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Keep tuning in

Keep tuning in

| September 24, 2012 | Reply

Each time I’ve tried switching this site to a different theme, it’s gone haywire and started returning 404s for existing pages. If you run into that problem going forward, please go to the main site page directly (andstillipersist.com) and just leave a comment on whatever the most recent post is. Thanks!  ..bruce w..

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Hmm….

Hmm….

| September 20, 2012 | Reply

I changed themes, and my site traffic dropped off to near zero. Changing back to see if that makes a difference.

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Winter is coming

Winter is coming

| September 20, 2012 | Reply

Via Instapundit comes this rather damning image contrasting the “Obama Flag” (available for sale!) with the chilling image from Libya. Meanwhile, here’s the rest your morning roundup: Tomorrow (9/21) is Clint Eastwood Appreciation Day. Go see “Trouble with the Curve” and drive the Left nuts. Megan McArdle talks about the merit pay issue for teachers. […]

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Yep, I redid the blog theme

Yep, I redid the blog theme

| September 20, 2012 | Reply

Thought it was time to freshen things up a bit. The theme itself is pretty plain vanilla, but the photos that show up in the header are now all photographs that I took, and almost all of them were taken around our house here in Parker, Colorado. I may keep tweaking the configuration, or I […]

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All you need to know about our State Department

All you need to know about our State Department

| September 19, 2012 | Reply

From conservative-mole-within-State, Diplomad: In the late-1990s, I was working in State’s Political-Military Bureau in Washington. One of our duties was to work with the Pentagon planning and executing “noncombatant evacuation operations” (NEOs)  in countries where the security situation had gone belly up. We had the job of getting our people out of harm’s way. This […]

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A possible game-changer in industrial robots

A possible game-changer in industrial robots

| September 18, 2012 | Reply

Via Slashdot come a link to this MIT video (sorry, can’t find a way to embed it) about the work that Rodney Baxter (founder of iRobot) is doing to develop a new kind of industrial robot: cheap (~$22K), safe, and programmable by factory workers. What rings true in Brooks’ commentary is that people will find […]

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Keep your eye on China

Keep your eye on China

| September 17, 2012 | 2 Replies

[UPDATE at end of post] Russian President-for-Life Vladimir Putin can show off his pecs and fly with the geese, but Russia is largely a world-power has-been at this point, even with its nuclear arsenal. China, though — China, with fewer nukes, is more dangerous, all the more so because of its internal problems (weak economics […]

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The White House should be ashamed

The White House should be ashamed

| September 16, 2012 | Reply

But of course they’re not. This is an American citizen being brought in for questioning…for making a movie trailer that offended some Muslims. Go read Glenn Reynold’s roundup. ..bruce w..

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Evening palate cleanser

Evening palate cleanser

| September 13, 2012 | Reply

Hat tip to Andrew Malcolm over at Investor’s Business Daily (formerly at the LA Times). His political blog should be on your must-read-daily list. ..bruce..

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Meanwhile, back on the regional/local level…

Meanwhile, back on the regional/local level…

| September 12, 2012 | Reply

With everything else going on — the election, the Chicago teachers’ strike, the upheaval and assaults in the Middle East — it’s worth keeping in mind the single biggest financial timebomb here in the US: underfunded pension obligations. This is, in my opinion, a more serious crisis than the massive unfunded Federal entitlement obligations for […]

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