Not thinking it through

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Oscar Gordon

Marko pointed this out, so did Raganwald.

Who lotta Duh!

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Samantha Mathis is the New Dagny Taggart

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Alaska

…for Atlas Shrugged Part 2, which is filming now with significant cast changes.

More on Samantha’s casting here. The second film of the trilogy is expected to be longer due to audience feedback, incorporating more of the plot details from the books. This is a very good thing, IMO.

As for the casting, Taylor Schilling did a decent job, but she just wasn’t quite Dagny to me. And whether it was due to the direction, hasty filming schedule  or the script, I didn’t feel one bit of chemistry between Dagny and Rearden in the first film.

On a pop trivia note, Mathis is the daughter of Bibi Besch, so that makes for one degree of separation between this Dagny and Captain Kirk, as Besch played the mother of Kirk’s son…

Hmm….

Father… Son… Daughter?

Why, I believe I’ve stumbled onto the capitalist/heroic equivalent of Philip Jose Farmer’s Tarzan/Batman connection!

Dagny Taggart is James T. Kirk’s secret love child, transported back through time to be raised by the Taggarts and fulfill her destiny at the head of Taggart Transcontinental….

Don’t believe me? Read this and tell me that Dagny doesn’t share many of Kirk’s personality traits.

 

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Thank you, Intarwebz

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Phil Kadath

For this simple explanation

It all seems so simple now.

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Packing the Pack

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Oscar Gordon

Not sure what to take camping, or how big of a bag you need, or what you’ll need for what environment?  Then check out Campmor’s BackPack Checklist!

Good place to start when putting your bug-out bag together, as well.

 

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It figures

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Phil Kadath

That a standard grade /b/tard was able to figure it out before the “smartest” of Democrats

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Science Fair WIN!

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Oscar Gordon

This is truly awesome, especially if you are a fan of Time Bandits.

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Have Gun, Will Travel

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Phil Kadath

My PoliSci 202 essay has finally been graded and returned. And as promised, it is posted and now resides below the fold.

If you want a link or other connection to any of the info presented within the essay, send me an email or leave a comment with the notation (not italicized) and I’ll send it your way.

I’ll put the grade I received at the end of the post. I was happy enough about it. Yes, the title of this post was the title of the essay.

So, without further ado,

Continue reading →

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What was the Panic of 1857 about, again?

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Alaska

It now seems that the 21st century will resemble the 19th and early 20th centuries, with periodic panics and runs on financial institutions, perhaps followed by deflationary collapses. In the euro zone, these problems have plagued banks and entire countries, like Greece and Portugal. The “country as bank” is a new and not entirely reassuring catch phrase, and it shows that the problem goes beyond the private sector.

–The Age of the Shadow Bank Run, by Tyler Cowen in Saturday’s New York Times.

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Apple’s FaceTime is Awesome for the Deaf Community

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Alaska

My brother-in-law Sammy Ruiz, former World Deaf Magician, is staying with us while in town for a magic performance. The first thing he asked me for was the login and password to our in-home Wi-Fi network so he could use FaceTime to connect with his wife.

FaceTime’s been a fantastic addition to our own lives, but I’d not realized how much more value it adds to the lives of deaf couples, who can sign away over thousands of miles without effort. Really fun to see.

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Dig, if you will, a picture…

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Phil Kadath

Attorney General Eric Holser, appointed by President George W. Bush, is amidst a scandal wherein the Justice Department, the BATFE and the Department of Education approved a program that ferried thousands of firearms into schools in advance of a federally funded and sponsored marksmanship program to start in the Fall of the 2012-13 school year.

Sadly, a student in one of Boston’s high schools, who was staying after school for disciplinary reasons, saw the rifles being offloaded and when no one was looking, stole one and used it the next day to kill a teacher.

All of the above named agencies are stonewalling the congressional investigation, sometimes turning over hundreds of pages which are completely blacked out and using “Executive Privilege” as their reasoning.

During this investigation, a video tape from 1996 surfaces showing the current AG stating that he would like to be able to “brainwash people into thinking about firearms in a vastly different and good way.”

What do you think the left’s and the media’s (though I repeat myself) reaction would be?

Well, unless they want to admit they’re hypocrites, their reaction would be to shrug their shoulders and say little to nothing, since that is what John Aravosis and his sycophants at the inappropriately named AmericaBlog are doing about the story current NOT running in the MSM because it’s racist.

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