fast and racing around... a bunch of guys in their 40s and 50s... racing around on the trails... rubbin is racin... bump bump and oops off the sled... oh shit... two sleds just a second behind... Vvroom OUCH! vvroom OUCH!

No broken bones, but some serious ecchymosis...

Lucky, stupid lucky.

Sign here please.

Do election laws require one and only one signature for each vote?

It was ~25 years ago...

...when I first played Fantasy Football.

Last year I won the Super Bowl in my league.

My team for 2010 is:

The Wise Guys:

QB Aaron Rodgers
QB Matthew Stafford

RB Cedric Benson
RB Darren Sproles
RB Justin Forsett
RB LeSean McCoy

WR Miles Austin
WR Mike Sims-Walker
WR Jeremy Maclin
WR Pierre Garcon
TE Chris Cooley

K Rob Bironas

TDSP New York Jets
TDSP New England Patriots


What are my chances of repeating as Champs?

Who do I start and who do I bench?

How could I have missed this?

For Immediate Release
July 28, 2010

What?!?!? Almost a month ago!
I recently heard about it on Sue Jeffers show.
And posted about it here.

Bravo Congressman Kevin Brady, 8th District of Texas!!!!!!!

AMERICA'S NEW HEALTH CARE SYSTEM REVEALED

UPDATED CHART SHOWS OBAMACARE'S BEWILDERING COMPLEXITY

Caution: viewing the chart might cause smoke to come out of your ears.

How's that HOPE and CHANGE treating you?

I nominate a G.O.M. for MOB Mayor!

K-Rod Says: August 19th, 2010 at 10:35 am
I nominate Mr. Dilettante.


Go here to second my nomination of Mr. D.

Mr. D is a powerful blogger in the M.O.B.; he posts on quite a few sites; he is a very good sport and would make a great mayor. Let's see some support for Mr D.

OMFG!!!

It is my birthday today.

The bad news is I really think I passed a &%#&@! kidney stone this morning. For a while there I didn't know if I could make it... pain enough to make ya sweat but not quite enough to make ya puke... though the thought did cross my mind... it started on the way to work and then subsided after I made the decision to leave work and try to make it home... so I went back to work.

The California Constitution is unconstitutional?

Judges have been legislating and are now re-writing state constitutions.



Whether you are homo or hetro, we all have the same rights.

Fastest gunman

Click here to see the video.

The Obama Depression

Nope, it is The Obama Depression.

The US workforce has shrunk by a 1m over the past two months as discouraged jobless give up the hunt.

The euro rocketed to a two-month high of $1.29 and sterling jumped two cents to almost $1.54 after the Fed confessed that the US economy may not recover for five or six years. Far from winding down emergency stimulus, the bank may need a fresh blast of bond purchases or quantitative easing.

The Fed thinks this depression will last until 2016. Ouch!

Camping in the Black Hills

The hiking was fantastic!

Here are a few photos hiking up to the top of Little Devils Tower.
Looking up from the bottom.

Still have quite a way to go.

Steep trail... about 6000 feet above sea level... the sign said it was a strenuous hike... I'm a grumpy old man... and I have Acrophobia...

But it was worth the effort:On the top of Little Devils Tower looking toward the Cathedral Spires.



And the view of Harney Peak.


I would have loved to have had more time to do the Harney Peak hike.
I highly recommend this hike or the slightly less strenuous Cathedral Spires hike.
Or a nice drive up Mount Coolidge or Iron Mountain for the non-hikers.