Here’s some possible fireworks nobody would like to see: an unusual swarm of earthquakes under Yellowstone National Park which one Utah scientist says might be "something precursory" to a volcanic eruption.
Via Fresh Bilge.
UPDATE: A good, professional geological discussion about the possibility of an eruption that does not quite end on "Don’t worry, be happy," but it comes close. Also via FB. Includes a very scary video what-if.
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Posted in Science/Engineering
Tagged earthquake swarm, volcan, Yellowstone
Still scouting around for appropriate links for likely end of the year sentiments.
I hope the IDF can end the Gaza deal with minimal casualties of its own. I’m sure our spineless leaders–who nevertheless provide IAF bombs–will force them to quit soon, as they always do.
Mr. Boy claims he wants to stay up until midnight, but he probably won’t make it. He had a sleepover last night at a pal’s place out in the western hills, events which usually mean little actual sleep. Fortunately he hasn’t heard about this yet, so we’re safe for another year, anyhow.
I’m hustling to finish a Civil War historical novel in time for Amazon’s Feb. 2 fiction contest. That will be it for me and make-believe. My next literary attempt will be some non-fiction Texana.
Mrs. Charm and I will spend a quiet evening and then enjoy her day off tomorrow, although forecast is for chilly. At the least we’ll get going on airline reservations for a planned D.C. trip in March.
UPDATE: My novel made the first cut to the top twenty percent. Then it went down in flames on the second cut to five percent. Oh, well. Bragging rights, at least, in the impending hunt for an agent.
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Posted in Mr. Boy, Rancho Roly Poly, Texana
Tagged Amazon fiction contest, Austin's First Night, Gaza, Happy New Year, IDF, Southwest Airlines
Of course, Ms. Kennedy would make a fabulous Democrat U.S. senator, why, even her help says so:
"Senora Kennedy is very busy now with party menus so she tell me to write this when I am finish with floors and make the bed for guest wing. I am now finish so I write this…I have to fold laundry now. Also Tio Teddy is come to the party tonight so I have to lock the liquor cabinets."
Obviously, Princess Caroline would be sooo much better than that awful Republican Gov. Sarah Palin person with those multiple children and an actual job. How gauche. Heh.
UPDATE: Her Highness snubbed. Alas, the royal princess "forgot" to pay her taxes and prefers hiring illegals to citizens, making her a potential political liability. The nod, oddly enough, goes to the NRA.
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Posted in Obamalot
Tagged Caroline Kennedy, Iowahawk, Sarah Palin
U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, a goggle-eyed Democrat harridan with a fright-wig hairdo, has always been pathetic to everyone except, apparently, the Georgians who keep sending her to Congress. Pity she does not sleep with the fishes today off Gaza. Unfortunately, the Israeli navy did not slice in two and sink but only damaged the boat she was using to aid Hamas, in a publicity stunt for her wellknown anti-Semitism. Funny how, whenever the terrorists are under attack, the anti-Semites, anti-democrats, and anti-Americans come out of the woodwork to fist-punch the air and otherwise support them. If only Hamas would take McKinney and her clones permanently.
UPDATE: Ceasefire is in the daily’s headlines, put together last night although Israel had rejected the idea well before midnight. It comports with the frontpage picture yesterday of the handful of Hamas-supporting protestors outside the Texas capitol. Dead Jews aren’t news, as Ralph Peters says, only besieged terrorists. Meanwhile the local Jewish Community Assoc. sent out an email of moral support while cautioning that, in times like these, "anti-Jewish attitudes, expressions and activity [bring] an added risk to Jewish communal institutions."
The Dutch Left has issued a new position paper that stands multiculturalism on its head:
"We have to stop the existence of parallel societies within our society."
The issue, of course, is Islam, the least tolerant "parallel society" of all. The question: is it too late?
Via Instapundit.
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Posted in The War
Tagged Dutch tolerance, multiculturalism, Muslim immigration, redefining PC
As much as I support the Israeli bombing response to Palestinian rocket attacks, I hope the IDF follows Haaretz’s logic and avoids a ground invasion. Not for the enemy’s sake but for the sake of the young soldiers of the IDF. Certainly, nothing besides full-scale war is likely to stop the rockets permanently. And such war is impossible of success as long as Israel’s munitions come from the West which has a Leftist news media and its own interests in keeping the oil ticks happy. Even if we became energy independent, those interests (and the media) would remain. So periodic bombing to make the rocketing expensive, followed by more diplomacy, is probably the best that can be achieved.
UPDATE: Indeed, Hamas’ strategy relies on counting on its client media telling it like it isn’t. Uh oh, IDF has called up the reserves.
Late getting this posted. But better late than never. Tonight will be the eighth and last night for our friends, the stone Maccabees. The menorah was a gift from an admirer many years ago–forty, to be exact.
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