Monthly Archives: April 2009

Red meat: secession!

Posted on April 15, 2009 | Comments Off on Red meat: secession!

It’s understandable, what with the whopping deficit that Barry & the Dems are running up, that Texas Gov. Rick Perry would want to run for re-election against the federal government. Especially when his likely primary opponent is U.S. Senator Kay Baily Hutchinson.

So, on the occasion of the Tax Day Tea Party protest, Perry decided to throw Big Media and its liberal pals a little red meat about potential secession. Not that Texas would or could. Can’t keep our sales and property taxes relatively low (not to mention no income tax at all) without all those federal dollars. But it’s nice to see a independent action now and then from the Repubs.

UPDATE:  The Seablogger gives Rick more credit than I think he deserves, but he makes other, better points. Rick Perry for president in 2012? That would be interesting. I expect he’ll concentrate on getting re-elected governor, first.

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DDG Barry

Posted on April 15, 2009 | Comments Off on DDG Barry

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Not one of the warships fighting the pirates (that would be DDG Bainbridge, which has lately been de-fanged by the White House), and not named after the president. Just a coincidence. Named rather for Commodore John Barry, of the American Revolution, an Irishman who is often called the father of the American Navy.

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Brutal satire

Posted on April 15, 2009 | Comments Off on Brutal satire

Big Media, so in the tank for Barry it has to breathe through a straw, struggles to find the news angle in a brutal murder. (Yeah, I know, they’re all "brutal muder." But what the hey. It’s familiar, right?)

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American Legion wants apology

Posted on April 15, 2009 | Comments Off on American Legion wants apology

From Barry’s loony chief of Homeland Security, the Napolitano creature whose latest warning report says we must watch out for returning veterans going postal. She must be a graduate of Penn State.

Not to mention her other warning about Americans who dare to prefer state and local power to federal. She must not have read the Constitution. Or met our Texas governor, who is a diehard Aggie and Sarah Palin supporter, although it is true that he likes federal money as much as the next governor. Yep, the Leftist lunatics have certainly taken over the federal asylum. Watch yourself out there.

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Of Liberty And Tyranny

Posted on April 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Of Liberty And Tyranny

Mr. B.’s grandma, a rare reader who joined us at the rancho for Easter weekend, asked me if I was reading the book "everyone is reading" (meaning conservatives like us) i.e. Mark Levin’s Liberty And Tyranny. I haven’t yet, and probably won’t, until and unless I see that it is actually changing anything. Which I doubt it could.

I’ve read too many similar political polemics already. In this case I have to think it’s like that science book of physicist Stephen Hawking’s, A Brief History of Time. Millions of people climbed on its bangwagon to get a copy, but how many actually read it, or understood it? Much less did anything about it? Different horses, of course, and maybe the Tea Party movement will elevate Levin’s work to practice. The TP has lately become a Left Wing media target of ridicule, which is a start of sorts.

Via Instapundit.

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Posted in Mr. Boy, Rancho Roly Poly, Science/Engineering, Scribbles

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Taxes are for the little people

Posted on April 14, 2009 | Comments Off on Taxes are for the little people

Mailed our income taxes this morning, a day early for a change. Surprised only at the almost seven thousand dollars we still owed after all the takeouts over 2008. Not surprised at how ridiculously difficult it is to fill out the Form 1040 and attachments. Stuff like, "see page A-14 if your step-mother is a red-haired, gray-eyed Puerto Rican born on Dec. 25, but only except in a Leap Year, in which case you must see page B-23 and subtract $11.98 from the total on Line 66." The pols perennially promise they’re going to simplify this malarky, but they never seem to get around to it. Maybe it’s because they don’t have to low-crawl their way through this muck every April the way the rest of us do.

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Hobby-Eberly 9.2 meter

Posted on April 13, 2009 | Comments Off on Hobby-Eberly 9.2 meter

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The HET at McDonald Observatory in West Texas didn’t make this Top Ten list, but it should have.

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