Category Archives: Texana

Multi-cultie triumph (boycott the military, now)

The extraordinary conclusion of every branch of the American armed forces: to cover-up Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s  repeated, self-professed Jihadi beliefs as a factor in his killing of 13 and wounding of 32 at Fort Hood in 2009.

Obviously, politics outweighs command responsibility, to the point where your commander will needlessly endanger your life. Take my advice, guys, this is not the time to enlist, or to accept a commission.  You should boycott these chickenshit bastards until they reform themselves.

Twenty years after it became a common motif in the American legacy media, and despite its recent denunciation as a divisive promoter of segregation, intolerance (and in Hasan’s case official blindness) by the governments of Britain, France and Germany, multiculturalism has become official U.S. dogma.

STICKS AND STONES. Dallas County multiculturalism in action.

Adios, Mee-fell

CaptureDear, old friend, journalist Michele Kay Schultz, 66, Mrs. C.’s best friend, whom the toddler Mr. B. always called mee-fell, passed away this morning after a long illness.

She was aptly called a “five-foot fireball” by journalism and political friends in her several obits. The angels will care for her now.

Finally, spring is on the way

Supposed to be highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s all week.Time to start looking for Bluebonnets. The Central Texas winter is finally over and spring is finally on the way. Just another week or so and it will be here en toto.

Kol HaKavod!

RVs and cold don’t mix

Now that it’s back down in the teens again tonight at the rancho, I can better identify with these RV problems in North Texas: frozen water tank, dead space heaters, and ice on the windows.

A propane heater and Weller bourbon seems to have helped, though. Here, well, EMS cataloged 233 ice incidents today, mostly traffic accidents but also some falls with broken hips and head injuries. Me? I’m curled up with a good book, Peter Hamilton’s space opera Judas Unchained.

Light decoder

het_primarybHobby-Eberly Telescope, a spectroscopy giant, in the Fort Davis Mountains.

Texas scope testing 68 candidate earths

“We also go to the really big telescopes, and we get very sharp images to see if there’s anything around that star that could explain it. When we’re through with all those tests, we go to the Keck or the HET or another large telescope and we measure the spectra.

“If the spectra show that the star is wobbling, we get the mass of a planet. In particular, we can go to the Keck, get the period of the planet and get the epoch (where the planet is on its orbit). And that should exactly match what we have with Kepler. If they have the same orbital period and they occur at the same time, we can say yes, we have a confirmation and can announce it.”

Colder than a Dallas woman’s heart

We have a thin covering of ice and snow at the rancho where it’s 22 degrees F.