Archive for November, 2006:

A different Christmas poem

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.
The sparkling lights in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that [...]

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Steorn the puddin’

The company’s name is Steorn — website here: www.steorn.net. From their site,

Steorn is a word translating as ‘to guide, direct and manage’.

In maybe as little as a few months time, they will become

not-very-widely known as hoaxers;
not-very-widely known as unfortunate engineers (and equally-unfortunate or just astonishingly poor selectors of peers to review their shizzle);
or [...]

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Continuing Education

Some random bits, aimed at your general enlightenment and edification.

Could you have passed the eighth grade in 1895? As it turns out, I wouldn’t have even come close…
Debunking the fallacy of throwing more money at education. More support for getting rid of the Department of Education…
Milton Friedman talks about limited government. Milton [...]

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President Pelosi

She’s now, constitutionally, second in line to the Oval Office. While I’m less than thrilled with Jorge’s performance of late (a massive understatement), I don’t want to attempt to imagine where we’d end up with a Democrat-controlled Congress and a President Pelosi. Nationalized health care? Endless tax raises? Forever porous borders [...]

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Wake up

If you can stand another frightening piece of just-barely-fiction about the future, check out Raymond S. Kraft’s latest piece over at The New Media Journal.
The lesson is the same as the Simmons piece I linked to a few days ago: we must take off the rose-colored glasses that the Dhimmicrats have been busily handing out [...]

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