Well, my kid made it to 18.  Looks like shes coming out just fine.  It seems every day lately I thank the Gods that I had baby when I did, (even though her mother was pregnant at her age.) and that I'm not starting a family now.  Shes a great young woman.  The world desperately needs a few thousand more of her.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness

If I'm reading this correctly the president just gave the military resource allocation, including labor, priority over pretty much everything, regardless of state of emergency.

"Upon such approval, the Secretary of the resource department ( Read more... )

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The CIA wants to spy on you through your TV: Agency director says it will 'transform' surveillance

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2115871/The-CIA-wants-spy-TV-Agency-director-says-net-connected-gadgets-transform-surveillance.html

Pat on the back.  Even Orwell never conceived of people begging for ( Read more... )

So the shorter one is the meteoric Iron, the longer with the holes in the tang is the cemetery Iron.  The hilted one Is meteoric Iron, the first one I made.  Still lots of "craters" in the meteoric Iron one, I have mixed feelings about that.  I like the character, and moon surface look.  OTOH smooth is good.  You can really see the damascing lines ( Read more... )

Am I the only one that finds it "suspicious" that the noise machine has suddenly become concerned about the plight of Africans?

Isn't it odd that right after we have a North African "Arab Spring" suddenly warlords that have been savaging Africa for decades just a bit further south need to have something done about them "Before the end of 2012"?.  ( Read more... )

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/enterprise-just-4-days-away-arrival-swift-cut-iran

Includes a Stratfor report.  It appears that every active carrier group of the US Navy is either parked by Iran, or headed there.

In other news.  I've nearly ( Read more... )

FB is holding my account hostage until I give the a phone number.  Gotta go get one of those cards.

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Every fine thing, gold, the greatest swords, souls, the most incredible technological devices the modern world has seen, all of them, must pass through the crucible. The melting pot of white hot burning.

All things are formed from the death of their former selves.

The crucible burns away the things that are not of true essence. Its a distillation. ( Read more... )

Probably my favorite time of year.  Things are budding.  Theres the occasional solar-charged lizard giving mobility a try.  I don't have to spend my entire afternoon trying to heat the house.  Flowers are starting to appear, things are starting to warm up, and I'm starting to leave sweaters outside for a very long, long time.  This is the time of ( Read more... )

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