Looking more like a giant X-ray machine than a telescope, McDonald Observatory’s 107-inch reflector inside its closed dome on Mt. Locke is one of the few, if not the only, modern telescopes with bullet holes in its primary mirror. I’ve heard and read several versions of the tale. This one pretty much echoes most of them.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Science/Engineering, Space, Texana
Tagged Harlan Smith 107-inch reflector, McDonald Observatory, Mt. Locke, West Texas
This time they killed an innocent 7-year-old girl in Detroit. But don’t just blame the police, blame the pols who enable them.
Via Instapundit.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obituaries
Tagged Aiya Stanley-Jones, Detroit, SWAT
Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse does a masterful job of objective journalism, with verifying links, exposing the WaPo’s deceitful reporting on the new curriculum, forcing the writer to eat his own lying words. Bravo.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Library, Texana
Tagged Ann Althouse, Texas, Texas Social Studies Curriculum, Washington Post
The latest telephone poll taken by the Arizona Governor’s office asked whether people who live in Arizona think illegal immigration is a serious problem?
29% responded, “Yes, it is a serious problem.”
71% responded, “No es una problema seriosa”
Meanwhile, Obamalot is assiduously guarding the northern border. Figures.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, South of the Border
Tagged illegal immigration, open borders, US-Canada border, US-Mexico border
Here’s irony. As we approach the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, 2011-2015: Unconditional Surrender Grant is still buried in Grant’s tomb, as the old joke has it, in New York City.
But his correspondence and other papers have journeyed from Southern Illinois University to Mississippi State University. At least State has now put them on the Web for the benefit of researchers everywhere. But still. Gen. Grant to the Rebs? Oh my.
Via TOCWOC.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Civil War, Scribbles
Tagged Civil War, Gen. U.S. Grant, Mississippi State, Ulysses S. Grant
BLITZER: Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal immigrants?
CALDERON: Of course! Of course!
BLITZER: If somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America through the southern border of Mexico and they wind up in Mexico, they can going get a job?
CALDERON: No, no, no.
BLITZER: They can work?
CALDERON: If somebody do that without permissions, we send — we send back them.
Via Rush Limbaugh and Ann Althouse.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, South of the Border
Tagged Ann Althouse, Arizona, CNN, Felipe Calderon, illegal immigration, Mexico, Rush Limbaugh, Wolf Blitzer
Of all the city council’s silliness over the years, its new boycott of Arizona over illegal immigration takes the booby prize. The funniest part, though, is the boos so far outnumber the yays in the letters-to-the-editor at the daily:
“In a town as reliably liberal as Austin, wouldn’t one assume that a few would stand up for the city council — if their action was at all defensible? The fact that no one seems willing to fight for this silly boycott makes it clear just how important it is to the Statesman’s readers.”
Hmm. That also may be going too far. But it’s pretty funny that the situation has reduced Obamalot to orchestrating an astroturf letter-writing campaign.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, South of the Border, Texana
Tagged Arizona, astroturf, Austin City Council, boycott, illegal immigration, letter-writing campaign
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 