Cap'n Bob & the Damsel

Solar Activity Continues To Increase

In addition to two very active sunspots, this huge solar flare erupted this week.

From SOHO:

A very long solar filament that had been snaking around the Sun erupted (Dec. 6, 2010) with a flourish. STEREO (Behind) caught the action in dramatic detail in extreme ultraviolet light of Helium. It had been almost a million km long (about half a solar radius) and a prominent feature on the Sun visible over two weeks earlier before it rotated out of view. Filaments, elongated clouds of cooler gases suspended above the Sun by magnetic forces, are rather unstable and often break away from the Sun.

12 Dec 2010 by Astronomy Environment

Robbed – NOT!

How the left sees NOT raising taxes . . .

There are no cuts:

“[L]et me say that on the Republican side, this is their holy grail, these tax cuts for the wealthy. This is — seems to be their central economic doctrine.”

–Barack Obama, who continues to call preventing tax hikes “tax cuts”

What a steaming log!

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Hat tip to The Patriot Post

08 Dec 2010 by Beltway Kabuki Humor Whacko Politics

Allen Street in Old Tombstone

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We were camped in an RV park in Tombstone, Arizona in October of last year for part of the “Heldorado Days” celebration. We were window shopping on Allen Street near the location where Wyatt, Morgan and Virgil Earp along with Doc Holliday shot it out with Frank McLaury, Tom McLaury, Billy Claiborne, Ike Clanton, and Billy Clanton. Damsel took this picture of a stagecoach going west toward the OK Corral at the left. Click on the image to enlarge.

06 Dec 2010 by Photography Travel Wanderlust

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