Tag Archives: 2009

White House Photo of The Day

Posted on October 29, 2009 | Comments Off on White House Photo of The Day

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Caption says the "reporters" are studying the inscriptions on the shovels for the ceremonial dirt-turning for a memorial tree for fallen American troops. You know, while Barry dithers about whether they need reinforcements or not. This is what the legacy media does these days instead of asking hard questions. Bush quietly met with the survivors of the fallen. Barry turns their deaths into a photo op and a tree-planting. Frankly I think he prefers them fallen. The fallen don’t talk back.

Via Mudville Gazette.

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Posted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Obamalot, Obituaries, Scribbles, The War, Troops

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AARP: Deaf

Posted on August 7, 2009 | Comments Off on AARP: Deaf

This eight-minute clip shows the main reason I trashcan AARP fliers when they come in the mail. It’s not really about seniors. It’s about whatever the execs and their lobbyists want to do with the dues money. And they proved it Tuesday in Dallas.

UPDATE:  About sixty thousand others also have gotten the message and stopped paying their dues. Or are switching. Competition is good.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana

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Austin Planetarium

Posted on May 11, 2009 | Comments Off on Austin Planetarium

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It’s a good year to try and raise enough to build an Austin planetarium. But the mere two thousand contributors, thus far, isn’t impressive. For that matter, planetariums aren’t that impressive. Fun to attend once in a while, if the lecturers can make it engaging. Otherwise… Even the Houston planetarium is reduced to showing stuff about the Titanic. There was a group years ago, probably not this same one, that wanted to buy an inflatable planetarium and move it around to community events. It never came off. I’ll wish this one better luck.

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Posted in Science/Engineering

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Let the flooding begin

Posted on March 12, 2009 | Comments Off on Let the flooding begin

We’re under a flood advisory from the Austin-San Antonio office of the National Weather Service :

"AT 644 AM CDT MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINS WERE FALLING AT RATES
APPROACHING AN INCH AN HOUR.  RAINFALL FROM YESTERDAY AND OVERNIGHT
HAS BEGUN TO SATURATE THE SOIL AND AREA CREEKS ARE RESPONDING.
PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL THIS MORNING WILL RESULT IN MORE RUNOFF."

LCRA Hydrologic gauges around Austin show almost two inches of rain at many spots in the past forty-eight hours. (Three to four inches seems to be the norm out in the hills.) And more rain is forecast through Saturday. Remains to be seen if this is the big one. But our droughts almost always end with floods.

MORE:  We’re unlikely, however, to get anywhere near the fifteen to eighteen inches we’d need to permanently end the drought, according to KVUE meteorologist Mark Murray. It will help green things up for spring.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate

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The drought continues

Posted on January 27, 2009 | Comments Off on The drought continues

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Here in Central Texas, anyhow. Severe to moderate. Yesterday’s drizzle, meanwhile, preceded a deep cold front. We’re back in the icebox.

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Posted in Rancho Roly Poly, Texana, Weather/Climate

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