Monthly Archives: September 2007

“At least I know he’s happy somewhere.”

Posted on September 2, 2007 | Comments Off on “At least I know he’s happy somewhere.”

Teflon Don has vivid dreams, including one of his platoon at the mall, and a dead friend making and selling coffee, just like he wanted to.

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Hillarity & Ma

Posted on September 2, 2007 | Comments Off on Hillarity & Ma

Seems Hillarity is strong enough in the polls now that the pundits already are handing her the nomination. Yet I cannot help but think that she can’t possibly win, especially when the non-Dems who comprise the majority of voters realize that Slick Willie comes with her. Take a page from Texas history and the first woman governor, Ma Ferguson. After Pa Ferguson got impeached, in a dispute over some banking laws, Ma got elected governor herself. Pa, naturally, came with her. But he had never generated any scandal of morals by messing with the help. Later, she would be accused of signing some questionable pardons. If I remember correctly, Old Bill did two out of the three all by himself, raising his negatives pretty high. Unless enough people have forgotten. They might have forgotten the pardons, but who could forget Monica and her famous dress?

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Halo 3

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Not the special operations’ High Altitude, Low Opening parachute jump, but the Microsoft FPS game of fame. Everything apparently is more realistic in the new version, and much less cartoonish. But I’m still struggling to get through the first, still-satisfying Halo: Combat Evolved, which I play occasionally. Hope they kept the opening sequence of that huge, man-made ring world orbiting a red planet in a distant star field. And the spooky chorus that goes with it.

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Immigration backlash

Posted on September 2, 2007 | Comments Off on Immigration backlash

Instapundit says this sort of thing was inevitable, we’ve already been warned, and the Swiss reaction likely will spread. I think that’s right, in part because multiculturalism is a huge fraud and diversity can only go so far. That neither play well in Switzerland isn’t surprising. That there is a limit to how well they can play in the United States seems logical, though the limit probably is well beyond what an insular people like the Swiss can tolerate. It will start here (has, in fact, already begun), as in parts of Europe, as a reaction to Islam’s built-in intolerance, it seems to me. A country like ours, with cherished equal rights for women, for instance, isn’t going to readily absorb a flock of females concealed in burkas. They already make many Americans uncomfortable.

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Felix less of a threat to Texas

Posted on September 2, 2007 | Comments Off on Felix less of a threat to Texas

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 Subsequent model runs show threat to Texas diminishing. Whew.

Via Seablogger 

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Model splits on Felix

Posted on September 2, 2007 | Comments Off on Model splits on Felix

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 The link to this Colorado State page in the previous post kept going bad, so I put up the graphic.

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Hurricane Felix Texas bound?

Posted on September 1, 2007 | Comments Off on Hurricane Felix Texas bound?

As it stands now, according to meteorologist Jeff Masters, Felix could grow to a dangerous Cat 2 or 3 by Monday night when, on its present course, it approaches the border between Honduras and Nicaragua. But the forecast models are split over its direction, with some taking it farther north into the northwestern Caribbean where, on Tuesday or Wednesday, a low pressure trough could lift it up into the Gulf of Mexico, just clipping the northeast corner of the Yucatan. If that happens, the Texas coast could be in for a beating. Wait and see.

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