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...and I mean that in a good way. Usually.
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Sep 2008
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Wise Words
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Wed 10 Sep 2008 9:49
by Kevin McGehee
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[Our Times]
[Yee-haw!]
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Yolo Cowboy:
The world is run by those who show up.» Time to double down
He’s talking about a local issue and local government, but it’s true at every level.
Does your congressman or Senator know what you think about what he and his colleagues have been doing the last couple of years? No?
Then the next time you see in the paper that he’s having a “town hall” event, show up.
You can take it from there.
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Apr 2008
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Eet Mor Petsa
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Fri 25 Apr 2008 21:45
by Kevin McGehee
71° and mostly cloudy
in Coweta County, GA
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[Yee-haw!]
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Just be sure not to ask for any beef toppings…
What will the cows think?
Truett Cathy, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Chick-fil-A, is opening a pizza place.
Cathy, 87, has made his name selling chicken sandwiches, backed by a popular set of advertisements that feature cows urging people to “Eat Mor Chikin.“
But in an interview Friday, Cathy said he was looking forward to opening a new venture called Upscale Pizza.
The restaurant, located on Highway 314 in Fayetteville, will have its grand opening Thursday. It’s taking the space of a vacated McAlister’s Deli.
“Any sensible person would say ‘Why get involved with this? You’ve got your lap full as it is,‘“ said Cathy, who’s privately owned Chick-fil-A chain now has almost 1,400 outlets. “But it’s more of a challenge for me.“
He said he wanted to try something new.
“I’m afraid to slow down,“ said Cathy, in between tasting some trial slices of the pizza from his new restaurant. “I’m afraid if I do, that I’ll quit. I don’t want to quit.“
Chick-fil-A will continue to be his primary focus. Cathy isn’t ready to relinquish his role as Chick-fil-A CEO.
“Why would I?“ Cathy asked. “I’m only 87.“ » Chick-fil-A founder opens pizza restaurant
I don’t suppose it’ll be open on Sundays either.
One serious upside to Chick-fil-A in my opinion is, even though almost any chicken sandwich would almost certainly come with mayonnaise on it anywhere else, at Chick-fil-A it comes unadorned—and those who want mayo can get it in little ketchup-style packets from which to slather it on their food to their hearts’ doom content.
Around here, I wouldn’t be surprised to see mayonnaise turning up on pizza—just not at this guy’s pizza place.
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Mar 2008
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Har!
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Sun 9 Mar 2008 12:27
by Kevin McGehee
45° and fair
in Coweta County, GA
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[War]
[Yee-haw!]
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This is funny.
One day, high above Arizona, we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. ‘Ninety knots,‘ ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. ‘One-twenty on the ground,‘ was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed check. I knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he had a ground speed indicator in his cockpit, but he wanted to let all the bug-smashers in the valley know what real speed was ‘Dusty 52, we show you at 525 on the ground,‘ ATC responded. The situation was too ripe. I heard the click of Walter’s mike button in the rear seat. In his most innocent voice, Walter startled the controller by asking for a ground speed check from 81,000 feet, clearly above controlled airspace. In a cool, professional voice, the controller replied, ‘Aspen 20, I show you at 1,742 knots on the ground.‘ We did not hear another transmission on that frequency all the way to the coast.» Major Brian Shul: “I loved that jet”
However, there’s something in this article that doesn’t add up:
My first encounter with the SR-71 came when I was 10 years old in the form of molded black plastic in a Revell kit. Cementing together the long fuselage parts proved tricky, and my finished product looked less than menacing. Glue,oozing from the seams, discolored the black plastic. It seemed ungainly alongside the fighter planes in my collection, and I threw it away.
Twenty-nine years later, I stood awe-struck in a Beale Air Force Base hangar, staring at the very real SR-71 before me.
For you arithmetic junkies out there, name x as n minus 29.
I came to the program in 1983 with a sterling record and a recommendation from my commander, completing the week long interview and meeting Walter, my partner for the next four years.
This identifies n as 1983. What is x?
Having arrived at x, consider this:
The SR-71 was the brainchild of Kelly Johnson, the famed Lockheed designer who created the P-38, the F-104 Starfighter, and the U-2. After the Soviets shot down Gary Powers’ U-2 in 1960, Johnson began to develop an aircraft that would fly three miles higher and five times faster than the spy plane-and still be capable of photographing your license plate. ... In 1962, the first Blackbird successfully flew, and in 1966, the same year I graduated from high school, the Air Force began flying operational SR-71 missions.
Consider also that even though the SR-71 was flying operationally in the 1960s, its existence was not admitted to the public until much later.
So, how did Revell make a plastic model of the SR-71 years before it was even designed? Odds are, Shul is remembering something fanciful and futuristic that might in retrospect have resembled the Blackbird but wasn’t, actually.
H/t: Instapundit, who doesn’t appear to have caught the timeline problems.
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Ever Wonder Why I Keep Alaska on My Mind?
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Sun 9 Mar 2008 11:55
by Kevin McGehee
41° and fair
in Coweta County, GA
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[Alaska]
[Yee-haw!]
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It’s like nowhere else in America on earth.
 Jack Wright was 13 in 1969 when he worked all summer, earning $600 to buy his first snowmachine, a 1969 Polaris Mustang.
The sled cost $1,200.
“I went halves with my dad,“ said Wright, who was raised in Fairbanks and is now the tribal chief in Manley.
Wright drove the sled for years, and after it stopped working, he couldn’t part with it, so he kept the Mustang in storage.
That is, until three years ago when Craig Compeau started the Tired Iron Annual Vintage Snowmachine Race and River Rally, hosted on the Chena River in front of Pike’s Landing. Only people driving snowmachines made before 1976 may enter.» Snowmachines stand the test of time to compete in Tired Iron
This is something you notice very quickly if you spend any amount of time up yonder: whereas there’s many a new car, truck or snowmachine in an advanced state of decrepitude because of the harsh conditions, there are also plenty of vintage machines from decades past—even going back to territorial days in rare cases—that look and run like new. The trouble and expense of replacing such an investment, back in the old days, led to an ethic of meticulous care and maintenance that can still be seen if you keep your eyes open.
I wonder if this Chatanika snowmachine competes in the rally?
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Jan 2008
Dec 2007
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Another Chinese Import?
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Sat 15 Dec 2007 12:33
by Kevin McGehee
59° and rain shower
in Coweta County, GA
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[Yee-haw!]
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WunderKraut:
We began the long and complicated journey through a mountain of paperwork in Spring of 2005. Once we started down the road, we found our hearts being connected to a yet unborn baby girl, half a world away. Since that time we have new found appreciation for God’s love towards us and a better understanding of Romans 8 about being adopted heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ.
Our paper work was officially logged into the Chinese government on December 12 of that year. We expected to wait 9 to 10 months until we received our referral, but a month later the entire adoption system in China came to a dead stop due to internal government politics.
Our short wait grew to almost two years, but we are happy to announce that on December 5, 2007, we were notified that we had our referral and the very next day we saw our daughter for the first time.» Two Tickets to China
WK has a PayPal button for those who would like to help fund their trip to collect their new bundle of joy.
H/t: The Fifth String on the Banjo of Life, by email. (He also has a post, here.)
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