Not the least of which will be because the Democrats in Washington State will be so well rested.
You see, the junior Senator from the state of Massachusetts, John Kerry, will be the Keynote Speaker at their upcoming party convention in Spokane.
I do hope that Red Bull is a sponsor. It is tough to watch a mannequin yammer for 30 minutes.
I’ve posted this before. Today it might be profitably read in conjunction with Squeaky’s post.
In the conflict resistless, each toil they endured,
’Till their foes fled dismayed from the war’s desolation:
And pale beamed the Crescent, its splendor obscured
By the light of the Star Spangled flag of our nation.
Where each radiant star gleamed a meteor of war,
And the turbaned heads bowed to its terrible glare,
Now, mixed with the olive, the laurel shall wave,
And form a bright wreath for the brows of the brave.–Francis Scott Key, from the poem that became The Star-Spangled Banner.
A sense of history is important, especially when contemplating one’s national anthem.
Every year, on the Tuesday after Memorial Day, I put a new one of these up at my desk after spending the weekend wearing it.
Freeman Dyson — yes, that Freeman Dyson — has some thoughts on the Global Warming Death Cult:
All the books that I have seen about the science and economics of global warming… miss the main point….There is a worldwide secular religion which we may call environmentalism, holding that we are stewards of the earth, that despoiling the planet with waste products of our luxurious living is a sin, and that the path of righteousness is to live as frugally as possible. The ethics of environmentalism are being taught to children in kindergartens, schools, and colleges all over the world.
Environmentalism has replaced socialism as the leading secular religion.
Ah, but Dyson isn’t unhappy about that:
I’ve been hearing nothing but mediocre reviews from trusted sources about the the latest from the Indiana Jones franchise.
Effects = Eh.
Story = OK
Villains = Double eh.
But this news might be enough to get me to go see it instead of waiting for the DVD release.
Members of Russia’s Communist Party are calling for a nationwide boycott of the new Indiana Jones movie, saying it aims to undermine communist ideology and distort history.
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” stars Harrison Ford as an archaeologist in 1957 competing with an evil KGB agent, played by Cate Blanchett, to find a skull endowed with mystic powers.
It hit Russian screens Thursday.
Communist Party members in St. Petersburg said on a web site this week that the Soviet Union in 1957 “did not send terrorists to the States,” but launched a satellite, “which evoked the admiration of the whole world.”
Moscow Communist lawmaker Andrei Andreyev said Saturday “it is very disturbing if talented directors want to provoke a new Cold War.”
These bozos are so used to getting their history from propaganda films that they seem to believe that Hollywood puts truckloads of actual historical facts in their products.
Its sad, really.
And with whom would this Andreyev character exactly be going to war against? Hollywood?
They’ve been making socialist propaganda films for years, you Soviet puke. But go right ahead and threaten them.
With this kind of reaction from the Russians, I can’t wait until the new Red Dawn hits theater screens.
Found at SayAnything
Of morning mouth after a night of Mediterranean food
It’s called brushing your teeth before going to bed, man.
Via Instapundit, I see that Robert Asprin, the noted science fiction author, has passed away.
I never read much of his stuff, but he did write one book that really deserves a wider audience: Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe.
Note the co-author, George Takei. Yes, the soon-to-be-married Sulu from the original Star Trek. This book’s cover art (from the Playboy Press edition) is so obviously an attempt to cash in on Sulu’s shirtless-swordsman turn in that one Star Trek episode that the novel has to have been originally intended as a script launching George Takei’s movie career. Too bad that didn’t pan out, because this would have made one hell of a movie. Combine plausible future ninja assassins, realistic robots, technical discussions of fencing, made-for-the-big-screen tech gadgets like a ninja invisibility suit, homicidal machines gone amok, and a climax revolving around Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics and you’ve got one of my favorite storylines, admirably told by Mr. Asprin. It could easily have been a screenplay — a very smart thriller — but doesn’t read at all like an adaptation.
It’s just a great standalone novel from the late ’70s, before science fiction authors (including Mr. Asprin) figured out they could make a bunch of money stretching their novels into bloated multivolume series paperbacks.
Really, this is a gem. Go buy it at Amazon’s ridiculously low prices, and savor it. Repeatedly.
I’ll have more Boomershoot pics up at various times Sunday and Monday; I’m still organizing, be patient please.
In the meantime, here’s a gorgeous S&W 64-5 with 4″ barrel. Click for bigger.
And here’s some sweet top-break Smiths:
Not mine; the S&W Model 586-7 (.357 Magnum, L frame, 7 shot) with custom Elk stag grips and its companion, the Boker Red Deer stag handled hunting knife belong to a fellow Calgunner — this is his carry gear for up in the Sierra. Now that’s a nice rig!
Just keep scrolling.
BTW, if all goes well, Squeaky will have her name added to this board next year. The reservations at Trib’s have been made.
