2008 Libertarian Party backer now enthusiastic about Republicans for November

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Future GOP Leaders: Nikki Haley, Rand Paul, Sharron Angle, & Ken Buck

From Eric Dondero:

In 2007/08 longtime conservative fundraiser Richard Viguerie was disgusted with the Republican Party. He enthusiastically backed Libertarian for President Bob Barr, and urged his followers to go third party. Viguerie was a guest speaker at a number of Libertarian Party conventions. He purchased a top Libertarian political website and helped Barr with fundraising efforts. So much so, in fact, that longtime Libertarians got nervous. Party Founder David Nolan quoted in Reason "The Big Takeover, Yeah Yeah" by Dave Weigel, May 21, 2008:

Clearly, Barr and Viguerie are attempting to gain control of the LP so that Barr can campaign on a conservative/libertarian hybrid platform and Viguerie can extend his fundraising empire into the libertarian quadrant of the political universe. If they succeed, the Libertarian Party will become just one more mouthpiece for malcontent Republicans.

Now Viguerie has returned to the GOP fold and with a vengeance.

From WND Radio, Aug. 11:

"Obama, Pelosi, Reid are frightening Americans... we have the Tea Party movement which didn't even exist two years ago.

And for the first time in my life, I see the possibility, no guarantees, but the possibility that we can turn everything around in America, and go back to the vision of our Founders. God may have given us one last chance to save our country.

On the one hand Obama is terrifying Americans; on the other hand he's the possible source of our ability to save America.

I'm so excited and enthusiastic...

The thing about the Nikki Haleys, and the Rand Pauls and the Sharron Angles and the Ken Bucks, they're unfettered, they don't have these [old establishment]ties... the people who are going to save America are the Boat Rockers; people like Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn, Mike Pence, Michele Bachmann..."

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NCBI ROFL: Science proves women do have better taste. | Discoblog

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ice creamIce cream preference: gender differences in taste and quality.

69 college women showed a preference for expensive ice cream while 53 college men preferred the less expensive ice cream. Analysis indicates the taste for more expensive ice cream is linked to gender, but it is not clear whether this is learned or not.

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Hubble grills a confused galaxy | Bad Astronomy

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Galaxies come in lots of shapes and sizes, but in general, we can group them into four flavors: spiral, elliptical, irregular (no real shape), and peculiar (definite shape, but weird).

We can also say lots of general things for each class: spirals are flat and have lots of gas and dust, ellipticals are spheroids with very little gas and dust, and so on.

The problem is, that pesky Universe of ours delights in throwing a monkey in the wrench. Behold NGC 4696, the confused elliptical:

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[Click to galacticate -- and you need to, the above image doesn't give you any idea of just how freaking cool this image is!]

This two-and-a-half hour exposure Hubble Space Telescope image shows incredible detail. The galaxy NGC 4696 is the diffuse glow dominating the right hand side of the image. It sits in the center of the ginormous Centaurus galaxy cluster, a sprawling city of hundreds of galaxies about 150 million light years away.

Clusters of galaxies like this sometimes have one big, fat elliptical sitting in the center. Called the central dominant (or cD) galaxy, it generally has far more mass than any other galaxy in the cluster and has weird features (like multiple bright cores, an extended halo of stars, and lots and lots of satellite galaxies). We think these galaxies started off relatively normal, but then eat other galaxies that wander too closely — clusters are thick with galaxies, so such encounters are common. The now-heavier galaxy sink to the center of the cluster through various forces, where it can really let itself go and eat even more galaxies. That explains the multiple cores (undigestible leftovers), their puffy halos (lots of orbital energy can be added to stars in the collision, inflating their paths), and the plenitude of little satellites (again, leftovers from previous galactic meals).

If the one word "weird" works with cDs, then NGC 4696 fits this description pretty well. Note the dark swirl apparently near the galaxy’s center, wrapping around it. That’s a trail of dust 30,000 light years long — 300 quadrillion kilometers (200 quadrillion miles) in length. It’s very rare for ellipticals to have any dust at all in them, so seeing something like this really lets you know this guy is strange.

In the super-high-res image, you can see very subtle striations in the galaxy’s innermost core. That’s from ionized hydrogen, again very rare in ellipticals. Usually, all the gas is locked up in stars, and very little is floating freely.

Also, unseen in this image, vast amounts of high-energy radiation are flooding out of the galaxy’s heart. This X-ray emission is clear in images taken by the Chandra observatory. Every big galaxy (even ours!) has a supermassive black hole in its core, with millions or even billions of times the mass of our Sun. In most galaxies that black hole isn’t actively eating matter (to stretch the gourmand analogy a little more), so we don’t detect it.

But if enough matter falls into the gaping maw, it can pile up just outside the point of no return, creating a huge disk of superheated material. Stuff that hot blasts out X-rays, and NGC 4696 is doing just that. Again, this all fits with the idea that it’s been overeating; collisions with other galaxies can dump octillions of tons of matter into that central black hole, converting the normal galaxy into an active one.

Images like this one from Hubble are gorgeous, jaw-dropping — and I haven’t talked about the myriad background galaxies! But they are critical in giving us a big picture of galaxies. It’s only by being able to get an overview of these beasts that we can hope to understand them. Like living beings, they are a complex interaction of smaller components, and if we don’t get such a long view like this one, we’re like the blind men and the elephant, only looking at one small part and making (erroneous) claims based on that.

Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA


Lemieux backs Rubio, then strongly hints at run against Nelson in Florida

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Oh, no! 2012 already?

From Eric Dondero:

Florida Senator George Lemieux, appointed by Gov. Charlie Crist, strongly endorsed Marco Rubio over Crist for the Senate seat.

According to NewsMax this morning:

“I’m a friend of the governor and very appreciative of the opportunity he’s given me for public service.” Lemieux also served as Crist’s chief of staff.

But when he left the Republican Party, I could no longer support him, and I think that’s how most Republicans in Florida feel,” Lemieux said.

“Marco is a person of conviction, he’s a man of ideas. I think he’ll do a very fine job in the Senate.”

But in making the announcement, veiled as an un-announcement, LeMieux had a bit of an announcement of his own. Continuing:

Lemieux did nothing to stifle the talk that he will try to return to the Senate himself, challenging Democrat Bill Nelson in 2012. “I have no announcement today. I’m trying to do the best I can as senator from Florida in the time I have,” he said.

“We’ll see what the future holds. I’ll keep my options open. I would hope that I’d have an opportunity for public service again in the future.”

Lemieux, prior to his appointment was considered a moderate-leaning conservative. But he has surprise many. He's turned out to be quite the budget hawk. American Spectator even reports that his views now "resonates with most red-meat Republicans."

In his short time in office, he's racked up an impressive 86% ACU rating, and 100% on Eagle Forum (Phyliss Schaffley) and the American Security Council (National Defense issue). He even drew the visceral wrath of ultra-liberal Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow on the Senate floor back in June for strongly opposing the imposition of an Estate Tax. (Source: ThinkProgress)

Underground Cable Layout

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Recently i was assigned to draw a layout of all the underground cables running through our plant and residential area. For some unknown reasons WE DONOT HAVE ANY UNDERGROUND CABLE LAYOUT FOR OUR PLANT and Ive never seen what an underground cable diagram looks like so what i did was draw a couple of

Puzzle

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you have 16 cards,one number is printed on each card .

16 numbers on 16 cards are:

1,1,1,1,3,3,3,3 ,5,5,5,5 & 9,9,9,9

(4 cards with number 1, four with3, four with 5 and 4 with 9...)

you have to choose 6 cards such that sum of all numbers on these 6 cards will

Error Message "Delayed Write Failed"

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When I'm coping data to USB flash memory, i got the following message:

"Windows - Delayed Write Failed

Windows was unable to save all the data for the file I:\$Mft. the data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Pleas