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Star Trek weekend at "the Corner"

Posted by Far_view on Saturday, September 29, 2007 9:40:35 AM
It is Star Trek weekend at the National Review Online "the Corner"... lots of good posts on how much of a liberal weenie Jean Luc Picard was and how much of a realpolitik tough guy Capt. Sisco was on ST:DS9.
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Did this guy have dinner with Ahmadinejad or Jesus?

Posted by Far_view on Friday, September 28, 2007 9:32:05 AM
It would probably be better to read this piece by Time's Richard Stengel while poised over the toilet, ready to hurl.  OH MY GOD!  Did this guy have dinner with a thug who presides over a state that has women stoned to death for looking a bit too suggestively at a guy and that has gays killed or with Jesus Christ?  Could he describe the thug in more glowing terms?  How can these people be so in love with brutal dictators?
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Imbeciles at Columbia

Posted by Far_view on Monday, September 24, 2007 7:16:45 PM
It is really revolting to listen to the sound bites of Ahmadinejad's speech at Columbia.  The most revolting part is to listen to the applause that the guy got.  Even when he was booed for saying that Iran doesn't have homosexuals, that booing was short lived.  The guy should have been booed off the stage.  How could those people let that guy get away with all those bald-faced lies?  You'd think that the women in the audience would not have let him get away by talking about how "respected" women are in Iran when there are numerous recent examples of women being stoned to death for adultery.  It is very, very disheartening.  All the more so when you think about how much this appearance will encourage the hardliners in Iran.
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the importance of having a frontier to American survival

Posted by Far_view on Friday, September 21, 2007 2:48:58 PM
For a long time, I have believed that one of the things that has made America great was the presence of the American Frontier. The western frontier was always a place that tested people and either made them better or killed them. It contributed to our "can do" attitude and led in large part to the American ingenuity that produced the great technology-based economy that we have today. I think that this contention gained support in the interview that Hugh Hewitt had with Robert Kaplan on Kaplan's new book Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts: The American Military In The Air, At Sea, And On The Ground. Kaplan said that a lot of the best military personnel that he spoke with came from modern types of frontier environments (0ut in Alaska, from ranches and farms). If we lose those places then we lose the kind of tough-as-nails men that Kaplan is writing about. This is why I think it is so important that we have to get large numbers of people living and working in the new frontier of outer space ASAP. It is going to take time and it is going to be a very different type of frontier, but space is an unforgiving, zero mistakes allowed environment that will test people and, once again, either make them better or kill them. I've got expand on these ideas sometime soon!
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lunch at the 4 Seasons for Ahmedinijad?

Posted by Far_view on Friday, September 21, 2007 9:22:48 AM
I can't believe what I just heard on Fox & Friends. They had Newt Gingrich as a guest and he said that the New York Times was taking Iranian president Ahmedinijad to lunch at the 4 Seasons in NYC???? Would they have taken Adolf Hitler to lunch there? That's disgusting. The speech by Ahmedinijad at Columbia is also an abomination. Will students rush the stage there like they did when the Minutemen spoke there? Somehow I doubt it. By the way, Hugh Hewitt has a good column on the Columbia travesty here.
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finally Google does something worthwhile

Posted by Far_view on Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:44:29 PM
This sounds like an amazing contest... the kind of thing that could really contribute to making humanity a space faring species.
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Opportunity ready to enter Victoria Crater

Posted by Far_view on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:19:13 PM
The Mars rover Opportunity is ready to enter Victoria Crater.  Actually, it was just in it for an exploratory "toe dip".  It just went in 4 m and backed out within the last couple of days.  There's a press release on the "toe dip" here.  Now the rover is going in there for real and ready to get to work.  Exciting stuff!
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In the top 10 for Colorado... who knew?

Posted by Far_view on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:16:11 PM
I just saw on the 710 KNUS web page that "The Farr View" is listed as one of the top 10 Colorado blogs.  Considering I only blog a few times per month, that is kind of scary!  Maybe I need to blog more!
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great interview with Norman Podhoretz

Posted by Far_view on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:37:59 AM
Bill Bennett had a great interview with Norman Podhoretz on his radio show today. Podhoretz has a new book out, "World War Four" about the struggle against the Islamofascists. It seems especially timely today with today being Sept. 11... and the first Tuesday since that Tuesday. I'll never forget coming back from a walk with my dog and turning on the Today show to see the first World Trade Center tower on fire and then watching live as the second airplane hit. It still sends chills down my spine just thinking about it. I just don't understand how so many people have forgotten what went on that day and what that day meant and who caused it. We have to defeat the islamofascists or else our own existence as a civilization will be in jeopardy.
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are the NBC Sports people out of their minds?

Posted by Far_view on Monday, August 27, 2007 10:05:41 PM
I wasn't watching NBC's Sunday Night Football last night, but on the talk shows today I heard that they gave Keith Olberman a spot.  OK, the guy used to be on ESPN, he can have some sports commentary I guess, but noooo he didn't talk about sports.  He ripped into Rush Limbaugh (taking him completely out of context by the way)!  Are the NBC Sports people out of their minds?  People tune into Sunday Night Football to see a football came or to hear analysis about football, not political commentary- especially not from a raving lunatic like Olberman (for grins check out Mark Levin's compilation of Olberman's nuttiness here).
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the loathsome Michael Vick

Posted by Far_view on Monday, August 27, 2007 8:11:52 PM
In the locker room at the gym today they had ESPN on and they were talking about the Michael Vick situation. Boy, what a bunch of idiots they had on the air. They were talking about how Vick had "found Jesus" and how he could come back to play football. What crap! Vick is only sorry that he got caught. He should never play football again. I think he should be thrown in the water and a live toaster thrown in after him so he could feel what he put those poor dogs through.
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Looks like the rovers made it!

Posted by Far_view on Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:47:25 AM
I've been on the road and haven't blogged in awhile.  In the past few weeks though the Mars dust storm has been subsiding there is still a lot of dust in the atmosphere so the atmospheric opacity is still high and Spirit and Opportunity aren't getting as much solar energy as would be optimal, but it looks like they are "out of the woods" (so to speak).  Also, some recent good news is that Opportunity has had "dust cleaning event" some big wind blew some of the dust off of the solar panels so it is getting more power even with the high "tau" (atmospheric opacity).  Woo hoo!  Hopefully that rover will be able to begin its exploration of the inner rim of Victoria Crater before too long.
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best line of the GOP Pres. debate

Posted by Far_view on Sunday, August 05, 2007 10:23:47 PM
I didn't even know that there was supposed to be a Republican Presidential debate today, but I turned on the ABC "This Week" show this morning and there it was.  I am definitely a Rudy Giuliani supporter, but I must say that Mitt Romney had the best line in the debate when he noted that Barak Obama had gone from saying he'd meet with our biggest enemies without pre-conditions to saying we should invade Pakistan and Romney said: "He's gone from being Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove all within a week."  That was awesome.
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dogs rule!

Posted by Far_view on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:17:38 PM
I saw a great link to this story on transterrestrial.com on how dogs might have actually domesticated people! Almost as good was the following comment:

"It sickens me how the pro-feline propaganda clouds the issue. Dogs serve loyally and can serve in far more roles than the fickle, insincere cat. If you want a dog to help you herd sheep, get a collie. If you want an intelligent pet that's good with kids, get a spaniel or a retriever. If you want a good ratter, get a terrier. If you want a lapwarmer, get a poodle or chihuahua. An animal that will guard your stuff? A bulldog or rottweiller.

If you want an animal that will leech off you, get a cat."


So true!
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the Surge is succeeding

Posted by Far_view on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 7:04:28 PM
It looks like the much maligned surge of troop forces in Iraq is meeting with a lot of success. Check out this piece on the American Thinker web site. A pretty key quote as to why the Iraqis are rejecting Al Queda is the following:

"The Jihadis broke (and more than likely never knew) the cardinal rule of insurgency warfare, that of being a good guest. As Mao put it, "The revolutionary must be as a fish among the water of the peasantry." The Jihadis have been lampreys to the Iraqi people. Proselytizing, forcing adaptation of their reactionary creed, engaging in torture, kidnapping, and looting. Arabic culture is one in which open dealings, personal loyalty, and honor are at a premium. Violate any of them, and there is no way back. The Jihadis violated them all. The towns and cities of Iraq are no longer sanctuaries."
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