Smoking Hot
Smoking Hot
Tonight we smoked some pork loins with applewood and applejuice for steam, here’s the firebox.
Articles from May 2009
Remembering Tiananmen Square
Remembering Tiananmen Square
It was 20 years ago today, this event changed China forever.
Categories: China, Freedom |
Tags: Freedom, massacre, student, students, Tiananmen | 
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Spring Flower
Spring Flower
Photo taken while walking, this was snapped with the Canon.
Categories: Art, Blogging |
Tags: canon, flower, jpg, photo | 2 Comments »
Irreducible Complexity Debunked Again; DI Trashed Again
Irreducible Complexity Debunked Again
NCSE has a new video out covering evolution of the mollusk eye which debunks one of the ID/Creationist’s favorite claims: that the eye is just too complex to have evolved, that each step would need to provide a benefit to be selected for. They are right in the second part, but wrong [...]
Categories: Science |
Tags: creationism, evolution, intelligent design, irreducible complexity | 4 Comments »
Fossil or Naut? Updated
Fossil or Naut? Updated
After examining the odd lump of rock mentioned in the previous post with the magnifier from my Compact Oxford Dictionary I found all kinds of fossils.
So it’s not a fossil, it’s fossils. It’s crusted with Echinoids, Crinoids, and what appear to be some flatworm things (were there segmented varieties?) round things, and [...]
Categories: Photography, Science |
Tags: carboniferous, crinoid, fossil, fossils, nautilus, paleozoic | Comments Off
Fossil or Not?
Fossil or Not?
I found this buried in the backyard while mowing, Kasey did the initial excavation. It’s oddly shaped, and has crusty things all over the surface, so I’ve been trying to figure out what it is most of the evening. The question is whether it’s a fossil or not. More to come, in the [...]
Categories: Science |
Tags: fossil, yard | 4 Comments »
North Korean Nuclear Test
North Korean Nuclear Test
North Korea has performed another underground nuclear test, and test launched more missiles. Video from AP
President Obama’s Statement:
Today, North Korea said that it has conducted a nuclear test in violation of international law. It appears to also have attempted a short range missile launch. These actions, while not a surprise given its [...]
Categories: Military, Nuclear, Security |
Tags: korea, missile, north, Nuclear, Obama, sanction, test, un | Comments Off
Memorial Day 2009
Memorial Day 2009
The history of taps from Tapsbugler.com.
If you’ve been in the military or a military family you have mixed emotions about this 24 note song – heard at dusk it means end of day, you and yours are still alive. When heard at other times that meaning is changed.
Blue Kasey
Blue Kasey
If you look closely at a strand of Kasey’s seemingly gray fur with a magnifying glass it appears to scintillate with blue-green light. That’s the spectrum it reflects in, but in most lighting the blue green patches appear gray with only a dull bluish tint. Every now and then the light is right, as [...]
Categories: Art, Blogging |
Tags: australian, blue, gray, merle, shepherd | 4 Comments »
Watching This is Torture
Watching This is Torture
I detest lies.
Categories: Congress, Corruption, Pelosi, Politics |
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Memorial Day
Memorial Day
Some get confused between Memorial day and Veterans day, but there is a difference. On Veteran’s day we honor all veterans, those living and those who fell.
On Memorial, or Decoration day as it was previously known and as President Ronald Reagan preferred to call it, we honor those who have fallen. We honor them [...]
Categories: Freedom, Military |
Tags: Day, decoration, memorial | 1 Comment »
Pelosi vs The CIA [with Bond Theme Song]
A funny video send up up Nancy’s lies about the CIA, and her refusal to address the issue. Friday she once again ducked questions on the issue backed by a coterie of other Congresscritters, and then got out of DC as fast as she could…
Categories: Congress, Pelosi, Security |
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Murder Through Faith
Murder Through Faith
Madeline Kara Neumann; Photo credit AP/Daylife
A Jury has convicted Kara’s mother of second-degree reckless homicide after her daughter died from a medically treatable form of diabetes which her parents tried to treat through prayer. Story at FNN.
If you have faith and you value life, then you have to value what humans can [...]
Categories: Culture, Science |
Tags: convicted, faith, heal, healing, jury, kara, murder, neumann, prayer | Comments Off
Welcome Home Roxana Saberi
Welcome Home Roxana Saberi
No words needed here, Roxana says it well enough.
More from the BBC Article.
UPDATE: Roxana Saberi wins at Cannes Film Festival:
CANNES, France (AP) – A film co-scripted by U.S.-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi won a prize in one of the Cannes Film Festival competitions on Saturday.
“No One Knows About Persian Cats” won a special [...]
Categories: Freedom, Iran, Journalism |
Tags: free, home, land, of, roxana, saberi, the, us | Comments Off
Memorial Day Weekend Snow
Memorial Day Weekend Snow
We have a neighbor with a bigass cottonwood tree, and every year we get cottonwood snowbanks in May. This was taken with my Canon and the telephoto lens set to 300mm, kind of a cheaty way to get a sorta macro photo without a macro lens… as always click on the thumbnail [...]
Categories: Art, Blogging |
Tags: cottonwood, jpg, may, photo, seed, snow | Comments Off
Click and Clack Search for Cars of the Future
I’ve been a big fan of Click and Clack for years, in this full edition of NOVA they examine the cars of the future. They look at the horsepower phenomenon, and how SUV’s are the new station wagons to start with and then travel to Iceland to look at Hydrogen cars.
Categories: Economy, Energy, Global Warming, Security, Technology, environment |
Tags: auto, automotive, car, clack, click, Energy, environment, gas, Technology | Comments Off
Obama’s Open Government: Release Abu Ghraib Photos; No Visibility to Tarp Funds
Obama’s Open Government: Release Abu Ghraib Photos but No Visibility to Tarp Funds
I would laugh, but it’s not funny. President Obama is still waffling on releasing Abu Ghraib photos five years after the fact, and closing Gitmo, but at the same time the American public has pretty much zero visibility to where Tarp money is [...]
Categories: Afghanistan, Economy, Obama, Politics, Tax-cuts |
Tags: abu ghraib, government, Obama, open, tarp, tax, taxes | 2 Comments »
IDA: Darwinius Masillae
IDA: Darwinius Masillae
This is an important fossil find due the the age and completeness of the fossil, and coming from 47 MYA it’s at an important branch in evolution. It’s not the missing link, it’s another missing link. Please watch the report, keep in mind that the news story is a bit overdone as is [...]
Categories: Science |
Tags: darwinius, evolution, fossil, fossils, ida, masillae, Science | Comments Off
Walking to the Elephant Graveyard
Republicans Need a New Strategy III
In the last essay I spoke of how we are on desolate shore, our tide receded. The picture is bleaker than the allegory might initially suggest: the tide that put us so far ashore will not come back in tonight, tomorrow, or for a long time – our ship is [...]
Categories: Culture, Elections, Politics |
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