Vintage Babe of the Week

Tonight's Vintage Babe* is Jane Russell !
(*a.k.a. Rule Five Thursday)










Like fine wines, the ladies improve with age!

Ask Mr. Science: Fire Pistons

Saw this over at PopSci.com, and thought it was pretty cool!

Al Gore, meanwhile, is calling for a moratorium on breathing until it can be confirmed that this oxygen stuff won't spontaneously combust in human lungs.

Man Falls Out of Tree at Pot Rally

I mean, really! Who could have seen that coming?

Toronto: A man attending a pot rally at Queen's Park was sent to hospital Saturday after he fell out of a tree, police said.

The man was sitting on a branch which was about 20 or 30 metres above the ground just prior to the accident, police said.

Those wacky Canadians, eh? Not the first time a pot smoker has gone out of his tree, I'll wager!

The Great Obama Oil Spill of 2010

Slick

How could anyone draw that conclusion? Are Obama's fingerprints on the rig that blew?
Not directly, but consider this...British Petroleum, BP, contributed $77,000 to candidate Obama over the course of the last twenty years, more than any other political candidate.
Obama was inaugurated in January 2009. Hot Air quotes the Washington Post from an article that appears to have been scrubbed of the following:

The Interior Department exempted BP’s calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely.

The decision by the department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP’s lease at Deepwater Horizon a “categorical exclusion” from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 — and BP’s lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions — show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated an accident of the scale of the one unfolding in the gulf.

A categorical exclusion from the administration of BP's favorite politician. No quid pro quo there, is there? And there's certainly no cover up from the MSM, is there?
Is there???

Cross posted at Say Anything

Quote du jour

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American who assimilates to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

-Theodore Roosevelt

Recycling: It's Good for the Environment, It's Good for Five Years

...in the Gray Bar Hotel!

Thirty-one people in three separate fraud rings were arrested last month on suspicion of illegally collecting more than $3.5 million in redemption money, according to the state attorney general's office. They have been charged with conspiracy, grand theft and unlawful recycling.

Unlawful recycling? Yep. Recycling fraud is illegal in California. The thirty one Rhode Scholars above trucked in millions of bottles and cans, because when you buy a beverage in California, you pay a CRV, California Redemption Value, which you can reclaim when you recycle the bottle or can. By trucking bottles and cans in from other states, where the CRV wasn't paid, there was a large windfall for the crooks.

In one case, 1.6 million pounds of cans and bottles were imported from Nevada

1.6 million pounds at 5-10 cents a bottle or can? Wonder what these guys could have earned if they'd set their minds to earning an honest living?

The Medal of Honor

Captain Ronald Eric Ray

Citation:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Capt. Ray distinguished himself while serving as a platoon leader with Company A. When 1 of his ambush patrols was attacked by an estimated reinforced Viet Cong company, Capt. Ray organized a reaction force and quickly moved through 2 kilometers of mountainous jungle terrain to the contact area. After breaking through the hostile lines to reach the beleaguered patrol, Capt. Ray began directing the reinforcement of the site. When an enemy position pinned down 3 of his men with a heavy volume of automatic weapons fire, he silenced the emplacement with a grenade and killed 4 Viet Cong with his rifle fire. As medics were moving a casualty toward a sheltered position, they began receiving intense hostile fire. While directing suppressive fire on the enemy position, Capt. Ray moved close enough to silence the enemy with a grenade. A few moments later Capt. Ray saw an enemy grenade land, unnoticed, near 2 of his men. Without hesitation or regard for his safety he dove between the grenade and the men, thus shielding them from the explosion while receiving wounds in his exposed feet and legs. He immediately sustained additional wounds in his legs from an enemy machinegun, but nevertheless he silenced the emplacement with another grenade. Although suffering great pain from his wounds, Capt. Ray continued to direct his men, providing the outstanding courage and leadership they vitally needed, and prevented their annihilation by successfully leading them from their surrounded position. Only after assuring that his platoon was no longer in immediate danger did he allow himself to be evacuated for medical treatment. By his gallantry at the risk of his life in the highest traditions of the military service, Capt. Ray has reflected great credit on himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army.

Capt. Ray: We humbly salute you and thank you for your service.



Hat tip Home of Heroes





There are fewer than a hundred living MoH recipients today. Their names and their stories should not be forgotten. My mission is to honor one of those heroes here each week, and salute them for their courage and sacrifice.

Cross posted at Say Anything