http://robboyce.com/blog Trying to spin the world in the RIGHT direction Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:23:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Did you know there is a new strain of the "swine" flu? It is called the Sao Paulo  H1N1 - because it was first identified there. When we "flu" in last Tuesday we were greeted by people in white smocks and surgery masks handing out flyers about the flu. If ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/06/24/brazil-trip-continued/ A week ago Sunday my boss and I embarked on a trip to Brazil. From the very beginning it was "eventful". When we arrived at the Denver airport there was a report there were funnel clouds reported in Denver. The storm was tracking very near the airport. Our flight was delayed ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/06/22/a-most-eventful-trip/ We are here in Macae' (Mack-I-ya) Brazil (Brasil the way they spell it) for a trade show. It is a town that without oil would be a nice stretch of beach that nobody would go to unless they had relatives there. The discovered oil off shore here and - unlike the ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/06/18/macae-brasil-oil-boom-town/ Watched Marine One (and the decoy and at least 4 other Marine copters) fly past the window of the Chicago hotel that United put us up in because they were an hour late getting us here on our way to Brazil (or Brasil if you live there). We were supposed ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/06/15/24-hour-layover-in-chicago/ I looked at the Graphic Blue published under their Headline " Consequences of Marriage Equality and I think they are exactly right. The Consequences of the drive to legalize Homosexual Marriage in NH will be to turn the state red! I can't read their captions in the graph but the message got ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/06/01/blue-hampshire-predicting-nh-goes-red/ Actually that headline reads Obama is automotive disaster. He took over Chrysler and gave it to the unions that destroyed it and Fiat! Fiat has clearly demonstrated that they cannot build cars Americans want to buy. They have tried several times to enter the US market and failed every time. I ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/06/01/obamas-automotive-disaster/ Yes, seriously, I am in cattle country. Saw that bumper sticker today - on Saturday I stood in the yard and watched a young eagle catch and devour its lunch about 20 feet away. The prairie dogs all took cover, the way a couple robins were harassing the eagle I ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/05/27/trust-everyone-but-brand-your-calves/ http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/05/25/my-great-niece-really-great/ My best friend in school and on through life has passed on today. He was 60 and one of those freak incidents that just should never happen got him. He survived being blown up in an ammo dump explosion in Viet Nam. His letter to me at the time just said "should ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/05/20/goodbye-mike/ My aging laptop had a failing hard drive. I researched the several options to retrieve the data and transfer it to a new hard drive. In the process of doing that I made a full copy of all the data to an external drive and also made an image file ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/04/19/goodbye-microoft-hello-linux/ Name the source of the following quotation Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/04/16/name-the-source/ Now that O is running the show at the former General Motors it will surprise me if he doesn't change the name to some thing less militaristic - like Union Motors. He claims that the CEO had to go because he forced GM to concentrate on SUV's and trucks instead ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/03/30/goodbye-general-union-motors/ This about says it all![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIHz5tevLAw[/youtube] http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/03/20/marines-meet-the-presidents/ Judy Seppala found this graph at the Facebook group Common Sense http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/03/12/the-visual-explanation-of-the-obama-market-crash/ Q: How many Obama voters does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None. Hoping that it would change is quite enough. Q: How many autoworkers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: 17 at GM, Ford and Chrysler; 1 at Honda, Hyundai and Toyota. Q: How many Illinois Dems does it ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/03/06/change-the-light-bulb/ Three pieces on Drudge today got me thinking - how long will it be before the Greenies implement a tax on crapping? They want us to stop using soft toilet paper - it is an "environmental disaster". They want us to use reusable toilet wipes. And an airline is considering pay toilets. Now I ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/02/28/green-revolution-pay-tax-to-crap/ Obama and his lead henchman AG Holder are using the recent drug cartel violence in Mexico as a reason to bring back Clinton's scary looking gun ban. Not surprising is the drive by media contributing to the idea with inaccurate reporting. ABC, in a report on Obama and Holder planning to ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/02/27/scary-looking-guns-not-the-problem-in-mexico/ Euthanasia! This is just a glimpse at how Obama's plan to cut the cost of our healthcare system and make it "more efficient". Information about his first proposed budget has  this coded reference "paying doctors for results rather than procedure" to the change in Medicare. This would mean a doctor providing care ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/02/22/obamas-heath-care-plan-euthanasia/ Today the big news is that the inflation rate is up - or is it? The acceleration was led by a 3.7 percent surge in energy prices with gasoline prices jumping by 15 percent, the biggest gain in 14 months. OK, gas prices are $1.80 or so and during the end of ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/02/19/inflation-really/ Without doubt the fires in Australia are bad - they are described as "the worst bushfires in the nation's history"  and without doubt they will be blamed on Global Warming. Even though they are reportedly the work of arsonists. Yes they are bad - but are they historically the worst? The ... http://robboyce.com/blog/2009/02/08/aussie-wild-fires-and-global-warming/