Rocky Mountain Right has video of a conversation between a group reporters at the DNC demonstrations in Denver, torn between covering the protest and joining in. In the end, the latter wins out for at least one reporter (and presumably the others continued to do the latter while pretending to do the former, chewing at the dilemma in their minds all the while).
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Alex Jones harangues Michelle Malkin at the Mint ‘levitation’, while the mob chants “Kill Michelle Malkin!”. Amazing video from fellow PPC organizer El Presidente of Slapstick Politics. I was there, saw the commotion, and only realized after she had successfully escaped the situation who it was — she was surrounded by cameras and a group of large and angry moonbat men, making her invisible outside of the throng of hate. Those Troofers have some problems, I think. [update — corrected the first sentence for accuracy. It was apparently a thug in the mob who started the chanting…Jones was just yelling at her.] If you want an unfiltered look at the goings on at the DNC convention in Denver over the next week, here is your site: Peoples Press Collective:
If all goes as expected downtown, PPC is set to become a very interesting site over the next few days. We will have lists of events, video and photo coverage, blog commentary, and more as the mayhem in Denver unfolds. I was discussing the recent launch failure with a former coworker, one who is now on the defense side of the aerospace business. He, having a somewhat jaundiced opinion of SpaceX, opined that he would think long and hard about hiring anyone with SpaceX on their resume. Which made me realize something: in all the interviewing that I’ve done in the past two years, I’ve never actually seen a resume with SpaceX on it. Nor have I come across blogs or other internet material posted by current or former employees (disgruntled or otherwise). This struck me as a little odd. Surely someone from SpaceX must have left the company in the past six years, or been fired. In a population of 500-odd, no matter how carefully selected each individual is or the workplace perks they are offered, there are bound to be some who are dissatisfied with how they are treated (and others who leave due to health problems, spousal relocations, or other reasons having nothing to do with the job). So where are the resumes? Where are the insider comments at forums like NASASpaceflight.com? Where are the angry blogs written by disgruntled former employees, who salivate over every mistake the company makes as it tries to get its rockets to work? Seems awfully quiet out there… And here’s the promised pictures of Morskie Oko (Poland)…  And Mala Studena Dolina (Slovakia)…  So, did I miss anything? Oh yes…another SpaceX rocket blew up while I was out of town. Which makes it the magical number three for the company. It’s interesting to compare the progression of changes in Musk’s attitude towards the magical launch number three over time:
The guy is certainly entitled to change his mind, I simply think it’s interesting to note the progression over time of his attitude towards this third failure. I for one hope he does finally get it right…we’re in something of a pickle if he doesn’t, the way Constellation is going and the way the Russians are behaving lately. On the other hand, that last statement is unsettlingly categorical. Maybe I’m just being cynical, but isn’t that the sort of denial people often make just before doing exactly what it was they said they would never do? It looks like PETA isn’t entirely a punchline, after all: PETA Offers $1 Million Reward to First to Make In Vitro Meat
[homer] This is cool — a little something extra from an old spacecraft: NASA’s Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World A hat tip or even just a link would have been nice, Dwayne. Especially if you’re going to take my point as one of your own. As an amusing aside, when one follows the Google search link he does provide, a good number of the results have to do with James Hansen calling for trials of oil executives and others who question the political orthodoxy of global warming…trials whose political nature and predetermined outcome would no doubt have pleased the arguably fascist Roland Freisler. [hat tip: NASAWatch] ADDENDUM: In case it wasn’t obvious what the first paragraph above is referring to, the reference to the Overview Effect in Dwayne’s piece was to my eye a clear reference to my “Liberal Fascism Effect” post. If it is a reference to my post, Dwayne misunderstands (or willfully misrepresents?) what I said there, using it as one of his featured examples of namecalling…after which, as one of his own points, he blames this growing tendency to spot “fascism” everywhere on Jonah Goldberg. This was of course exactly the point I made at the beginning of the post — that Goldberg’s book had left me with an amusing (to me) tendency to spot fascist tendencies in even mundane things. I think if Dwayne had actually read the book, he might have understood what I was referring to. |
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