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July 14, 2009Please Keep Running Against Empathy, RepublicansPlease! It makes you wonder how they got elected in the first place. Whatever happened to President Bush' rhetoric on "compassionate conservatism" (unmatched by his CHiP performance even back in Texas). Posted by Jon Kay at 11:54 PM
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July 11, 2009UPDATED: Open Bouiallabaisse BloggingI might've bitten off more than I can chew here. Bouiallabaisse turns out to call for 22 ingredients, some not the least bit cheap. And not so many of those 22 ingredients are easy things to deal with. Fivish are a rouille sauce, which I've never made before. Right now, I'm 11 of those 22 ingredients in. We'll see if we end up eating pizza, or if I give up on the rouille and croutons, and just add the seafood and salt and leave it at that. So how does a man living in Texas come to be making bouiallabaisse? Well, since the election, and voting for Obama here in Austin, I've found myself wanting arugula, going to a French restaurant here, and needing to make bouiallabaisse.... ;-) UPDATE: Made it through all 22 ingredients. But barely - I cut myself on the final, 22nd ingredient, parsley that I'd replaced with cilantro. Despite two mistakes - doing the wrong thing with the rouille and not having enough mussels, it was still great soup. But I'm never making it again.... Posted by Jon Kay at 05:17 PM
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F-22 Turns Out To be Hangar QueenF-22 Turns Out To be Hangar QueenWhy pay so much for the F-22 when it spends 97% of its time in maintenance, and has an average of 1.7 hours between failures. Forget it doing anything useful, like that air superiority we're buying it for. That turns out to be because Lockheed intentionally put them together badly, preferring to ship bad stuff than to take a penalty on the contract. And, it's the wrong kind of thing for us. Big wars've been over for us and other nuclear-armed powers for sixty years. That means we need small-war equipment like tons of helos and more cheaper fighters, and not so many high-end air-superiority fighters like F22, especially since they quickly clog up the budget. I think we should return each failing plane to the manufacturer, and expect a refund for each. Fat chance, though, sigh. Continue reading "F-22 Turns Out To be Hangar Queen"Posted by Jon Kay at 02:13 AM
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