The Autogyro is a rotary winged aircraft that relies on either pusher or tractor power to achieve flight. Lift is accomplished by controlling pitch and yawl of the rotary wing in a forward/backward and side to side manner. The unpowered rotary wing served as the lift mechanism. Either an inertial weight or friction brake at the base of the rotary wing served to limit rotational velocity. In the event of engine failure, the rotary wing served as a virtual parachute for the entire craft.
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Zooey’s post yesterday makes Mike’s Blog Roundup at C&L today. Click on the word “Shame” in the line “Southern Beale: For Shame”.
Way to go Zooey!
yay Zoeey!
re: the AutoGryo,
and in the event that guests suddenly dropped by, an autogyro owner could quickly make some giant alcoholic frappes AND julienne huge potatoes at the same time!
Zooey strikes again!
The gyropilot in the Mad Max sequels was lame! Oyster stew or crab corn chowder w/ asparagus tips?
dbadass,
my choice would be crab corn chowder with asparagus.
I’m no shellfish fan, but that sounds mighty appetising ( PROPER spelling, no ‘z’!). .
definitely the chowder.
Here’s more details on the “Guns and Jesus” store owner that I mentioned in a post yesterday. If I get the chance to drive by his store, I’ll take a picture and post it.
http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=184804
Cats, holly joes have no problem with mixing guns and Jesus since guns are not mentioned in the Buybull. They get to listen to the voices in their heads to make up rules on that.
Cats,
“We will explore the mental-health defense,” Hracho said.”
Hracho ( thinking): “Let’s see; ‘Gun-toting bible-thumper’.
Should we plead ‘insanity’, or ‘Republican’? I’ll put down ‘not guilty by reason of Republican’–same diff.”
5th, maybe they will make a new category…not guilty by being filled with the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues. Heck, if God tells you to do something you have to be not guilty.
if anyone is interested, I posted something of a tribute to America as done by Harry Chapin on Story Time
Linked by Crooks & Liars — totally cool!
Here’s Southern Beale’s post, which exposes the waste of perfectly usable merchandise by stores like WalMart that could be going to charity, but is destroyed so no one can use it.
The fact that Google wants to be empowered to be their own energy utility sort of concerns me. Perhaps some internet search rolling blackouts might be useful in reminding folks of the carbon footprint of convenience.
MORON
What is it with these guys and these shirts? Is there a company that just specializes in white trash flag related shirts or how does that work exactly?
I bet that’s not even a US flag shirt, but rather a Texass flag shirt.
And, Zooey, that’s spelled “moran”. Sheesh.
My bad.
The half time show for this year’s Super Bowl will feature The Who. I guess those older boomer favorites are less likely to produce those pesky “wardrobe malfunctions”.
The tit that made the baby Jesus cry?
Mark Fiore has been getting death threats over one of his animated toons, and Bildo is furious. Must be doing something right…
What is the teabag word for “fatwa”? And who issues it?
house,
Similar to the Eskimo and their 27 different words for what we just call “snow, it is believed that there is no single word for “fatwa” in teabag.
The words “Democrat”: or “liberal”. being common targets of the Teabaggers many fatwa might be used as a trans-literal substitute but it would be at the expense of clarity and at the risk of confusion, as the nuance is lost.
For example, a “MORAN”.is not a “moron”–an adult with the mental capacity of an 8 year old’
but rather;
‘an adult whose mental capacity is average or above-average but who is my sociopolitical and philosophical enemy and who can’t shout as loudly as me.’
Like in that one episode of Star Trek when Kirk and Spock are stranded on some planet with some weird guy who only speaks in metaphors, the teabag language is contextual rather than being made up of specific words with specific fixed and commonly understood meanings.
For example, in teabag, “Nazi” can mean “a builder of secret death-camps”,
or it can mean “Communist” (a person who wants lower cost health insurance for the average citizen)
or it can mean “the guy who must have stolen the last election because everyone knows America is a conservative Christian nation beloved by Jesus ”
If one wishes to learn to speak teabag fluently, like a nativist, one has to learn to ‘un-learn’ the rules of one’s own language and instead practice the use of ‘the slogan’ which is the smallest relevant component of any teabag utterance.
TIP: It also helps if you own at least one gun and accept Jesus as your personal savior.
Good luck with your studies!
I should have allowed for more than one word to replace fatwa in teabagger lingo.
I am envisioning a Limbaugh-like image, but with a beard and a turban, with the explanation “Teabag Taliban” in the picture. The actual fatwa could be those memorable words: “I Want Him To Fail!”
( Are you getting this, PJ?) Oh, he could have the big cigar, too.
I don’t really want to speak Teabagger, just understand it, as I have no intention of owning a gun, or any close personal relationship with the socialist, single-payer, Baby Jesus, even if he is on our side.
OMG, you have to read this review of the first chapter of Palin’s book. It’s awesome!!
I wouldn’t have known about it, but someone linked to the Zoo in the comments section. I’m bookmarking Margaret & Helen for sure, and I seriously need to catch up on the genius of these ladies!
OH!, I’ve stumbled across Margaret and Helen once before, can’t remember how, and it was a pleasure then.
Going to the link now to read.
We could have a violation of © laws in the release of a segment of this work. I do not dispute the fact that the original is totally fiction.
Walt,
I’m surprised and confused by your above statement. about copyright violation.
I trust the potential copyright violation to which you obtusely refer is/was inadvertent, and/or that the claimant of the potential copyright violation to which you at present have-not specified or feel unable to specify at this time, is either mistaken in their claim or else forcefully exercising their rights on the assumption that an apparent infringement of their copyright is or was malicious and punishable.