Category Archives: Science/Engineering

Fear $5 gas? Write Obamalot’s EPA

Posted on May 8, 2011 | Comments Off on Fear $5 gas? Write Obamalot’s EPA

The EPA has shut down Shell’s forty billion investment in drilling for oil in Alaska over air quality emissions from an ice breaker. This is not ANWR. It is a bid to increase the supply of gas and oil in this country, not somewhere else where it has to be bought at high prices. Which Obamalot seems to prefer.

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So where’s the proof?

Posted on May 6, 2011 | Comments Off on So where’s the proof?

So far we only know that the White House and the Pentagon insist that OBL is dead. They got him. Obamalot fulfilled the promise Bush Jr. made in 2001. The American people, wanting it so badly, stood up and cheered. A bit prematurely.

Now Obamalot won’t release the pictures. Too gory. Spiking the ball, etc. Could it be the commandos messed up the dead guy’s face to the extent that the pictures prove nothing? Seems so. Mighty dumb of them to be so careless.

We’ve already heard that the DNA “match” is familial, rather than a true “match.” OBL had only a half-sister, whose DNA the government has, and apparently none from him or his parents. So all the feds can say with certainty is that the dead guy was a member of OBL’s extended family. Hardly definitive.

None of which is getting much ink, of course. The Democrat media is more than happy to take the word of the government, and ridicule those who won’t. Against all past experience, starting with Watergate. Ah, but that was a Republican, see. We can trust Democrats. Well, not all of us do.

UPDATE:  This will certainly be enough for some. I’d still like to see our proof.

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Family crypt, circa 3rd century B.C.E.

Posted on May 6, 2011 | Comments Off on Family crypt, circa 3rd century B.C.E.

Looking back on my somewhat whirlwind trip to Israel last month, this spot, which I saw near the end, was one of my favorites. This thing is underground, and from above, you would not even notice the entrance if it was not marked. Which it is because the Israel national park service is very efficient.

A Sidonian burial cave, says the brochure from Bet Guvrin-Maresha, one of my pal Snoopy’s favorite spots in the Judean lowlands because, as he says, it’s usually pretty quiet and peaceful.  Not a big draw, in other words. No Masada. No Jerusalem. Etc. But imagine all the work that went into this place. The caves were discovered in 1902. The paintings are restorations of the originals.

UPDATE:  More on the park from Wikipedia.

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The marijuana laws are a terrible injustice

Posted on May 4, 2011 | Comments Off on The marijuana laws are a terrible injustice

Great quote on the subject from Ann Druyan, the widow of Carl Sagan:

“I really believe that the marijuana laws are a terrible injustice. They make no sense scientifically, ethically, legally, or any way. They cost a fortune to enforce and we incarcerate hundreds of thousands of people who have done nothing else, but possess or distribute marijuana. Maybe it’s because I’m a child of the 60’s and marijuana has been such a positive part of my life. I have never seen it as being addictive, having spent weeks, and months, and days of my life (and years) without using marijuana in any form.For me, it’s a kind of a sacrament, something that should be used wisely and in the context of a loving family existence. There’s a place for alcohol too, but there’s no reason why adults shouldn’t be allowed to do something which not only doesn’t add harm to themselves or others, but is a way to enhance the beauty of life, the beauty of eating, of listening to music, of being with friends and family, of being with the one you love.”

—Ann Druyan in the video podcast At Home in the Cosmos with Annie Druyan.

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Israeli Centurion MBT

Posted on May 3, 2011 | Comments Off on Israeli Centurion MBT

It was chilly up there on the Golan Heights in late March when I posed beside this Israeli Centurion, a mainstay of the IDF Armored Corps on the Golan in the 1973 war. It was parked at a memorial for the 679 Reserve Armored Brigade which lost 98 men and two score tanks fighting a superior force of Syrians.

The Centurions have been replaced by Merkevas, but the old British tanks are remembered for the accuracy of their 105mm main guns and the way shells from Syria’s Russian T-62s ricocheted off the Centurion plate. Which is why, although the Israeli Armored Corps also purchased U.S. M-48s and M-60s, they bought more of the Centurions and preferred them.

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Stuxnet is to laugh

Posted on May 1, 2011 | Comments Off on Stuxnet is to laugh

Islam makes you stupid, indeed. Thus the Iranians continue to prattle about their coming nuclear capability, even as the reported Zionist computer virus continues to cripple their nuclear plant—with forecasts of more to come. It’s much better than bombs, and a lot safer for the pilots, too.

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Islam makes you stupid

Posted on April 24, 2011 | Comments Off on Islam makes you stupid

Some things are just really, really hard to argue with. You accept them on, uh, faith.

And this, Muslim jokes. For example:

Q. Did you hear the one about the violent 53 year-old pedophile?
A. Yes. He is revered by one fifth of the world’s population as the one who started the world’s most intolerant, repressive, misogynistic and violent religion.

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