Monthly Archives: September 2007

Texas vs Kansas State?

Posted on September 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Texas vs Kansas State?

The fans at Burnt Orange Nation, well 21 of 22 anyhow, think it’ll be Texas in a walk tomorrow. I tend to think so, too. It can’t hurt if, as expected, Vince Young is on the sidelines. We shall see.

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Posted in Texas Football

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Military lessons of Iraq

Posted on September 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Military lessons of Iraq

Why we couldn’t simply replicate the Afghanistan/Taliban approach in democratizing Iraq:

"It is not enough to persuade a Muslim population to reject al Qaeda’s ideology and practice. Someone must also be willing and able to protect that population against the terrorists they had been harboring, something that special forces and long-range missiles alone can’t do."

Read it all. 

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Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, The War, Troops

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Giant spider web diminished

Posted on September 28, 2007 | Comments Off on Giant spider web diminished

Thanks to winds and rain, the giant web that stretched two hundred yards at Lake Tawakoni in northeast Texas back in August is only six percent of its previous size, but scientists are still interested in studying the apparent social effort of thousands of spiders–principally long-jawed orb weavers–which are normally canabalistic rather than cooperative. We can only hope they’re not evolving in some unpleasant new way. But, just in case, I plan to start being nicer to the ones I see around the rancho.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Science/Engineering, Scribbles

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Where’s the terrorism?

Posted on September 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Where’s the terrorism?

Six years after 9/11, the Dictator’s Club (also called the UN) still doesn’t even know how to define it.

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Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, The War

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Where’s the fence?

Posted on September 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Where’s the fence?

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This is four years old. At an estimated one million new illegals from Mexico every year, the green is bound to be more pervasive now. Face it folks, we have an open-border policy that our political, academic and MSM elite support despite broad popular disagreement. Not even 9/11 could change it.

UPDATE: There’s the fence: Pelosi, et al, oppose it. 

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Posted in South of the Border

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Two-stroke engines

Posted on September 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Two-stroke engines

Fighting the outboard battle with the family sloop. Can’t even leave the dock until the wind is blowing 5 to 10 mph for fear I won’t be able to make a timely return. Because the ten-year-old Suzuki 4 outboard has turned cranky and unreliable. I think it needs a carburetor rebuild, and am reading up on that on the Internet. While trying not to stare too longingly at a new 3.5 hp Tohatsu four-stroke, or a far more pricey Torqeedo 801 electric, with a built-in, rechargable battery, that’s said to be the equivalent of a two horse gas engine. Prudence says to do the carb work. But a little voice says get a new motor and spend more time sailing. Decisions, decisions.

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Where’s the beef, George?

Posted on September 27, 2007 | Comments Off on Where’s the beef, George?

"The Bush Presidency is running out of time to act if it wants to stop Iran from gaining a bomb. With GIs fighting and dying in Iraq, Mr. Bush also owes it to them not to allow enemy sanctuaries or weapons pipelines from Iran. If the President believes half of what he and his Administration have said about Iran’s behavior, he has an obligation to do whatever it takes to stop it."

Less talk and more action would be a good idea, both for the present and for the future. 

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Posted in Iraq, The War, Troops

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