Monthly Archives: June 2017

Draining The Swamp

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I found this a reasonable analogy –

Title: Draining the Swamp is Messy
By Michael Master
Our home is in a community of 2,000 homes located on the intercostal in North Carolina. Everything lives here. Alligators. Water moccasins. Rattle snakes. Sea hawks. Egrets. Giant blue heron. Mosquitoes… blood sucking mosquitoes. We’ve watched from our back porch as dolphins chased sail boats
and motor boats up the intercostal and watched the moon rise over the ocean to cast its glow over the intercostal.

When the community decided to drain the swamp in the center of the community, it was a big deal. Draining the swamp was messy. The swamp was about 10 football fields, about 6 feet deep, with lots of creatures living in it. … Continue reading →

Being on Auto-pilot

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BDB called it on the Fitzgerald, the destroyer that was hit, accident. The freighter was on auto-pilot. 

I watched a documentary about the huge cruise ships and didn’t know that those behemoth also run on auto-pilot most of the time. I think our jumbos and wide-bodies do the same. Just think of it. These multi-ton things can have no one engaged steering. People get sloppy and then the accident happens.

I wonder how much of our lives will be on auto-pilot in the future. What are your predictions?

Brent, how often was your jet on auto-pilot?

 

 

Unnamed Wednesday 9pm Eastern Time Conference Call

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It’s that time of the week again, when we connect for another townhall meeting in the Village of the Darned.

If the software tells you that you’re the only caller, don’t you believe it!  Press on with the access code and you’ll probably find us in there!

US: 515-604-9908

Access Code: [see chat in “BDB Chat” tab above]

International Local Dial-in Numbers

Albania +355 4 454 1702
Argentina +54 351 569-7183
Australia +61 2 8077 0505
Austria +43 1 2650524
Belgium +32 3 294 11 50
Brazil +55 11 3042-5274
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Castile Shooting Video

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The released video adds quite a bit to what we had heard from the girlfriend’s post:

My recollection was that Castile had been a passenger. In this 2016 report, the cell video looks like the woman is on the left side of the car and the reporter says she was in the driver’s seat. Due to use of the selfie camera, the video is a mirror image. We can see the steering wheel appearing to be on the right hand side of the car in the cell video.

My Eyes’ of Georgia

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I thought this song was about Georgia.

Well, I was wrong but the eyes are on Georgia 6 now. The Dems know how to pick ’em. The guy doesn’t live in the district because he wants to support a girlfriend he has been DATING 12 YEARS. What is the guy waiting for? Menopause?

Any predictions, BDBers?

Brent, is this a Aardvark knockoff Fitter candidate? Will he be man-Handeled?

Grandfather Duty

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One of the burdens and joys of being a grandpa is you become , with grandma, the  oracle of family history. Grandma will remember all the names and relationships, but it can be grandpa’s duty to put the world in context to the family.

We were at the excellent Museum of Flight in Seattle with my daughter and family. The two oldest girls loved the interactive parts, where you could launch a rocket or crash the lunar lander. When it came to just looking at history it was harder for them to get excited.

I did the best I could and found a link. The Redheaded Irish Wisecracker’s dad worked for Republic Aviation during WW2, and was refused military service because of his skills in supervising the production lines for … Continue reading →