Sunday, September 26, 2010

Read It!

Science fiction, when not entrapped in utopias, has presenteed remarkable essays on individual liberty, now L. Neil Smith's best is being released-Get It!
http://www.bigheadpress.com/lneilsmith/?p=455

73 de Rob

Monday, September 6, 2010

P33W Cyprus

Busted the pile-up with a measured five watts, its 1000 miles a watt-QRP goal # 1, just had to snicker. 73 de Rob

Thursday, September 2, 2010

The Discovery Channel and Sheepdogs

The stand off and manifesto at the Discovery Channel headquarters has resulted in speculation about the motivation of Lee, the hostage taker. I read his manifesto and, no surprise there, is was reflective of the species self-hatred that has become fashionable in some circles. Delusional people's delusions are a reflection of the zeitgeist-paranoids in the middle ages obsessed about witches not spiders from Mars. Fortunately these are rare but I will not be surprised if Lee's actions and manifesto resonates with some and he will be assigned some degree of martyrdom. Irrespective of his world model be based on a novel about a telepathic gorilla and a twelve year old saving the world.

Not that I do not have sympathy and do endorse some of the "Green" issues; The hunting of cetaceans is an abomination-they are sentient to at least the level of the great apes and most would be repelled by plastic wrapped Gorilla Burger in the meat department of the local Safeway.

All that aside, I want to know more about the people that evacuated the children from the day care at Discovery. A cited number was a hundred children. There is no way that caregivers alone could have accomplished this, there must have been others that exposed themselves to an unknown risk to accomplish the evacuation with no other obligation than moral.
R. A. Heinlein said something to the effect that when all the window dressing is stripped away the basic task of civilization is to protect children and child-bearing women. Mr. Lee did not believe this, it is magnificent that others did. One of the MilBlogs I frequent refer to such people as the day care workers as Sheepdogs, willing to stand between the helpless of the flock and danger. Those people were Sheepdogs and give civilization hope-Well Done!

73 de Rob

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

First Confirmed Light House

Just a little fun 73 de Rob