Just thinking
(Via the Drudge Report) If government run housing has problems like these, I really, REALLY don’t want to see government-run healthcare.
“Atlas Shrugged” was a warning, not a manual: Step away from the musical instument
You can not make this stuff up. Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several…
Oh, woes is me!
I’ve been blacklisted! Way to turn a negative into a positive. And thanks for all the traffic!
Always have a backup plan
Unless you’re NASA… Russia grounded its Soyuz rockets after one of the unmanned craft crashed following blast-off while carrying tonnes of cargo for the International…
No photo! No photo!
(Via the Drudge Report) Like I’ve said, the Republicans are just the flip side of the Democrats. A congressman from Ohio had cops grab the…
Today’s earthquake
Didn’t feel it myself, but others have. A report from one particularly hard-hit area is here. 🙂
I guess we learned nothing from Iraq after all
No one can be sure who controls the Libyan government’s weapons stockpiles, a stew of deadly chemicals, raw nuclear material and some 30,000 shoulder-fired rockets…
“Don’t call.”
(Via the Drudge Report) On the ready.gov website, you’re urged to “Get a kit; make a plan; be informed”. Apparently the use of your cell…
“Atlas Shrugged” was a warning, not a manual: The law is whatever we say it is…today.
(Via SurvivalBlog) The headline says it all: Long Beach Police Chief: we detain photographers, and I don’t have any guidelines for that policy, photography is…
29% of voters
Are gullible, media-led fools. This number isremarkably close to those who identify themselves as Democrats; surprisingly higher than those who identify themselves as “liberals”.
Woo-hoo! More jobs!
1.72 to be exact, for only $490,000, making 2,000 trees available to Nevada government entities. At this rate, we’ll have all those jobless folks back…
Is Obama in danger of becoming the Rodney Dangerfield of US Presidents?
(Via the Drudge Report) It sure seems that the guy gets no respect–look at the t-shirts seen during his current visit to Martha’s Vinyard. I…
“Atlas Shrugged” was a Warning, not a Manual: Where was Jack when the lights went out?
(Via the Drudge Report) In one of the climatic scenes of “Atlas Shrugged”, John Galt, Dagney Taggart and company are in a plane, flying over…
Robert A. Heinlein–still on topic after all these years
Heinlein once wrote: “Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded – here and there, now…
Wrong answer, Warren
(Via the Drudge Report) Taxing those who make $10 million or more at an even higher rate, as Buffett advised, would also do little to…
Well, well, well
Those striking Verizon workers are heading back to work without a new contract. And amazingly enough, it’s just before their union has to start coughing…
Good news! Unemployment in NC is up!
Because government workers are finally paying the price, too.
“Atlas Shrugged” was a Warning, not a Manual: Shortages
(Via the Drudge Report) They’re here and they’ll get worse, spreading from one class of items to another, until everything is in short supply. They…
Takin’ Care of Business
Netanyahu: The people who gave the order to murder our people and hid in Gaza are no longer among the living.
The family that shoots together
Survives the Zombie Apocalypse! Yesterday was our last chance to shoot together as a complete family before various schools and jobs demand out attention again.…
Let’s get this straight
(Via GunBroker) A straight trigger pull/press is important to pistol accuracy. Doug Koenig shows you how to do it.
I love it when geek and guns collide
Wired Magazine has a report on the Accuracy International LA115A3 sniper rifle, a user of which holds the current record for distance of snipe–2,475 meters.…
Do what!?!
(Via the Drudge Report) Ridley Scott is going to remake Blade Runner/film a s equal/prequel to Blade Runner? This will either be very good or…
Fading into the mist
(Via Timebomb 2000) Another member of the Greatest Generation has passed beyond our sight–Albert Brown, the oldest survivor of the infamous Bataan Death March, has…
Meanwhile, over at Joe Huffman’s place
Lyle’s sonnails it at the tender age of 17. Short, sweet and to the point. You really should go check it out.
Strike tactics
The Whited Sepulchre has an interesting post on the picketing tactics of the striking Verizon workers. All of this is of more than passing interest…
You have to love the Intertubz
(Via Timebomb 2000) Even though it can bring vast piles of excrement to our desktops, it also brings gems, likeJames Burke’s “Connections” series.
“I think we need to do something!”
So sayeth NC Rep. Fred Steen (R-Rowan)–even ifit’s stupid and runs up the already too high cost of government. There area already laws on the…
Nice to know
That I’m not the only one seeing it this way…John Walker reviews Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”.