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Science Daily: Barcoding endangered sea turtles:

Conservation geneticists who study sea turtles have a new tool to help track this highly migratory and endangered group of marine animals: DNA barcodes. DNA barcodes are short genetic sequences that efficiently distinguish species from each other—even if the samples from which the DNA is extracted are minute or degraded.

Oh. Different kind of barcode. Sorry, George.

I spent much of the time at the march with a brand-new friend, "Patch W Adams" of St. Louis or thereabouts. He's one of the St. Louis group of conservative bloggers--his blog is The P/Oed Patriot.

He took pictures along the way, including one of yours truly. It's in this post. I'm the second picture from the top, in the red t-shirt.

You know, for an out-of-control, enraged right wing wacko, I look pretty darn happy, don't I?

The overall spirit of the thing was a cheerful determination to hold, keep, defend, and restore our American freedoms--for ourselves, and for everyone--including and especially Democrats, "progressives," and authoritarians of all stripes. We just don't want them running the government, let alone our lives. A lot of us forgot that, during the Bush years, and perhaps for years or decades before.

We remember now. This nation was conceived in liberty. In liberty it stands or falls. If you love freedom and liberty, join us.

Liberty has been under attack since this Republic was founded, from those who wish (for good or ill) to hold power over their fellows. The 9/12 march was a protest against them, and a warning to them.

Despite what you're constantly told by enemies of liberty, to join us as defenders of liberty there is no religious test, no skin color requirement pro or con, no qualification by sex or sexual orientation involved right now. There's no dress code. We're not "astroturf"--one look at the atrocious message control of the signs in the march should tell you that. We're the real thing. We believe in non-violent political change, reserving the last resort of a free people for a truly desperate situation that we are, as yet, nowhere near. We know that there are some who fear or hate liberty and freedom--we feel sorry for the former, and we oppose the latter. The only qualifications to join us are a belief that freedom is a thing worthy of defense, and the willingness to stand up and say "Enough! This is the Land of the Free, not the land of the intimidated."

We seek to convince, not to force others into submission.

We believe in freedom--our freedom, and your freedom, too.

If you love freedom and liberty, join us. We have no leaders, because every free man and every free woman is a leader in his or her own way.

Join us and lead.

Sounds like the House will censure Joe Wilson for his temerity in speaking "Truth to Power."

A reminder to today's Democrats, from another Democrat:

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

--Harry S Truman

It's just the rather silly mood I'm in right now, but the phrase in this article "a blow to . . . wind energy" just amused me.

Sioux Falls Argus Leader:

The lead utility in a proposed South Dakota power plant is quitting the project - a blow to both wind energy and coal-fired electricity - but the other partners say the plan is still alive.

Otter Tail Power Co. is leaving the project that's designed to build the Big Stone II coal plant at Big Stone City in the state's northeast corner.

"It was a combination of factors - the broad economic downturn, a higher level of uncertainty and proposed climate legislation," said Cris Kling, public relations director for Otter Tail.

1. Drill, baby, drill!

2. Coal is Life. Over half of our energy comes today from coal.

3. Go nuclear (like--yes--the French). Go Polywell fusion. The sooner we do this, the sooner we can start cutting back on burning hydrocarbons for power. There are no other REAL alternatives right now to nuclear power. And polywell fusion is (in my humble opinion) the best hope for large-scale, clean, safe power generation for the future.

3. Wind power won't get it done any time soon. Solar power won't get it done any time soon. We need more power--worldwide--not less. The economic advance of less developed nations requires two things: a) suppressing political/economic corruption, and 2) providing adequate power. Come to think of it, those two things would be pretty good ideas here in the U.S., too.

Build nuclear power plants, and hope like hell polywell fusion pans out. Otherwise we're in deep kimchee.

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Concentrated political power is, and continuously should be, suspect by those whom it subjects.

Science Daily:

The (University of Colorado at Boulder) researchers used high-tech instruments and lab methods to analyze roughly 50 showerheads from nine cities in seven states that included New York City, Chicago and Denver. They concluded about 30 percent of the devices harbored significant levels of Mycobacterium avium, a pathogen linked to pulmonary disease that most often infects people with compromised immune systems but which can occasionally infect healthy people, said CU-Boulder Distinguished Professor Norman Pace, lead study author.

Because, you see, hygiene is unhygienic. Or something like that. As they say at Fark.com: EVERYBODY PANIC.

Or, in my version: We Are All Going To Die!

Wash your hands, everyone!

From the Cato Institute's Cato @ Liberty blog:

The correct answer when the schools come begging for more money is NO. GO DO YOUR JOB. YOU HAVE PLENTY--MORE THAN ENOUGH. SPEND IT WISELY.

NO MORE MONEY.

The problem with education isn't money. The problem with education is bureaucracy.

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

It is impossible to read even the bare text of the Constitution at all carefully without realizing that the American Republic was specifically designed to safeguard individual enterprise against the state.

These photos are of the crowd basically on the Capitol Circle and just inside--that's as close as I could get. I caught glimpses of the video board that was set up on the Capitol steps, and could hear the speakers well enough, but I was never close enough to actually see any speakers. Pictures are after the "read more."

I promised some 9/12 March on Washington pictures--if nothing else, to prove that I really was there. This will be in two posts--first, the March, and second, the Rally. March pictures after the "read more."