http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:09:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I voted early this morning, and if you don't know how I voted, then you haven't been paying attention to New Jersey politics, possibly the most corrupt in the country, even beyond the filth that they moved into the White House from Chicago.  Either that, or you were born yesterday. I live in ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/11/03/lets-hope-my-vote-in-nj-counts-this-one-time/ Because I have my own company, my very impressionable elder daughter, 6, will officially be going on a "Take Your Daughter To Work Day", started by yours truly as a work holiday, which may very well come up every time something like an Obama indoctrination speech happens.    She is old ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/09/07/how-im-going-to-play-indoctrination-tuesday/ From this Fox News article:  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538902,00.html comes the amazing News that an (essentially all-)electric car is going to be receiving a fuel economy rating of 230 MPG. You read it right, two hundred thirty.  Two. Three. Zero.  An amazing order-of-magnitude leap in fuel efficiency, from fossil fuel to electric power, if you ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/08/11/a-big-government-thumb-on-my-scale-and-also-in-my-eye/ I'd like to address, point by point, the latest Times (o'London) article concerning Al Gore's comparison of AGW non-believers to Nazis.  I cannot let this article go unanswered.  Please, this is important.  It is this kind of comparison that engenders the true imprisonment of the Human mind.  It must be stopped, fought, tooth ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/07/07/so-im-the-nazi-noweh/ About 1500 in Morristown, NJ, same as last time.  Better than expected, I'd say.  A much broader spectrum of race and age this time.  It may be because this particular event was held on a Saturday, not on a weekday, like April 15 when everyone was working for fighting to ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/07/04/tea-party-morristown-nj-1500-strong-same-as-last-time/ The Fox News article is found here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529953,00.html And I quote: Sometimes researchers are citing a potential connection to global warming to get noticed, he says, and sometimes journalists are focusing on that connection to make the story more compelling. "There's a bit of a backlash amid people who have a brain," says ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/07/03/gavin-schmidt-write-a-agw-hit-pieceon-his-own-side/ I'll be going to the Tea Party in Morristown, NJ from 11 AM to 1 PM on the 4th.    I think the event wisely chose short hours because of the traveling and family event-related nature of this long weekend.  Last time, it lingered until 3 PM and the crowd began ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/07/03/happy-4th-of-july-to-everyone-time-for-tea-thank-you-redstate/ (I think the phrase, common in the analog world, is appropriate considering the entire country just went digital over the weekend) This happened just this afternoon. http://wcbstv.com/local/washington.township.hail.2.1045714.html Something for the recordbooks, ladies and gentlemen, and wonderfully amusing in June, but it comes with a caveat from me.  Please, don't fall into the trap of ascribing today's ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/06/15/freak-hail-storm-in-nj-do-not-adjust-your-set/ Why not simply have it written into the Congressional rules the manditory reading of a bill by a voting Congressional member personally, before PASSing (but not REJECTing) that bill? Imagine how much less seriously the Declaration of Independence would have been taken if Delegates from all over the colonies hadn't put their "John Hancock" on it.  ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/06/04/a-modest-non-swiftian-proposal-concerning-passing-of-a-bill/ First let me point out the Global Warming Petition, which I and my wife have signed.   (You'll find my wife Alexandra and I on the first and second line of the names under D.)  We are a professional chemist and biochemist, respectively.  If you think I'm pissed off about the AGW, stay away from ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/06/02/skanderbeg-at-the-iccc/ You're all welcome to compare and contrast the leading candidates for today's Republican Primary for the upcoming election of Governor of New Jersey.    If you live in New Jersey, vote!   http://lonegan.com/Home.aspx http://www.christiefornj.com/ Personally, I'm on board with just about everything I see on the Republican websites.  Steve Lonegan is Mayor of Bogota, (surrounded ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/06/02/new-jersey-gubernatorial-primary-today-christie-lonegan-merkt/ They're making headlines. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,521138,00.html Do I recall the image attracting some mockery a day or so ago among the more cynical ranks of our country? Well, The Republican holdover Mr. Robert ("William") Gates appreicates the image before us.   "...special kind of courage", and "innovative psychological warfare" for fighting Taliban in pink boxers, indeed!  ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/05/22/so-pink-boxers-are-like-corduroy-pillows/ The House just passed a bill taxing 90% of the bonuses given specifically to certain executives of AIG Congress (Democrats, mostly), if you are going to bail out a company, you must understand that said company is still required by law to fulfill contractual obligations, including those with its own employees (something that ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/03/19/a-90-tax-on-bonuses-is-a-horrible-precedent/ I know the comments section is closed for RedHot entries, but I have a special qualification for commenting here.  I received my Ph.D. in Chemistry at Johns Hopkins in 1994.  While I was looking for gainful employment, and waiting for the erstwhile wife to graduate with her Ph.D. in Biochemistry ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/03/19/re-johns-hopkins-engineering-goes-all-in/ http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/ I'll wager the irony is not lost on the doctoral student in meteorolgy from Florida, the erstwhile Dr. Maue.  Tropical storm activity worldwide has completely collapsed, by any measure, although his statistics bear some semblence of mathematical rigor.   He bothers to gauge cumulative cyclone energy rather than rely on the ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/03/13/the-recent-collapse-of-tropical-storm-activity/ Where to begin...  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,481426,00.html I just want to be perfectly clear on this.  The Democrats may very well have had their chuckles when a pretzel nearly KO'd our President, but they can't escape some payback for their shameless Francophilia now. This little episode begs the question on how one goes about discovering clinical depression ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2009/01/22/this-is-sumo-the-maltese-poodle-on-drugs-any-questions/ Quoth the relevant phrase of Amendment V: ...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. The Constitution specifically allows for the taking of land from private ownership for public use, with the essential condition that the private owner be fairly compensated.  The private property in question is that part of ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2008/12/28/eminent-domain-should-be-employed-near-shanksville-pa/ Today is the 28th of October, 2008. I have 3 inches of snow on the ground and the roads where I live in north New Jersey, and I am scarely more than an hour west from NYC andless than 1000 ft above sea level. My inlaws live 20 ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2008/10/28/hey-al-the-committee-called/ No birds No bees No flowers No trees No wonder... No vember... No bama! http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2008/10/19/a-poem-by-chemical-sam/ Somehow, the Democratic party and its constituents and enablers (read: the mainstream media) have managed to make an issue out of the notion that, should our magnificent Sarah Palin become Vice President of the United States, she would thenceforth be "a heartbeat away from the Presidency". This is supposed ... http://www.redstate.com/chemical_sam/2008/09/15/what-about-two-hearts-away/