Sunday, May 13, 2012

Who Could Have Seen This Coming?

Well, actually, just about everyone.  A few months ago, when our very own Governor Moonbeam (aka Jerry Brown) introduced his budget, every analyst with an above room temperature IQ (on both sides of the aisle!) immediately denounced it as a complete fiction.  Well, to be fair, a few did praise it – as a piece of performance art.

So this latest news about the deficit “rising” to $16 billion isn't really much of a surprise.

But, Governor Moonbeam, it does call for a public facepalm...

Not Quite Out of Oil Yet...

The GAO reports that recoverable oil reserves in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming are “about equal to the entire world's proven reserves”.

Too bad we can't go after it.

Oh, well.  November is less than six months away...

WWII P-40 Found in Egyptian Desert...

Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk
This Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk was lost during 1942, and the pilot was never seen again.  The crashed craft is in surprisingly good shape.  There's no sign of the pilot; the best theory is that he tried to walk out and died somewhere in the rather forbidding desert surrounding the site – which is over 200 miles from the nearest town...