The moment an F-18 pilot fires his missile.  

Last August, the Mars rover Curiosity made it's unprecedented landing on the red planet via the "seven minutes of terror."

Pictured above in this unusual vista are three of Curiosity's six wheels, each measuring about half a meter across. In recent months, Curiosity has been exploring the surroundings of an area dubbed Yellowknife Bay. Analyses of data taken by Curiosity's cameras and onboard laboratories has provided strong new evidence that Mars could once have supported life. In the distance is part of the slope to the central peak inside Gale Crater that Curiosity is scheduled to attempt to climb -- Mt. Sharp.

Via APOD.

In the last 20 years, capitalism has successfully allow a billion people to pull themselves out of dire poverty worldwide.  

   "The world’s achievement in the field of poverty reduction is, by almost any measure, impressive. Although many of the original Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) —such as cutting maternal mortality by three-quarters and child mortality by two-thirds—will not be met, the aim of halving global poverty between 1990 and 2015 was achieved five years early.

The MDGs may have helped marginally, by creating a yardstick for measuring progress, and by focusing minds on the evil of poverty. Most of the credit, however, must go to capitalism and free trade, for they enable economies to grow—and it was growth, principally, that has eased destitution."

Give people the freedom to handle their own affairs, and to keep the money that they earn, and they will see to their own advancement. 

On the other hand, put them on the dole, provide for their every need, and you will create a passive, government dependent parasite that adds, at the very best, nothing positive to society.  Example: everyone who lives in Detroit.

But you will never hear of this from the MSM.

Jumping Thunder, or Psicha Wakinyan.   

Yankton Sioux

Yeah, first time I've ever heard of Tarzan and Jane being in the Bible.

Darryl Issa, on CNN, correctly labels White House Spokesman Jay Carney as Obama's "Paid liar."

“The administration is still — their paid liar, their spokesperson, picture behind,” Issa said on CNN’s State of the Union this morning, where the set has a picture of Carney behind host Candy Crowley, “he’s still making up things about what happen[ed] and calling this local rogue.”

“The reason that Lois Lerner tried to take the fifth [amendment] is not because there’s a rogue in Cincinnati,” he added. “It’s because this is a problem that was coordinated. in all likelihood, right out of Washington headquarters.”

If you are Carney, you know you have locked in your place in history when a prominent congressman calls you a liar on national TV.

Next up for the job, Gwen Ifill?

Pretty cool skills here.



Via Bits and Pieces

Ouch! Not a cool bike trick.

Over at Ace of Spades, there is a contest going on to list the most idiotic, weapons grade stupid thing that a liberal has ever said to the readers.  The only rules are that it has to be something said directly in person to the poster, and classically brain dead.

My favorites:

   A liberal who opposed the construction of new power plants, when asked where we would get electricity, smugly answered, "From batteries!" as though I were a total dumbshit.

    I was once told by my friend's girlfriend that Kentucky Fried Chicken had to change its name to KFC because all the antibiotics they gave to the chickens had mutated them to such an extent that they could no longer be legally called chicken. I thought she was joking and laughed. This resulted in an hour-long lecture on the evils of GM food, meat, hydrocarbons, the Iraq War and country music. We were on a road trip and I was a captive audience. It was one of the most unpleasant experiences of my life, and I've been arrested in Mexico.

   I was told that the American ambassador dying in Benghazi shouldn't bother me because he was a martyr for the freedom of the Libyan peoples.

   That the immediate impetus of the American Experiment isn't Liberty, but Fairness. Just look at children; they know it's wrong that one of them will have more toys than the others, so they share.
At that moment I summoned all my self-control in order to not inform him that I would be fucking our wife that weekend.

   I was watching the Hunger Games movie with family at Christmas time, my sister said--Welcome to Romney's America.

   "I don't use oil because I ride the bus."

   My ultra-Leftist sister told me she could never vote Republican because of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and the plight of the American Indian.
I informed my sister that the Republican Party was founded by fifty men determined to end slavery, that her Democrats tore America in two and went to war in defense of slavery, that her Democrats founded and controlled the Ku Klux Klan, and that the Trail of Tears was the direct result of a lawless Democrat president choosing to ignore the ruling of the Supreme Court.
She told me that "everyone knows that none of that is true."
I offered her three history books. She refused to take them.

The life of George Washington was characterized by a scrupulous regard for punctuality.

When he asked a man to bring by some horses he was interested in buying at five in the morning, and the man arrived fifteen minutes late, he was told by the stable groom that the general had been waiting there at five, but had now moved on to other business, and that he wouldn’t be able to examine the horses again until the following week.

When he told Congress that he’d meet with them at noon, he could almost always be found striding into the chamber just as the clock was striking twelve.

Washington’s promptness extended to his mealtimes as well. He ate dinner each day at exactly 4 o’clock, and when he invited members of Congress to dine with him, and they arrived late, they were often surprised to find the president halfway done with his meal or even pushing back from the table. To his startled, tardy guest he would say, “We are punctual here. My cook never asks whether the company has arrived, but whether the hour has come.”

And when Washington’s secretary arrived late to a meeting, and blamed his watch for his tardiness, Washington quietly replied, “Then you must get another watch, or I another secretary.”

I agree with General Washington.   Punctuality is the mark of an organized person who respects those he/she works with.  

An interesting historic anecdote, via Xbrad.

Climber chicks are cool.

 Great concentration face. 

The tension builds, and builds, and builds...

Some great tornado videos.

A word of advice: if you are ever in a tornado, you'll be excited, but resist the urge to comment or speak.  You'll sound like an idiot.  Just shut up and live through the storm.

Dueling bat hang.

Climber chicks are cool.