Saturday - September 17, 2011

Tragedy in Reno

RENO, Nev. — At least three people are dead and more than 50 injured when a pilot lost control of a vintage World War II-era plane and crashed at an air show in Reno.

Twelve people are in critical condition, and the death toll is expected to rise, says CBS News correspondent Karen Brown.

Witnesses describe the scene as absolute carnage, reports Brown.

Thousands of fans come every year to the Reno Air Race to get the thrill of the event - like NASCAR on steroids, with planes going more than 500 miles per hour. But yesterday, thousands watched in horror when a P-51 Mustang pitched upward, rolled and plunged nose-first into the edge of the crowd of spectators.

“Boom! Right into the grandstands,” said photographer Jerry Maxwell. “I couldn’t believe it.”

The plane, flown by a 74-year-old veteran Hollywood stunt pilot, then slammed into the concrete in a section of VIP box seats and blew to pieces in front the pilot’s family and a tight-knit group of friends who attend the annual event in Reno.

Veteran airman Jimmy Leeward among dead in Reno

“It absolutely disintegrated,” said Tim O’Brien of Grass Valley Calif., who attends the races every year. “I’ve never seen anything like that before.”

Dozens of victims lay on the tarmac. The most critically injured, were airlifted to nearby hospitals, carried on stretchers. Others, clearly wounded, walked into emergency rooms.

Pilot Jimmy Leeward of Ocala, Fla., died in the crash Friday after apparently losing control of the P-51 Mustang, which spiraled into a box seat area at the National Championship Air Races at about 4:30 p.m. Friday. Leeward and at least two others were killed; dozens were injured.

Family members were at the air show and saw the crash, said Reno Air Races President and CEO Mike Houghton.
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Leeward’s pilot’s medical records were up-to-date, and he was “a very qualified, very experienced pilot,” Houghton said. He’d been racing at the show in Reno since 1975.
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Maureen Higgins, of Alabama, said Leeward was the best pilot she knew. She was at the air show and said she could see his profile while the plane was going down. He was married and his wife often traveled with him.

“He’s a wonderful pilot, not a risk taker,” she said. “He was in the third lap and all of a sudden he lost control.”

Authorities say it appears a mechanical failure with the P-51 Mustang — a class of fighter plane that can fly in excess of 500 mph — was to blame. Some credit the pilot with preventing the crash from being far more deadly.

“If he wouldn’t have pulled up, he would have taken out the entire bleacher section,” said Tim Linville, 48, of Reno, who watched the race with his two daughters.

“The way I see it, if he did do something about this, he saved hundreds if not thousands of lives because he was able to veer that plane back toward the tarmac,” said Johnny Norman, who was at the show.

Posted by Drew458     on 09/17/2011 at 09:03 AM   
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   Friday - September 16, 2011

Changing Your Perceptions

While Peiper enjoys a bit of vacation, I’ll do what I can to run a few stories from Europe and the UK. “Enjoys” might be a bit sarcastic - he emailed me that the flight out was exhausting, and a big hassle with INS and airport security. Funny how some of these stories from Over There are really about things happening Over Here, but our news tends to be awfully thinned out; a lot of the interesting bits get lost along the way.

Dinosaur feathers found in amber

In science fiction, amber preserved the DNA that allowed rebirth of dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. In real life, amber preserved feathers that provide a new image of what dinosaurs looked like.

“Now, instead of scaly animals portrayed as usually drab creatures, we have solid evidence for a fluffy coloured past,,” reports Mark A. Norell of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Examples of ancient feathers ranging from the simple to the complex are now being studied. They were preserved in amber found in western Canada, researchers led by Ryan C. McKellar of the University of Alberta report in Friday’s edition of the journal Science.

Amber, hardened tree resin, preserved a mixture of feathers from 70 million years ago. Other feathers contained in amber dating to 90 million years ago are less diverse.

Specimens include simple filament structures similar to the earliest feathers of non-flying dinosaurs – a form unknown in modern birds – and more complicated bird feathers “displaying pigmentation and adaptations for flight and diving,” the researchers reported.

Indications of feathers have been found on much older fossils, and the new discoveries indicate feathers continued to develop into modern form before the extinction of dinosaurs, explained Norell, who was not part of the research team.

A separate report by Roy A. Wogelius of the University of Manchester, England, published online June 30 by Science, reports the finding of trace metals in feather fossils, suggesting their colours included black, brown and a reddish-brown.

“Despite many reports over the past decade of feathered dinosaurs and new birds from China, only now are we beginning to understand just how diverse feather types were” millions of years ago, Norell said.

Well imagine that! Big pink fluffy tyrannosaurus rexes, all cute and fuzzy, 10 tons of mobile mayhem stomping through the primordial forests looking to bite your head off. But happily! That’s going to take a bit of mental image adjustment.

Something to think about: 70 million years ago was practically yesterday in dinosaur terms, being darn close to the end of their run. Birds are believed to have been around for as much as 150 million years, so go figure. Here’s a bit more, a short paper with pictures on dino-birdies that does note that feathers were around before birds were, on critters known as coelurosaurian theropods.

Posted by Drew458     on 09/16/2011 at 11:48 AM   
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Gee it’s good to be back home again

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three returning astronauts from the International Space Station touched down safely Friday in the central steppes of Kazakhstan, but not without rattling nerves after a breakdown in communications.

NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrei Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyayev landed some 150 kilometers (93 miles) southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan at 10 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) after 164 days in space.

Repeated calls to the Soyuz TMA-21 capsule from Mission Control in Korolyov, outside Moscow, went unanswered for several minutes, well after the craft had de-orbited. Communication was eventually established between the crew and an Antonov fixed-winged aircraft circling the landing site.

The landing was smooth in the area planned seconds before the expected arrival time.

Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, NASA’s Michael Fossum, and Satoshi Furukawa of Japan’s JAXA space agency remain onboard the international space station and are due to return to Earth on Nov. 22.

There will be some taut nerves in the run-up to that return, which Roscosmos announced Friday should be preceded by a manned Soyuz launch from Baikonur on Nov. 14. Earlier this week, Roscosmos announced that the launch was to take place on Nov. 12.

Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, had to postpone that launch from October amid concerns over a failed supply mission last month. Another delay would almost certainly mean the space station would have to be left unmanned. Astronauts have been living aboard the station, without interruption, for almost 11 years.

Since phasing out the U.S. space shuttle program earlier this year, NASA is relying entirely on Russia to get American and other astronauts to the international space station.

The capsule landed gently around 30 seconds before 10 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) in the barren steppe, throwing up a puff of dust, before rolling onto its side.

While it is not unusual for the capsule to be pulled onto its side, it makes pulling out the crew a slightly lengthier process.

Good. Glad to hear this. And I’m sure their Space Pens are still working just fine too.

Meanwhile NASA - the New American Special muslim outreach Association - continues to bleed geeks, and it looks like their future will now be robotic instead of manned space flight. That is, when they aren’t busy learning how to bow towards Mecca.

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Rolling Right Along

My team on the Tuesday night Greed League took all 7 points. That’s a small miracle. We didn’t win it so much as the other team lost it; we bowled pretty much on average but the other team bowled well under average. Not sure if this was a tactical move on their part to keep their averages down, or if it was just an off night for them. I’ll take the wins, thanks.

We were cracking jokes, and new team member Bob tells the one about NASA and the pen. It’s an old urban legend at this point, but the truth is that the Space Pen is real, it’s still made by the Fisher Pen Company, and a plain old pencil can actually be dangerous in a space capsule. I’m not sure if they quite believed me when I mentioned all of that, but you can still buy either the original Fisher AG-7 which is still in use today by all the space agencies, or the slightly cooler, better looking, and less expensive bullet version which comes in a neato box where the foam lining looks like a lunar landscape.  The story behind proprietor Paul Fisher is interesting reading too. Radical, Libertarian, engineer, and successful mass marketeer. Learning a bit about thixotropic non-Newtonian pseudoplastic fluids is also interesting; the ink in Fisher’s pens have this property, as does a large amount of the fluids in the human body.

So anyway, back to bowling. We took 5 out of 7 in my Thursday night Cheap League, and had a blast. We lost the first game by less than 10, and then rallied for an absolute slaughter in the second game, winning by more than 180. The 10th frame was a dream come true for me; I’ve spent years being on teams that just sputter to a dull finish in the 10th, but in this game my team was on fire. Out of 12 possible balls we got 9 strikes and a spare. It was stunning. Awesome. We got the third game too, proving to ourselves that we could overcome the psychological challenge of the massive automatic scores generated by the other teams 2 absentee bowlers, both of whom are great rollers. Plus the 29 pin handicap we gave them. Their lead bowler would throw one ball, and suddenly about 58 points would show up on the scoreboard. Yikes. But we did it.

I call the one group Greed League because they charge $22 a week, pay the league officers quite well, and give out a 1st Prize award to the winning bowlers that is $130 more than the year’s dues, and that’s for a men’s league of only 8 teams. It’s a money league and the competition is ferocious. I call the other one Cheap League because they keep costs to a minimum. This one is only $14 a week even though they pay the same alley fees as the first league. Their officers get paid less than half as much, and the prizes for the winners are really small. With 12 teams, it’s a mixed league that emphasizes the social over the competitive. So it’s my team’s plan to win this one while also being Miss Congeniality and making friends with everyone. And really, the bottom line isn’t all that different: my whiz-bang spreadsheet shows me that a $100 prize in this league gives you the same net expenditure as a $394 prize in Greed League, so why spend the money in the first place?

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Crowder Causing Trouble

Another new one from Steve Crowder, in which he reports Social Security to the SEC. It is a Ponzi scheme after all, and that’s illegal. Go Steve!

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Today’s Chess Problem 9/16/11

We’re on a roll! Two problems solved, two days in a row. Drew got the honors.

1b. Q f4-d4 for check
1w. R f1 - f2 to block

2b. R e8 - e1 for mate

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Yeah, but white could play smarter perhaps?
Posted by Drew458 United States 09/15/2011 at 05:48 PM

Your solution works as well. My book gives:

1. … Qd4+
2. Kh1 Qf2!

The book moves are prettier, but your solution solves the problem in the same number of moves. Which only goes to show that White is lost.

Well done Drew. You’ll be decent chessplayer before I die. And yes, you get bragging rights, and I’ll post this before the next problem.

The score is now

Wes: 01
Drew: 01
BMEWS: 2/6

Drew, you mentioned White could play smarter. Indeed. That’s why the book gives Kh1 vs. Rf2. You don’t want to willingly put your only defending piece in a horrible pin like that. A moot point in this case because 2. … Qf2! still wins.

Today’s problem is White to move and win. Again, weak back rank on Black’s part.

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   Thursday - September 15, 2011

We can hope

as today’s news tells us that at least two other green companies have gone belly up after receiving huge amounts of scamulous cash. And the ties to the White House get tighter every day.  More than half a billion rushed through so Joe B could have a photo op? Oy vey.

Meanwhile, Operation Fast & Furious continues to bubble merrily away.

And meanwhile the White House does the Sgt. Schultz tap dance to both tunes at the same time. “I hear nutzink! I see nutzink!  I know nutzink!!!!”

Damn funny, this all-knowing leader of ours. All this stuff going on, and he has no idea of any of it, nor do any of his immediate underlings. It’s like the whole middle chunk of the federal government went rogue, and nobody knew a thing about it!

It must all be Bush’s fault.

Oh, and now let’s add Lightsquared to the mix, and pressure from the White House to get a 4 star general to fudge his testimony

The four-star Air Force general who oversees U.S. Space Command walked into a highly secured room on Capitol Hill a week ago to give a classified briefing to lawmakers and staff, and dropped a surprise. Pressed by members, Gen. William Shelton said the White House tried to pressure him to change his testimony to make it more favorable to a company tied to a large Democratic donor.

It just gets deeper and deeper every day, don’t it??

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Today’s Chess Problem 9/15/11

I’m happy to report that yesterday’s problem was solved by Wes:

Black plays QxP-ck White RxQ
Black Plays R-b1-ck White R-g1 or if R-f1 then Rxf1-ck R-g1
Black Plays RxR Mate
Posted by Wes United States 09/15/2011 at 04:26 PM

We have a winner!

1.  … Qxg2+
2. Rxg2 Rb1+
3. any White Rook blocking only leads to mate.

Well done!

Wes, all you get is bragging rights. And I’ll feature your solution on the next problem. But we seriously need to discuss your chess notation.
Posted by Christopher United States 09/15/2011 at 04:59 PM

Today’s is a little trickier, though I’m sure Wes will get this one too.

Black to move and win. White’s back rank is weak.

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Torricelli Option Alive And Well In NJ, via PA

Five months after he declared his candidacy for state Senate, Carl Lewis, the Olympic gold medalist, finally made it onto the November ballot today.

After a legal battle that overshadowed Lewis’s candidacy, a three-judge federal appeals court panel [ in PA ] voted 2-1 to overturn Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno’s April decision that he did not meet the four-year residency requirement for state Senate candidates, and a lower federal court decision upholding it.

In a court order issued about six hours after Lewis made a list-ditch appeal, the panel said the state “failed to demonstrate compelling state interest in the application” of the residency requirement.

The campaign manager for Lewis, Chris Walker, summed it up succinctly: “We won.”

Burlington County Republicans, who initiated the suit, were outraged.

Lewis, 50, grew up in Willingboro but spent most of his adult life in Texas and California. He contends that he returned to New Jersey in 2005, which is when he bought two condominiums, one for himself and another for his mother. Two years later, he bought a home in Medford.

Republicans challenged Lewis’s residency shortly after he announced his candidacy. Although an administrative law judge dismissed the challenge, Guadagno, acting as secretary of state, overturned the decision and ruled that Lewis did not meet the residency requirement, in part because he voted in California as recently as 2009.

Since then, the case has been wending its way through federal courts. Last week, a district judge refused to put Lewis on the ballot.

Judge Thomas Ambro, who wrote the decision, was skeptical of the state’s case, saying the requirement exists to make sure candidates know their districts and voters know the candidates.

“It’s hard to say that this candidate doesn’t know the local issues affecting the 8th Legislative District, and it’s kind of hard to say the voters don’t know who he is,” Ambro said.

If you have plenty of money, you can own homes wherever you want. So owning a home in one state, and paying taxes on it, is no proof of residency. Likewise, you can have bank accounts in whatever state you wish, so they’re no proof. Utility bills and credit card bills may be sent to those other homes in other states, and even paid for by a bank account in that state (easy enough thing to do with a bill paying service or attorney, which rich folks can afford). You may have a license to drive in more than one state? I don’t know - it used to be that way, but by now most states have probably cracked down on that. But you can’t be registered to vote in more than one state. Ever. So when push comes to shove, voter registration is the ultimate trump card, even if you don’t vote. This is the law in this state, and that is the key piece of residency proof for all candidates everywhere.

Just last week Lewis was removed from the ballot by a federal judge who upheld NJ aSoS Guadagno’s decision to deny a previous lower judge’s decision to allow him on the ballot in the first place:

“The plaintiff is a man of great and inspiring achievement, justifiably held in high regard, and possessed of promise for the future,” [federal judge] Hillman wrote in a decision that was filed Tuesday and made public Wednesday.

Still, he wrote, the “residency requirement applies to all, regardless of economic status, race, creed, color, age, gender, and political affiliation.”

“Judge Hillman’s decision said it all,” he said. ”The state’s constitutional residency requirement applies to everyone equally, even celebrities like Carl Lewis. We’ve said from Day One that Mr. Lewis clearly did not meet the legal residency requirement, and that he wasn’t above the law just because his name was Carl Lewis.”

The dealine for preparing ballots for the general election is Sept. 19, but in the past late changes have been made.

In 2002, former U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli dropped his re-election effort a little more than a month before voters were to go to the polls amid ethical questions. The state Supreme Court upheld the 11th-hour switch, which was challenged by Republicans, leading the way for Frank Lautenberg, who had retired from the Senate, to replace Torricelli on the ballot.

And of course the argument from the Dems is specious misdirection: Um, it doesn’t hurt anybody! (well, other than the general moral pain we all suffer when government is corrupt enough to break it’s own laws for the benefit of the rich and famous):

“I think the judge signaled his thoughts on the matter early on and his intent was set forth in the initial opinion,” he [Lewis’ attorney William Tambussi] said. “There is absolutely no demonstration of any harm to the state of New Jersey with Carl Lewis being on the ballot.”

But hey, when you’ve got a bench of 3 where one judge is a Clinton appointee, and the other is an Obama appointee, rules can be whatever you want. Here it is in black and white from the decision: our penumbra trumps your law:

In other words, our idea of what is in the best interest of the state is more important than the laws of that state. Read more on that here, with a link to the decision synopsis, and the even higher court cases that struck down the lower court precedence that this panel of judges based it’s decision on.

Next court up the ladder please!

NJ Lt. Governor and acting Secretary of State Kim Guadagno’s original reasoning from back in April below the fold. Damn, she’s got him by the warm and hairies!

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Another Shut Up Shout Out

PETER KENNY, MANAGING DIRECTOR, KNIGHT CAPITAL, JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY:

“We got a lot of data that cannot be spun in any way other than we are continuing to see weakness, we are continuing to see a complete dearth of growth and frankly, it’s not a surprise. Markets reacted pretty much in-line, these numbers are not good, but they are not apocalyptic either. They are not good, they are trend confirming, so the recent rally we’ve seen this week is probably going to come under a little bit of pressure.”

“Look, these numbers don’t instill confidence and any policy wonk that comes on the tube that tries to make these numbers look better than they are—there is nothing but sellers on the Street.

The article goes on to quote a half dozen or so Big Guns who all say pretty much the same thing: it’s not unexpected, the current policies are not working, and that the various numbers that the market tracks are not in a happy place. As one put it, a slight uptick in one of the future indices is “a small dead cat bounce”.

But I just couldn’t resist tweaking the ChiTrib for their lack of proofreading. Quick, somebody report me to AttaaaaaaaaaaackWaaaaaaaaatch for non-Marxist attitudes against the 5 Year Plan!

Posted by Drew458     on 09/15/2011 at 12:10 PM   
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Oh Shut Up Already

“Audience at Tea Party Debate Cheers Leaving Uninsured To Die”By Rachel Rose Hartman, Political Reporter | The Ticket – Tue, Sep 13, 2011

If you’re uninsured and on the brink of death, that’s apparently a laughing matter to some audience members at last night’s tea party Republican presidential debate.

Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a doctor, was asked a hypothetical question by CNN host Wolf Blitzer about how society should respond if a healthy 30-year-old man who decided against buying health insurance suddenly goes into a coma and requires intensive care for six months. Paul--a fierce limited-government advocate-- said it shouldn’t be the government’s responsibility. “That’s what freedom is all about, taking your own risks,” Paul said and was drowned out by audience applause as he added, “this whole idea that you have to prepare to take care of everybody …”

“Are you saying that society should just let him die?” Blitzer pressed Paul. And that’s when the audience got involved.

Several loud cheers of “yeah!” followed by laughter could be heard in the Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds in response to Blitzer’s question.

Paul disagreed with the audience on that front. “No,” he responded, noting he practiced medicine before Medicaid when churches took care of medical costs--a comment that drew wide audience applause. “We never turned anybody away from the hospital.”

Conservative Andrew Sullivan writing for The Daily Beast’s The Dish Tuesday noted that the United States obligates society to save someone in an emergency room. “America, moreover, has a law on the books that makes it a crime not to treat and try to save a human being who walks into an emergency room. So we have already made that collective decision and if the GOP wants to revisit it, they can,” Sullivan wrote.

Sullivan also decried the audience reaction, writing: “Maybe a tragedy like the death of a feckless twentysomething is inevitable if we are to restrain healthcare costs. But it is still a tragedy. It is not something a decent person cheers.”

Wow, what a weak-ass Appeal To Authority. And since when is leftist swisher Andrew Sullivan a Conservative? He’s about as conservative as Charles Johnson at LGF is these days: NOT.

Talk about media bias. This is just as twisted in it’s own projectionist way as Obama’s jack booted AttackWatch site, his latest creepy, authoritarian nutjob Fight the Smears, rat out your neighbors, CCCP inspired horseshit campaign, which is of course directly linked to a sub page that spreads smears against the Right. Hey, isn’t that ironic???

What a turd. Who, Obama or Hartman? Yes.

I can’t be bothered to fisk the pants off of this bit of garbage and it’s author, so I’ll hand the task over to the pros(e). Here’s Ann:

Liberals are on their high horses about a single audience member at CNN’s Republican debate whom they believe wanted a hypothetical man without health insurance in a hypothetical coma to die—hypothetically.

(Democrats want people in comas to die only when they are not hypothetical but real, like Terri Schiavo.)

I concur with the audience member who shouted “Yes!” This has nothing to do with any actual people in comas—the people Democrats want to kill—it’s just a big “screw you” to the moderator.

Following up on Brian Williams’ showboating questions at last week’s Republican debate about the execution of the innocent and starving children with distended stomachs, this week, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer launched his question about an imaginary comatose man without health insurance.

As Rep. Ron Paul began to discuss the pitfalls of collectivism, Blitzer kept interrupting him, concluding with, “But Congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die?”

That’s when an audience member yelled out “Yes!”—allowing liberals to luxuriate in self-righteousness, the likes of which we have not seen since the Jersey Girls demanded a Homeland Security Department be created because their husbands died.

Normal people are sick of liberals’ emotional stories that play to soccer moms, but always seem to pave the way for disastrous social policies that benefit only left-wing special-interest groups.

Someone ought to calculate the carnage liberals foisted on this country beginning in the late-’60s with their “compassionate” approach to rapists and serial killers like McDuff—consequences that liberals were fully immunized from in their safe, ivory tower neighborhoods. Let’s ask Michael Dukakis to run the numbers.

Regarding Williams’ baby seal question about starving children in Texas with distended stomachs: No one is starving in this country. The only bloated stomach problem affecting America’s poor is a medical condition known as “obesity.”

According to the General Accounting Office, in 2008, the federal government had 18 separate food programs that spent $62.5 billion each year to feed the poor. And that was before the Food Stamp President assumed office.

I would venture to guess that the only children in America who have ever suffered from kwashiorkor, the condition that causes distended bellies, were victims of child abuse—at the hands of the sort of monsters Williams is so opposed to executing.

People aren’t buying the left’s emotional appeals about imaginary victims anymore. The audience member’s “Yes!” was a way of laughing in the moderators’ faces for trying to pull that crap.

PS - What is wrong with the GOP and their bringing in uber-leftists to moderate their debates? Wolf Blitzer? Oh puh-lease. Wassamatter, they couldn’t get Dan Rather? Was there no translator available for Fidel Castro? Michael Moore out of town? Crivens.

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   Wednesday - September 14, 2011

Barack Hussein Obama Apologizes…

One if by Spanish…
Two if by Japanese…

Posted by Christopher     on 09/14/2011 at 05:52 PM   
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My reply to flapjawman

Those of you who’ve been here for awhile know flapjawman is a friend of mine since the early 70s. Here’s my reply to one of his emails:

I don’t believe the Dems will survive 2012.

The question is: Will we put up an American candidate? Or just the latest RINO.

Reagan showed the way. Unapologetic conservative positions win every time. Even the new RINOs like Scott Brown know that. I may be too hard on Scott Brown, he’s a Massachusetts Republican. By definition a NE Republican will be more socialist than the rest of us.

I believe we can keep the House, recapture the Senate…

But the last thing I want is a President who will ‘reach across the aisle’.

As Dr. Thomas Sowell has written:

“Much as we may deplore partisanship in Washington, bipartisan disasters are often twice as bad as partisan disasters — and this is a bipartisan disaster in the making.”

Me? I want more partisanship. George Washington did not talk to the British. He shot them. He wasn’t ‘bipartisan’.

The Democrats are a more dangerous enemy than Islam. We can deal with an external threat. We’ve problems with dealing with internal threats. Especially if the leader of that threat lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

I honestly believe Obama is our biggest national threat.

See this.

Christopher

SNOFU! –– Situation Normal, Obama Fucked Up!

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Today’s Chess Problem 9/14/11

First, let me give the solution to the previous problem.

1. Qg4 g6
2. Qe6+
(the Q is immune from capture since then White plays Rxd8+ with mate to follow.)
2 … Kh8
3. Qf6+ wins because the Q is still immune for the same reason as above.

Sorry for missing a few days. Between church and job hunting I was busy. On to today’s problem:

This time Black is to move and win. We’re still looking at weak back ranks, in this case, White’s is weak.

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4. Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere

It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.

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