I always liked this story of the first airplane to fly cross-country. In 1911. It’s a Wright EX pusher. It landed on its eighty-four day trip somewhere north of Austin, drawing a big crowd, as it did everywhere. Vin Fiz was a soft drink that fared worse than flying did, obviously. Ever heard of it? Me neither. The picture is of a replica, whose owner will reenact the flight next year.
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Posted in Science/Engineering, Scribbles, Texana
Tagged Cal Rodgers, first cross-country flight, Vin Fiz, Wright EX pusher
They are a weird bunch, the California drones as VDH calls them. The ones who moved here back in the 90s to escape the hoards of Mexican illegals can be discerned by a proclivity to honk after the light changes when you don’t move ahead fast enough to suit them.
The stay-at-homes, VDH contends, apparently long ago dissociated their minds and attitudes from the sweat and effort that makes societies work. And, now, as their bloated fun-in-the-sun welfare state goes bankrupt, what else can their over-privileged children do but riot?
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Posted in Scribbles, South of the Border
Tagged Berkeley riots, California drones, Californicators, Mexican illegals, VDH, Victor Davis Hanson
I’m glad to see these retail-ish medical clinics, which are very popular in Austin, are proliferating. But I’m surprised to see there’s only 1,200 plus across the country.
They are pretty cheap and they really do give the lie to the supposed need for Obamacare. Even the illegal hoards the Dems want to insure (so their numbers keep growing and they keep voting Dem) can afford a doc in the box.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Scribbles
Tagged Doc In The Box, Obamacare, retail medicine
“Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;
“He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.”
—The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Via Philip Jose Farmer.
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Posted in Library, Scribbles, Troops
Tagged Philip Jose Farmer, Sir Richard Francis Burton, The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi, To Your Scattered Bodies Go
A Bavarian fairy-tale castle? Nope. A Texas one. Actually, the old Romanesque Revival, granite and sandstone, Dallas County courthouse. Photographer Rick Turner has a better, but copyrighted, version here.
Via Texana Review..
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Tagged old Dallas County courthouse, Rick Turner, Romanesque Revival, Texana Review, Texas castles
And why not? It seems the sticky-but-hapless gumshoes of the Dubai police force are asserting that all Jews are suspects. No kidding. Since about 70 CE, to be precise.
Via Simply Jews, where commenter David All has a funny: given all the suspects so far named by the Dubai coppers, one could paraphrase Hilarity Clinton and note that it obviously takes a village, these days, to carry out an assassination of a terrorist.
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Posted in Israel, Scribbles, The War
Tagged Dubai, Jew suspects, Mahmoud al-Mabhouh assassination, Mossad
Naw, that was just for anti-Bush Democrats. Fortunately, these days, all you need is a few bucks for a web site, a video camera, some friends and, bingo, comeback even to the legacy media. Which is so sensitive about its declining audience that it will even take the time to respond to you. What a country.
Via Simply Jews.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, Scribbles, Texana, Uncategorized
Tagged Barry, Captain America, Dallas Tea Party, Keith Olbermann, Obama, Omedrica
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