Friday, September 06, 2013

IT'S MAGIC: Why you can't use cell phones on airplance (language warning).
IF IT'S POSSIBLE to separate the jihadists from the 'democratic' muslims, I could support quietly arming the 'moderates' and letting them fight it out.

Unfortunately that's easier said than done.
NEWT GINGRICH: Ronald Reagan would say no. I agree.
DRONE MAIL: robot 'courier pigeons' now delivering small packages in China city.
VIRGIN GALACTIC'S SpaceShip Two cruises to supersonic speeds in second flight test. To date, SpaceShip Two is touted as a 'tourist service' for wannabe astronauts, but it seems to me that it could be commercially viable for intercontinental travel -- much like the Concorde used do.
COUNTERINTUITIVELY RISKY: "[A]fter 99,000 Syrian dead, red-lines, and orders for Assad to abdicate, finally shooting off some missiles at who knows what for the benefit of no one quite knows over the principle of what we are not quite sure may make the mess even worse."
MORE THAN HOT AIR: a massive cargo-carrying zeppelin that can take off and land with the precision of a helicopter.
SYRIA AND OBAMA: Wrong time, wrong place, wrong plan, wrong man.
ON CLIMATE CHANGE: Left gives reality a failing grade.
NASA AIMING FOR MOON AGAIN, this time from Virginia (a first). With a little luck, we might be able to see it from our house tonight.
MORNING EXAMINER: Majority of House now leaning against bombing Syria. I agree; like many in the GOP, I simply can't trust the Obama administration not to muck it up.

The American public seems to agree.
OCCASIONALLY, justice is done. Not often enough.
OBAMA TO ADDRESS NATION ON SYRIA NEXT TUESDAY. Can't do it on Saturday, Sunday, or Monday; it would interfere with the football games.
THE PRESCIENCE of the Duranty Prize for mendacity in journalism.
ANTHONY WEINER gives hot dogs a bad name.