WaPo: Romney the clear winner at C-PAC

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"Two years ago, this president faced an economic crisis and an uncertain world. An uncertain world has been made more dangerous by the lack of clear direction from a weak president. If I were to decide to run for president, it sure wouldn't take me two years to wake up to a job crisis and I wouldn't be asking for help to fix it." - Romney, C-PAC

From Eric Dondero:

In the 2012 Presidential sweepstakes, Mitch Daniels, Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty all posted fine performances on the C-PAC dais over the weekend. All are receiving positive reviews that will clearly advance their campaigns.

However, the Washington Post declares one clear winner.

From WaPo, CPAC winners and losers:

Mitt Romney: For Romney, the nominal frontrunner in the 2012 nomination fight, his goal with his CPAC speech was to do no harm. He did far better than that with a very well-received speech and a strong second place finish in the straw poll. If any of the top tier candidates strengthened their hand at CPAC, it was Romney.

Three Phase Generator Winding Got Burned

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hi gents,

would you please help me with an explaination for this:

its an old three phase 25kva 415v 35amps 50hz brush type ac generator, the three phase winding are placed on the rotor and we get the main power from qty#4 brushes, 3phase+ neutral.

its regulator is not ele

Illegal Immigrant murders three in Manassas, VA

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N. VA Republican lawmaker expresses his fury and outrage

From Sify.com "Man charged with 3 counts of murder in Va. attacks":

A Salvadoran man who was ordered deported nearly a decade ago but never left has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in a series of shootings and a knife attack in a Virginia suburb of Washington, authorities said Friday.

Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro, an illegal immigrant, was charged in the pair of attacks blocks apart Thursday night that left three people dead and three others injured, Manassas Police Chief Doug Keen said.

The State Delegate for the area, was quick to comment.

"It's another abject failure of the federal government," said state Delegate Jackson Miller, R-Manassas, a former city council member and police officer. "Now we have three innocent victims in my city, about a mile from my house there's a murderous rampage. I am furious. ... Yet it happens over and over and over again, and then we have to hear all of these apologetic excuses as to why we shouldn't be addressing criminal illegal aliens on the state or local level. It's just disgusting."

Political Correctness getting US Soldiers killed

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Republican Senator Collins - saying the words Radical Islam "taboo"

From Eric Dondero:

President George W. Bush said the words "Islamo-Fascism" one single time during his presidency.

But as Jonathan Mark writing in The Jewish Week points out, Obama won't even say the words Radical Islam:

Last year, Obama ordered his administration to stop using words such as "jihad," "Islamic terrorism," or "radical Islam." Obama won't even say the words Islamic jihad.

U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Report on Major Nadal Hassan released last week by Senators Susan Collins of Maine, and Joe Lieberman of CT.

We are concerned that DoD's failure to address violent Islamist extremism by its name signals to the bureaucracy as a whole that the subject is taboo and raises the potential that DoD's actions to confront radicalization to violent Islamist extremism will be inefficient and ineffective.

Texting While Driving

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after reading the post about bicycle licensing i got to thinking about some of the other laws that have been passed supposedly for our protection but seem more like ways for politicians to raise revenue. i have oftened wondered if when radios were first placed in cars if someone tried to say that it

Florida Republican Congressman Allen West at C-PAC

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Pro-Defense Libertarian Hawk

From CNN:

West issued a challenge. "Peace begins with courageous leaders who are willing to identify and defy our enemies and their objectives," he said, "Because political correctness has no place in our national security agenda."

Touching on the developments in Egypt he cautioned, "Yesterday we witnessed a historic moment. However, let us be reminded of the lessons of revolution in Iran. History has a way of teaching you a very bad lesson if you don't pay attention."

Ron Paul gets fired from Young Americans for Freedom board

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MOVEMENT NEWS

From Eric Dondero:

We strive to bring both the good news, and the bad, here at LR, and sometimes even the ugly, as it relates to the libertarian Republican movement. Our policy on Ron Paul has always been, and remains to this day, we agree with him wholly on domestic issues (economics and civil liberties), but disagree with him vehemently on foreign policy.

That said, we now report that YAF, the Young American for Freedom, have suddenly and unceremoniously kicked Ron Paul off of their Advisory Board. Paul has served on their Board since the mid-1970s.

The dispute came over Paul's remarks over the weekend at C-PAC, where he placed the blame for the rise of Radical Islam in Egypt and other Nations on US foreign interventions.

Says Jordan Marks, YAF National Director as quoted by Politico:

"It's a sad day in American history when a one-time conservative/libertarian stalwart has fallen more out of touch with America's needs for national security then our current socialist presidential regime.

Rep. Paul is clearly off his meds and must be purged from public office. YAF is starting the process by removing him from our national advisory board. Good riddance and he won't be missed."

Note - Tom Lizardo, Ron Paul's longtime Chief of Staff, is a former YAF National Director.

More info YAF.com

4-20 mA For 500 Meter Distance

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Dear All,

We have 3 loops in our existing mill with distances of 500 meters from transmitters to marshalling cabinets of DCS carrying 4-20 mA. We have now modification project, can we use the same distance or we should have some remote I/Os in the field.

Best Regards,

MATHEMATICS

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It is believed that the data given in the table represents the relationship y=(1+2x)^b. Two of the readings are incorrect. Identify them and fing the values of 'a' and 'b'.

X 1 2 3 4 5 6
y 2.08 1.38 1.11 0.86 0.71 0.64

Please, help me find the solution to this mat

Sunday At The Movies

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From NASA TV, here’s a short movie about STEREO I thought was interesting.  I should probably put STEREO on my list for a future blog post.

Interested?

Click here to view the embedded video.

Other news: For those of you who thought you were hearing a bit much out of me lately, you were right.  Tom was out of commission for a while, but he’ll be back soon — fine and frisky as ever.

GO TOM – the original Energizer Bunny!