New Orleans Compassion Fatigue

NOLA residents need to stop whining.

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Houston Family Pays for Sanctuary City Policies in Fiery Wreck

Houston mayor Bill White bristles at the labeling of his city as ‘Sanctuary City’ - one that does not enforce federal immigration law at the local level. In 2006 the mayor said, ‘’’Houston is not a sanctuary city. The biggest concern on something like this is somebody trying to confuse the voters.’ Nevertheless, since 1992 […]

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Is Newark’s ‘Sanctuary City’ Policy Partly To Blame For Student Massacre?

The murder of three college students in Newark New Jersey Saturday August 4th proves that even in a society that has witnessed horrific acts of violence in its relatively brief history, we haven’t lost the capacity for being shocked. As the perpetrators are rounded up, the alleged ringleader appears to be Jose Carranza, aka Jose […]

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LOLCon

Just had to jump in.
Idea
Homage

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Michael Vick Apology - Sorry Mike, Not Good Enough

First off, his demeanor seemed contrite. For the most part he spoke in the “active tense” and avoided the non-apology of we’ve heard so often “to those who were hurt by my actions, I apologize” vs the active voice “I apologize to those hurt by my actions,” (weak) or even better, “I apologize to those […]

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Thoughts on the Berlin Wall

I recently visited an office building that had a 3×4 foot section of the Berlin Wall. It’s been almost 20 years since that thing fell, and I still remember it clearly - how the Czechs opened their borders, and the East Germans began fleeing across there. How Kissinger and the punditocracy of the time predicted […]

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More on Alternative Energy

From Greenhouse gases we sigue into solar power. From Solar power we sigue into alternative power sources, and from there we end up back at one of my all time favorite writers ever, Steven Den Beste. Den Beste discusses conservation and alternative energy sources here , here and here.
On Conservation:
Conservation is much overblown […]

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Solar Energy: Not So Clean Afterall

I wrote about Michael Asher at Dean’s World. When I wrote him a bit of fan mail, I asked him about solar and wind power. Here’s the conversation…
> How do solar proponents propose we use solar energy given the fact that
> the earth rotates? It would seem to me that you would need to store […]

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PETA & Pit Bulls

I don’t like PETA. I think they are extremists who devalue human life by treating it the same as other animal species. I don’t believe that, just as I don’t believe that chimpanzees are just as valuable as a sea cucumber; they are more valuable. I’m a conservationist along the lines of Theodore Roosevelt - […]

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Personality Test

Recently I had to take a personality test after what I thought was a successful job interview that I later learned by the failure of my phone to ring wasn’t as successful as I had thought. So I’ve been curious about these things, and recently found a freebie that’s worth trying.
During the test I was […]

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Iranian Meddling In Iraq - A Parent’s Fear

My stepson - a Master Sergeant in the Marine Corps - will be shipping out of Camp Pendleton much sooner than we thought. It’s a secret where ‘out’ is at this point, but I doubt he’s deploying to the Bahamas. As a consistent supporter of the Global War on Terror, his mother and I are […]

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Glenn Reynolds Quote on a Bumpersticker

After all the writing and arguing I’ve done about global warming, Glenn Reynolds sums up my feelings in a single sentence.
I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who say it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.
That inspired me to add this at the Ministry of Propaganda:

Hat tip: Dave Price, Dean’s World

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Flowcharts And Software Development

Will make you cry:
My colleague operated a dual coping strategy to deal with this monster: during working hours she wept delicately and persistently; during the lunch break she scanned the job ads. I don’t believe the port was ever completed.
Note the state transitions and UML.
I’ll have to remember this the next time I have […]

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Honey I Fried the Planet

Check out my first post at RedState.com, Honey I Fried the Planet.
Changes to a complex system will always have unintended consequences. In computer programming these “unintended outputs” are often called “bugs.” While these bugs can down a system, they are rarely fatal. However by attempting to intervene in our planet’s climate, the consequences could […]

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Once More Unto the Breach…

As a consistent hawk on the Global War on Terror I have often heard “Well if you’re so gung ho about the war why don’t you go fight it yourself?” The truth be told I have given serious consideration to doing just that several times. Unfortunately each time I come to the conclusion that at […]

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