THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Soothing little Bach piece here, though I wonder at the guy's armature, bent over the way he is. That's it for a while, as we fly off to California this evening. See y'all next Saturday.

Via Rene's Apple.

Posted by Dick Stanley at 02:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (4)

Removing the E Pluribus Unum was the weirdest part. Vero Possumus can't replace it.

Posted by Dick Stanley at 11:38 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Hey, hey, hey. The Rangers beat the Phillies 8-7. Nice game, guys. Most of the action was in the first four innings, but Mr. B. enjoyed it all, and I did, too.

Posted by Dick Stanley at 10:41 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Once again, the TSA has flagged my name on a flight to California tomorrow, as we leave the rancho for a week to visit relatives. That means I can't print out a boarding pass tonight, but must go to the ticket counter tomorrow and present my driver's license so they can verify that my address is not the same as the person they're after. The weird part is this doesn't come up every time I fly. It did back in the fall of '06, for a flight to the East Coast, but not earlier this year for a trip to Mississippi. Maybe it's the coasts the TSA is worried about. For this guy who shares my name. Or it's just an old list of names that keeps recycling through the system. Bureaucrats.

Posted by Dick Stanley at 09:45 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

I clicked on the browser and up comes my Yahoo home page and there in the middle is one of those ads that purports to be a survey, and the question is: "Is McCain Too Old To Be President?" Actually, since Mac, at age seventy-two, is just eight years older than me, I would answer, "No, of course not." The real question, to me, is whether BB, at age forty-six, which is eighteen years younger than me, is too young to be president. And I would answer, "Yep, undoubtedly."

Posted by Dick Stanley at 04:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

"...promise to offer a $300 million [federal] prize for the development of a battery that would 'allow the leapfrogging of the current generation' of electric and plug-in hybrid cars." And, of course, drilling off our East and West coasts and in Alaska for more oil.

Hey, a prize was good enough to spur Charles Lindbergh to fly the Atlantic. All Baby Barry has come up with is fining the oil companies. As if that would do anything for gas prices.

Posted by Dick Stanley at 03:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Or just about any other of those clodhoppers some young women wear today. At least this is cute. Not enough for Miriam, but Anne likes 'em. Me, too. Sorta.

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It's good they did it, overturning D.C.'s ban on handguns, though they didn't overturn Chicago's ban on handguns. Their decision upholds the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution's creation of a right for individuals to "keep and bear arms" against any limitation by the federal government, and D.C. is a federal creature while Chicago is not. Yet the fact that the decision was just 5-4 is shocking and worrisome, and the common headline (such as this one by the ever clueless Associated Mess) reporting the decision, suggesting that the Supremes have created a new right, would be laughable if they weren't indicative of so much ignorance. Not just abroad, where ignorance of our laws is to be expected, but here at home, where it should not be.

Ignorant headlines via Sine Qua Non Pundit

Posted by Dick Stanley at 05:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)