Tuesday, November 27, 2012

MSNBC just can't let go of the race card deck. It's little wonder that no rational American will watch that channel.

But the Washington Post obviously does....
WORLD'S OLDEST digital computer restarted.


Only 61 years ago. Today that much computing power could be put on the point of a needle without disturbing the dancing angels.
ANNIE SHOOT YOUR GUN:


My granddaughter at the shooting range over Thanksgiving. As I recall, it was 18 of 20 shots on the target at 7 yards. She was so excited to be shooting that as soon as a magazine was emptied, she'd do her own reloading rather than wait for me.

STARVE 'HEALTHILY': NYC sends health teams to post-Sandy food handouts.
LEFTY PLAYBOOK: WalMart doesn't play their employees enough. Neither does Papa John's.

Note the common theme: social justice is more important than mere jobs.
THOMAS SOWELL: Hotels and Hassles. It's not just hotels; it's cars, computers, software, cell phones, ad infinitum. Almost every time I buy something new, be it a car, a computer, a cell phone, or a service, I have to either accept a feature I don't want or spend an inordinate amount of time disrupting the defaults to get back to the functionality I do want.
JONAH GOLDBERG: "Maybe Obama can go to black America for something more than votes every four years."

Unlikely; all Obama wants is votes.
PASSIVE RESISTANCE: How states can disarm ObamaCare.
STILL CLINGING TO GUNS AND RELIGION: Concealed Carry Training Offered by ... Churches?
AT LEAST ONE CARTOONIST GETS IT.



I posted here.
OH, YES, ObamaCare will bend the cost curve ... up. Here's how.
FAILURE: Unions in America today. Hunter pulls no punches.
ONLINE SHOPPING is bad for the environment.
IF AT FIRST you don't succeed, then ask for demand things to be given to you.
THE OLDEST BOEING AIRLINER IN FLYING CONDITION: The four passengers are in two closed cabins, and the lone pilot is in an open cockpit -- maybe so the air will make him stay awake!



The airplane is in Spokane, WA and is the oldest airworthy Boeing in the World.

After eight years of repair and rebuilding and 8,000 hours of toil the Boeing 40C rolled out last winter as a finished airplane. They had to wait a few weeks for the snow to melt to fly this baby. They received their Standard Airworthiness Certificate from the FAA and completed the engine pre-oil and fuel flow tests for the first of the taxi tests.

Facts for the Boeing 40 project:
The airplane weighs 4,080 lbs empty and has a gross weight of 6,075 lbs.

It is 34 feet long and 13 feet tall with a wingspan of over 44 feet.

Wing loading is 10 lbs per sq ft and power loading is 10 lbs per HP.

The wings have 33,000 individual parts in them.

It should cruise at 115 mph using 28 GPH and 32 GPH at 120 mph.

It carries 120 gallons of fuel in three tanks.

Over 221 gallons of dope/reducer and 120 yards of 102 ceconite fabric; twelve gallons of polyurethane paint for the sheet metal; and three-hundred-and-fifty 2" brushes were used to apply six gallons of West Systems epoxy.

One-hundred-eighty-one rolls of paper towels were needed for cleanup.

There were a total of 62 volunteers who worked on the project to some degree. Twenty-one of the volunteers did a significant amount of the work and nine of the volunteers worked continuously during the eight-year project.
From my email.
OH, NO! He took my job.
BY ALL MEANS, let's tax Matt Damon.
NEW YORK GETS $27 million in federal funds to hire 5,000 Sandy cleanup workers. But they won't let homeowners back in their own homes to protect them from looting.