Wild fluctuations: what is the cause?

I continue to be baffled by the wild fluctuations in traffic, particularly on my Blogspot blogs. I just got an error that makes me think that "Blogger" is having ongoing issues, at least with some of the servers where some of my blogs reside. I have speculated that the positive spikes for an hour or two are what the traffic would be if there were not technical "issues".

Some more speculation

I have thought that the reason that the State of Texas is so wary of the "Yearning for Zion" crowd is that they are afraid that some court is going to make polygamy and adults having sex with children legal. This is, after all, in the post "Lawrence" judicial environment. By the way, KRLD radio reported that Texas Child Protective Services was turned back by a demand that they get another warrant before entering the "compound".

Two topics

Right now, there are two topics that have my intense interest. One is the ongoing flap over the polygamous cult in Texas. The other is the balloon in the price of oil and gasoline.

As for the first, I heard on KRLD radio this afternoon that apparently, there are more children being hidden at the compound. I assume that they have some problem like pregnant 12 year old girls or the like. What amazed me is that armed guards at the compound turned away the child protective services people and would not let them on the compound. If I did that I would either be arrested or dead. What's the deal?

As for oil, I really expect that as soon as a few days from now, we could be at $150 per barrel and very soon after at $5 per gallon gasoline. We could be quickly at $200 or $250 per barrel oil and $10 per gallon gasoline. How long can Congress keep us from drill for oil offshore, where we know it exists and how long can they keep us from getting oil from the oil sands in Canada and the Upper Mid West? Alaska is not really an issue, as it would take too long to get oil from there. If they won't give in, a clever opponent in this election could beat them with this issue. Of course, the Republicans are incompetent goof balls, just like the Democrats, so we are in deep trouble in the near term. Let us hope that I am wrong!

The wild west is gone

There was something fresh and exciting about the Internet in 1997 and 1998. It lasted for a bit beyond that, starting with the DMCA, the Bush administration, and September 11th, things have gone downhill. There are still some good things happening, but we are at the mercy of the government, the RIAA, and the motion picture industry. We no longer can get uncensored internet search. Instead, we are in a tightly controlled sandbox. While there is a market for an uncensored search, the government would never allow it to exist. Google is the worst offender. Yahoo has not buckled under quite as far as Google. Google is desperate to keep the government happy, so that it will not curtail their business. How will this be fixed? I doubt that electing either Barack Obama or Hillary will change anything. The politics are so incendiary that no one can touch the issue. It seems like our Southern Baptist friends, along with their leftist feminist allies are riding roughshod over rights, claiming that we need to suspend the constitution to achieve their righteous goals.

More Barack Obama thoughts

Barack Obama is the sort of "rock star" personage that Martin Luther King, Jr. had become. Martin Luther King, Jr., we find, had all these lefty white women throwing themselves at him, and being a normal man, he was weak enough to partake of some of their favors. We came imagine that Barack Obama is seeing some of the same sort of thing. He is the great hope (not white) of the left. He is their best chance to have a radical left president in our time. Jimmy Carter comes close to him, but did not have the rock star aura that Obama has. I believe that it was the National Enguirer that had the headline a few weeks ago about the Obama marriage erupting over Barack's infidelities. There may not be anything to it, and the Clinton camp probably will not want to use what they have for fear of alienating lefty voters, but if it is real, it will eventually be exposed.

Are the rumors true about Obama?

I just read Susan Estrich's piece on Hillary and Obama, and I came away wondering if the tabloid rumors about Obama might be true. Is it not plausible that he is a philanderer? All you have to do is listen to his condescending tone to women: the "Sweetie" comments to women reporters.

This is amazing: the strap-on, powered wing

This guy has achieved what people have been talking about for more than fifty years: the flying man. It may not be the "jump off the ground and fly" thing, but what he has is really exciting and amazing.