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Victor Davis Hanson’s latest at RealClearPolitics is, not surprisingly, just what the doctor ordered…

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Iran threatens to pull out of nuclear treaty

Why is it so painfully obvious to me (and just about everyone else not in government or the talking head community) that our own civility and decency is going to be our undoing? Iran, headed by hardline Islamic militants looking to overthrow Western society starting with the little and Great Satans (Israel and the U.S.), has blatantly stated as much. They don’t stand a chance against Western technology and economic power, however — unless they have nukes. Now, as they’re pursuing the very capability that would give them nuclear weapons, the “civilized” world wants to stand around and wring our collective hands about the issue, scuttling to and fro from one summit to another talk, as if we were dealing with another first-world, Western-style rational democratic entity. All the while, the Iranian mullahs are clearly beating us at our own game, running us around and around and around — buying time.

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Today we journeyed up to Baby’s First Images in Alpharetta to get a 4D ultrasound of lil’ Audrey. “4D” is a bit misleading — it’s really standard ultrasound with some software smarts to produce a 3D image. Since they can also do this 3D image generation in realtime, they refer to it as “4D”. Anyway :)

Pictured below are what Nichole and I think are the highlights from the images we got back; the full set is viewable in the gallery.

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…are up. (Blue) Angels Over Atlanta 2006 >>

Among the highlights (aside from the headliners, of course):

• an F-22 Raptor on static display
• the sailplane demostration that concluded with the pilot making an outside loop and cutting a ribbon with his tail fins some 20 feet off the ground — in 20+ knot surface winds, no less.
• the F-104 flight

Nichole and I became homeowners last Friday morning. It’s not quite what we’d always envisioned (it’s small and in a cluster home-ish neighborhood), but then again neither is my income :) Life is about trade-offs and compromise. It’s newer (1999) and the demographics of the area are pretty good (most people are owners, drive to work, that sort of thing) so we feel good about the location — aside from the fact that it quadruples my commute :/

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