Month: November 2014

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Ole Summers
By Ole Summers
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Summers was raised in a rural, agricultural family, survived a fun filled college career which consisted mostly of rodeo and football with just enough brain cells to fool some gulible professors type
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I have been told before that I am a little backward. I have never taken offense at the observation. At time, I actually take pride in it. Preview Open

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Ole Summers
By Ole Summers
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Summers was raised in a rural, agricultural family, survived a fun filled college career which consisted mostly of rodeo and football with just enough brain cells to fool some gulible professors type
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Al Sparks
By Al Sparks
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I’ve started reading Donald Westlake. I think it was Power Line that turned me on to him. Without further adieu here’s a gem I found in one of his books (Richard Stark is a pen name of Westlake’s). From The Outfit: A Parker Novel by Richard Stark published in 1963 (beginning of chapter three). On […]

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JudithannCampbell
By JudithannCampbell
JudithannCampbell Inactive
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For those who read my last post and may have felt that it was overly critical of men, don’t worry: my next post will be aimed at women. But before I write that post, I want to offer an explanation for why I am writing these posts at all. I suspect that most of the Ricochetti are […]

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John Walker
By John Walker
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Swiss voters went to the polls today (actually, most had voted well before by mail, dropping off their ballots, or over the Internet) to decide three initiatives. We vote frequently in Switzerland, and the initiative process and the sovereignty of the people under direct democracy imposes few limits on the scope of an initiative which […]

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Dex Quire
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I’m convinced we will look back on the Obama years as a romantic interlude in American politics. (What were we thinking? Will be the rallying cry.) Romantic in the sense of let’s leap over all the difficulties of our past, our historic guilt and with this act alone, solve all our racial problems by electing […]

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Seawriter
By Seawriter
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Seawriter is a former Shuttle software engineer who successfully made the transition to the oil and gas industry as a technical writer after the end of the Shuttle program. It is not the first career
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This one should be familiar to anyone who reads military SF. Jerry Pournelle snatched it as a marching song in his Codominium series (the one with John Christian Falkenberg.) Seawriter Preview Open

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Peter Robinson
By Peter Robinson
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Peter Robinson, former Reagan speechwriter, wrote the historic Berlin Wall address in which President Reagan urged Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall!" Peter Robinson is now a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and hosts the interview program "Uncommon Knowledge." Peter is a co-founder of Ricochet.
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From a friend, who, like millions of Americans, decided this weekend to work off his Thanksgiving overindulgence by heading to a gym.

(My friend explains that “guns” means “biceps.” Since I’ve never had biceps big enough to warrant comment, this came as news to me. James Lileks, of course, will already have known.)

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Vicryl Contessa
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Stubbs the cat has been the mayor of Talkeentna, Alaska since 1997. “He’s the best mayor we’ve had,” quotes one resident. “He doesn’t raise our taxes- we have no sales tax. He doesn’t interfere with business. He’s honest,” says the manager of the local general store. This cat is pretty much the Libertarian dream; the […]

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John Walker
By John Walker
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Mark Watney was part of the six person crew of Ares 3 which landed on Mars to carry out an exploration mission in the vicinity of its landing site in Acidalia Planitia. The crew made a precision landing at the target where “presupply” cargo flights had already landed their habitation module, supplies for their stay […]

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Western ChauvinistJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member
By Western Chauvinist
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First off, I'm a woman. Let's just get that straight. I don't know why it's so improbable that a woman would be a chauvinist when we have dogs and cats waxing eloquent on politics and culture on the site. I was a liberal bliss-ninny well into my thirties until certain events (having two daughters (they're chauvinists too!) and 9/11/2001) changed my mind about nearly everything. Now it's faith, family, and country for me -- in that order. God Bless America!
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Heh. I’m just posting this for the clever title. It’s a story about a non-story ginned up by Obama’s gate-keepers in the media. See what I did there? Preview Open

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MetalheaddocJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member
By Metalheaddoc
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To add a little mystique and bad-a**-ness, we ought to give our hosts some wrestling-style nicknames and a signature finishing move. Any ideas? Rob – I can’t think of a name. Rob Long Duk Dong? (sorry, Sixteen Candles flashback) “The Swan”? Finishing move-the RINO squish Preview Open

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LensmanJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member
By Lensman
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For the benefit of anyone under the age of 60, here’s a news flash. The Vietnam War was won by the enemy in the halls of Congress first and then on the battlefields of Vietnam in 1975. Are the Democrats who helped the enemy win in 1975 going to do the same thing with the […]

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Pleated Pants Forever
By Pleated Pants Forever
Pleated Pants Forever Inactive
A guy in Chicago (aka the belly of the beast).  OK, I had kids a few years ago and had to retreat to the suburbs……..Let’s call it the belly button of the beast.
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We all greatly enjoy listening to our Ricochet podcast all star hosts, but could they be getting a little squishy soft? Peter Robinson – I heard one of your early claims to fame was a speech on East Germany. Isn’t that right, Comrade Robinson? James Lileks – Could Al Franken really have won reelection in […]

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John H.Joined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member
By John H.
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I make a point of wearing T-shirts with nothing printed on them but if I did wear one with something printed on it, it would probably read “Be Kind To Plants By Not Eating Them.” There is no record of my ever having used the word “alas,” not conversationally anyway. I feel that freedom from the press is at least as important as freedom of the press. I like being able to say “Ankara” and “Manaus” in the same sentence (hotel clerks in both cities remembered me from visits months ea… [more]
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The prestige of New York City is a mystery. Schenectady should have more. I recall that in Eric Ambler’s first novel, The Dark Frontier (1936), Schenectady is named as a likely cradle of nuclear weapons research. I don’t recall New York City ever coming up, nor can I think of a reason why it should have, then or […]

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Eustace C. Scrubb
By Eustace C. Scrubb
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Born in 1961 in Santa Rosa, CA. Graduated from high school from Piner High, Santa Rosa. Graduated from San Diego State University with an AB in Speech Communication. I graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School with an MDiv. Married to the very wonderful Mindy. Worked in youth ministry for 30 years (sometimes full-time, sometimes part-time.) I also worked many years as a hotel night auditor. Now I'm a chaplain at the Men's Shelter of the Seattle Union Gospel Mission. Authored, among othe… [more]
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It almost goes without saying that what your nearest and dearest want this year is a Ricochet Christmas (or Ricochet Hanukkah or Ricochet Kwanzaa or Ricochet Festivus.) But after you’ve purchased your son and daughter and Aunt Tilly a Ricochet Membership, what else is there? Lots more. Here’s some ideas with the appropriate link so […]

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Chip Head
By Chip Head
Chip Head Inactive
We are Ilkhounds, virtual companion dogs. The breed is easily trained and has been used for tracking and hunting bacon. They are also known for their love of beef products, gin rummy and laptops. (Fits us to a T-bone.) Once upon a time we were chasing squirrels and lizards in Orlando. Now we chase the American dream in our Airstream. Our hobbies are napping and sleeping. We’re proof any dog in America can grow up and use a toon to spread happiness and good cheer to all, but cats. That’s our … [more]
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contrarian
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I just finished listening to about a dozen podcasts from the week following the election. Over and over again commentators stressed that the electorate for mid-term elections tends to be ‘older and whiter’ than that for presidential elections. What struck me, however, was that there were many left of center commentators who pointed this out in a […]

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Chris Williamson
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On my jog this morning I noticed two things right off that I need a three-dimensional printer for: 1. PLASTIC TIP ON POST OF GLASSES. The plastic tip on my glasses that goes over my left ear has broken off. The metal part is still fine, but these are my jogging glasses, so as long as I don’t stab […]

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