From: Trader to the Stars

• ....tools settle the possibilities: you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to one planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with all its basic machines of commerce and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend t
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Creative Commons: Some rights reserved by Harlequeen “WHY SHOULD there always be this fear and slaughter between us?†said the Wolves to the Sheep. “Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to/…

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By Tom King © 2012, Puyallup, WA

With the Rick Santorum's withdrawal from the presidential race this morning, the country club Republicans are all gathered in oak paneled rooms with glasses of Scotch and big ceegars congratulating themselves on having "unified the party" (by which they
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I'm tired of not voting in the Republican Primary. For the last few decades, by the time the primaries came to Texas, the vote was moot. Everybody had already dropped out except the heir apparent. I didn't vote in the primary last time. If I had, I'd have cast a/…

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What? Me worry? Romney may well win the Republican nomination for president. If he does, I predict he'll have an uphill go of it. If he wins, it won't be by much and it's not because enough people don't dislike President Obama.

It will be because most of/…

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Ron Paul has for some time been rolling up the anti-Semitic vote with his libertarian flavored stance on Israel. Dr. Paul states clearly that he is not anti-Semitic and I believe him, even though he has done a fairly poor job of distancing himself from his overtly/…

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There used to be a little Facebook group devoted to "Haystacks", a singularly Seventh-day Adventist potluck creation involving lettuce, tomato, chips, cheese, beans, sour cream and various salad dressings and salsas. I started a thread along the lines of Jeff Foxworthy's "You might be a redneck..." o… Read full post »

I was listening to a commentary on PJTV the other day and something Andrew Klavan said, set me back a bit. I do like Klavan and his pithy conservative commentary, don't get me wrong. He was talking about the entitlement mentality of this generation and I was with/…

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Media pundits, political operatives and the Obama Adminstration keep trying to "discover" something sinister going on with the Tea Party. Now the Nonprofit Quarterly's Rick Cohen gets into the act, reporting gleefully that the IRS is going after the Tea Party.

First, there is not a "Tea Party/…

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(c) Some rights reserved by Andrew Currie You know, I kind of resent that question.  I'm kind of tired of journalist trying to get themselves up in white robes and to masquerade as some sorts of informational holy/…

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Some rights reserved by Official U.S. Navy Imagery  There's a tradition in the Navy to render passing honors to ships of other nations or ships that have distinguished themselves in battle by assembling the crew, saluting with cannon fire, flags or such. I wish… Read full post »

(c) 2012 by Tom King

Probably not the well-crafted plot lines that attract women to this show.

When I was six years old in Mrs. Davis' Primary Class at church, we sang a song that went, "O' be careful little ears what you hear." The other verses went, “Be… Read full post »

Okay, I'm not going to get into it with any of your Chinese Communists or Peruvian leftist guerrillas about whether Americans just don't "get" soccer because we're stupid, shallow and decadent. I've addressed that already in an earlier blog - "How Soccer Teaches Us That The Whole… Read full post »

The Greatest Statesman of My Lifetime - Bar None  One of my favorite weblogs, "The Art of Manliness", just ran a piece called "The Four Qualities of a True Statesman."  Brett & Kay McKay, the authors, certainly picked a subject that would get a lot of comments.…

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It couldn't happen to a more deserving guy. Lliam Neeson has been all over the map lately trying to explain why the character Aslan, whom he voiced in the Narnia movies, isn't Jesus and assuring us that he might be thinking about becoming Muslim as his movie characters sl/…

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Justin dusts! My Sweet Baboo is a legendary clean freak. The woman cleans daily the way most people do spring cleaning. She can't stop. I've found her at nine o'clock at night scrubbing ceilings with bleeding knuckles. I've practically had to sit on her to get her to stop/…

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Dragon-X the first private spacecraft orbited in 2010.

Okay, I admit I was less than happy with Newt Gingrich as the potential Republican presidential candidate. I heard a lot of complaints that he wasn't a "real" conservative, that he had some problems with morals, that he had ethical problems/…

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One of the Romney accolytes today made a statement on Fox News that was supposed to show us that the Newtster wasn't a good choice for president.  He said something to the effect that when Newt was Speaker of the House, he was considered a loose cannon by the Republican Leadership/…

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Bill Moyers demonstrates once again that he is not an unbiased journalist. In the attached vid, he encourages citizens to oppose the Supreme Court decision in the Citizen's United case, the one that established that free speech extends to corporations.

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Here's Warren Buffet Singing "I've Been Working on the Railroad" on Chinese TV.  How appropriate is that?

Warren's buddy, President Obama just effectively canceled the Keystone Pipeline Project.  This means the Canadians will build a pipeline to the west coast and sell the oil to China… Read full post »

Bait & switch tactics do not win my support* I got snagged by the old political bait and switch this morning - TWICE!

I know, "One time shame on you. Twice shame on me!"  But dang it I can usually trust Glenn Beck and he let me down/…

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(c) 2012 by Tom King

But you're not at all what I was expecting. Seems like zombies are everywhere of late. You can hardly get through a movie preview or an evening's television these days that isn't littered with rotting zombie corpses. So what's…

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(c) 2012 by Tom King

Plenty of people have weighed  in opinions of Wal-Mart and its customers. Comedians, pop psychologists, community organizers and armchair anthropologists have ridiculed and/or looked down their noses at the folk who congregate at the Wal-Mart. You will notice that I mysel…

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