I expect it’s readily understandable that a student or researcher playing tennis when this Hamas rocket hit so close at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovat might not sleep so well from now on.
But, for the divesting Presbyterians and Methodists in the house, try meditating on that big chunk of metal in the foreground and imagine it landing on your Palestinian-lovin’ head. Maybe that will help you appreciate the Israeli bombing campaign.
Much better in my view than risking IDF lives to clean out the rat’s nest.
This is a new experience for central Israel (Rehovat is about 33 miles from Gaza, roughly 3 minutes by rocket) thanks to the increased range of the munitions supplied Hamas by Iran, Lurch’s and Wormtongue’s pretend partner in nuclear peace.
UPDATE: As usual, Washington looks ridiculous as it lectures Israelis with the pretense that both sides are at fault. We know Obamalot has no honor. Have the feds no brains at all anymore?
Posted in Israel, Obamalot, Science/Engineering, The War
Tagged Hamas' rockets, Rehovat, Rockets over Israel, Weizmann Institute
Still able to buy gas for the vehicle and put groceries on your table in the continuing Democrat Depression? Thank Big Oil.
“The U.S. will remain the world’s biggest oil producer this year after overtaking Saudi Arabia and Russia as extraction of energy from shale rock spurs the nation’s economic recovery, Bank of America Corp. said….
“’The U.S. increase in supply is a very meaningful chunk of oil,’ Francisco Blanch, the bank’s head of commodities research, said…. ‘The shale boom is playing a key role in the U.S. recovery. If the U.S. didn’t have this energy supply, prices at the pump would be completely unaffordable.’”
The “nation’s economic recovery,” is a little economist’s joke, based on the statistical lies the feds tell. Ninety-two million Americans out of work is not a recovery.
“Inside the Explosion,” was made by a camera-carrying drone quadcopter over some unspecified city that has a waterfront for the barges that carry the rockets and other explosives.
What’s different about the video is that the copter-and-camera hovered inside the colorful star cluster bursts and yet survived unharmed. I don’t usually post YouTube videos, but I’ll make an exception with this lovely example of individual expression of freedom. The Andrea Bocelli aria is the perfect accompaniment.
Don’t miss it. And be sure to go to YouTube and make it full screen. The FAA will have a cow.
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: Apparently whoever owned the Bocelli recording had a cow. It’s been replaced with some forgettable techno. Pity. So turn off the sound and substitute your own.
MORE: Andre is back! Still the perfect accompaniment. Well worth a viewing, as the 10 million views as of 10/9/14 shows.
Posted in Blogosphere, Music, Science/Engineering, The Culture
Tagged Andrea Bocelli, fireworks drone, jos stiglingh, quadcopter
It’s been a cool June so far, with just a week to run. Normally we’d have been in the upper 90s day-after-day by now and, at least judging from the past few years, had a 100-degree day or two. Not this year. Nada.
All of which could have been anticipated by anyone (like me) relying on WeatherBell Analytics and especially my fav Pennsylvania forecaster Joe Bastardi (formerly of Texas A&M) who called all this way back in April.
Relatively cool and relatively wet summer, JB said, and he’s been right so far.
He and his partner Joe D’Aleo also forecast last winter’s extreme cold and they were outliers against the federal forecast of a warmer winter than usual. Of course the feds are locked into their political global-warming hogwash and always see the future through those fractured glasses. How do they walk and chew gum at the same time, I wonder?
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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Science/Engineering, Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged Cool June's portants, Joe Bastardi, Weather Bell Analytics
Driving one of Mr. B.’s cronies home from an afternoon of video games the other day, I would glance now and then at his iPhone which was displaying a GPS app giving directions.
Poor kid didn’t even know his address, only that it was typed into the app by his mother. The directions were pretty plain. I had no trouble seeing them as he held the phone up for me. The arrows indicating which way to turn were nice and big and black.
The Democrats, however, don’t like these things. They don’t like anything except what they approve and so Wormtongue and his minions are bringing the law to these apps. And you, of course, if you use them. Doesn’t everyone?
Distracting, they say. Could cause accidents, they say. Not enough graft for them, I say. Unless they have a new regulation to raise the bidding on exceptions. Also known as bribes. The way Obamacare gives exceptions to labor unions and others who’ll vote the Democrat way.
Says Instapundit: “It has the support of automakers because they want to keep charging you $2000 for a nav system that’s not as good as your smartphone.”
It’s about regulating competition, not safety for me and thee. The feds don’t care about your stinking safety. Pretty soon you’ll need to hold the phones lower down so passing cops can’t see them and demand their cut by issuing an expensive ticket. Which will make glancing at them more dangerous.
Via Instapundit.
SpaceX has rolled out it’s new 7-crew Dragon V2 capsule with smoke and lights but apparently no mirrors. It looks like an old Apollo capsule but it’s designed to land upright on the ground instead of splash down into the ocean.
Then, if all goes well, Dragon V2 would be refueled, reloaded and launched back into near Earth orbit—the dream of cost-efficient, reusable space hardware realized, as it never was with the space shuttle.
Meanwhile, a Gulf of Mexico launch site near Brownsville on the southeastern tip of Texas has finished jumping through one of the critical federal regulatory hoops in the way of any commercial flight op. Especially one that (gadzooks) potentially harms already endangered plants and animals.
Still to be heard from, however: the almighty Environmental Protection Agency, boy toy of the anti-capitalist Greens. So there’s still time to bring all this science and engineering dreaming to a screeching and demoralizing halt.
Posted in Science/Engineering, Space, Texana, The Culture
Tagged Brownsville Texas, Dragon V2, Gulf of Mexico launch site, SpaceX
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