I just got a call on my business line from a guy who was peddling the dead-tree LA Times.
Me: No, thank you. I’ve no use at all for that paper. My parakeet died, by puppy’s been trained, and I don’t fish any more, so I don’t need the wrap.
Him: But it’s only $2.75 a week! What can we do to get you to subscribe?
Me: How much will you pay me to read it?
Him: I love this job. Have a good day, sir.
Brian Berger has a preview of the Aldridge Commission report. This is the part that (obviously) piqued my interest:
Specifically, the commission will recommend that:
…NASA allow the private industry “to assume the primary role of providing services to NASA, and most immediately in accessing low-Earth orbit…”
I’ll be interested in seeing the elaboration on this topic. As usual, the devil will be in the details.
I’m watching the ceremony as the casket is being taken down the Capitol steps, and the cannons firing on the mall, and just thinking about how embarrassing it would be if they screwed up and put real loads in them, and took out a few government buildings.
Somehow, considering who it was in honor of, it would have been fitting, especially if they were pointing south toward HHS. If I ever get a state funeral, that would be one of my requests. They’d need a little more range, but I might have them target a certain building over on E Street, too.
Andrew Sullivan has a nice collection of foolish quotes about Reagan from the eighties. This one in particular caught my eye:
“Are we rushing headlong into the next step of those 40 years of progressions by which we do something then they do something, by which we pretend that we’re going to build this and it will somehow strengthen our deterrent then they do it, and low and behold, the next thing we know is, the President of the United States is addressing the nation saying,
Krogers and the Perkins restaurant chain are taking down their idiotic “Please Come In And Rob The Disarmed Victims In Our Establishment” signs in Ohio.
In a letter announcing the removal of the signs, Marc Teaberry, the executive vice president of Perkins Family Restaurants, noted that the restaurant chain has “numerous locations in Pennsylvania, which has always had a concealed weapon law, and have never had any problems.” Teaberry added that the company, in posting the signs, had received “bad advice” from its attorneys.
That’s putting it mildly.
Ohioans For Concealed Carry said it also has received reports that Kroger stores in the Cincinnati Division (which includes greater Dayton) had begun removing their “no guns allowed” signs.
“It is not yet known if this action is in any way related to the assault and robbery of a 70-year old Kroger customer outside a posted store on May 23,” Ohioans For Concealed Carry said in a press release.
Alan Boyle asked for commentary on Ronald Reagan’s legacy for space. My thoughts on that subject are over at National Review Online today.
[Update a few minutes later]
And there was tribute to him today, from space.
[Update at 8 AM PDT]
Here’s a more NASA-centric tribute to him from Sean O’Keefe.
Yes, they are.
We are very happy that the coup failed because we have now really destroyed the communist empire, the Soviet state, and of course, as
Ronald Reagan said, it was indeed an evil empire and we are glad that it
is gone from the earth.– Andrei Kozyrev, Yeltsin Foreign Minister, speaking to ABC’s Sam Donaldson, after the communist hard-liners coup attempt failed in 1991.
Here’s another good story about the upcoming flight, the X-Prize, and its implications, with an LA angle.
[Via Clark Lindsey]
Many X Prize competitors plan on making their millions in space tourism, even if they don
Here’s another good story about the upcoming flight, the X-Prize, and its implications, with an LA angle.
[Via Clark Lindsey]
Many X Prize competitors plan on making their millions in space tourism, even if they don