25 July, 2009 (22:07) | Human Interest, Science, Technology | By: ricjames
Done in the manner of our current technology for spaceflight a trip from Earth to Mars takes 6 months. That’s bad enough for unmanned probes. For a manned flight that means 6 months of subjecting humans to an environment being blasted by radiation the magnetosphere on Earth normally protects us from and requiring the ship [...]
25 July, 2009 (21:56) | Blogging | By: ricjames
I’m visiting family this upcoming week so blogging might be a little slow. Of course, that depends largely on the events of the day so I might get a sudden jolt of gotta-blog-this ever so often.
24 July, 2009 (08:21) | Politics | By: ricjames
The Dem leadership in Congress does not want the American public to see just how convoluted the Obama/Reid/Pelosi health care plan is and that’s because average people with common sense can see just how badly something this poorly constructed can go wrong. GOP Representatives have attempted to send the flowchart of the plan shown below [...]
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22 July, 2009 (15:46) | Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames
Those are some side effects, there:
22 July, 2009 (08:17) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
Now that Too Conservative is back on-line contributor VA Blogger is back at it with a post regarding the fundraising reports for Q2 for the Virginia races. The report puts all the numbers together in a concise package for you complete with basic analysis of trends. Great job, VA Blogger, and thank you for gathering [...]
22 July, 2009 (07:49) | Medicine, Politics | By: ricjames
Responding to a Salon article that went rah-rah for the President and attempted to call out those “crazy Republicans”: The Democrats have dumped a drastic, complicated health care bill on us and they are ramming it through before we can even figure it out. That’s what matters, not the fact that the party out of [...]
21 July, 2009 (23:36) | 2nd Amendment, Law, Politics | By: ricjames
Loudoun’s laws have been brought in line with the State’s: Adjusting to meet state rules on firearms, Loudoun’s supervisors voted 7-2 to allow guns in county parks. County regulations had limited the carrying of firearms in local parks, while state rules allow them. Firing a gun in local parks is still prohibited. “We’re doing a [...]
21 July, 2009 (23:13) | Economy, Human Interest, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
The Kincora development I wrote about yesterday came before the Loudoun Board of Supervisors at today’s meeting and the BoS voted to approve the zoning changes needed to allow the development to proceed. Loudoun County supervisors on Tuesday approved zoning changes that would allow a 5,500-seat minor league baseball stadium and a mixed-use office and [...]
21 July, 2009 (14:40) | Human Interest | By: ricjames
I got this in e-mail this afternoon and thought you might enjoy the chuckle: For the Annual Company Picnic, management had decided that because of liability issues, we could have alcohol, but only one drink per person… I was fired for ordering the cups.
21 July, 2009 (14:31) | Blogging, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
Too Conservative is back on the air, and with a new look besides! We’re damned glad to see them and looking forward to even better stuff over there.