Nice to see the 16-year-old sailor attempting to solo circumnavigate the planet is alive and at least semi-well, considering the dismasting of her boat in the rough Southern Indian Ocean. Presume she will be rescued soon by the Aussies.
If she can blog, we can presume she won’t under too much stress waiting. But it would be nice if the saltwater hadn’t corroded the power port on her Kindle way back in April. Or if Jeff Bezos had seen the way clear to deliver her a new one.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Library, Sailing, South of the Border
Tagged Abby Sunderland, Kindle, solo circumnavigate, Southern Indian Ocean
This Civil War unit, part of Wheeler’s Cavalry, plays a role in “Knoxville 1863.”
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Posted in Blogosphere, Civil War, Library, Texana
Tagged ACW, Battle of Fort Sanders, Civil War, Knoxville 1863, Terry's Texas Rangers
Miles of oil containment boom is waiting for use in the Gulf of Mexico, but the feds? Not interested. (Wait’ll the first hurricane. That’ll motivate ’em.)
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: Barry is rapidly tarnishing his own image, and not just in the oil spill, but by his weakling postures on this or that, his radical choices, and his alienated-from-the-rest-of-us nature. Meanwhile, the primaries show a resurgence of Reps. Hurry, Barry, not much time left to enact your radical agenda.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Weather/Climate
Tagged BP, oil containment booms, oil spill
Glad to see the creature has been retired/fired/whatever after her slur on Israeli Jews. ‘Course it took three days and no publicity by her peers in the newspaper biz. Just blogs. To be expected. Imus or some other white male drops a slur and within a few hours he’s on the front page of every newspaper in the land.
Thomas, of course, is a woman and therefore a member of the woman-and-minorities lucky-sperm Multicultural Club. Which isn’t multi, actually, since it mainly concerns blacks and Hispanics. Not Asians, who are dismissed by mutliculties as the “model minority,” and certainly not white males. Anyhow. Thomas was a joke before she slurred a nation. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
UPDATE: Here’s a perfect example of the tyranny of the Multicultie crowd.
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Your average economically-illiterate pol might think a congressman’s pork helps the little people in his district. Not according to a new study:
“…the study found that in the years following a congressman acquiring a powerful committee assignment, the average company in his state cut back capital expenditures by 15 percent. In one prominent example, Alabama went from receiving $6 million less in annual earmark spending than other states to $90 million above the state average after Republican Sen. Richard Shelby assumed the chairmanship of the Senate Intelligence Committee in 1997. Shelby earmarked $15 million for low-cost fabricated housing, but the study found that one of Alabama’s largest suppliers of this housing, Homes Inc., correspondingly reduced capital expenditures by 79.5 percent and downsized its work force by 30 percent…The pattern repeats itself across decades and over thousands of firms.”
Could be why, despite the “stimulus,” unemployment is 9.7 percent.
Via Instapundit.
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Continuing the marketing of my battle novel “Knoxville 1863,” I discover that it’s been previewed at Bull Runnings, Pennsylvanian Harry Smeltzer’s popular ACW blog, which is primarily devoted to First Manassas (Bull Run in Union terminology). Thanks, Harry.
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Tagged ACW blogs, Bull Runnings, Harry Smeltzer, Knoxville 1863
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
