THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Of course, he’s New Orleans’ Drew Brees now. But there was a time, when he was the star QB of the Westlake High School Chaparrals on the western edge of Austin. And few here have forgotten.

C-130s now have digital flight decks, and six-bladed composite propellers. At least the C-130Js do. More here in the latest from Michael Yon in Afghanistan.

Amazing what Sarah can bring out in the Leftists: their essential sexism, otherwise hidden. The progs just can’t discuss/mock women politicos without  sexual references. It’s quite beyond them, despite all their progressive trappings.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  And their stupidity. “Hi, Mom!”

I’ve finally had it with my dying audio card, which is unfortunately integrated into the mother board and so can’t be simply replaced. It’s keeping me from using Skype to talk intelligibly to my 90-year-old cousin in Dallas, and also from watching PJTV without annoying stutters.

So I’m shopping for a replacement for my 5-year-old Dell Dimension 3000. So far I like the HP p6300z at about $360 delivered vs the Dell Studio Desktop at about $478. Main difference is the Dell has an Intel chip and the HP has an AMD.

But I’m also addicted to Dells, having never owned anything else. The cheaper HP is a lure, however. I was worried about whether my Outlook Express would make the transition to Windows 7 but that now seems likely with a Belkin Easy Transfer cable. I also have a copy of Word 2002, my old standby, so I’m not worried about accessing my files and continuing to write the books few people ever read. Simply must think it over and decide.

The post-Groundhog Day edition. Lots to choose from, including three of my own. But my favorite is: How many rocket attacks are there in a cease fire? Although the link seems to be broken. Hope it will be fixed soon.

From blithering idiot to devious genius. Whew. That didn’t take long.

Via Instapundit and PJTV.

For some reason, most all of my comment spam caught by Akismet lately has been from Russia or at least been written in Russian. This is the least offensive one I’ve seen, though if I could read it I might not think so. Our onetime (long time ago, actually) Rooskie allies are coming up in the world, apparently.

Can’t say I’d mind seeing D.C. buried by a blizzard for a while, so long as Veeshir has a full pantry and keeps his power. Serves the home of hot air right. Can you say Cap & Trade?

I worry more about Mr. B.’s godfather, Richard Torovsky, at the Reveille Vineyards in the rural Shenandoah. Been snowing heavy all day out there, he said on the landline a few minutes ago, and is still coming down hard tonight. More is expected tomorrow. The  snow is not up to his porch yet but it’s wet snow and it packs like concrete. Fortunately, he has a 4-ton, 4-wheel drive tractor to get around on.

The Brazos, that is, according to JDAllen and Bob Dunn, here and here. They ought to know, the river being in their backyards, more or less. I need to drive down off the mountain and see if Shoal Creek is rushing white-water yet.

She gets that way after all the rain we’ve been having. “Like this weather?” the fish man asked me the other day at the H-E-B. Does anybody?, I replied. He said no more. Actually, all this rain will have a good result: the Bluebonnets and other wildflowers should be really good in a few more weeks.

Sunk on purpose by Navy Skyhawks in 1968, she lies somewhere on the bottom of the Pacific off Baja, CA. But while she lived, as related in Little Ship Big War, The Saga of DE343, she was a microcosm of World War II and its civilian and professional sailors.

Even down to her irascible captain who fled her, unceremoniously, in the midst of the nightmarish Okinawa campaign in which she fought off sixteen kamikaze attacks. All deftly explained by one of her officers turned author Cmdr Edward P. Stafford. Well worth the read.

One truly amazing thing about the book is that it was originally published in 1984. You’d never know it by the prose. Nothing seems dated. Amazon is selling used copies of the 2000 edition, but mine looks new.