An interesting and worrying comparison.

As of April 2, 1865, a week before Lee surrendered to Grant and for all practical purposes brought the Civil War to an end, one ounce of gold could be bought with about $1,450, Confederate.

As of April 21, 2012, one ounce of gold could be bought with about $1,650, USA.

So, just before the Confederacy collapsed, Confederate money was worth more, in terms of what it would buy in gold, than our own money is now.

What should we think of that??  The rebel money is higher quality than what we use today.

Bill Whittle is on fire in this video.

  I will make an effort to embed it later when I don't have to struggle against the idiot PC I have to use at work, but don't miss this.  It's fist in the air pumping good.

 

In addition to repeatedly mispronouncing the names of his hosts in Asia, Obama now has sealed his reputation as that idiot who always waves in group photos.

 

The beclownment continues.

 

Obama's people want you

We are sitting around the front room watching a great show about David Geffen.

There was a part about Bob Dylan, with some pictures of Bob singing at some smoky nightclub.

Suddenly, the 18 year old says, "I didn't know Bob Dylan was white."

Kids these days.

Pretty, but still unclear on the concept.

Some friends of ours from the neighborhood were in Disneyland today, and who did they see but the Romneys!  I guess the happiest place on Earth is a great place to go after all they have been through.

When you see it you will laugh.

From Arewelumberjacks

Two silly chicks decided that it would be fun to disrespect the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington.

Mistake.

After they posted the picture on their personal facebook page, it went viral, and their employer became aware after comments about it were forwarded to their site. Now they are on unpaid leave from work, and perhaps have learned about respect for their betters, and some judgement about where it is and isn't ok to goof off.

The picture.

How serious do people take the symbolism of this national monument?

Check this out:



Or this, from Hurricane Irene:

Oh boy, Obama is going to be in a heap of trouble when he gets back to DC.  Michelle isn't just going to throw furniture like Hillary.  She's going to take a baseball bat to that boy, pronto.

Check out the Jawa Report for an even more damning video!

And check out Tom Baugh's comment.

Hat tip to Free North Carolina.

heh.

Problem is, the joke's on us.

You can't tell me that this isn't way more fun than video games.

Yeeeeaaaaaahhh!  Bus rides were never this much fun back in high school.

Anonymous has released instructions on how to beat facial recognition technology.  Good stuff to know, although in time the software will likely improve enough to require still more elaborate techniques.

“Another way to avoid facial recognition is to tilt your head more than 15 degrees to the side,” the clip continues. “Due to limits in their programming, they will not be able to detect that a face is present, though there are very obvious cons to doing this. Using a similar method, you can distort your face through elaborate makeup. This method also takes advantage of software limits as the computer will not be able to detect a face. But these are tiresome ways that tend to draw attention to yourself. Surely there are better solutions to avoid being added to a database.”

The narrator also explains that laser pointers have been documented to disrupt the powers of surveillance cameras and that, “With nothing more than a hat, some infrared LEDs, some wiring and a 9 Volt battery,” it’s a piece of cake to render oneself completely invisible. By rigging a DIY system of small lights affixed to a baseball cap, the video claims you can create a device that “guarantees complete anonymity to cameras while appearing perfectly normal to the rest of the world.”

“While the government may be hell bent on watching us at every moment of every day, we are not helpless. 

Related:

New Jersey requires that nobody smile on their driver's license photos to help it's facial recognition technology to work.