Friday, April 26, 2013

YES, LET'S capture an asteroid and bring it home.
MORE ON ObamaCare's White House circus. And in the center ring, ....
MISSION PIGEON IMPOSSIBLE.
TECHWISE CONVERSATIONS: Literature Is Hard to Remember—Compared to Facebook.

"And gossip is more memorable than the evening news." No surprise on the last part.
SO KICK SOME SAND over the Syrian 'red line' and move along. Nothing to see. Just move along.
HELL, NO: Should Lawmakers be Exempt from Obamacare?
ANN COULTER: "[O]ur immigration policies are designed to help other countries solve their internal problems by shipping their losers to us."

I'm sympathetic, but the flip side of the coin is those who came to the U.S. in poverty, and whose children and grandchildren have been extraordinarily successful. Sen. Ted Cruz is an obvious example, and my wife knows several more recent immigrants whose children have become quite successful.
SURPRISED? I'm not. A product of an all-American left-wing education.
HE DIDN'T BELONG TO THE TEA PARTY. How could he be a terrorist?
KEYSTONE II: now the EPA steps in. It's possible, I suppose, that the EPA is just butting in where they're not wanted, but I rather suspect this is a coordinated Obama administration effort to dissemble, delay, and hope America forgets.
TECHWISE CONVERSATIONS: IEDs in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Boston.
WHY TO VOTE 'NO' on the internet sales tax bill.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Syria crossed my 'red line' but I don't plan to do anything about it.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: On deportation.
IN AN EMERGENCY, even residents of blue states believe gun control means having one.
SPACEX ROCKET launches, hovers, and lands.



We will (to my mind, anyway) officially become a spacefaring nation when a rocket can launch vertically, tilt, move downrange a significant distance, reorient, and land vertically on a different pad.
JEFF JACOBY: There's nothing fair about the Marketplace Fairness Act.
HOUSE SPEAKER JOHN BOEHNER tweets on Congressional ObamaCare.
"IF THE WHITE HOUSE wants to know why their [gun control] agenda has stalled, they are not going to find the answers on MSNBC."
THOMAS SOWELL: Immigration Gambles.
Today, virtually every group has its own "leaders" promoting its separate identity and different way of life, backed up by zealots for multiculturalism and bilingualism in the general population. The magic word "diversity" is repeated endlessly and insistently to banish concerns about the Balkanization of America -- and banish examples provided by the tragic history of the Balkans.

We are importing many foreigners who stay foreign, if not hostile. Blithely turning them into citizens by fiat, rather than because they have committed to the American way of life, is an irreversible decision that can easily turn out to be a dangerous gamble with the future of the whole society.
Read it all.
OH, JOY: a car driven by Ethernet. I had one like that a few years back. Putting a foot on the brake blew the fuse to the brake lights, and putting the key in the ignition turned on the readling light in the rearview mirror.
Y'ALL CAN GO TO HELL; I'm goin' to Texas. Not yet, but I'm thinking about it.