Monthly Archives: April 2009

Happy Passover

Posted on April 4, 2009 | Comments Off on Happy Passover

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Still my favorite Passover picture. That’s "Moses Transports" on the back of the moving van.

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Life on the moon

Posted on April 3, 2009 | Comments Off on Life on the moon

Or, rather, among Alaskans who live near Mt. Redoubt, the volcano that’s erupted nineteen times since March 22. It’s coated the countryside nearby in something very like moondust: "gritty, abrasive, electrostatically-charged," according to NASA, "giving Alaskans an unexpected taste of what it’s like to live on the Moon."

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Posted in Science/Engineering, Scribbles, Space

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Cap and trade is dead?

Posted on April 2, 2009 | Comments Off on Cap and trade is dead?

No impending doubling of electric bills? Seems not. I certainly hope it’s true. See what happens when you leave the country to hob-nob with the European elite, Barry? Your own party hands you your head.

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Posted in Obamalot

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Contradiction

Posted on April 2, 2009 | Comments Off on Contradiction

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Boy, those Dems really were death on deficits, as long as they were Bush deficits. Now, not at all.

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Memorable gun barrel art

Posted on April 2, 2009 | Comments Off on Memorable gun barrel art

Reading an article in the April issue of the print edition of Army Magazine, I came across a double-page (double-truck as we say in the newspaper business) photograph of six M1 Abrams tanks. They belonged to the Third Infantry Division and were in line at an assembly area in Kuwait hours before they rolled into Iraq on March 20, 2003.

I had to use a magnifying glass to read what was stenciled on the barrels of their main guns. It was probably reported at the time but it’s news to me six years later. Usually, as in Vietnam, for instance, such barrel art is crude or rude. These were different. American Airlines Flight 11 was the wording on the barrel in the photo’s foreground. The other Sept. 11 airliners were commemorated on the rest.

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Guns on campus, etc.

Posted on April 1, 2009 | Comments Off on Guns on campus, etc.

The daily, which usually opposes wider gun privileges, is off to a good start on this Texas legislation to allow folks with training and concealed-carry permits to tote their guns to college campuses, businesses and even bars. Most of Big Media is predictably beating the drum against this latest Texas insanity, etc.

I favor the changes. Not that I don’t realize it could become messy in some situations. But as it stands now anyone, from crazed student to embittered ex-employee, knows his victims are almost certain to be unarmed. Because it’s the law. Take that certainty away and you very likely could stop some, if not all, of the periodic mass murders on campus, at work, even at church, which we’ve all become unnecessarily inured to. Relying on the police to arrive in time and do it all is the real insanity.

UPDATE:  Indeed, get this from report of the latest massacre: "Police heard no gunfire after they arrived but waited for about an hour before entering the building to make sure it was safe for officers." Makes you feel real protected, right? At best, your loved ones will get an "investigation" after your funeral.

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The decline and fall of the Brits

Posted on April 1, 2009 | Comments Off on The decline and fall of the Brits

This is just sick. However you cut it. I can’t imagine any American police doing it under any circumstances. Anywhere. Ever. Tar and feathers, as Instapundit suggests, is too good for them.

Via Althouse.

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