Roger Ailes wows conservatives

Roger Ailes

Roger Ailes

Roger Ailes, the chairman and architect of the Fox News Channel, picked up a $250,000 award from a conservative foundation Wednesday night at the Kennedy Center, and served up some red meat to the largely conservative crowd gathered to honor him according to the Washington Post.

One crowd favorite was the story of a liberal in a hot-air balloon that was lost and late for an appointment who then descends to ask a conservative for directions. The conservative pulls out a GPS device and tells him exactly where he is.

“You must be a conservative,” the balloon man says. The man on the ground asks how he knows that. The reply: “Everything you’ve told me is technically correct, I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is, I’m still lost. Frankly, you haven’t been very much help so far.”

Ailes noted the conservative replied that the balloon guy must be a liberal. How does he know? The punch line: “You don’t know where you’re going or where you’ve been, you’ve risen to where you are on hot air, and you made a promise that you have no idea how to keep. Now you expect me to solve your problems. The fact is, you’re in the same place you were before we met and now it’s my fault!”

Continue reading

USS Tulsa

USS Tulsa

USS Tulsa

Congressman Jim Bridenstine proudly announced June 6 that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus named the newest Littoral Combat Ship the USS Tulsa.

The Tulsa is an Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS).  It will be 419 feet long and have a beam length of 103.7 feet and be capable of operating at speeds in excess of 40 knots.

Congressman Bridenstine said, “The USS Tulsa will not only honor our city, but will also provide a very important strategic capability in modern warfare. These ships are designed to defeat growing littoral threats and provide access and dominance in the coastal waters. A fast, agile surface combatant, the LCS provides the required war fighting capabilities and operational flexibility to execute focused missions close to the shore such as mine warfare, anti-submarine warfare and surface warfare.”
Continue reading

Obama’s Islamic outreach overview

BarackObamaIslamHonorSteven Emerson writing for Breitbart.com has a stunning summary with links of the Obama Administration’s efforts to promote Islamic views.  Emerson writes:

The Obama administration has an infamous history of questionable Islamist outreach. These outreach efforts have been engaged by the highest levels of the Department of Justice (DOJ), resulting in decisions affecting potential prosecutions of Islamist leaders and closing ranks with other Islamist leaders in the name of civil rights enforcement.
Continue reading

Mullet Over #565

ThinkingUniverseThe world’s first speed limit for automobiles was codified in 1903 (England).

Russia’s February Revolution was in March.

In 1810, Tabitha Babbitt of Massachusetts notched a flat metal disc and attached the device to a contraption that resembled a spinning wheel, foot pedals and all. Voila! The circular saw was invented. By 1813, her innovation led to the first water-powered saw mill. Tabitha was encouraged to obtain a patent on her idea, but she declined to do so because she felt it was prohibited by her religion (Shaker).
Continue reading

Elections result: Campaigns advance

TulsaDawnMayor Dewey Bartlett and former-Mayor Kathy Taylor are headed to November’s ballot in a general election mayoral contest.  Tulsa’s first nonpartisan city election has generated humor, but little lowering of partisan perspectives.  In fact, the joke going around Tulsa Today’s office is the question, “So how NOT nonpartisan are you?”  The feeling that Tulsans made a mistake in changing to this nonpartisan form is a growing opinion throughout the city.

Continue reading