Hey, the IRS business is no big deal

The IRS investigating conservative groups was no big deal. They were only doing what they thought that the president wanted them to do.

Supreme Leader Obama

If you don't think that Supreme Leader Obama (President for Life) is planning on being president in 2017 and beyond, you have not been paying attention. This morning, I was also convinced that he thinks that he is the Anti-Christ. I don't know that I even believe in that sort of thing, but I think that he does. He likes to have total control of the message on the television and radio news. That is why I would be surprised if Hillary Clinton was behind the State Department talking points on Benghazi that refused to call the attack on the embassy "terrorism". I think that if Hillary was involved, she was just carrying water for the president. Who knows, but that is my sense of what is happening.

Because of Greece's decline of a token British force, the British forces in North Africa were allowed to advance to Benghazi. The commanders in Britain also decided that British forces should take the island of Rhodes and other islands in the Dodecanese belonging to Italy. General Metaxis and General Papagos were unsure what lines to defend, partly due to uncertainty over what Yugoslavia would do. If they cooperated with Germany, Greek forces would defend a line along the Aliakmon and Venetikos Rivers. This was a short front that would face the Italians in Albania. While this was being decided, General Wavell was told to prepare four divisions for service in the Balkans, in event of a German invasion. By the end of January 1941, the Italians attacked that quickly failed. This is based on the account in Vol.II of the Australian Official History.

Obama apparently wants to put the Muslim Brotherhood in charge of Egypt

From the latest news. Obama is intent on removing Hosni Mubarak as president of Egypt. From reports, Obama has been in communication with the Muslim Brotherhood for some time. Obama seems to want to put them in charge, despite them being anti-American and virulently anti-Israel. I have a lot of sympathy for the people who liked the stability of the Mubarak government and who profited from peace with Israel. Our administration is apparently pursuing a policy which will end up destabilizing the region and bringing about increased violence and possibly warfare.

Clayton Cramer is blogging again

Clayton Cramer is someone that I used to link to in the past. He was recently the target of the Copyright Trolls, who are out for no good, and he was forced to shut down for a while. He is now back up and blogging at Clayton Cramer's Blog. Clayton Cramer comes across as a social conservative, but he is also a strong supporter of gun rights and writes about the mentally ill who commit crimes and who are failed by the system. He is a programmer, like many of us, and is interested in history.

The contested 2000 presidential election

Tonight on Sixty Minutes, the interviewer made some comment about how some people thought that the Supreme Court stole the election for George W. Bush. The truth is something else again. There was this circus going on in Florida, the aim of which was to steal the election for Al Gore. Al Gore legitimately came close to winning, but the left was not content to let the process proceed to its natural conclusion. Instead, they were intent on ensuring that Al Gore won by all possible means. The Supreme Court put a stop to the circus, which was the real attempt to steal the election.

How to play Texas Cash Five without a computer program

I was talking with a cashier from a local grocery store, while we were both in line. She was not working and buying groceries. She plays another lottery game, but I promoted Cash Five as an easy game to win. Get a pick that has two winning numbers and you win $2. I realized that there might be some interest among lottery players about how to win at Cash Five without using a computer program. I would highly recommend Gail Howard's "master guide" and her book about playing five number games. You can find them on Amazon.com. You want a book so you are able to "wheel" numbers.

The first step is to rank numbers, from the most likely to win to the least likely. A simple way that works moderately well is to rank numbers by the last time that they won. Those that won most recently would be placed at the top and the ones that have gone the longest time since winning go at the bottom. You can make a list of numbers from 1 to 37 and then go the winning history on the Lottery website and find the date when they last won.

I would recommend taking several small wheels and write down the template on paper. I would then fill in the numbers from your orders list. You could play some or all from what is generated, and you would have a chance to win something. A good way to selectively pick what to play from a wheel, so you don't have to play the entire wheel, is to do the process of ranking numbers for ten previous games. Then, use your wheels of choice and fill in the ranked numbers. From what you have generated, figure out what would have won and mark those combinations from the wheel results. Now look over the last 10 games or however many you wanted to do, and look for positions in the wheel that won more than once. I would play those multi-win positions in the current game.

If you have the ability to use wheels without buying a book, so much the better. If you have the books, you can read about some of the approaches that can be tried, when trying to rank numbers.