A Pound of Thoughts

Okay.  My wife and I decided it would be fun to tally how many times Billary and Osama - err, Obama - said “change” and “It’s Bush’s fault”.  So here’s the count (so far):

(As of 8:30 p.m. CST):

“Change”

Obama:   9

Clinton:   2

“Blame Bush”

Obama:  3

Clinton:  10 11

Cheshire Cat (courtesy Michael Savage) Smile:

Obama:  O minutes

Clinton:  120+ minutes….Was her botox frozen?

Oh my gosh…did Obama say “Tah-leeeee-ban” and “Pahk-i-stan”??   (Come mistah Tahliban, tahli meee Osama!)

Disclaimer:  Due to bad weather, the count may not be entirely accurate….It may be more!

Here’s the “Osama Bomb” video…Just thought I’d give ya some entertainment!

Well, it was a successful mission. The USS Lake Erie was able to fire an SM-3 missile to shoot down the rogue spy satellite whose orbit was decaying. The satellite’s fuel, hydrazine, was declared a threat to humans.

Per VOA News:

The Navy modified three missiles for the shoot-down, and defense officials say the first successfully hit the target about 3:30 universal time Thursday. The Pentagon says that land, air, sea and space-based sensors confirmed the intercept.

The dying satellite stopped communicating with controllers on Earth shortly after it was launched 14 months ago, and it began to slowly fall. The shoot-down was intended to destroy a tank aboard the craft holding 450 kilograms of a toxic fuel called hydrazine.

Here’s a couple of pictures from the missile launch (courtesy Fox News):

This is the aft VLS system on the cruiser, where the missile was launched from.

Here’s the missile just after being fired.

Congrats to the Navy for a job well done.

If you visited last night or early this morning, you may have noticed that this blog was pretty much non-existent.  That’s because I accidentally deleted the MySQL database.   As a result, all my posts, comments, links, blog settings, etc. were gone.

 Well, after doing a little bit of research, I was able to locate a backup and upload the database file.  Now the blog is restored!  (okay, maybe not fully…but mostly!)

 I’m just happy I was able to get my old posts back (and comments!). 

 But I’m curious - have any of you ever done that, or am I the only dunce out there (not that you’re a dunce!)?

This is just breaking from Fox News/Mark Halperin of Time Magazine.  Halperin says that he has three sources saying Mitt Romney will drop out of the presidential race, and he may use his speech at CPAC to do it.  We’ll find out soon enough.  More as I hear it…

Update:  Here’s a link to the article.

Update, 11:41 a.m.:  Fox News confirming from a Mitt Romney aide that Romney will announce at CPAC that he is "suspending" his campaign.

Update, 11:55 a.m.:  Mitt Romney is currently speaking.  He is speaking about how great our America is, and how important our culture is.  He has stressed the importance of religion and of family.  He says that America needs to change its course, and that we need to "fortify marriage" with constitutional amendments so that "liberal judges" cannot force their views on conservative America.

Update, 12:05 p.m.:  Romney speaking about our military.  He stated how under Clinton our military might was depleted.  "We were told we were getting a ‘peace dividend’.  We got the dividend; we didn’t get the peace."

Update, 12:06 p.m.:  Here we go…Romney is about to announce his withdrawal…"I hate to lose…Because I love this country, I feel I now have to stand aside…America has to remain, as it always has been, the hope of the earth."

For all intents and purposes, John McCain is now the Republican nominee.  I am very, very interested in what McCain will say in his speech shortly.  I will definitely liveblog it, also.  I did notice that Mitt Romney was very emotional, and very sincere.  I must say that I truly respect his decision, and I wish the very best for him.  I think it would be a wise idea for McCain to choose Romney as his VP.  He would win a lot of the conservative base over with that decision.

Update, 12:30 p.m.:  Here’s an interesting tidbit…Bob Beckel, a Democratic strategist on Fox News, just made an analysis that took me by surprise.  He said that McCain should either choose Mitt Romney or Haley Barbour, the Governor of Mississippi!  Wow!  I must say, that would definitely win over the Conservatives!  I would fall over if that happened…and I would then definitely vote for McCain!

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Yes, sports fans, the race to the Big House on the Hill is all but over.  It appears that John McCain will be the Republican Party’s nominee, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it - except John McCain.

Let’s take a look at the current delegate count (as of 3:00 P.M. CST):

1. John McCain               613
2. Mitt Romney              269
3. Mike Huckabee          190
4. Ron Paul                        14

Now there are approximately 1,000 delegates left, with 1,191 needed to win the nomination.  If you just take a look at the math, that means John McCain only needs about 580 to win.  Romney needs a heck of a lot more.  If there was any doubt before, now there is none.

I have said that I wouldn’t vote for John McCain.  He’s just too liberal for my taste.  With Mississippi’s primary (March 11 with 39 delegates up for grabs) still a month away, I still haven’t decided.  I was a Tancredo person.  But he pulled out and endorsed Mitt Romney.  So, I might just stick with Romney for now.  I think he is the most conservative of the four choices.  That said, none of them are conservative.

But like I said the other day - I would vote for anyone over Billary and Obama any day of the week and twice on Sunday.  And I do think it is high time the Republican Party start getting behind McCain (and McCain to start getting behind the Republican Party!!) or get out of the Democrats’ way.  If we don’t unite, then the Party will die a painful death come November.

I think I might start using that phrase whenever I feel like crap.  Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?  I wish I could take credit for it.  However, Yahoo! beat me to it:

For many Yahoo employees, the prospect that Microsoft might acquire the quirky Silicon Valley icon is about as appealing as a bad case of hives. One Yahoo engineer confessed his apprehension at trading in his Sunnyvale purple for Redmond’s muted hues this way: “The shareholders will be jumping for joy. But, for us, this is the frosting on a giant double-layer suck cake.”

Go here for the entire article.

This particular Monday has sucked so far.  I’ve been hair-on-the-top-of-my-head deep in computer models today.  The only time I looked up from the computer was to go to the bathroom and to heat up my one slice of peezzza for lunch.  Other than those (three or four) times, I’ve been “nose to the grindstone”.

I am really looking forward to tonight.  Prison Break comes back from a two-week break, and I have absolutely nothing to do when I get home (as far as I am aware).  Oh, if only 24 was showing on television!

Here’s some rather depressing news that came out over this past weekend:

• Mall killer still at large
• Dismembered remains are identified
• Missing hiker’s remains found
• Gulf Coast man runs over and kills brother with Mardi Gras float

Okay, that’s enough!  Can’t there ever be any good news??

Wait…I did find one good-news story:  Missing California skiers found alive!!

I would rather vote for anyone - including John McCain - over Hillary Clinton any day.

I can’t believe it…I just can’t believe it. The Patriots have lost! 18-1. The Giants have pulled off one of the biggest upsets in football history.

I can’t believe I’m about to say this: I now have more respect for Eli Manning and the New York Giants.

That was simply the best NFL football game I’ve ever seen.

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The first half was definitely closer than I thought it would be.  7-3 in favor of the Pats is just too close for comfort for me.  Now as far as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, wonderful concert.

I think my favorite commercial so far was the Pepsi commercial with Justin Timberlake.  I’ve never enjoyed watching a former *Nsync member in pain more than that commercial.

Update 7:43 p.m.  - Pats get a first down by penalty, because the Giants had twelve men on the field…Whoa, what a call.  Eleven minutes left to go in the 3rd quarter.  Bill Belichik doesn’t miss a thing.

Okay.  My blogging the game is over.  I’ve got to finish watching it.