The Daily Weekly: carelessness (Seattle Weekly)#more

In The Daily Weekly: carelessness, Seattle Weekly blogger Philip Dawdy writes, "So I decided to rely on a mix of Metro buses and cabs and walking. I wanted to see how my work and social life would hold up. Besides, the Seattle liberal paradigm is that we should all be like Bus Chick--a really cute former Microsoftie who takes Metro everywhere and saves the Earth and honors the Kyoto Accords and tells President Bush and Chevron to stuff it.

I am here to tell you at the liberal paradigm is, in this respect, an abysmal failure. Or at least it was for me."

As the Marines say, Oooh-ra!

The American Thinker features an intriguing article entitled, "The African Connection: Rep. Jefferson and Joe Wilson". Worth reading, and remembering, if the Wilson-Plame civil suit ever goes to trial. The discovery phase of such a trial could contain more embarrassing revelations for the Wilson-Plame axis of weasels.

In Hot Points: A blog by Go Daddy CEO and founder Bob Parsons, Bob shares his life story and his sixteen useful and interesting rules to try to live by. Worth reading.

The money quote from Deroy Murdock on Iraq & WMDs on National Review Online: "So, Americans in Iraq have found 500 sarin- and mustard-gas-filled artillery shells, live botulinum toxin, cyanide salt, and nearly two tons of uranium. Yet, no, Virginia, there were no WMDs in Iraq."

BREITBART.COM - Plame Says Government Betrayed Her Trust

I think that there was a betrayal, but not of Plame by the government BREITBART.COM: Plame Says Government Betrayed Her Trust

The M-1 Abrams tank is now arguably the world's largest shotgun when equipped with these SoldierTech: the 120mm Canister Round

The AP reports that Valerie Plame and her nutball husband, Joe Wilson, are jumping the shark Former CIA Officer Sues Cheney Over Leak

We can only hope that this goes to trial and we get to see the discovery evidence that the defendant's request.

Full Disclosure - Bring on the press revelations. By Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens writes well as usual in his column for Slate Full Disclosure - Bring on the press revelations. While Hitchens defends the freedom of the press, he objects to comparisons between disclosure of Valerie Plame's supposed covert identity and genuine secrets during wartime.

Garry Kasparov reminds us that the Russian dalliance with freedom is nearing an end What's Bad for Putin Is Best for Russians - New York Times

I especially enjoyed his inclusion of a quotation by Winston Churchill in the opening paragraph, "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

OpinionJournal.com hits the nail on the head with Kimberley Strassel's article, Get Your Priorities Right. The bottom line: solve the most urgent problems, like HIV/AIDS, first. Solve the least urgent problems, like global warming, last.

Personally, I trust that technology will in due course solve both our energy and global warming problems if allowed to do so by government.

Thanks to Doc Searls, I now know where the Floyds were in 1881 http://www.spatial-literacy.org/UCLnames/Map.aspx?name=FLOYD&year=1881&altyear=1998&country=GB&type=name

Here's the link to conduct your own search.

Egad! Will wonders never cease! The Washington Post prints an editorial that--gasp--correctly states that "The inconvenient truth is that if we don't solve the engineering problem, we're helpless." Global Warming's Real Inconvenient Truth

Gaia lovers will find it inconvenient indeed to continue to deny that the world's population is going to increase regardless of the increasingly shrill, dire warnings they issue. Politics have no place in this discussion. Instead, sober planning to provide for quality of life for that future population as well as responsible husbandry of resources are the paths to accommodate the inevitable without devolving to war over resources.

After seeing Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and countless unmanned launches since I was a young lad awakened by my parents to watch them, I've never forgotten the sense of awe I first felt when watching Alan Sheppard's first flight. Godspeed to the crew of Shuttle Discovery: Florida Today: Space


Nice job on the photo, Reuters.

Blogging while recovering from back surgery hasn't dulled Captain's Quarters ability to connect the dots.

This photo looks more and more like the real thing every day.













Thanks to Jacques Itch for maintaining the photo on his site.

The anti-American New York Times takes somewhat less jaundiced look at the ethanol fever, and raises some interesting questions. For Good or Ill, Boom in Ethanol Reshapes Economy of Heartland

One key issue not discussed in the article in the Times is Ethanol's demand for water: "Resources becoming a concern, with new facilities requiring millions of gallons".

I know we're supposed to have World Cup fever despite the rioting fans. For those fans of rugby who feel left out, here's a post at Little Green Footballs that will make you laugh--and cry: The Scrum of the Incredibly Strange Fully Garbed Iranian Female Rugby Trainees

The revelations in the "drive by media" that we are using the law to connect to dots on terrorist activities--that would be called treason if we had the guts to use the term properly today--are instructive to the terrorists on our capabilities if not entirely revealing about the scope of our methods and means. Michelle Malkin posts a nice set of "blabbermouth posters" modernized to illustrate the costs of aiding the enemy. How about a nice big glass of.

Steve McIntyre at Climate Audit has an excellent post with even more interesting commentary on the release of the National Academy of Science's report,"Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years": NAS Panel Report
The comments in the post go on for days--more than 500 entries! After reading them, go to the home page for more recent entries on this very worthwhile site.

Steve is dead-bang right. So is the ordinary citizen who recalls that Greenland once produced abundant grapes and wine in the middle of the last millenium. So is the common man who asks, after reading the headlines that scream "Study says Earth's temp at 400-year high" thinks, "Wow, so before the industrial age really kicked in, the world was warmer than it is now. I wonder what caused that? And, what else aren't they telling us?"

One of the commenters linked to another useful site on the CO2 debate.

The NAS panel report can be found here.

Tom Evslin, my old friend from the late 80s when I was at Apple and he was CEO of Solutions, Inc., is right as usual when he takes on the question of Korea's nuclear capable long range missle capability: Fractals of Change: What To Do About North Korea

Connie Chung makes absolutely, positively her last gig...notable, if not memorable YouTube - memories