Fried Modem, Anyone?

During a thunderstorm Thursday afternoon, my modem was taken out by a VERY CLOSE lightning strike. Of course, my machine was unplugged, except for the err, modem. Doh! So I won't be able to post this next week, except from public terminals.About the Paul Houle interview, it was very good, and had the extra bonus of Dr. Forstchen sitting in as historian, avaition terminologist, and color commentator. All in all, I give it a 15 out of 1...

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Paul Houle to appear on AM-1350 WZGM

Paul Houle, a local amateur historian, will be on WZGM after the ten a.m. newsbreak. His efforts have led the NTSB to reopen its investigation into a 1967 crash over Hendersonville, NC involving a 727 and a Cessna that left 82 dead.Click here to listen live, provided they get the web stream up and running by that time. If not, and you are near Western North carolina, tune your radio dial to 1350 AM. If I can, I will take notes and, as Bill Cunningham says, "Give you a Full Report."Here is a Asheville Citizen-Times article, and this article is...

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Sunset in Macon County

No news, just spent the weekend restin...

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Senator Cornyn named to Conference Committee on Immigration

I've been waiting for more people to be named, and have seen only the initial announcement on his web page. The full text is below:Cornyn Named To Conference Committee For Immigration Reform Bill'The differences between the House and Senate bills are significant, and the solutions will be difficult. But it's important to have border state Senators on this committee'Thursday, May 11, 2006Good enough. Then for a few weeks, nothing showed on my radar until this announcement, also reproduced in full below:Cornyn: We Need To Start The Conference Committee...

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Gas Hogs Magazine June 2006

Hat Tip to Scrutiny HooligansThe truck on the cover is mine, and yes, I can backfire it at will!!! All this while getting less than 6 mpg on a 75 mile roundtrip commut...

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Terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Dead

Follow the links:Winds of ChangeAP Story I lifted... 4:54 AM EDTAl-Zarqawi Killed in U.S. Bombing in Iraq By PATRICK QUINN Associated Press Writer AP Photo World Video Advertisement BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, carried out some of the bloodiest suicide attacks in Iraq and led a campaign of kidnappings and hostage beheadings until he was killed in a U.S. bombing Thursday. He was the apparent victim of his own hubris after Iraqi leaders said a video he put on the web helped lead them to him.The...

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Adama v Cain Video Clip

There is still time to buy the miniseries and the episodes for season 1 and 2.0 (2.5 should be out soon) so you'll be caught up in time for the October air date of Season 3. You can thank me in the comment...

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More on the Canadian Terrorists

Yesterday, I overlooked another voice in the analysis of the Canadian Terrorists. Here is an AP story on the Canadian Terrorists via The Drudge Report. Drudge currently running with the headline "Suspect Sought To Behead Prime Minister". At least the media are now acknowledging the terrorists are Muslim. So much for the canadian experiment in dhimmi 'ism'.I was happy to hear Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch on The Mike Reagan Show on XM166 last night...

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A Beastly Day, Indeed

Or, more signs of the impending apocalypse...Fjordman reports via The Gates of Vienna, and tells us Why the European Union Needs to be Destroyed, and Soon. Very Powerful piece. Personally, I think Europe is lost to us, and we should prepare for operations that would save the Europeans for the fourth time in a century.Wretchard has some disturbing news about the Eunichs at the United Nations covering up a mass execution of people "under their protection". Regarding the 17 or so terrorists arrested in Canada, Jihad Watch has the best all-around...

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New Template for Thunder Pig

I guess I should have a link to where I found this template. As luck would have it, Thur is rebuilding his site, hmmm.Over the next few weeks, I intend to re-arrange my links on the sidebars into more coherent catgories and add a blogrolling service. I have spent the weekend trying to absorb the 5GW thing I stumbled on last week. I have some things to say, but I don't want to repeat what has already been debunked by the theorists.I can already tell I don't like the color of the link-text. Gotta figure out how to change that without killing the...

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Sun Rise

The sun rises over Barber's Orchard in Haywood County one day this week, either Tuesday or Wednesday. Oh, and I've now busted the 2k mark on pix...this is madness!...

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Thoughts about Haditha

In my firm opinion, the Main Stream Legacy Media wants nothing less than our defeat in Iraq, and will go to any length to achieve that goal.I have been a voracious consumer of news from Iraq since my brother first went there in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. The news from The Big three (ABC/CBS/NBC) was almost always slanted to point out where The United States was wrong, or had failed, or would fail in whatever it was trying to achieve. Even the addition of CNN, CNBC, FOX, MSNBC, and so on haven't really changed the equation except...

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