The full text of Bush’s speech, via Instapundit. I read it but I didn’t watch it. I still like his resolve, indeed, I’m grateful for it. But I long ago despaired of W as a communicator. Let’s hope and pray our next president is much better at it, whichever side wins. We need it, I think.
MORE: VDH on the speech: "So the country looks to Iraq and our maverick General Sherman outside Atlanta, where the battlefield, as it always does, will sort out the politics."
The daily made the cut, coming in at No. 8, even getting praise for letting anyone blog on its site. Despite still using what Instapundit calls "a lame and buggy registration scheme." Who knows, maybe they’ll drop it, like I’s Knoxville News Sentinal (also on the list at No. 6) did.
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Posted in Blogosphere, Scribbles, Texana
Tagged 2007, Austin American-Statesman, The Bivings Report, Top Ten Newspaper Websites
The annual Perseids meteor shower is in play, with dozens of shooting stars and some fireballs each hour after dark (best after midnight), leading to a peak of potentially hundreds on Saturday-Sunday and Sunday-Monday nights. Best to get away from urban lighting, but some will be visible even within the urban halo. For what should probably be the best, look east before sunrise on Monday morning.
They went down to the Redwings, 16-15, in the 2007 AA-7 championship game, confirming the final standings of the regular season. A couple of untimely strikeouts and some confused fielding got the better of the dogs. Mr. Boy hit three more big ones, but only one was an RBI. These are fat pitches, of course, thrown by their coach. Next year, when Mr. B. says he wants to play again, they will be player pitches for the last half of the season, and continue each year thereafter until they’re old enough that the player pitcher has some control and can fan batters. Nice trophy, though, even for the runners-up, and the team party at Lake Austin is later today. People talk about berserk parents at little league games, but, in two seasons now, I’ve never seen any. The rules are understood: criticize a player, coach or umpire and you get ejected from the park. We cheered for two of the wings, when they batted, one in Mr. B.’s class, and both in his cub scout den. Other Muckdog parents did the same for their sons’ friends.
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Tagged 2007, AA-7 Championship, Muckdogs, Northwest Austin little league
May is fixin’ to live up to her name. Some big storms that have been edging closer all week are due to poke their noses into our atmosphere by this evening, possibly strong, possibly bringing heavy rain. Tonight through Thursday night. Figures. I finished the backyard yesterday. Nothing makes St. Augustine grow fast like a big rain.
UPDATE Line of storms–stretching from Georgetown to San Antonio–is moving in at 10:45 p.m. An hour later, the rain had moved on and the rancho had a mere tenth of an inch. Ho hum.
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Posted in Texana, Weather/Climate
Tagged 2007, Central Texas weather, May, St. Augustine, Texana
Saturn’s shadow stretches out across its rings on Jan. 19, 2007. This natural-color view, taken from about 764,000 miles (1.2 million kilometer) away by the Cassini spacecraft was released Thursday. Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute.
Total lunar ecplise Saturday evening won’t hardly be visible at the rancho, beginning as it does in daylight and ending about dusk. But you folks on the east coast and in Europe will enjoy it. Directions and more here./Sky & Telescope photo by Richard Tresch Fienberg.
UPDATE The Brits liked it, anyway.
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Posted in Science/Engineering, Space
Tagged 2007, March 3, total lunar eclipse
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