I have only been by there once in the last few weeks for any amount of time, since the Hillary Bloggers' strike/boycott of the site.

Anyways, I heard that people were cheering that Charlton Heston died, and with little dignity or restraint at the site.

People, grow up. I know that DK has sunk to all-time nadirs as it has been overrun with Obama brownshirt imitators, but that's the kind of thing which gives all blogs and bloggers a bad name.

Charlton Heston marched with Martin Luther King and voted for JFK before he became the 2nd Amendment Moses. Heston also had a long, debilitating bout with Alzheimer's before his death at 84.

Look, I didn't like the guy either. But throwing parties when someone dies makes you look like the Miami refugee community holding parades when they heard that Castro caught a cold.

Have some respect, please. If not for your fellow man, at least for yourselves.

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Here is a post I made over at my brother's site with two videos I shot after seeing Bill Clinton speak in PA about 2.5 weeks ago. The discussion is about Clinton vs Obama. It isn't anything revelatory, but some might enjoy it. I also discuss why I chose the blog name "Universal" (some of you know why) and how that relates to Hillary in the second video:

http://www.villarrealsports.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=349

Hope everyone's having an excellent day.

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet,
8.5 inches.  That's an exceedingly odd number.

Why was that gauge used?  Because that's the way they built them in
England, and English expatriates built the US railroads.

Why did the English build them like that?  Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did 'they' use that gauge then?  Because the people who built the
tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building
wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?  Well, if
they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on
some of the old, long distance roads in England*, because that's the
spacing of the wheel ruts.

So who built those old rutted roads?  Imperial Rome built the first long
distance roads in** Europe (and England) for their legions.  The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts in the roads?  Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts,
which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon
wheels.  Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.  Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.

So the next time you are handed a Specification/Procedure/Process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with it?' you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two warhorses.  (Two horses' asses.)  Now, the twist to the story:

When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank.  These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB's.  The SRB's are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah.  The engineers who designed the SRB's would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB's had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.  The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRB's had to fit through that tunnel.  The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

May I suggest that Hillary do a one hour interview on another network? Maybe even with Joe Scarborough who LOVES Hillary and her toughness.:)

She should NEVER agree to do Tweety's show though. Go read Mathews' Monitor.com and you'll see why....or Media Matters has written great pieces about Tweety's misogynist comments about Hillary and many other women he's had on his show.

Politico article

In the days and weeks ahead, the Barack Obama campaign is going to pose a simple question to the undecided voters and undeclared superdelegates who will decide the Democratic nomination for president: If Hillary Clinton can't run a good primary campaign, how is she ever going to run a good campaign against the Republicans?

And while she says she is ready from Day One to be president, she is at something like Day 430 into being a presidential candidate and her campaign seems to be going from bad to worse to train wreck.