Wednesday, January 14, 2015

HAVE THE FOX HUNTERS been trapped?
REAL GUN CONTROL: armed customer thwarts robbery. And inspires woman to obtain a concealed carry permit.
JIMMY CARTER: Jews are safer in France than they are in Israel. Uh, they why are they leaving France for Israel in droves?

Bonus question: Why do we elect morons to the Presidency every 30 years?
YES. NEXT QUESTION. Is “free” community college just another out-of-touch elitist scheme?

Taking your tax money to give you something 'free' that you don't need, don't want, can't afford, and is contrary to your economic interest.
'WELLNESS OR ELSE': Coming soon to a workplace near you.

You will like it.
WHITE HOUSE to propose new methane rules. Cattle and sheep will no longer be permitted to fart outdoors....
HEALTH CARE RATIONING: Don’t send ambulances to terminally ill patients.
AMERICA, you elected an empty suit addicted to sports.
POP QUIZ: Are you a (1960s) liberal?

I agreed, at least in part, with 14 of the 39 propositions. My 'agreements', such as they were, were those that dealt with individual freedoms and discrimination. The others, not so much. So I guess that, even in the l960s, I wasn't much of a liberal.
REACTIONS TO PARIS: The good, the bad, and the crazy. The U.S., as is its wont, got the crazy.
DEMOCRATS try to take credit for "drill, baby, drill".
"America is the No. 1 producer of oil, No. 1 producer of gas. It's helping to save drivers $1.10 a gallon at the pump over this time last year," [President Obama] told a crowd last week in Detroit.
Except that the Democrats are "taking credit for an increase in production that has happened largely on private land and had nothing to do with federal government policies."
POOR PLUTO: New Horizons Spacecraft May Not Be Enough To Reinstate Pluto’s Planetary Status.
DNA-TAGGED NANOPARTICLES can quickly identify blood-borne pathogens. More please.
RUN, SCOTT, RUN: Considering the current state of most colleges, having no degree could be a point in Gov. Walker's favor.
Considering the current state of most colleges (and of their graduates) this could be a point in his favor.

As institutions, colleges have been going downhill since the late 1960’s, but in recent years they have seemed like asylums run by the inmates, with their passion for courses in race and gender studies, free speech suppression, and the Duke LaCrosse scandal, the Penn State pedophilia disaster, the Rolling-Stone-gang-rape fiasco at the University of Virginia, and the performance art staged by a Columbia student who drags a mattress around with her on campus to protest an alleged act of rape. In fact, college seems the place to avoid if you value your checkbook or your sanity, and the academic definitions of intellect don’t seem to go far in real life.

The two greatest presidents in American history (Lincoln and Washington) did not get through grade school, and the only other one to have seen the country through a genuine life-and-death crisis was called a “third rate intellect” by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and “Feather Duster” by his Roosevelt relatives, for his unbearable lightness of mind. But he was weighty enough to sense early on that Hitler meant business, to keep Britain afloat by his ‘Lend Lease’ provision, and to authorize the Manhattan Project that ended the Pacific War months sooner than otherwise possible.

Truman the dropout set in place the policies by which the Cold War would be won later on by Ronald Reagan, a graduate of a very small school no one had heard of who was described later in life as a dunce.
Walker is in very good company....
A GOOD-NEWS STORY: Even storm troopers have hearts.
SPACE-X: Yes, it was a success.
UNFORTUNATELY TRUE: Too many Americans are morons. Click through for other thoughts from Townhall's Shawn Mitchell.
THE SERVICE MODULE of China's lunar orbiter is back in lunar orbit.

What's amusing (in a ghastly sort of way) is that this is a Chinese website and it correctly used the term 'braking' to describe the deceleration required to transfer to a circular orbit. The English-language source I used for the link called it a 'breaking' maneuver.