Physics is cool. If you could truly understand physics, you could probably understand most Earthly things.
Any field of study where the most elusive fundamental unit is called a boson has to be cool.
The Higgs boson is a hypothetical particle whose accompanying field is believed to be accountable for giving all other fundamental particles their mass. It is also the only elementary particle theorized in the Standard Model — the closest thing modern physics has to a “theory of everything” — that has not yet been actually observed through experiments.
They also can’t seem to find the particle that transmits gravitation – the graviton.
Sure, we are quite positive of gravity’s existence — drop something and it crashes to the floor, easy enough — but if gravity is a force, according to the Standard Model, it must also have its own accompanying particle.
Gravity is a myth. The Earth sucks.
Read the link for more evidence physicists are just messing with us.
Here’s a brief summary of your basic physics package. It’s what powers the universe, you know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design
As we all know, Obama Motors in on top of the physics of automobile engineering and will stop at nothing to produce the most efficient products known to mankind. Here’s a brief presentation made to the DOE in anticipation of a “green” loan which is certain to be approved given the modern application of the latest thinking in physics to automotive engineering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac7G7xOG2Ag&feature=related
#2
EG
Those were the day, eh? Imagine our government doing anything for less than a billion.
Just got a forwarded email from Liberal Aunt reminding Texans to vote for the over 65 property tax excemption in the May election. I guess some tax cuts are ok.
Insane. They’re taking away your spare tire.
H/T: Bramanti
4 GJT
That could be that old email that has been floating around for years. It refers to an election that took place years ago and passed overwhelmingly.
#6
Oh, guess you’re right. I didn’t even pay attention to the issue or date. Was still funny tho.
It’s one of those emails that will never die.
You can call it The Establishment, or you can call it The Invisible Primary, but it exists nevertheless.
Going to Amazon now—-
Here ’tis. On Kindle its only $5.70
#5 – Oh GEEZ – that is beyond insane……………………ya think these “NASA Rejects” have the SNAP to factor in oceans of tow-truck-fuel-used when they calculate the completely MINISCULE MPG improvements garnered by leaving out a friggin spare tire & wheel?????????????
MsTedTam…………….I seem to have lost your email address somewhere along the way – if you can please send to my
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THANKS in advance!
Katfish
Bramanti figured the savings at 4 gallons a year.
Occupy Providence (yes, they are still around in a sad attempt to claim they are still relevant) makes the argument that throwing condoms at Catholic high school girls and shouting down a priest at a pro-life rally is free speech.
When your message is insufficiently persuasive, go for wild, over the top behavior to force people to hear your statements.
Good morning Hamsters. Cool and misty 65 developed into heavy fog on the moors out here. Sunrise thinned it significantly and reduced it to mist again as the overcast returned.
So the Florida primary is history, Romney won, and he only got 50 delegates so his total is far short of those required for the nomination. On to the next states. Meanwhile the Texas primary is in limbo. Texas is not amused. Don’t mess with Texas.
Tim & Shannon
I got a forwarded email too about property tax, but don’t see a date other than May 12 (a Saturday) on it. The one I got said that over-65 was not included in the election that passed overwhelmingly. I don’t have time to research it right now but will when I can.
Considering how much Romney paid per vote in Florida – can he sustain this type of spending?
And what does that say about his voters? Granted, the race is fluid, and if/when he gains momentum, people will tend to jump on his bandwagon, but I don’t find much emphasis being made as to how he garnered this win – and how much this scorched earth campaign against Gingrich may cost him in the long run. He’s created a lot of bad feelings amongst the Gingrich camp.
Don Corneleius has boarded the Soul Train.
From Texpat:
Wall Street On Trial
#18 – a “shooting reported with NO indication of foul play”
*HUH?* did he pass while shooting skeet or whut?
ST Theme ’71
SooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuulllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllTRAIN
Shannon is correct.
http://www.tad.org/WebPages/seniordisabledpropertytaxrelief.cfm
Thanks harper.
I’m bookmarking that site for future use.
Why? Do you own property in Fort Worth?
Good for Indiana. “See you at the Super Bowl” sure sounds like a threat. Can’t get what you want, so you disrupt the Super Bowl?
Man, are the unions going to have a national tidal wave of resentment if they do that! You don’t mess with the national religion, nor its greatest moment of worship!
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No. I’m weary of five years of trying to explain to people that that email is old and moldy.
In the future I will give them that link.
21 & 25
Y’all gonna make me get up off this couch…… My joke was Liberal Aunt ginning up support for tax cuts, I thought tax cuts were bad, especially republican ones.
Wonderful theology in a nutshell.
You are banned to the corner, indefinitely, wearing a cone of shame.
28
Juat don’t tell anyone there’s a secret HD TV over there in the corner.
#26 Tim
Ain’tchoo got no heart? That tax cut was for vunnables — old folks an’ cripples an’ such.
Got my dadgum blog stick over there in the corner too.
ChewbaccaMichelle! We found the original Air Force One!http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/01/obama-promises-cheap-mortgages/
Cheap for who?
I bet my sinus headache is worse than yours.
#33 Tex
All those whose votes are for sale.
‘I’m going to have f***ing sex tonight and everything’
#14 me
Another case in point.
Interesting take on this (some emphasis MINE)
Ten Things You Should Do If You’re An “Anybody But Mitt” Republican, And One You Should Not
Or you can stay home. Your call.
Letter from former slave to former master.
He is much more civil than anyone would have expected.
There is absolutely nothing wonderful about lib theology. My post was edited to say something it did not.
Hmmmm…..
Wonder why?
A major win for workers everywhere.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/01/indiana-senate-approves-right-to-work-bill/
Or you can skip the box.
Let’s say a total of 10 million voters show up. Six million vote for the Republican Senator, 4 million for the Democrat. But 4 million are cast for the Republican President, and 4 million for the Democrat.
There’s a message there.
Although given the reactions to the messages sent in the 2006, 2008, and 2010 elections, the republican party has difficulty reading messages.
Which is why they have to be louder and more painful.
Of course there is another solution:
RUN A FRIGGIN CANDIDATE THAT MAKES US RUSH OUT OF OUR HOUSES TO VOTE FOR HIM AND WORK REALLY HARD TO GET OTHER PEOPLE TO DO THE SAME THING.
I’ll bite.
Just who exactly might that be?
You know what?
The frikkin Party has been showing me that THEY are the ones who are unreliable and marginal for the past 20 years or so.
Time to switch places until they get more reliable and less marginal.
The comment doesn’t have to do with any specific candidate now running. That horse done left the barn last year.
Tell the frikkin Party to stop telling me its my frikkin fault their candidates suck dead birds.
So if we could start over right now and you could pick any candidate right now (must be alive, be willing to put up with a vigorous, thorough, and public colonoscopy, etc.), who might that be?
I hear lots of muling and puking, kvetching, wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I never hear of any actual suggestions.
#47 Sarge: I agree that the R party leadership has its head securely up its nether regions (I hope the nanny doesn’t get upset about that phrase) and has for some time. They need to be replaced and right now would not be too soon. The bloody slug-fest going on in the R primaries is a good thing to a point, because the R leadership is, just maybe, getting an idea as to how upset the rank and file really are. It is absolutely imperative that we get as many conservative, constitutionalists in office down ballot as possible. That being said, whomever the R prez candidate is, we must vote for him. We need to take the attitude that a steaming plate of bovine processed hay is better for lunch than O is for prez. ANYBODY BUT OBAMA! Whomever the R candidate winds up to be, that is who I will vote for and I encourage you to do the same; ANYTHING ELSE is at best 1/2 vote for Obama and that is not acceptable.
#46 & 47 – Amen Sarge!
It seems like the RNC refuses to listen to anything or anyone that refuses to fall in 110% lock step with their misguided concepts of themselves……………..and as such they will continue to struggle and LOSE more elections – they sure aint getting one DIME from this desk until they listen to whom they CLAIM to represent
#48 – ole Fred Thompson or Guvnah Palin for my 2 cents – for no other reason than they both proved neither cares who they WISS off
The very first thing that should have happened was for somebody to say:
“No Mitt, no this time, not ever.”
Had that happened things would have gone one Hell of a lot smoother.
And I think you kow that.
Instead what happened was:
“It has to be Mitt, and I think we can convince those ignent peasants to vote for him. Those that we can’t, we’ll marginalize and use them as an object lesson for the rest of them.”
#52 Sarge:
You are correct and that needs to change. The way we make that happen is to elect as many conservative constitutionalists down-ballot as possible; THEN AND ONLY THEN CAN WE CHANGE THE LEADERSHIP. If we don’t elect the non-Obama candidate whomever that is we will no longer be able to make that change as we will lose our country and freedoms. Now is not the time to go over the cliff in the car called “My principles” because we are wissed at the R leadership. There is way too much more at stake. Big rallies at the capital and around the country get their attention as well as no money to the national committees. We are not helpless; even with a squish like Romney in the WhiteHouse, he would be way better that what we have now. The real important thing is to get 60 (preferably 67) conservative votes in the senate and a 2/3 majority in the house, then it doesn’t much matter how squishy the R in the whitehouse is.
#51 katfish
Neither seemed to be all that willing to run.
#52 sarge
Who?
“Not Mitt Romney” is not an answer to the question.
Any one of the candidates who stepped forward or whose name was mentioned as somebody else to run except for the one the base just didn’t want.
It ain’t rocket science.
Many people did. Even more did not. That’s what elections are for.
I don’t know that and neither do you. In fact, I’d wager that things would more likely have gotten crazier in ways that neither of us would have guessed.
The pro-Romney people were (are) saying that. The anti-Romney people are saying the same thing – in the opposite direction. The pro-Romney faction seems to be prevailing. Guess what? That’s what elections are for.
It is if the question is:
“Should we run Mitt Romney?”
#54 – Sadly so……………………I also like Rep Allen West a LOT
And yet here we are, staring down the prospect of losing a race because the candidate is probably the worst we have run since the last time we ran the worst candidate we could have—which was the last time.
I really do wish Party stalwarts would stop telling me I’m being the unreasonable one when they tell me Mitt Frikkin Romney is the best we can come up with.
I mean seriously, dude.
Its not like we didn’t tell you this was going to happen.
#55 sarge
A name. An actual name.
Of someone who would pass your purity test and who can beat Mitt Romney.
Election cycles are like college football. The polls show who the flavor of the month is. The one who is the best, strongest, whatever. The election/season is there to actually prove who the “best” is. It doesn’t matter that Florida, Oklahoma, Alabama, LSU, Texas, TCU, or Miss Flossie’s School of Charm is the favorite of the sportswriters or political hacks.
The one who prevails over the long term in the elections/season is the winner.
Man, the popularity of physics headers is overwhelming.
Go ahead. Stay home. Skip the box.
Proudly insure your stand on principle and Obama’s reelection.
You have yet to posit a name of someone who would both:
1. Be a closer match with your vision of a True Blue Conservative
2. Be able to win enough delegates in enough primaries to beat Mitt Romney
If those people who “tell me Mitt Frikkin Romney is the best we can come up with” are so wrong, then there surely must be at least one name you could come up with.
skipping the box is at least 1/2 vote for JugEars. As much as I detest mittens, if he were the nominee, one would have to physically restrain me in order to keep me from casting the vote against JugEars.
I think the best way to send the R leadership the message is to not send them any money. Support your candidates of choice and leave the big party out of it.
I’m tired of the game you’re playing to pretend you’re not getting the point.
Sarah Palin
Mitch Daniels
Newt Gingrich
Rick Santorum
Michelle Bachmann
Put the resources that the Party put behind Romney behind any one of those and you’d have a better candidate.
Doesn’t matter. Its more complicated than that. Big money is big money.
An I tire of the game you play, kvetching about how detestable Mitt Romney specifically is and the “Republican Establishment” in general is, all the while saying that some Evil Cabal is keeping us from electing a True Blue Conservative.
There have been several alternative candidates to Romney. All have imploded for one reason or another. I happen to think it is more the result of the dominant media inflicting us with its agenda than it is the result of an Evil Cabal of Country Club Republicans.
Whine all you want about how bad Romney is, but until someone comes along who can get more votes than he can runs in an election against him and who is willing to put up with the process of getting elected, he’s gonna be the nominee.
65
Because, in the end, forcing reform of teh Establishment Republican Party is more important than decades of suffering under an Obama-packed Supreme Courf.
#70 sarge
That’s better.
Two of those didn’t run.
One did well, then kinda went kookoo.
One has been doing well but has shown himself to be what many already thought – a semi-conservative who talks real good, but has an ill-suited temperament and has allowed himself to get sidetracked to the point where he has essentially self-destructed
The last one has the appeal of a bowl of oatmeal. He would be good for you, but you’d have to drag yourself to actually show up to vote for him. In other words, only the true blues would show up, everyone else would collectively say “meh” and have something else to do that day. Not to mention the fact that he can’t even get more votes than the resident loon, let alone get close to the top.
Haven’t really seen that much evidence of the Party doing that. Heavy-hitters in the party maybe, but that’s not the Party.
It sure as Hell ain’t the base.
Now tell me how we get them to stop doing that crap, short of not voting for the candidates they foist on us.
Right. I’m supposed to vote for Romney because his record on gun control, socialized medicine, and abortion is so much better than Obama’s it will guarantee that his SCOTUS choices will be more to my liking.
On a better note, I can now maybe support the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure.
I repeat, (because you are not listening),
Because, in the end, forcing reform of teh Establishment Republican Party is more important than decades of suffering under an Obama-packed Supreme Courf.
The April 3 Texas primary is officially dead, thanks to the federal court.
Like Adee says, Texas and California may have a real role in what happens at the convention.
But none of that matters if teh Republican Party reformers have their way. But that’s okay, we’ll raise a mighty statue of them on the sandy banks of the Brazos river.
70 Sarge
YES, he would have been good, but I’ve heard he chose not to run because he didn’t want to have to explain a rift in his marriage, since patched up.
I will gladly vote for Mitt Romney if he is the R candidate. No matter how badly he sucks, he and his wife are so much better than Obammy and Michelle.
How long have we been SERGEBONE?
Two Obama appointees would pretty much guarantee at least a couple of decades of supporting a “constitutional right” to abortion, allow the federal government viotlate gun rights, and allow Obamacare to become the law of the land. The court apointments are one one the most underestimated reasons to boot Obama out 2012.
Who doesn’t?
Sarge #52;
I do hope you recall tat at least in my case I did not want Mitt until after Cain and Bachman dropped out. Well, I dropped Bachman when she started talking crazy talk about Newt.
You do also know Gingrich isn’t going to win, right?
Bill Whittle with more undeniable TRUTH
and comments:
How Barack Obama and other big government statists really bankroll their reelections
Anyone who knows a little about political science and statistics understands that in order to win the Presidency, you have to win a little over half the convoluted system we have in place to elect said individual. Every issue is subject to a bell curve effect, and the trick is to convince the voters that you are on the right side of over half the issues. As the mood of the country changes, the politics will naturally change with it. What we see now, the young voters who will soon become the older voters, are dumber than rocks as a result of their educational and familial upbringings, and that’s reflective of our nation today. Politicians recognize the need to be flexible in their opinions, therefore we cannot have anyone who can stand on principle (except with a few rare exceptions). How we wound up with a bonafide lefty is a tribute to the dumbing down of our nation, and how our choices apparently will be Obama or Obama barely lite. Get used to it and more on to figuring out how to protect yourself, your family, and your worldly possessions, because that’s America today.
Sarge,
Loosen the helmet strap a bit. I will vote for Santorum when the Texas Primary comes around. I doubt that he will win the big one unless Newt and Mitt get caught hanging out together in a bathhouse on South Beach. I am used to backing guys that lose. Life does go on and NONE of these guys are worth bursting an artery over.
We can only count on our friends and loved ones.
Simple
P.S. I am very used to feeling like I am on the outside looking inward, since I count myself as an independent and a moderate. Both parties want our votes but are soon stricken with a severe case of “Who are you?” once the election is over.
Hamous,
Sergebone? Really! Why not Simply Sergebone?
to my #83;
Let’s also add that what would make me most happy at this point (politically-speaking) is if santorum won the primaries. Aslo, I’d very much will vote for Gingrich if he won the primaries.
Doing what? I don’t get it.
(Going to scrub brain of mental image)
85 Gordo,
Answer: You got Obama because McCain was a terrible candidate in 2008. He came off as a tired grumpy old man. His political leanings had little to do with it. A candidate for President has to have a positive attitude and can never ever afford to gripe, grumble, frown, or scowl. McCain has still not figured it out.
It is the one thing that Reagan, Clinton, Bush-I, Bush-II, Kennedy, Eisenhower, and Roosevelt all had in common. Nixon and Truman were the exceptions to this rule, but both of them left office with approval ratings in the cellar. Truman was able to salvage his reputation, but it took years.
Simple
Just curious, is there much information on what judges Romney would appoint? Did he appoint any as governor?
#90 Simple, you are right up to a point, but remember that as bad as Mc Cain was the polling had him doing well right up to the end, the reason you Axe? Because the closer we got to the general the more the common folks realised that they had NO IDEA who this Obama guy was. That said, I held my nose and voted for Mc Cain because I felt like I had no other choice. As a “side bar” I said early on that I didn’t think ANY Republican could win because W was beat to a pulp by the media and he didn’t fight back, they did the same thing to Reagan but he shrugged it off and went to the people and remained popular. If the B!tch had won the Primary, she would be the president today and would have an easy win for her second term,…..I don’t like the thought of that fact but, sadly, it is true.
#91 GTO, I’ve not LQQKed it up but I’ve heard that he appointed liberal judges because he was in a VERY liberal state.
Those of you looking at Sanitarium, just remember that he is a social conservative but a big government, big spending guy. Frankly, I am less concerned about the state of our nation’s social decay than I am about our fiscal condition. I don’t see more government spending to be the solution to our debt and economic problems. He’s probably a great guy, but a big spender of OPM.
gto;
This looks like a good website on both his nominations and his statements regarding US Supreme Court confirmations.
#95
(Bold from original)
Yikes!
Romney: Oh, you’d better believe I support automatic increases to the minimum wage
OK, it has been brougnt to my attention that we just don’t know WTF is going on; First lady Michelle Obama cites ‘remarkable progress’ on the economy.
FREAKING #99
HUNERT
From deep in the Pot Calling the Kettle Black department:
I think the Luap Norians need to get a wissin grip . . . . . on something else . . .
Please delete
testing, is this thing on?
As the birthplace of the Republican Party, the state that fighting Bob LaFollette called home and was among the first to recognize the rights of public service employees to organize, Wisconsin has posted the [recall petition names] on their website today as promised.
1 million signatures, that’s a lot of annoyed people
Congratulations Darren! There can never be too many of these gifts.
The bolded section is so absurd it almost defies comment. Public service employees do not have a right to organize and brow beat other public service employees for more money in return for campaign contributions. This is the definition of abuse of taxpayer.
Shamaal #105;
Thanks! Ummmm, you’re talking about the baby, right?
Hmmm …………… scratches head.
Mebbe I should go back and read the posts again and look for something else you received that could be construed as a gift.
I was working yesterday, but yes I meant the baby(s).
There’s an entire world out there, that I am clearly not familiar with
I miss Wisconsin
The Party has no control.
OK.
Let’s see how this turns out.
Ok, Republican Party.
Show me.
#110
I hear there are thousands of iceholes up there.
Yeah, the electorate is on the verge of rising up in vociferous indignation about the raw deal imposed upon government employees.
Day in and day out, the average man on the street frets about the plight of government employees.
#112 Enchanter
Church ladies across the land gather every day and prepare care packages for struggling government employees.
#113, 114, & 116 – ROFLMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
(yer still feeding it Bootzso)
The 80+ percent of the workforce that is non-union grieve over the hardships faced by unionized government workers.
Candlelight vigils are swamping every hill and dale in the country.
Not only that, but they sign recall petitions by the millions
Understatement of the day award
Do ya think?
The fourteen million unemployed rally daily in support of oppressed, overworked government employees.
Uh oh.
I now see the SergeBone masthead.
Late this afternoon I reviewed the recall petition signature list posted on a link in Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald’s newsletter. He is asking supporters to look for their names or names of relatives, friends, or neighbors who did not sign petitions to recall him and to report that information. The petition list covers only his senatorial district, not the entire state. I did not find any names of my family or spouse’s family or our friends. I forwarded the newsletter to high-school classmates and friends in Wisconsin and elsewhere for their perusal and asked them to send it on to their kin and friends.
The GAB (Government Accountability Board) that said it wasn’t going to post the petition signature lists online did a 180 late yesterday, and the lists will be online. One must suspect that a very large foot (probably a judicial foot) met many rear ends in that organization to produce an attitude adjustment.
Especially since it is legally required to do so….
Tomorrow is Groundhog Day, and whether it and/or the Texas prairie dog see their shadows or not is irrelevant to when Spring begins, since that is a celestial matter.
Its what takes the place of philosophically, rationally, and intellectually discussing the content of the post made on Hot Air and the book it discusses.
Apparently, making believe I’m the only person who see these things gives comfort to some folks.
Shannon #116;
LOL!
That would be my mere presence.
Huh? This is weirder than filing a federal lawsuit over disgrunted *state* results in an election. OK, so the RNC has their rules, isn’t Forida still a sovereign state?
Gingrich to challenge Florida’s “winner take all” rule, demand proportional award of delegates
And if this was so important to Newt than why not bring this up before? (An “update” asks the same queston within the link).
Ummmm—-yes.
But the Republican Party makes the rules for thier primary and convention.
Gingrich didn’t make an issue about it before hand for the same reason Romney didn’t:
In case he won.
And if Gingrich had won, Romney would be bringing this up.
“they” in this case = a couple thousand malcontents making up names to write on petitions