bfwebster on March 21st, 2008

Here’s a story about the cleanup — by the Guam Environmental Protection Agency(!) — of a ‘contaminated’ high-school pool (emphasis mine): 7:47 a.m. Guam – The Guam Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is tasked with issuing the permit to drain the Southern High School swimming pool. Spokesperson Tammy Andersen says no permit has been issued yet, [...]

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bfwebster on March 21st, 2008

[UPDATED 03/22/08:   Oh, by the way, according to the LA Times the city of Denver is 'short on funds' for the DNC convention.] The “Re-create 68 Alliance” didn’t get the protest permits they wanted for the Democratic National Convention scheduled for this August here in Denver — and they’re already making threats: Denver could [...]

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Bruce Henderson on March 21st, 2008

A very clever lady taught me that our entire financial system works on trust. When traders are buying and selling stock or securities, there is an inherent bond of trust that the transaction is what it appears to be. While we hear stories of slimy dealings on Wall Street and in the financial power houses [...]

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bfwebster on March 20th, 2008

Ted Bronson has posted a wonderful essay (“Dad and the GD Bricks“) over at The Line is Here about the lessons that creep up on us in life: Once the wall was down, the detail work came into play. Often, many of the bricks would just fall out of matrix with no mortar attached on [...]

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bfwebster on March 19th, 2008

Being the son of a career Navy man and the father of a Marine due to deploy to the Middle East sometime this year, I found this post to be great: 9. Accuracy is relative: most combat shooting standards will be more dependent on “pucker factor” than the inherent accuracy of the gun. 9.5 Use [...]

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bfwebster on March 19th, 2008

I’ve gotten some feedback on my memorial for Arthur C. Clarke, both direct and indirect, that the “Big Three” should include Ray Bradbury, either by expanding it to the “Big Four” or by dropping one of the “Big Three” (usually Heinlein). My response is that Bradbury doesn’t belong in that group for two critical reasons. [...]

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bfwebster on March 18th, 2008

[Thanks for all the incoming links, especially from Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit. And for those of you who have wondered, here's why Ray Bradbury wasn't included in the list below.] Arthur C. Clarke died today, at age 90. He was the last of the Big Three — Isaac Asimov, Clarke, and Robert Heinlein — to [...]

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Bruce Henderson on March 18th, 2008

In a recent private discussion thread, one of the participants cited our current problems as a shortage of liquidity (available cash) brought on by failed sub-prime mortgage lending. We are not a liquidity crisis, but a debt crisis. The banks have some idea of how bad the problem really is, but most people don’t know [...]

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bfwebster on March 18th, 2008

My step-son Aaron sent me this link about how Edwin Soto used Google Maps on the fly in traffic court to beat a traffic ticket: The officer stated the street I was on was a one way westbound street and I was turning onto an avenue that was at a two way street separated by [...]

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bfwebster on March 18th, 2008

Maybe people will hold up cigarette lighters during moving parts of oral argument. – comment posted at the Volokh Conspiracy Legal geeks everywhere are salivating over the fact that the US Supreme Court is doing what is in effect a major review of the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution (“A well regulated Militia, being [...]

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