Info on Neutrinos
The John Bachelor Show had a good segment on the speed of neutrinos. Go to LINK and scroll down to Saturday, October 1, 10 PM. You can listen on-line or download the podcast. (iTunes has it as well.)
The John Bachelor Show had a good segment on the speed of neutrinos. Go to LINK and scroll down to Saturday, October 1, 10 PM. You can listen on-line or download the podcast. (iTunes has it as well.)
Riding my bike yesterday, I saw this hawk carrying a squirrel. I was so excited I crashed my bike and took flip into the grass. Then I ran over and got these photos with my phone.
I did a brief photo safari in the McNamara neighborhood this morning. The results are at:
The news feeds keep warning that the back of the hurricane has still to arrive, but all indications are that for Jackson Heights, Irene was a dud. Here is an ‘after’ picture of the back yard:
You can see that there are green oak leaves scattered here and there. But even the white sheet of tin over the fence from the left is exactly where our neighbor left it.
In the night there was sporadic hard winds and rain, but to my mind not unlike a midwestern thunderstorm without the lighting and thunder.
The President’s current attempt to identify with the public’s dissatisfaction with Washington is reminiscent of Basil Fawlty in the “Waldorf Salad” episode of Fawlty Towers (fast forward to the two minute mark):
When the customer (in my analogy, the American electorate) tries to complain, Basil (Obama) joins in the complaining, saying he can’t get Manuel (or Congress), his waiter imported from Barcelona, to do anything right. “You only have to eat here; we have to live with it!” President Obama seems to think the old Basil trick will work for the next 16 months. I cannot imagine that it will.
After the Senate rejected the Boehner proposal (59-41), Mitch McConnell asks for the Reid proposal to be put on the floor. Reid would not allow it.
Unbelievable. (Unless you have been really paying attention….)
[ht powerlineblog.com]
…Perhaps seeking to avoid political turmoil at home, or just to get insights on how to get off the naughty list while remaining a vicious tyrant and international pariah.
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It was only 45 degrees and windy. There are still piles of snow, melting in rivulets across the roads and driveways. But that couldn’t stop me!