Carmakers produced 1,600 steam-powered vehicles in 1900 and 1,575 electric ones. Only 936 internal combustion models were made.
Hat tip Forbes.
Month: January 2013
Kudos To Corbett
Gov. Tom Corbett has finally come out in favor of ending the Pennsylvania wine and liquor monopoly.
Kudos.
Delaware weeps.
Now, do something truly consequential and repeal the law allowing teacher strikes, which would end the power the teacher union has in this state to harm children solely to increase their own wealth and keep bad teachers on the public payroll.
50K March For Life In San Fran
Put this in the things you probably don’t know file: On Jan. 26, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, at least 50,000 people marched against abortion in San Francisco.
That’s right, San Francisco.
PJMedia.com has a photo essay of the event including many from the rather miniscule pro-abortion counter-protest, many of which, you should be warned, are fairly offensive.
Cryptowit
By William W. Lawrence Sr
Qba’g jevgr fb gung lbh pna or haqrefgbbq, jevgr fb gung lbh pna’g or zvfhaqrefgbbq.
Jvyyvnz Ubjneq Gnsg
Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
Off The Internet — Right Side Of The Brain
Courtesy Donna McCole
The right side of your brain. this is one of those great emails that show when you are using your Right or Left side of your brain. If you see the picture exactly as it is, you are using the left side. When you stare you will see the figure shift; and you will be using your right brain. You can switch back and forth.
Stare to go to Right brain (it sort of trances you out or puts you in an altered NON THINKING state).
Begin thinking and reasoning about it and you will move back out of the altered state into Left brain thinking. very cool. You will enjoy this if you are using the right side of your brain, I think this is very good.
Stare at this picture and you will see this man turn his face.
Marxism In America
Courtesy of Fran Coppock
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin was the commander of “Delta Force” and later commander of the US Army Special Operations Command.
Cryptowit
By William W. Lawrence Sr
Nzfclrp td cpdtdelynp ez qplc, xldepcj zq qplc – yze lmdpynp zq qplc.
Xlcv Ehlty
Answer to yesterday’s puzzle: No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
Maimonides
Real Estate Transfers: Marple, Media, Middletown
Rubio On Rush Explains Immigration Ideas
Florida Senator and Republican star Marco Rubio joined, Monday, Jan. 28, a group of his fellows including very liberal Democrat Chuck Schumer in unveiling a plan to deal with immigration, especially of the illegal variety. The plan includes allowing the illegals a path to citizenship. This had many, many, many conservatives outraged.
Rubio went on Rush Limbaugh, today, to explain his thinking. He was brilliant.
One wishes, though, that Rubio and other conservative supporters of amnesty become more vocal about putting the burden on solving the issue on government agencies, where it far more belongs, than on businesses. The small restaurant owner who hires a busboy or small landscaper who hires an assistant is not the problem. What is the problem is the government bureaucrat who is prohibited from asking for proof of residency status when issuing public benefits or a school administrator forced by the courts to enroll a child at taxpayer expense.
Still, amnesty is not a bad word in itself — quick quiz if giving amnesty to one magic illegal solves the entire problem do you do it? — and Rubio seems to get it.
Anyway, here he is on Rush:
Islam And The Walking Dead
Ex-Muslim Brotherhooder Walid Shoebat has uploaded a piece claiming that the historic and prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cario wants to teach Egyptian high schoolers that it is OK to kill and eat non-Muslims.
Provided, however, one does not “cook or grill” them.
Shoebat, on his site, has a video of the discussion in Arabic, along with a translation and commentary. We can’t fact-check it but that’s what is out there.