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Golly, Lance

Posted on April 23, 2007 | Comments Off on Golly, Lance

The blogosphere seems to be competing, here and here, to see who can post the smelliest jokes about former Lance Armstrong grilfriend, singer Sheryl Crow’s suggestion that we all save the environment by using one sheet of toilet paper. Or three at the most. Typical celebrity solution. Unlike the jokers my guess is Crow would never, ever, practice what she preaches. Anymore than Al Gore will ever cut back on his electricity.

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Argument for term limits

Posted on April 22, 2007 | Comments Off on Argument for term limits

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English translation: Diapers and politicians should be replaced frequently and for the same reason.

Via SimplyJews 

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Water, water everywhere

Posted on April 20, 2007 | Comments Off on Water, water everywhere

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Anderson Mill Marina on Lake Travis is back to normal after all the recent rain. Until a few weeks ago, however, it looked like this, which is what it had looked like since last summer thanks to the drought which now seems to be pretty much over. Lakes and aquifers are up. Goodbye to dry. 

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RoboCow

Posted on April 19, 2007 | Comments Off on RoboCow

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West of Austin is Johnson City, the town LBJ’s ancestors settled, and where he grew up. West of Johnson City is this mammoth chrome longhorn cow standing sentinal over the highway to Stonewall and points west. This is someone’s idea of art. It certainly is an arresting sight.

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Nothing new under the sun

Posted on April 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Nothing new under the sun

Long before anyone had heard the term jihadi, there was Andrew Kehoe. In 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, he introduced suicide bombing (his own) to a waiting world, in the midst of committing the worst mass murder at a school in American history–a mark the MSM forgot about this week in its usual lack of perspective, and which the monster Cho didn’t come close to eclipsing.

Via Just Muttering 

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Fighting back

Posted on April 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Fighting back

I’m not one of the 250,000 or so Texans licensed to carry a concealed handgun, but I definitely support the law that allows it and the law moving through the Legislature to protect their privacy by closing the license records to the curious. But I’m not sure the answer to the monster Cho and other psychos is more carrying. You’d first have to get schools, government offices and most businesses here and elsewhere to take down the signs at their entrances banning firearms on their premises, which of course only stops the law-abiding. A simpler approach would be to recognize that passivity in the face of the Chos has to end. High school and college students must be at least minimally trained to resist, as the Burleson school district south of Fort Worth is doing. One person with a gun could have stopped Cho, but three bold young men–or women, for that matter–with minimal training could have disarmed him.

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Ismail Ax

Posted on April 18, 2007 | Comments Off on Ismail Ax

The monster Cho’s Islamic connection, such as it was. No jihadi, maybe, like the South Korean VT grad convicted in the paintball training episode in Virginia a few years ago. But Cho could identify.

Via Wretchard and LGF.

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