Posts Made By: Pete Brayton

Herb York said:

THEY will come...

Jack Day said:


I don't know how they did it but here it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAEBgDZVLfU

8)

Robert Apruzese said:

April 2006 - January 4, 2013, best cat ever.

Dave Snope said:

"Buy a shotgun", Joe says to woman. It's like he is utterly clueless on the rationale for the lightweight, mild-shooting .223 rifle. Women love 'em! They come in powder-pink.

This is hilarious:
http://youtu.be/jafkVM-jnbE

"In America you have a right to be stupid" -- Sec. State John Kerry (in a pompous Martha's Vineyard accent).

Dave Snope said:

Well said:


It is not the case that the average of right and wrong is always or even usually a good outcome. And the bias of such averaging always seems to be a bigger role for government.
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We need to decide if we will continue moving toward ‘social democracy’ or back toward American constitutional limited government. Little else matters.
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Compromise has almost exclusively ratcheted up the size and intrusion of the state, with few historical counterexamples, and there are powerful forces that will likely make it so going forward.
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Compromise is a wonderful thing at times, but a disastrous thing at other times. For example, “Johnny, you split that last cookie with your sister Sally,� is often a good compromise. Munich (I’m thinking 1938 but really any compromise related to Munich) was a bad compromise. Sometimes arguing and fighting is a more wonderful thing than compromise and “getting something done.� Here are six examples of the things I think require more fighting and less compromise:

1) We do not need to compromise on spending; we need to spend less.


2) We do not need to compromise on taxation; we need to tax less and tax with less complication.


3) We do not need to compromise on regulation; we need to regulate less and with less political correctness and nannyism. We need to end the giant, super-powerful government bureaucracies that are not only costly but get “captured� by special interests and then add to cronyism; such bureaucracies are, in their essence, anti-liberty in their wide powers.


4) We do not need to compromise on the amount of crony capital that goes to politicians’ friends and to politically correct industries; we need to let everyone stand or fall on merit.


5) We do not need to compromise on how much of the people’s personal judgment we replace with government authority; we need to let grownups purchase whatever soda size they want and let parents be in charge of their own children. If that leads to imperfect outcomes for some, well, nobody ever said freedom was sugar-free.


6) We do not need to compromise on the Second Amendment (or any enumerated right of any citizen). We need to retain it not only to protect ourselves and our families, and certainly not only for “hunting� (an epic straw man), but most importantly as a hopefully never-used bulwark against tyranny. We may differ on what would constitute such unbearable tyranny, but surely every American has some limit. Leftists may feel horror when they see rednecks armed with AR-15s — horror they feel at the existence of both rednecks and AR-15s — but they need those armed rednecks on that wall. Of course, this right to arms has to be limited at some point, as my needed rednecks on that wall don’t need nukes (there’s a “Nukes of Hazzard� quip in here somewhere), but I fear any compromise today would explicitly ignore the prime purpose of this, and other, enumerated rights, a particular danger of compromise at times of great emotional trauma.


http://american.com/archive/2013/march/yes-labels

Jim Carpenter said:

Just back from southeastern Utah. Here's a panorama composed of three images of the great gooseneck bends of the San Juan River near Mexican Hat, merged and processed in PSE. Nikon D7000 w/ 12-24mm f4G.
Jim

Dave Snope said:

Democats will vote for anyone who is a member.

Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has surged ahead of his opponents in a new NBC 4 New York/Wall Street Journal poll, transforming himself in just a few weeks from disgraced has-been to mayoral front-runner.

Weiner, who entered the race two years after resigning his congressional seat amid a sexting scandal, now leads City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in the crowded Democratic primary, setting up a new phase in what could end up being a remarkable political comeback.

Weiner leads Quinn 25 percent to 20 percent among registered Democrats, the poll by Marist found. That’s a flip-flop from the last survey in May, when Quinn, the longtime front-runner, led Weiner 24 percent to 19 percent

Chad Quandt said:

I took an image of the Elephants Trunk Nebula this weekend and I noticed this other dark nebula right next to it on the right in this cropped image.

Does anyone know if it has a "common name".

To me it looks like a colonial guy sitting on a horse wearing a chapeau or tricorn type hat.

I suggest naming it either the "George Washington Nebula" or the "Napoleon at Berezina Crossing Nebula".

Any other suggestions? Or just go ahead and burst my bubble and tell me what it is actually called.

Greg Shaffer said:


Merry Christmas to all!!