For gems like this:
It is interesting that the movie [Transformers] made 403492 grillion dollars, whereas the Cruise / Redford / Streep oration about War Being Bad averaged thirty-seven cents per theater. As many have noted elsewhere at great length, anti-war movies are unpopular. The theories vary: the public is tired of the war, the movies are lousy, the public doesn
From Phil Bowermaster.
Last night on Brit Hume, he showed some polling results indicating that Iraq was no longer the first news item that jumped to peoples’ minds when thinking of what was news:
The extent to which the success of the troop surge in Iraq has driven the war off the front pages is clearly illustrated in a new survey.
The Pew Research Center reports just 16 percent of respondents say Iraq is the first news story that comes to mind now. That’s down from 55 percent in mid-January.
In fact, 33 percent say there is now too little coverage of the war
Well, this one sure fails the obituary test:
St. Johns County deputies recently launched an investigation into what they called one of the strangest accidents they’ve ever seen when a man was found dead after getting stuck in a cat door.
Good ol’ Florida.
This is (roughly) the ten-thousandth post on this blog, which I started a little over six years ago. (The exact numbers for both bloggiversary and numbers of posts are uncertain, due to the loss of some of my earliest posts in blogging software changeovers/upgrades).
When I started, back in October of 2001 (a few weeks after 911) I had no idea how long I’d do it, or where it would lead. It has provided a lot of entertainment and visibility for me, in ways I wouldn’t necessarily have anticipated. I hope that at least a few of my readers have been entertained and enlightened by the efforts.
Walter Pincus informs us that the Pentagon has gotten a hundred million for the Falcon program (though I’m not sure why the headline calls it a “space defense program”):
The agency describes Falcon as a “a reusable Hypersonic Cruise Vehicle (HCV) capable of delivering 12,000 pounds of payload at a distance of 9,000 nautical miles from [the continental United States] in less than two hours.”
Hypersonic speed is far greater than the speed of sound. The reusable vehicle being contemplated would “provide the country with significant capability to conduct responsive missions with quick turn-around sortie rates while providing aircraft-like operability and mission-recall capability,” according to DARPA.
The vehicle would be launched into space on a rocket, fly on its own to a target, deliver its payload and return to Earth. In the short term, a small launch rocket is being developed as part of Falcon. It eventually would be able to boost the hypersonic vehicle into space. But in the interim, it will be used to launch small satellites within 48 hours’ notice at a cost of less than $5 million a shot.
Does this mean renewed Air Force interest in AirLaunch and QuickReach, or does all of the launcher money go to SpaceX? And how are the funds apportioned between launcher and hypersonic vehicle?
Fred Thompson mops up the floor with Hillary (and other Dems) in Tennessee. Giuliani and Romney don’t fare so well (and I suspect that this will be true in the south in general).
This seems like an interesting harbinger to me. Does it mean that as the rest of the country gets to know him as well as Volunteers do, that his polls will improve similarly?
[Update a few minutes later]
In further Thompson news, here are some reported excerpts from a speech on the war that he just gave at The Citadel.
Patrick Ruffini writes that the Clinton administration would have been much less effective in its perfidy and corruption had blogs existed at the time. I’d go (and have gone) further than that. Had the blogosphere existed in anything resembling its current form in 1992, he couldn’t have been elected. But the web didn’t exist in any useful form fifteen years ago.
Patrick Ruffini writes that the Clinton administration would have been much less effective in its perfidy and corruption had blogs existed at the time. I’d go (and have gone) further than that. Had the blogosphere existed in anything resembling its current form in 1992, he couldn’t have been elected. But the web didn’t exist in any useful form fifteen years ago.
Patrick Ruffini writes that the Clinton administration would have been much less effective in its perfidy and corruption had blogs existed at the time. I’d go (and have gone) further than that. Had the blogosphere existed in anything resembling its current form in 1992, he couldn’t have been elected. But the web didn’t exist in any useful form fifteen years ago.