Sierra Faith

“Standing on air.”

Signals heard:
French newspaper Le Monde says French military ships have detected signals from the black boxes of Flight 447 in the Atlantic depths.
The report says a research mini-submarine, the Nautile, dived Monday to search for the boxes based on a “very weak signal” from the flight recorders picked up by the French ships. (AP)
Le Monde [...]

The Heritage Foundation has an excellent report on the damage this will cause to our economy both in the short and long term.
Fundamentally, we need to ask ourselves, if all this is so wonderful, why is China saying No?
The economic impact of the new draft varies from that of the original draft in several major [...]

Mapped.

May need a new liver.

I’m shocked! Shocked I say!
It concludes that there is not much future in the much vaunted developed of all electric-powered cars. Instead, it suggests that the traditional combustion engine powered by petrol, diesel, ethanol or new biofuels still offers the most realistic prospect of developing cleaner vehicles.
Duh.

Patrick Ruffini discusses, and RNC candidate Chip Saltsman suggests a model:
I also believe in building online Republican communities – not lists. Instead of focusing on amassing email lists of the marginally interested, we must make a concerted effort to transform our websites into hubs worthy of the fervent political dedication of our online supporters. To [...]

Richard Fernandez remembers:
He both loved knowledge and mistrusted our belief to completely apprehend it, his works often portraying “scientists and engineers as arrogant and closed-minded to the potential threat a technology represents”. . . .
His theme wasn’t so much “no, we can’t” but that the arrogant and self-satisfied couldn’t. Life was always a surprise, insusceptible [...]

From the Anchorage Daily News:
Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has let her energy platform be dumbed down to “drill, baby, drill,” but her actual record on energy is much more responsible, balanced and substantial.
Good piece, but nothing new to those of us who already knew that Governor Palin is much more than that portrayed by [...]

From Texas.
And in the good ole Houston, USA, in the aftermath of IKE, telephones, internet and cable TV were down, and cell phones were unreliable due the spike in traffic. The only means of communication that approached useful levels was SMS messaging and good ole AM/FM. Sometimes text messages would be delayed for minutes but [...]