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Changes for the worst

Posted on January 23, 2011 | Comments Off on Changes for the worst

Via Flight Level 390:

“Airborne… Christmas Eve [2010].
Against the advice of the Company, I made the Santa has been sighted crossing the Canadian border at 50,000 feet announcement. I’ll probably get a call from the Chief Pilot’s office wanting to know if I read the memo, and if I did, did I not understand the spirit of the message?
There is a bunch of kids in the cabin tonight… I would have been thrilled at their age to hear an airline captain say Santa had been sighted. I figure that is spirit enough…
Nevertheless, I can see the headlines:

“Insensitive, middle-aged, conservative airline pilot frightens children with claim of seeing Christian holiday figurehead. Authorities are investigating. Airline representatives have no comment on the matter.

“Last year, I chickened out. This year I decided to go for it. So far, the flight attendants report no one has complained or is crying… Maybe I will get away with it.”
Geez.

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To boldly wish

Posted on January 21, 2011 | Comments Off on To boldly wish

I think it was science fiction writer Charlie Stross who said that anyone wishing to settle Mars should first try settling the Gobi Desert in the winter while wearing a fireman’s respirator.

Somehow I doubt these folks would want to do that, but at least they have more imagination than the wretched politicians who have grounded the idea for so long. Meanwhile, we can hope the intrepid don’t go entirely alone either.

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Reverse plagiarism

Posted on January 20, 2011 | Comments Off on Reverse plagiarism

When I was in college many moons ago, reverse plagiarism was fairly popular. It means making up a pertinent quote to fit whatever test essay you were writing and attributing the quote to a famous person.

Hopefully a famous someone the professor wasn’t familiar with. It seems that the folks who were most adept at it are now plying their talents on the Web.

Via Instapundit.

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Wire-tapping Dr. King

Posted on January 17, 2011 | Comments Off on Wire-tapping Dr. King

One of these years, before they’re all dead, the Democrats who initiated, authorized and carried out the wire-tapping and bugging of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s private life ought to use one of these national holidays to  ‘fess up and do some public hand-wringing.

Maybe one of the Kennedy children would speak out on behalf of the deceased wire-tappers and electronic buggers JFK and RFK? I know, it isn’t likely. Just s’posin’.

The Left’s favorite sanctimonious Baptist preacher, Bill Moyers, knows (and did) plenty in this and other regards for JFK’s successor Democrat LBJ. But it’s very unlikely the man some call J. Edgard Moyers will ever confess, let alone apologize. Nope, no mea culpas for Iago.

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Sweden Sun: Rule 5

Posted on January 16, 2011 | Comments Off on Sweden Sun: Rule 5

Swedensun

Via Instapundit, who is probably wishing for warm weather as much as we are.

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Footbridge

Posted on January 14, 2011 | Comments Off on Footbridge

somethin_2day_1A cool rural find. The sort of thing you run across now and then. This one is in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, pretty far south from Mr. B.’s godfather’s Reveille Vineyards which is closer to New Market. Here spanning the Maury River in Rockbridge Baths.

Via Old Virginia Blog.

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Hatemongers

Posted on January 9, 2011 | Comments Off on Hatemongers

No, not the garden-variety nutjob who shot the Arizona congresswoman and a string of others Saturday in Tucson, but professional political haters like the Kos Kidz who airbrushed their hate file on her hours later to hide their true nature.

And especially Paul Krugman who is always seeking political advantage from mass murder. This time they’re all bashing Sarah for alleged instigation, since the gunman was not, alas for them, of the Tea Party.

Well, here’s some Dem instigation from the top: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” – Barack Obama. Was that influential?

The Tucson shooter seems to have missed the Right-wing bus but caught the socialist/communist trolley, as well as being paranoid about government mind-control. Could be displays of his tinfoil hat any hour now.

Interesting that the moderate Dem congressperson victim is married to a NASA astronaut who is assigned to command the last space shuttle flight in April. I hope she recovers as fully as possible and wish the survivors the best.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Making it explicit: “They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” said the Democrat. “Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”

With the liberal media’s (sorry for the redundancy) full cooperation, I might add.

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