Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

Exiting California

Lisa Benson Cartoon

We are now completely disassociated with Kalifornistan, save for our friends and relatives there. We will go back for visiting purposes, but our money and property will be elsewhere.

And, we’re not the only ones leaving the formerly Golden State. Millions of retirees, like us, are out of there. Plus, businesses and manufacturing jobs are moving. The Lisa Benson cartoon above adds some snark, but a very good article by Daniel J. Mitchell links the changes in California to a steady flow of jobs to Texas and other places.

From Townhall.com:

Much of my writing is focused on the real-world impact of government policy, and this is why I repeatedly look at the relative economic performance of big government jurisdictions and small government jurisdictions.

But I don’t just highlight differences between nations. Yes, it’s educational to look at North Korea vs. South Korea or Chile vs. Venezuela vs. Argentina, but I also think you can learn a lot by looking at what’s happening with different states in America.

So we’ve looked at high-tax states that are languishing, such as California and Illinois, and compared them to zero-income-tax states such as Texas.

With this in mind, you can understand that I was intrigued to see that even the establishment media is noticing that Texas is out-pacing the rest of the nation.

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03 Oct 2014 by California Money and Business Whacko Politics

Gas Guzzler vs. Economy Car?

Big and Little Gas

On our way into Southern Cal today, we passed this RV that was towing one of those funny (and ugly) little economy cars. I guess the mindset being that if we burn x gallons per mile getting where we go, we can make up for it by cramming ourselves into our towed ride which gets beaucoup miles per gallon and tour the local area after parking the big dude in the RV park. I think that unless they drive hundreds and hundreds of miles locally, they may not completely offset each other’s gas consumption.

Now, don’t get me wrong – we all know the energy “crisis” is a complete fraud and I have no problem with consumers consuming whatever resources thy can afford. We do the same when we travel. It just seems to me that if you’re going to consume “precious” resources, that you should be towing a Hummer and not that pathetic little Nissan POS. Just sayin’.

29 Sep 2014 by Environment Travel Wanderlust

The New Red

green.pngI forget where I found this graphic. Maybe at The Patriot Post. At any rate, I like the not-so-subtle comparison of the current administration to the Communist Party.

The EPA and other .gov agencies, the media and the hard left (but I repeat myself) continually foist the Global Warming Climate Change Climate Disruption nonsense on the public knowing full well that it is all unmitigated bovine feces. The whole charade is merely a method to allow government to gain control over energy resources because, obviously, it is ALL about government gaining control with progressives.

I found the following snark in the Patriot Post Daily Digest for Friday:

Comedian Jimmy Fallon:

“The federal government is starting to plan for climate change by making extended forecasts that can help people plan for extreme weather — because what can go wrong when you combine the efficiency of government with the accuracy of weathermen?”

26 Sep 2014 by Environment Global Warming Greenbats Whacko Politics

Ninth Blogiversary on Autumnal Equinox 2014

Equinox 2014

It seems like it has been longer, but today, which coincides with the Autumnal Equinox, is the ninth anniversary of the CB&D blog. Since we had our own internet service provider and domain/website, we skipped the Blogger/Blogspot routine and went for a self-hosted weblog using a somewhat inferior publishing platform, the name of which I forget, and upgraded to WordPress® shortly afterwards. Some of the very early posts were lost in the process of upgrading, but the ones we managed to recover are still in the database on the ISP’s server. This post marks the 6326th blog entry into the WordPress database. That is a lot of hot air!

To us, the weblog has been a way to archive our activities and to log events as they take place. Sort of like an on-line diary, if you will. Every once in a while, I will dig back into the archives to try and locate something we knew happened in the past and usually can find what I’m seeking with the platform’s built-in search engine.

We may not post as often as we did in the past (life has its complications), nor do we post as politically as in the past, but we plan to continue using the weblog as a journal of events, a repository for a few of the Damsel’s photos and whatever whim suits us. We’re independent of social media (Bookface, Twatter, etc.), so there won’t be any repression of our thoughts unless the First Amendment is repealed – which this administration is rapidly seeking to do.

We should be here for a while . . .

22 Sep 2014 by Astronomy Blogosphere

Baby’s 3D Ultrasound vs. Post-Natal Pix

About 12 weeks ago, our grand daughter sent electronic copies of the 3D ultrasound pictures taken last June 30th. At the time, she also sent us a framed image of the ultrasound seen here that has been hanging on the wall above my desk in the office.

Slideshow image: click to alternate between pix.

Now that the baby is here, we saw the first images of him on the Book of Face and damned if he doesn’t look just like the 3D ultrasound that we’ve been seeing in the office for a couple of months. You can click on the image at the right to alternate between the 3D image and one taken yesterday in the hospital.

Medical instrumentation and technology have progressed to the point where we can get a preview of the little button nose, the pudgy cheeks and the shape of his face. Damsel and I can hardly wait until we see him in person next month sometime.

20 Sep 2014 by People Technobabble

Baby Alexander David – Our First Great Grandson

Handsome Li’l Guy

Damsel and I welcome our first great grandchild to the world. The granddaughter gave birth to this beautiful li’l guy overnight. We already had a preview of his cute little face a few weeks back in the 3D ultrasound image.

We visited the new Mama-to-be and her sisters earlier this week, but we were too early to see the new baby. We plan to go back there very soon so we can see and hold him. We just finished a ten-day road trip and are resting from the effects of it, but now, we’re going to head back to Southern California next week and then to Northern California the week after.

19 Sep 2014 by People Wanderlust

Isolated Rain Showers

Rain Shower

We had a fairly long drive today, since we usually try to keep the travel time to under four hours. Today, we had an almost five-hour drive from Bishop, CA, to Kingman, AZ. Yay! Back in free America.

During the last few miles of the trip, we saw several isolated rain showers off to the right or left of our route. This one, was off to the south of I-40 as we passed through the outskirts of the Kingman area.

We looked on the NWS sites and think that we won’t encounter much more than a few showers on our way back home tomorrow. The route is good highway (I-40 and US 93) back home and mostly above the flood potential. We will see . . .

Click on the image to enlarge.

17 Sep 2014 by Arizona Environment Wanderlust

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