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• Brass Balls Sends Out the Signal. Who Will Answer?
• You Need An Old Priest, A Young Priest, and One Other Thing
• Clearing the Browser Tabs — Look to the Skies Tuesday Edition

Brass Balls Sends Out the Signal. Who Will Answer? Posted: 20 Sep 2011 01:36 PM PDT Usually, the shows Wendy and Kimberly do don’t delve into the intensely serious and personal on their Brass Balls Radio podcast, but she made a very important exception with this week’s show. Their guest is an exceptional woman named Jamie Walton, who has an organization called The Wayne Foundation. Her job, and the job of the Foundation, is to find and help victims of sex trafficking and child prostitution. It is as worthy a cause as you will find and Jamie’s story should be heard by a far wider audience. Listen to the show and, if you have it in your means to help the Foundation, help. You can donate outright, or pick up some of the merchandise Jamie offers. Either way, you will help save and rebuild lives.

You Need An Old Priest, A Young Priest, and One Other Thing Posted: 20 Sep 2011 01:20 PM PDT This commercial amused me greatly. It won’t seem funny until you get almost to the end, but stick with it. The payoff is worth it.

Clearing the Browser Tabs — Look to the Skies Tuesday Edition Posted: 20 Sep 2011 10:09 AM PDT If you happen to be walking around outside any time between, say, today and September 23, you should probably keep your head up. NASA has reported that the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, a climate research satellite, will fall to Earth. Normally, this wouldn’t be a problem — the planet gets pelted with debris all the time, manmade and otherwise — but there are a few exceptions in this case. First, the satellite is huge. It’s about the size of a school bus and weighs well over 12,000 pounds. Most things that hit our atmosphere burn up long before they reach the ground (the Tunguska blast appears to be one notable exception). The UARS won’t do that. NASA expects that about 26 large pieces with an aggregate weight of almost 1,200 pounds will survive re-entry.  The largest piece could weigh 300 pounds. That is a lot of debris. Second, the impacts could strike anywhere in a  500-mile long strip from northern Canada to southern South America. NASA can’t narrow down there the pieces might land, and it won’t know anything for certain until about 2 hours before they hit the ground. The agency puts the risk that a human will be struck at 1 in 3,200 which seems like long odds, but it’s very low compared to what I would normally expect. It’s not a coin toss but it’s not like playing the lottery either. So even though you probably won’t get hit by a chunk of metal from above, it wouldn’t hurt to follow the story and keep your eyes upwards once in a while, at least until Sunday. Today is Tuesday so, assuming I’m not brained by a satellite control module, The Delivery will kick off at the customary 9:30 PM Eastern time. The pre-show warmup has gotten more fun over the past couple or three weeks, and if you decide you want to show up a little early, you might even hear singing. Who knows? And now, links! There has never been a greater time in history for the printed word than now. Digital media have opened new markets, put more books into the hands (so to speak) of more people, and made publishing possible for thousands of skilled writers who would never have been published before. If you read this article closely, you will see the totalitarianism that lurks behind every progressive policy. It’s okay for you to voluntarily inhale a vapor that affects no one but you only if government bureaucrats decide it is “medically beneficial”. In the past 38 years, Congress has approved a federal budget on time only 3 times. And if you’re wondering, the Senate still hasn’t passed a budget since Barack Obama took office. ACORN is not dead and, despite a law against it, the group is still collecting hundreds of thousands of our dollars from its Democratic friends in Washington. Time for some folks to go to jail, I think. Ravioli Three Ways. Yes, please. If I can find the right vintage radio, I believe I’ll follow these instructions to convert it into an mp3 player speaker. Ladies and gentlemen, your Washington Capitals regional television schedule. If we are blessed, the NBA will remain on strike so Comcast won’t bump the most successful sports franchise in the DC are over the past five seasons to its cable ghetto in favor of a lottery pick basketball team.

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