Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Wingsuit flying world championship takes off in China
The first wingsuit flying world championship opened in Zhangjiajie, in central China's Hunan province, with the participation of the world's top 15 wingsuit fliers.
The rules require competitors to jump off a cliff 1,400 meters above sea level
on top of the Tianmen Mountain in China,
complete a loop-like flight in the valley and glide across the terminal of
the cableway before they open their parachute and land at the finish line on
the mountain road.
The competitor who finishes the whole course in the shortest time is the
winner.
According to schedule, the 16 contestants made two preliminary flights on
Wednesday and the top eight will go into the final on Thursday.
Six of the 15 top fliers are from the
United States and there are three air photographers.
More @ The Telegraph
Global warming: Non-existent for the last 15+ years
Non-existent for the last 15+ years. Zero. Nada. Zilch. (Before that, in the ’70′s, it was all about the “Coming Ice Age” and where did that go?) All the while the developing world has been cranking up carbon use for manufacturing. And in the meantime? We have energy starvation policies stuffed down our throats. And a President, last night in the debate, going on and on about “Green Jobs,” which are either non-existent also…or are causing bankruptcy eruptions all over the place. Not to mention the dire straights he is putting people in with regard to the energy they need to survive.
Excuse the unladylike word in my title, but the entire Al Gorebasm insanity is causing nothing but draconian, opportunistic, tyrannical thievery and controls over our very daily lives to the point of stark raving global madness. You have been sold down the proverbial river. Sent over the cliff. Robbed blind. And screwed…totally. Americans are supposed to be smarter than this. I want to believe Americans are smarter than this. But every day, in America, bureaucrats, planners, non-profits, corporations, and politicians are spending their time, and energy, and your money, to capture you…not carbon, but you…..into their schemes of control. None of that has one whit to do with some conjured up fiction that you are causing the global temperatures to rise. You aren’t. You never did. But they won’t let a little thing like the truth stop them from their central control of your energy use.
More @ Freedom Outpost
John Pelopidus Leach
My great grandfather liked doors closed quietly, and if someone didn't , he would exclaim
"Slam the doors, break them off the hinges!"
Every day after dinner, he would crawl under the table, and take his nap there.
He loved grits, and required all (and, of course, I continue the tradition) to sing as the butter was stirred into same
"Beat yellow grits, beat yellow grits, beat yellow grits just as fast as you can!"
I have taken this one step further by cutting up one or two Sunny-Side Up eggs, and incorporating them into the soon to be delightful very, yellow mess. Shrimp and grits are also wonderful, as is most anything else with grits. We are fortunate that Yankees don't like a "grit" for if they did, the price would go up......
He disliked saying grace, and one day the minister was having Sunday dinner with them, so my great grandmother thought she would ask him to say grace since he couldn't possibly decline considering the guest. Well, they were having lamb, so my great grandfather exclaimed "God bless the mutton, damn the skin, turn over your plates and we'll all begin!"
I doubt if she asked him again!
Leach family reunion around 1977, Littleton, NC.
Some of JPL's great grandchildren, and great, great grandchildren. The two girls in white on the right bottom are my two oldest children, Emily Michael, and Virginia Pippen. They are wearing "Mrs. Brown's white dresses." Mrs. Brown was an elderly seamstress in Marshall, Virginia. [Salem during the War] I visited her with my mother many times as a child.
Leach family reunion in the early eighties, Littleton, NC.
The two ladies on the right front row, left to right, are my Aunt Sally Moore and my Mother Ellen Douglas. My grandmother wrote the *below for her mother.
Confederate Memorial Day-05, 10, 1911 (My Grandfather & Mother)
*"What My Mother Loved" (My Great Grandmother)
"Slam the doors, break them off the hinges!"
Every day after dinner, he would crawl under the table, and take his nap there.
He loved grits, and required all (and, of course, I continue the tradition) to sing as the butter was stirred into same
"Beat yellow grits, beat yellow grits, beat yellow grits just as fast as you can!"
I have taken this one step further by cutting up one or two Sunny-Side Up eggs, and incorporating them into the soon to be delightful very, yellow mess. Shrimp and grits are also wonderful, as is most anything else with grits. We are fortunate that Yankees don't like a "grit" for if they did, the price would go up......
He disliked saying grace, and one day the minister was having Sunday dinner with them, so my great grandmother thought she would ask him to say grace since he couldn't possibly decline considering the guest. Well, they were having lamb, so my great grandfather exclaimed "God bless the mutton, damn the skin, turn over your plates and we'll all begin!"
I doubt if she asked him again!
Leach family reunion around 1977, Littleton, NC.
Some of JPL's great grandchildren, and great, great grandchildren. The two girls in white on the right bottom are my two oldest children, Emily Michael, and Virginia Pippen. They are wearing "Mrs. Brown's white dresses." Mrs. Brown was an elderly seamstress in Marshall, Virginia. [Salem during the War] I visited her with my mother many times as a child.
Leach family reunion in the early eighties, Littleton, NC.
The two ladies on the right front row, left to right, are my Aunt Sally Moore and my Mother Ellen Douglas. My grandmother wrote the *below for her mother.
Confederate Memorial Day-05, 10, 1911 (My Grandfather & Mother)
*"What My Mother Loved" (My Great Grandmother)
School Bus Driver Tells12 Yr Old Boy His Mother Should Have Aborted Him
Recently, we’ve seen incidents where teachers have bullied and abused students for either being a Christian or having different political views than their own. In the latest incident, a 12 year old boy, Joey Hartlaub, was verbally bullied and abused by his 81 year old school bus driver.
Joey attends school in New Berlin, Wisconsin. His parents had a Romney – Ryan in their front yard and the school bus driver started harassing Joey about the sign. A couple of weeks later, Joey and some friends were in the back of the bus chanting ‘Romney, Romney’ when the driver yelled at him to come to the front of the bus. When the bus driver began to verbally assault Joey, he told her that Obama was pro-abortion. The driver responded by telling Joey:
“Well, then maybe your mother should have chosen abortion for you.”
More @ The Last Resistance
What Can We Cut to Balance the Budget?
Via David
If the U.S. government cut all government services except Social
Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and payments on the debt, federal spending
would still outpace revenues. Prof. Antony Davies argues that there are
not specific cuts that will enable government to balance the budget. He
says, "Nothing less than a redesign will solve this problem." That
redesign should begin by determining what the proper role of government
is.
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