Cellphones Confiscated - Say WHAT????

From the New York Post -

August 7, 2009 --

MICHELLE Obama, like her husband, enjoys a good burger, but not as well done. The first lady brought daughters Malia and Sasha to former "Top Chef" contestant Spike Mendelsohn'sGood Stuff Eatery in DC for cheeseburgers, onion rings, fries, and milkshakes. "They got the burgers medium," says a spy. (President Obama was mildly ridiculed after ordering a burger medium-well in January.) "Three starving Secret Service guys were literally standing over the grill as Spike made the burgers, but didn't eat," our source adds. Fellow patrons had their cellphones temporarily confiscated to prevent pictures from being taken.


OK - look - I've been around. I worked with lots and lots of Secret Service agents. First off - they ALWAYS get fed. Don't worry about them. But they confiscated cell phones??? So pictures wouldn't get taken of the royal family eating their burgers????? What security protocol did cellphone cameras violate?
If you're going to go out in public with the peasants Michelle, at least let the peasants take your picture! It's the only thrill they may have for the day.

COAC.

You Can't Fix Stupid

"I sure wish they'd invent something to keep the sun out of my eyes"

Rocket Men

I have been lucky in many ways in being one of the last of the baby boomers. I never saw the Great Depression; I never saw World War II or Korea; and I was too young by six months for Vietnam.

But I did get to see Armstrong and Aldrin walk on the moon.

I thought that I had read about and seen enough documentaries to have a good understanding of America’s man-in-space program. Last week I picked up Rocket Men by Craig Nelson.

Nelson’s book is filled with new interviews as well as well as archival pictures and on-the-record talks with the engineers, scientists, and astronauts who were there and what happened to many of the major figures after it was all over. The focus on the first part of the book is the engineering team that put it all together and the hurdles faced with inventing all new technology, engineering disciplines, and even project management.

There’s an old joke told about an Apollo astronaut at a dinner party where everyone there is bragging about their career – the doctor is a famous heart surgeon; the inventor built a new computer chip; the chef had created a new chocolate concoction and the astronaut says, “I walked on the moon.” Conversation stops as nobody there can top that. Buzz Aldrin relates that this pretty much happened to him and caused several years of depression and alcohol dependence. After you’ve been to the moon, what else is there? I have been fortunate enough to travel and there are places I’d like to see again – if I save up the money I can travel back to Paraguay, Lisbon, London, or Istanbul. People talk about a “once in a lifetime experience” when they go to Disneyworld but they can go back. But the moon is out of reach to the men who once went there and that fact left scars.

Read it – you won’t be disappointed.

Till Death......

Words fail me. Colonel Mathew Bogdanos writes in the Washington Post the unique challenges of combat leadership and the comradeship, brotherhood, and blood shared by those who serve.

"Your sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers. We are honored to lead them. "


As they say, read the whole thing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/14/AR2009081402519_pf.html

Unidentified Fallling Objects

Water from the sky? What in the world? I seem to vaguely recall something about rain......

Old Medical Instruments and Treatments in Use Today

This old tool has been rediscovered and put into use by the new adminstration.

Youtube is Doctoring the Numbers

UPDATE: Page view is now showing over 13 thousand. Maybe they got the message.

Youtube has a video up of union thugs attacking protestors at Rep Carnahan's office St Louis here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTXBOgPCh9w&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Furbangrounds.com%2F&feature=player_embedded

Google/Youtube is doctoring the page view numbers on this video, locking it at 313 views. I've hit it five times in the last 10 minutes, and it's embedded at Powerline, UrbanGrounds; Instapundit; and several other high traffic blogs. The idea this video has only been watched 313 times is simply ridiculous. They are deliberately sabotaging the number of views to make it look, I assume, like it's not being watched.

I'm off today and I'm forwarding as much as I can to flag@whitehouse.gov. If they want input, I'm going to give it to them. I'm also e-mailing that sorry Congressman who represents my district, but not me, Lloyd Doggett. My blood pressure went up when I went to his site and filled out the survey he has there. The only choices are the liberal, and I really mean socialist, talking points he has up there.

Wish I'd Been There

I didn't know about the meeting with Lloyd Doggett this past Saturday, apparently because it was only advertised in the Austin Chronicle. But this looks like a protest I would have supported.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8UjY3YDlwA

Set Deep in Texas

Many of you reading this will understand the title of the blog. The rest of you will figure it out eventually.

I'm starting this to keep up with some folks, get away from Facebook, and satisfy my desire to write something once in awhile. I'm also going to establish a Bookshelf and share some interests with some folks I've met a long way from Texas.

Interests - Texas music and history; politics of course; military affairs and whatever else strikes my fancy. There may even be some things on here that are true.

Comments are welcome!