DEMAND QUESTION TIME: Mike Wilson of the Cincinnati Tea Party emails: “I just signed the petition and will share with the rest of the tea party movement here in Ohio. If you think it would be beneficial, feel free to add the Ohio Liberty Council to the list of sponsors.”
Here’s the petition.
FASTER, PLEASE: Nanobubbles “jackhammer” cancer cells.
HEH: Maybe we can use this kind of thing for political contributions. Or tax payments . . . .
READER STEVE EIMERS references this Politico article and writes: “Why do you think they showed a picture of a white guy but referred to Antonio Hinton?” I dunno. This is Antonio Hinton.
ED MORRISSEY: “The wins in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts over the last three months did not come from people questioning Obama’s birthplace. They resulted from grassroots opposition to the Obama-Nancy Pelosi policy agenda. Scott Brown won the seat held by the Kennedys and their cronies for almost 60 years by pushing back hard against ObamaCare and the counterterrorism policies of the White House.”
SOME PICS FROM SARAH PALIN’S SPEECH. I had some idle time backstage, and my Lumix.
UPDATE: Here’s what it looked like backstage, with the PJTV video crew.
THE GREAT global warming collapse. When a movement is based on bullying rather than persuasion, this is what happens.
SARAH PALIN’S TEA PARTY CONVENTION SPEECH will be streaming live here.
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JUST SOME PEOPLE sitting around in their pajamas.
Plus, a Tea Party Democrat. “Meet Tea Party Democrat Jack Wilson. He is running for Congress in Maryland as an independent!”
Also, Can you hear me now?
A BETTER VIEW OF Pluto.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Is Greece Our Future?
IRAN AND ISRAEL QUESTIONS for Michael Oren.
TOP BOX-OFFICE FILMS OF ALL TIME: Avatar is not #1.
A TEA PARTY CONVENTION TEA PARTY PROTEST: This is Antonio Hinton, one of the organizers of the Knoxville Tea Party, one of three folks from the Tennessee Tea Party Coalition who showed up to remind people that there’s more to the Tea Party movement than this convention. The press tried to get him to say something bad about Sarah Palin, but he called her a “breath of fresh air,” instead. It’ll be interesting to see how the story gets played.
UPDATE: More here.
CHANGE: Honey, They Shrunk The Private Sector. “There’s a reason why Americans who don’t happen to work for the government or directly benefit from its largesse are not sensing an economic recovery. For them, it’s mostly not happening. ADP’s January employment report showing 22,000 private-sector jobs lost, the last available jobs-related information available when this column was written, only confirms that feeling. A look at what has happened to the nation’s inflation-adjusted gross domestic product (GDP), the value of all goods and services produced in the economy, during the last six quarters is sadly instructive.”
THE STORY BEHIND THAT Hayek-Keynes Rap Video.
SO THE FOLKS AT READY ACOUSTICS did the sound treatment for my studio, and a while back I got a big package from them with more cool stuff. Unfortunately, since my studio is now a TV studio I didn’t really have any place to deploy them. So I sent them to my brother, who offers the following review:
A little while back three tall boxes showed up here at the Rubber Biscuit Studio loading dock. They were plastered with “Fragile” stickers… but when we opened them up we found that they were a set of Ready Acoustics APS 2400 Acoustic Panel/Bass Trap stands. Now, our main tracking and mixing rooms are already decked out with Ready Acoustics panels and Bass Traps, so we are already fans. The idea of having some stands that would let us use the same panels as Gobos was a cool one… so we promptly set the intern to putting them together. At first he complained that there weren’t any instructions, but we told him that if he was expected to figure out a patch bay, then he ought to be able to figure out how to put the stands together. Within a half hour he had them all together. Each one came with a set of allen wrenches, too, and you can never have too many allen wrenches sitting around.
As soon as we looked at them, it became apparent that the whole “fragile” thing was unnecessary. These things are fit! The adjustable center portion of the stands could double as a mortar tube. Assembled, each one probably weighs in at 20 pounds. With the tripod feet, these stands are very stable. This is good, because having something fall over and take out one of our vintage C12’s would be a serious bummer. Overall, these stands are very well thought out. If you have the Ready Acoustics Chameleon panels, there is a spot on the metal frames that will screw right into the upper cross bar of the stands. Even the panels without the frames have loops that will fit right over the center tube. They can be mounted either vertically or horizontally, allowing you to use the panels as gobos for amps, pianos, or even as a portable vocal booth. Indeed, the beauty of these stands is that they can help adjust to a number of tracking or mixing situations. More and more studios are realizing the importance of quality audio treatments. Most, though, are fixed in place. These stands let engineers adjust to a number of shifting tracking and mixing situations. Such flexibility can help take your studio to a whole new level.
Any studio that is looking for a sturdy yet flexible audio treatment solution should look into these stands.
So there you are.
OBAMA’S ELECTION: Proof that America is still racist! Well, admitting otherwise would threaten a sweet gig for a lot of people . . . .
LOTS OF TEA PARTY CONVENTION COVERAGE at PJTV. Interviews with Dana Loesch, Andrew Breitbart, and more. Both live and non-live.
TOYOTA’S “DECONTENTING:” Demand the Denso Pedal!
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