Departing Manila (Photo credit: Storm Crypt)BREAKING: Wang kicked out of KMT
CNA reports:
立法院長王金平涉入司法關說，中國國民黨考紀會今天上午開會後決議，將王金平撤銷黨籍。
Wang booted from KMT. This means he lost his seat in the legislature and
his Speaker position, since he is an at-large legislator serving at the
party's pleasure.
More later tonight....
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Aramaic Prayer / Hymn - King of Kings
To God goes the glory. Man is clay and dust.
Lords Prayer In Assyrian Aramaic
How Much Would the World Pay for Biodiversity? Nothing, Really
Just a week ago, NPR’s Planet Money reported: “The government of Ecuador
has abandoned a plan that would have kept part of the Amazonian rainforest
off limits to oil drilling. The initiative was an unusual one: Ecuador was
promising to keep the oil in the ground, but it wanted to be paid for doing
so.”
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Boehner Doesn't Have To Worry About A Democratic Challenger Thanks To Steve Israel, But His Right Flank Doesn't Look Safe
Last week we looked at the persistent Beltway rumors that Boehner has had
enough and wants to retire and spend the rest of his life drinking and
golfing. If right wing groups have their way, he won't get the chance. They
want to defeat him at the polls in 2014. Grassroots Democrats in western
Ohio have tried to do that as well, but the DCCC has savagely undercut them
and protected Boehner's left flank. Steve Israel got his way again this
cycle-- so far-- and there is no Democrat running against Boehner. The Tea
Party doesn't take its walking orders from Steve Israel. They want
Boe... more »
Alex Jones is (still) a Dangerous White Supremacist
Subtle, Alex, real subtle this time....
IDEAS 3: Wan Saiful's Presentation in Manila
Wan's talk last Monday night here in Manila was great. Will post photos in
my next blog post. Audience were mainly my clubmates in Rotary, plus
friends in the free market movement here in Manila.
It's good that Wan briefly introduced what the Institute for Democracy and
Economic Affairs (IDEAS) is. He said that often people look at free
marketers as not too concerned with high inequality and the poor, so they
made it clear that their goal is to "make markets work for the poor."
Both the administration and the opposition in Malaysia know that IDEAS is
free marketer and hence, not ex... more »
Obama And The Lying Wolves Are Desperate For Credibility
Wolves are descending on the carcass of Syria . . .salivating at the mouth.
. . hungry for Syrian blood . . . Assad is a good shepherd . . . Assad
protects the weak . . . To say Assad gassed his people is to lie. . . And
the wolves are lying.
Obama Asks for Postponed Vote on Syria. Source: AP.
Missing persons in Canada
There are about 7,000 missing people in Canada at any given time. Of those
perhaps a sixth of the adults have mental or drug issues -- the rest are
missing due to other causes.
Sometimes these are benign -- people who leave and seek a new start --
others quite the contrary -- murder victims whose bodies are not found.
Most are people involved in accidents or arrested or for some other reason
kept out of reach of their family for a brief period.
Regardless, missing people cause enormous heartache and anxiety -- the lack
of information can devastate families.
Perhaps the only good... more »
Philosophy: It’s a matter of life and death
Philosophy isn’t just an abstract subject for otherwise unemployable nerds
to sound learned. It explains why, for instance, a culture moves radically
away from respecting objective reality and instead embraces the concept of
subjectivism; or moves away from respecting reason and independent
judgement, and instead embraces consensus; or moves away from respecting
individual rights and peaceful cooperation, and instead begins to embrace
authoritarianism and state control.
In order to live at all in the real world, you need *some view* of that
world and your place in it—either explic... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
"This forest of snow and ice penitentes reflects moonlight shining across
the Chajnantor plateau. The region lies in the Chilean Andes at an altitude
of 5,000 meters, not far from one of planet Earth's major astronomical
observatories, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Up to
several meters high, the flattened, sharp-edged shapes, and orientation of
the penitentes tend to minimize their shadows at local noon.
*Click image for larger size.*
In the dry, cold, thin atmosphere, sublimation driven by sunlight is
important for their formation. A direct transition from a... more »
If August job numbers were by the one week shutdown of the porn industry - September will be a dilly ! Now three porn actors / actresses hit with HIV !
Catharsis Ours - 1 hour ago
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/pointing-at-pornography-for-job-losses/?smid=tw-nytimes
Pointing at Pornography for Job LossesBy CATHERINE RAMPELL
*Updated, 4:24 p.m.* | *to include point about how employees are counted.*
[image: CATHERINE RAMPELL]
CATHERINE RAMPELL
Dollars to doughnuts.
The pornography industry, long accustomed to being a scapegoat for the
country’s moral ills, is now being blamed for America’s economic failings,
too.
Employment in the motion picture and sound recording industries plunged in
August, for a loss of 22,200 jobs. It was the sector with the bi... more »
Neil Young is a Moron
Okay, okay......I promise I took a deep breath and walked away from the
laptop for several minutes before typing this post, but I have to admit I
still can't get over the stupidity that is Neil Young. Apparently, he was
in town over the long weekend to tour our city. But really, like many
other celebs, he only came here to garner publicity for himself and spout
off about the oilsands. And I mean, that's fine, everyone has their
opinion and is entitled to it. But I really have to draw a line in the
sand when the guy then goes ahead and spouts off about Fort McMurray
itself. Acco... more »
Chet Raymo, “The Red Thread”
* “The Red Thread”*
by Chet Raymo
“I am seventy-seven years old and have never witnessed a human death. I
have been there as loved ones- father and mother, most prominently- awaited
the approaching darkness, but I was not present when the last flicker of
light was extinguished. For this, I suppose, I should feel grateful,
retaining a kind of innocence, a blessed lacuna in the realm of possible
experience. I think of how for so many in the world death is a commonplace
and sometimes grisly presence.
In the journal my father kept as he lay dying of cancer, he recounts a
dream ... more »
Bill McCallum Responds to My Post (and I Look Into My Crystal Ball)
“How I Spend My Spare Time” I recently wrote a post entitled, “A Sane Reply
to Bill McCallum: Why I Cannot Support the Common Core “State” Standards.”
I addressed directly some of my concerns and gave some general reasons that
I can’t go along with Bill McCallum’s request to join him in supporting
CCSSI. As […]
The Daily "Near You?"
Pompano Beach, Florida, USA. Thanks for stopping by.
Thank goodness, no more campaign messages on the answering machine -- at least until the NYC primary runoff
*I don't know what Daniel Squadron can do as NYC public advocate, but he's
the person I want to see doing it, en route to whatever higher office he's
going to be seeking.*
*by Ken*
If I had it to do over, maybe instead of deleting all those
political-campaign phone messages as quick as I could punch them out, I
might have kept a log of calls received, with a view to picking as te
"winner" in each contested race the candidate who had inflicted the fewest
nuisance calls on me. True, it would have been a lot of work, but what was
all that daily toil screening the accumulated messages... more »
God's Price Tag
We’ve woken up. We can clearly see our slavery. We bought the story –
hook, line and sinker. Did we put up a fight before we were snatched from
our sovereignty? I believe so. Elements of the fight are everywhere. There
have always been revolutionaries, whistle blowers, and conspiracy theorists.
Their language is becoming mainstream. You hear words like “private
agenda” and “line their own pockets” on Capitol Hill and on Main Street.
Movements to “access our value” are a growing part of the conversation.
It’s true, we’ve been robbed, if willingly. Yet there is ... more »
Security considerations . . .
A
copper wallet insert shields your credit cards from RFID
skimming.Image: Adam Harvey
Get a Faraday wallet. Something with a lining made of copper, or steel
mesh or even aluminum foil. Or add aluminum foil to the inside of the
wallet you have. With one of those, “they” can “ping” you as you walk
about, and the RFID’s in your credit cards and sometimes, Driver’s
Licence, are shielded, and
Why in the world is the FBI STILL investigating reporter Hastings for alleged " controversial reporting " ? NSA involved in industrial espionage against Petrobras of Brazil - more NSA news of the day... With 9-11 looming , beware the False Flag ! ,
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/9/fbi-releases-redacteddocumentonmichaelhastings.html
FBI continues to investigate Hastings for 'controversial reporting'
by Jason Leopold
@JasonLeopold
September 9, 2013 9:45PM ET Updated 11:45PM ET
Al Jazeera obtains declassified documents on deceased Rolling Stone
journalist following FOIA lawsuit
Topics: Michael Hastings Rolling Stone Magazine FBI
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[image: Michael Hastings]
Hastings died in a late-night car crash in Los Angeles in June.Paul
Morigi/Getty Images
The FBI released a heavily redacted document on Rolling Stone j... more »
Money Laundering Exposed As A Key Component Of The Housing Bubble's "All Cash" Bid
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* *Money Laundering Exposed As A Key Component Of The Housing Bubble's "All
Cash" Bid*
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/10/2013 18:02 -0400
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-10/money-laundering-exposed-key-component-housing-bubbles-all-cash-bid
In August 2012, when isolating one of the various reasons for the latest
housing bubble, we suggested that a primary catalyst for the price surge in
the ultra-luxury housing segment and the seemingly endless supply of "all
cash" buyers (standing at an unprecedented 60% of all buyers lately as
reported by Goldman) is a very simpl... more »
#EdSnowden reveals spooks have already cracked and hacked your software
*Guest post by James Ball, Julian Borger, and Glenn Greenwald*
U.S. and British intelligence agencies have successfully cracked much of
the online encryption relied upon by hundreds of millions of people to
protect the privacy of their personal data, online transactions and emails,
according to top-secret documents revealed by former contractor Edward
Snowden.
The files show that the National Security Agency and its UK counterpart
GCHQ have broadly compromised the guarantees that Internet companies have
given consumers to reassure them that their communications, online banking
a... more »
Poll shows Hondurans really, really unhappy with country's direction
Hondurans are ferociously gloomy about the state of their country,
according to a new poll this month.
The poll, by CESPAD, a citizen’s pro-democracy organization, looked at
voter preferences. The national elections are now a little more than two
months away.
It also asked about attitudes toward government, the state of the country
and democracy.
The results were grim. Only 3.2 per cent of Hondurans think the country is
progressing. Only 18 per cent think their families’ economic situation is
even a little better this year than last.
The poll asked whether the current government w... more »
The 1970s called. They want their global cooling scam back.
Ahead of the UN’s climate jobsworths writing up the summary of their fifth
report on the state of the climate’s planet, and desperate to find some
plausible climate disasters on the horizon they can make quotable enough to
go around the world’s media, the planet itself is resolutely refusing to
cooperate.
London’s *Daily Telegraph* reports the Arctic is refusing to give up its
ice, as predicted. Instead of decreasing,
There has been a 60 per cent increase in the amount of ocean covered with
ice compared to this time last year, the equivalent of almost a million
square miles. In a... more »
Testicles and Fatherhood
This is my lab, so let's perform a thought experiment. Say I'm a
sociologist (which I am) and had an interest in the social behaviour of
biologists. Neuroscientists to be more precise. In such a situation, quite
rightly my motives for studying them would have to be justified like any
sociological enterprise should. But also, I think most people would be okay
with the idea of studying a groups of scientists in a social setting.
Investigating, describing and analysing social relationships is the bread
and butter of our work, after all. However, if our sociologists were to
enter the s... more »
"The Senate is a failed institution.” - Tom Mulcair, Leader, New Democratic Party
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[image: Progressive Bloggers]
*“We live in a democracy. It’s a fundamental principle in a democracy that
laws are made by people who have been elected by the public. The Senate is
a failed institution.”*
*Tom Mulcair *
*-Leader, New Democratic Party*
*-Leader of the Official Opposition**
*
*
* *Last thought ... *
*Saskatchewan's Right wing corporate media are a bit anxious about
Mulcair's visit to Saskatchewan ... even repeating the original
Saskatchewan Party 'speaking point' (which Wall has now abandoned) on what
constitutes the term 'Dutch Disease':*
*" Mulcair is likely les... more »
ISRAELIS MAY NEED TO FIND ANOTHER WAY TO KICK START THEIR FINAL CONFRONTATION
It seems that an imminent strike against the Syrian government may have
been averted due to Bashir al-Assad conceding to Russian suggestions that
Syria surrender its chemical weapons to international custody. Already the
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting scheduled to meet to discuss
Russia’s proposal has been postponed.
The development has left the neoconservatives fuming. For them, the US
strike against Syria was essential. Without a US strike there is unlikely
to be the much hoped for retaliatory strikes against Israel which would
have provided them with an opportunit... more »
The Sons of God
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*"The Owls Are Not What They Seem"*
Genesis 6
*King James Version (KJV)*
6 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth,
and daughters were born unto them,
2 That the *sons of God* saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and
they took them wives of all which they chose.
3 And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that
he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when
the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they ... more »
Something is missing from this picture...
[image:
http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2200000/Mean-Girls-mean-girls-2250715-300-435.jpg]
There is currently a criminal trial unfolding in Ottawa that has captured
the interest of many.
It is unusual because it involves girls under the age of 16 pressured,
blackmailed and physically coerced into sex work by pimps who are also
girls — barely older than their victims.
Two of the three adolescents standing trial for 74 charges including human
trafficking, forcible confinement and procuring for prostitution, are 16
years old; the other is 17.
This is an account from a young ... more »
Untitled
*Royalty-screwed: Big Oil likes to confuse severance taxes with cleanup
costs ~Mark Moseley, The Lens*
Untitled
*Judge orders sheriff to seize LSU search records ~WDSU*
Open Thread
So, what's on your mind today? Comments, complaints, suggestions, lost
or stolen items?
Extra Musical Interlude: Moody Blues, "The Story In Your Eyes"
Moody Blues, "The Story In Your Eyes"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgOtLKttDU4&html5=1
I couldn't resist, lol...
Yes, Of Course It's OK to Speculate About Syria and 2016.
This again? I'm hearing all sorts of complaints about people speculating
about how the Syria matter will affect the 2016 elections.
If we're talking general election -- I'm with you. Pending an enormous
policy disaster, and perhaps even if there is one, the outcome in Syria
will likely have zero effect on the November 2016 election.
But if we're talking nominations? As long as you agree on two things:
1. The 2016 presidential nomination contests began some time ago and are
underway right now; and,
2. The outcome of the 2016 nomination contests is important
...then of course it's re... more »
Syria-- Saving Obama From His Own Worst Instincts
On Sunday, all Democratic Members of Congress got a 9 x 12 envelope from
"President Barack Obama" with the question on the front, "DO YOU STILL HAVE
MY BACK?" Pelosi is much beloved by most Democrats in the House. But her
"dear colleague" letters on behalf of Obama's resolution to bomb Syria are
falling flat. In fact, every time she sends one out-- and Friday was the
fifth-- another undecided Democrat switches to NO. First thing Monday
morning it was Iraq War vet Tulsi Gabbard. Friday it was northern
California ConservaDem Ami Bera-- who switched from a YES vote to a NO vote
after... more »
Musical Interlude: The Moody Blues, “Tuesday Afternoon”
The Moody Blues, “Tuesday Afternoon”
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEMuAnFH_lM&html5=1
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Moody Blues, Full album, "Days of Future Passed"
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y_9hwW1eV0&html5=1
“How 9/11 Was Done”
"I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth."
- Morpheus
“How 9/11 Was Done”
- http://how911wasdone.blogspot.com/
Kansas Charter School Anticulturalism Sends Child Home in Tears
The protests that this situation has aroused is a good thing, but a much
better thing would be for parents to get just as upset about the
anticultural curriculum and chain gang behavior control as they now are
about racist rules regarding hair styles. Tagged: anticulturalism,
charter schools
A Better Look at George Zimmerman
Shellie Zimmerman's 911 call
Well it's hard to be sympathetic to her. She covered for him at the trial
for his killing of Trayvon Martin.
“The ‘Mize-Well’ Factor”
*“The ‘Mize-Well’ Factor”*
by Bill Bonner
“The Dow rose 140 points yesterday. Our guess: Speculators are betting on
the Fed’s announcement later this month. In light of bad employment
numbers, they reckon the Fed is unlikely to begin seriously tapering off
from its credit-pumping adventure. They’re probably right. The Fed has
already gone too far. The economy depends on its ZIRP and QE. Besides, Ben
Bernanke is leaving his post as Fed chairman in January. He is desperate to
hold things together so he can get away with his reputation – such as it is
– intact. He has already ad... more »
Maureen Dowd’s Two Faces of Barry!
*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2013*
*The one face of Milbank and Dowd:* In this morning’s Washington Post,
Milbank plays the silly card with respect to Susan Rice.
But first, Maureen Dowd played the silly card with respect to President
Barry. On Sunday, she started her column like this, pitiful headline
included:
DOWD (9/8/13): *Barry’s War Within*
*The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize had been up late pleading for war.*
*The president looked exhausted* as he met the press in St. Petersburg on
Friday. The man elected because of his magical powers of persuasion had
failed to persuade othe... more »
"Insanity..."
“Insanity is when you do the same thing over and
over again and expect different results.”
- Albert Einstein
Ignore the Right, support the BBC - says a Labour MP
The BBC' usual "right-wing and competitor" opponents must be ignored,
states a disinterested political neutral at the *Guardian *tonight.
"We must stand up for the BBC"...
At a time when public trust is so low, the BBC has proved time and time
again its resilience. Its founding principles are to inform, educate and
entertain. It is truly a public good which, despite everything, continues
to be an incredibly successful global broadcaster providing high-quality
journalism, factual programming and drama, and keeping journalistic and
production values higher in the commercial sector t... more »
Satire: “Kerry Shocked to Be Taken Seriously”
* “Kerry Shocked to Be Taken Seriously”*
by Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)— “Secretary of State John Kerry said
today that he was “shocked and flabbergasted” that the Russians heeded his
suggestion about Syria’s chemical weapons, telling reporters, “After four
decades in public life, this is the first time someone has taken me
seriously. Whether as a senator, a Presidential candidate, or Secretary of
State, I’ve devoted countless hours to thunderous and droning speeches that
people have consistently tuned out,” he said. “So naturally, to be listened
to all of ... more »
Issa: The Syrian 10 years old boy who works in a weapon factory 6 days a week - more pictures
*Issa assembles a locally handmade mortar shell.Hamid Khatib / Reuters*
*10-year-old Syrian boy works 10-hour days, six days a week alongside
father in weapons factory. See more pictures *here.
Israel And Saudi Arabia Are Afraid of A Peace Deal Between America And Syria, May Stage False Flag Op
* Israel and Saudi Arabia are mad that President Obama hasn't already
bombed Syria.*
Below is an excerpt from, *"Harper: Beware of False Flag
Incident,"*published at Colonel Patrick Lang's site on Tuesday,
September 10, 2013.
"The countdown to U.S. military action against Syria has taken another
dramatic twist over the past 24 hours, with a Russian proposal, backed
by
Syria, Iran and the Obama Administration, now being formulated to avert
American military action. The proposal, contrary to much of the media
chatter, was discussed between Putin and Obama in St. Petersburg last
week... more »
Putin: Syria chemical arms handover will work only if US calls off strike
Putin: Syria chemical arms handover will work only if US calls off strike.
Source: RT.
As we await Obama's speech tonight, presumably trying to justify launching cruise missiles indiscriminately into Syria to punish Bashar al-Assad for the unproven notion that he was responsible for the chemical weapons deaths 3 weeks ago, he should consider the unequivocal consequences of the stupendously larger amounts of toxic chemicals that the U.S. dumped on Vietnam...
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*The US government has used more chemical weapons than all other countries
combined *
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Guest Contribution by the BBC
Compare what Washington did to the people of Vietnam with its relentless
chemical weapons attacks that the Vietnamese had to endure for years with
the alleged and unproven use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article... more »
Understanding Anbar Before And After The Awakening Part II, Sheikh Abdullah Jalal Mukhif Faraji
The Anbar Awakening, which emerged in 2006 was a mix of sheikhs, clerics,
and tribesmen, many of which were involved with the insurgency. Each was
driven by their own motivation to give up the struggle against the
Americans and the Iraqi government, and instead turn their weapons on their
former compatriots. Sheikh Abdullah Jalal Mukhif Faraji was one such
individual. He was the deputy head of the Sunni Endowment in Anbar, and a
member of the Ramadi city council that later helped lead the Anbar
Salvation Council along with Sheikh Abdul Sattar Abu Risha and others. To
Faraji it was... more »
The Realist Report with John Friend
On this edition of *The Realist Report*, we'll be joined by *Dr. Harrell
Rhome*, a contributing editor to the bi-monthly historical magazine *The
Barnes Review*. Dr. Rhome and I will be discussing the Jewish Talmud,
Jewish ritual murder, and Judaism's connection to Freemasonry.
Please visit *The Realist Report* on TalkeShoe to download this and past
episodes.
Three Years and Counting on the Kalamazoo
Three years after a major dilbit spill on Michigan's Kalamazoo River,
pipeline operator Enbridge is still at work on the cleanup. If it can't
clean a shallow river in three years, what will it do if it dumps a
supertanker load of dilbit to the bottom 600-feet down in British
Columbia's turbulent north coastal waters?
Living Large Chemically
China is taking a page out of North America's book, discovering that
antibiotics are the key to industrial livestock production. Already half
the antibiotics used in China go to keeping livestock ticking over until
they can be slaughtered.
Shocked? You shouldn't be. China is at 50%. In the U.S., the livestock
industry consumes 77% of that nation's antibiotics.
*China's teeming factory meat farms have a drug problem. To make animals
grow quickly under cramped, feces-ridden conditions, animals there get fed
small, doses of antibiotics—creating ideal breeding grounds for
anti... more »
Syria: I Told You So.
I Told You So.
He's just as smart as John Kennedy.
"I call it the Madman Theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe
I've reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war.
We'll just slip the word to them that, "for God's sake, you know Nixon is
obsessed about communism.
We can't restrain him when he's angry—and he has his hand on the nuclear
button" and Ho Chi Minh himself will be in Paris in two days begging for
peace."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory
These people are stupid beyond words....
Syria: Agenda-Setting Masterclass for the Com... more »
Best blog post in the world... EVER... again... part two
Ain't Misbeehiving
Ayu Lonesome Tonight
Whelk Oldham
Blenny Kravitz
Queens of the Stoat Age
Fly and the Clam-ily Stoat
La Isla Bonito
Gorilla Radio
Limpet Bizkit
Avenged Sevenfoal
Mr Bungull
Go-gull Bordello
Shrew Fighters
That's What Breams Are Made Of
My Chemical Romants
Half Man Half Biscat
Sweet Breams
Bananallama
Lemurythmics
Half Man Half Puss-cat
Ptarmigan-garoo Down Sport
Prawn to Run
Prawn to Be Wild
The Flamingo Lips
Diana Wasp
The Beetles
Video Killed The Radio Starling
Boasis
Here Comes The Sunbird
NOFOX
Cattle Be The Day
Toucan Play That Game
Caribou Doesn't Live Here Anymore
B... more »
It’s pretty darn good being Wagner or Cupp!
*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2013*
*Notes on two all-new programs:* Two Sundays ago, Meredith Blake reviewed
the all-new Newsroom in the Washington Post. The piece was a reprint from
the Los Angeles Times.
We don’t get HBO on our sprawling campus. In part for that reason, we don’t
know a great deal about Newsroom.
That said, we’re not sure that getting HBO would help. Last year, a few
free episodes of Newsroom aired. We tried to watch but couldn’t do it, so
awful was the program.
Last night, we found the all-new second season on our free cable, so we
tried to watch again. Same result... more »
Greatest poster in the world... EVER... again... part two
Ain't Misbeehiving
Ayu Lonesome Tonight
Whelk Oldham
Blenny Kravitz
Queens of the Stoat Age
Fly and the Clam-ily Stoat
La Isla Bonito
Gorilla Radio
Limpet Bizkit
Avenged Sevenfoal
Mr Bungull
Go-gull Bordello
Shrew Fighters
That's What Breams Are Made Of
My Chemical Romants
Half Man Half Biscat
Sweet Breams
Bananallama
Lemurythmics
Half Man Half Puss-cat
Ptarmigan-garoo Down Sport
Prawn to Run
Prawn to Be Wild
The Flamingo Lips
Diana Wasp
The Beetles
Video Killed The Radio Starling
Boasis
Here Comes The Sunbird
NOFOX
Cattle Be The Day
Toucan Play That Game
Caribou Doesn't Live Here Anymore
B... more »
Professor Al Bartlett, Rest In Peace
Isn't it nice that the world is still full of joy, and there are still
people so oblivious to the gathering clouds of famine, war, deprivation and
pestilence that they can make ecstatic photographs like this series by
Jordan Matter? *Dancers Among Us* reminds me that I always wanted to be a
ballerina.
It's very odd that this morning before I got out of bed, I lay there
thinking over and over again of one of Bartlett's famous quotes: “The
greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the
exponential function.” He said and wrote a great many things during his ... more »
1st Anniversary Repost: Writers Reflect on Chicago Strike (EdWeek) | the becoming radical
1st Anniversary Repost: Writers Reflect on Chicago Strike (EdWeek) | the
becoming radical.
The State As An Attractor for Sociopaths
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* *Thanks to Tim forwarding this! -Bill*
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* *The State As An Attractor for Sociopaths*
By Butler Shaffer
September 10, 2013
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your
freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else. - Tom Clancy
In the science of chaos, “attractors” are operational principles around
which turbulence and apparent chaos are harmonized. What the limited nature
of our prior experiences dismisses as randomness or disorder, the study of
chaos and complexity is revealing as deeper patterns of regularity.
Attractors help to identif... more »
Transposition of grid points enables Higher Vibrationals to transmit healing frequencies to all of humanity
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* *Transposition of grid points enables Higher Vibrationals to transmit
healing frequencies to all of humanity*
by ÉirePort

Transposition of grid points enables Higher Vibrationals to transmit
healing frequencies to all of humanity. This process aligns Gaia energetics
for final steps into hyperdimensional awareness.
Humanity has resisted such for centuries, but has now reached the tipping
point into this awareness.
Gaia does not wait for those still clinging to the resistance paradigm.
ÉirePort | September 10, 2013 at 17:02
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You Wouldn't Knowingly Throw Plastics Into Our Lakes and Rivers, Would You?
Well, if you're fond of those exfoliant cleansers, you might have been
doing it unknowingly. Researchers trying to assess the magnitude of waste
plastic debris in the Great Lakes in 2012 were in for a surprise:
*Some of the samples they collected from Lakes Huron, Superior, and Erie
indicated the presence of as many as 450,000 bits per square
kilometer—twice as many as had ever been recorded. And the scientists were
mystified by the form that so many of these microplastics took:
multicolored, perfectly spherical balls a fraction of a millimeter in
diameter.*
*Further investigati... more »
CMS: \(3\sigma\) deficits in search for vector-like \(b\)-like quarks
This blog and other sources occasionally mention excesses, possible (or
real?) deviations of the observed quantities away from the theoretical
predictions. They're extremely rare and we expect most of them to go away
when more data is collected, anyway. But the idea that some of of them are
real is surely what keeps many people going.
However, in most of these discussions, one subtlety is neglected:
deviations from predicted values may have two signs. Plus and minus. So in
principle, deviations from the Standard Model may be either excesses
(surpluses), or deficits (shortages) of ev... more »
Was Miley Cyrus Racist?
Apparently one of her fellow dancers was dressed up as an exaggerated
version of a black woman with a huge ass or something.
Would my blog be any less relevant if I focused on the pop-cultural
significances of Miley's hyper-drive career rather than rancid lard-ass
stephen harper's daily defecations on Canadian democracy or such
world-historical topics as the betrayal of the "Arab Spring"?
I'd like to type something about popular responses to the character of
Skyler White from "Breaking Bad."
But, for now, I'll just take you back to those thrilling days of
Yesteryear. When the bi... more »
What, Me Blog? | the becoming radical
What, Me Blog? | the becoming radical. Tagged: blogging, Twitter
Senator Pam Cashing In
It might be she's hoping to stay one step ahead of the law or at least out
of jail but Pam Wallin is flogging her Manhattan condo and taking a bath on
the deal.
*CBC News has confirmed that Wallin has accepted an offer to sell her New
York condo in the coming days, but the deal has not yet formally closed. *
*The condo is in the 34-storey Plaza Tower, a Manhattan property described
in a real estate listing as “a proper ‘white-glove’ co-op with 24/7
doorman, full-time concierge, covered circular driveway … and fabulous roof
deck” — all just off New York’s iconic Park Avenue. *
*Acco... more »
Bashar al-Assad's perception of democracy
In times of tragedy it is refreshing that cartoonists provide the humorous
perspective.
Syrian War: Casualities of War
Wars do bring tragedies and we humans will never learn. It is about time
that Russia intervenes to end this ongoing carnage of people in Syria. If
Russia makes genuine efforts other nations will join in. Diplomatic
resolution will be the best resolution.
*HELPING HANDS: Mustafa Abu Bekir, 23 years old, smiled as he was carried
near the Cilvegozu gate on the Turkish border, Sunday. Mr. Abu Bekir said
he was severely wounded by a bomb dropped from Syrian government aircraft,
while he was fighting with the Free Syrian Army in Idlib, Syria. (Gregorio
Borgia/Associated Press)WSJ.*
Judicial Compensation Commissions
*Judges of the Provincial Court (Man.) v. Manitoba et al*., 2013 MBCA 74
considers judicial compensation commissions. Judicial officers do not
negotiate with the Government regarding compensation; rather compensation
commissions are established to determine what is a fair and proper
compensation. The recommendations of compensation commissions are, unless
otherwise provided for by statute, not binding on the Government. However,
if the Government rejects or varies the recommendations, it has to provide
a rational reason for doing so and the process must be properly followed. ... more »
M&M's Zucchini Cake and Hot Apple Cider in the Crock Pot
I am a member of the Collective Bias® Social Fabric® Community. This shop
has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for
Collective Bias and its client.
Jeans and sweatshirts. Pumpkins and leaves. Fall is absolutely my
favorite time of year. There is something about switching into fall recipes
like soup and hot apple cider that makes me so happy. When we lived in
Texas, we had only two seasons. Summer and Summer Lite. I would watch all
of my friends post pictures of leaves and sweatshirt weather and I would
get so home sick. I am so happy to be back in the ... more »
Anyone have this?
If anyone has a Rossetta Stone for French they'd be willing to donate to me
or let me borrow for 3-4 months please contact me at
americankabuki@gmail.com. I like to get the complete set, but even lesson
one will help...
I need to strengthen my French abilities, I'm going to need it soon.
The Gutter Press
Away from the topic BBC bias (again), I've been troubled for some days now
by the fate of a fellow blogger, Fr Ray Blake, whose blog I've been reading
for some time.
Fr Blake has been the victim of sensationalist reporting in a local
newspaper. A reporter at the *Brighton Argus *misinterpreted an honest and
thoughtful post of Father Ray's concerning his dealings with the poor.
Unfortunately, things then got even worse.
The original sensationalist report was taken up by the *Daily Mail* and the
*Daily Telegraph*, who piled on the completely unjust agony for Fr Blake.
(I won't l... more »
Will California's GOP Solve Its "Latino Problem" ( i.e., Racism And Bigotry)?
Allan Hoffenblum, a Republican consultant in California politics since the
Nixon era, told the *NY Times* that “Until we solve our Latino problem,
we’re not going to be a viable state party, and it’s hard to understand how
that’s possible without fixing immigration.” The *Times* explains what
everyone in California is already well-aware of:
Advocates of a comprehensive immigration overhaul argue that California is
a cautionary tale for Republicans in the rest of the country and that if
the party does not help pass legislation this year, it will risk losing
Latino votes for decad... more »
Barack Obama's Redline Relief - Russia proposal on Syria chemical weapons
*"President Barack Obama has agreed to discuss Russia's proposal that Syria
hand over chemical weapons, the White House said Tuesday after Damascus
confirmed it would accept such a deal.*
**
*Talks will begin at the United Nations later Tuesday, a White House
official told NBC News, even as Obama prepares to address Congress -- and
the American people -- over the need for military strikes."*
Read more here.
Lanslide and Good Luck Indeed!
This driver was indeed very lucky. Watch!
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Who's a hawk, Mark?
David Preiser at *Biased BBC* is not impressed with Mark Mardell. To put it
mildly.
Quoting the BBC North America editor's latest blog post, David says "Even
here the disgusting Mardell can’t help but let his personal bias cloud his
reporting." [That "disgusting" being an allusion to MM's own description of
*Biased BBC*.]
The sentence from MM's piece which has really got David's goat is *"The
hawks in Congress may not like this but many Democrats will"*.
This, as you may be aware, follows the Obama administration's decision to -
as Mark puts it - pause over Syria (as a result o... more »
Can you see the BBC bias angle here? No, me neither
*"Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes
and ale?"*
*
*
Indeed not, Sir Toby, and just because this is primarily a blog about BBC
bias doesn't meet that there can't be a few Tommy Cooper jokes.
So here are a few Tommy Cooper jokes.
*I went to the doctors. He said 'What appears to be the problem?'. *
*I said 'I keep having the same dream, night after night, beautiful girls
rushing towards me and I keep pushing them away'. *
*He said 'How can I help?'. *
*I said 'Break my arms!'*
*
**I went to the doctor the other day*
*I said 'have you got anything f... more »
The Science of Ascension -- Positrons Have Arrived to Transform Our Reality
*Brian Kelly posted this at his blog... its an interesting explanation...
what the true one is I am not quite sure. One thing is for sure there's a
massive change coming shortly! :) - Bill*
*
* *
* *The Science of Ascension -- Positrons Have Arrived to Transform Our
Reality*
September 9, 2013
http://cosmicdolphinmagic.ning.com/
I'm no science whiz, but I found this article super interesting. Thanks for
sharing Jewell ~Brian Kelly
When I discovered at spaceweather.com that scientists are seeing the Sun
ejecting POSITRONS now, I started jumping up and down and screaming with
joy.... more »
Free Energy Developments
http://2012portal.blogspot.com/2013/09/free-energy-developments.html
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
*Free Energy Developments*
There is a great project with the purpose of bringing free energy
devices
to the people, created by Hope Girl and Fix the World organization. You
might want to read more about it here:
http://hopegirl2012.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/finally-we-have-found-the-perfect-way-to-release-free-energy-technology-to-the-people/
And
participate in the project here:
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/home-quantum-energy-generator/
There are similar projects taking place be... more »
Symposium — A Response to Charlotte Epstein: Are ‘Universals’ Allowed in Poststructural IR?
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Vivienne Jabri. It is the
eleventh installment in our “End of IR Theory” companion symposium for
the special issue of the European Journal of International
Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that
issue. This post responds to Charlotte Epstein article (PDF). Epstein’s
post appeared earlier today. Other entries in the symposium–when
available–may be reached via the
Continue reading
Symposium — Une Invitation au Lecteur
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Charlotte Epstein. It is the
ninth installment in our “End of IR Theory” companion symposium for
the special issue of the European Journal of International
Relations. SAGE has temporarily ungated all of the articles in that
issue. This post refers to Epstein’s article (PDF). A response, authored
by Vivienne Jabri, will appear at 10am Eastern. Other entries in the
symposium–when available–may be
Continue reading
Israel- The not so missing link in the Syrian war puzzle
I could come back here today and talk to you all in an expanded fashion
about the latest developments regarding Syria. Such as yet, another UN
resolution put forth by France.
Or how it is that Russia and Syria are cooperating to get the alleged
chemical weapons stores under international control.
And, you may or may not know that yet another person has come forward to
report that the NATO mercs used chemical weapons, not the Assad government
or the Syrian army.
*
But, I don’t want to delve deeply into those aspects today. *
* Instead let us talk about Israel......* It seems to be ab... more »
Wang case roundup (formerly Tseng case)
*Ma vs. Wang: who will be eaten?*
Well...Ma Ying-jeou's hysterical attack on Legislator Wang Jin-pyng, with
its condemnation of Wang as guilty of crimes he has not even been charged
with, has blown up into an enormous political scandal with huge potential
to damage the KMT and Ma Ying-jeou, all of it completely unnecessary, had
Ma simply said nothing. It's also made it obvious that from the beginning
this whole case was about getting Wang. Tseng's resignation was just the
collateral damage.
Wang had been in Malaysia attending his daughter's wedding when the news
"broke" that the ... more »
Signs of Change - last month' global phenomena special
address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 13 hours ago
Link: http://youtu.be/0zJyEXyNtvo
Remarkable phenomena occur on our planet. More is surely to come.
Times are changing - everything is changing, even we are.
John
Lawrence interviews Anthony Weiner!
*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2013*
*The end of the human race:* Last night, Lawrence made us think of Norman
O. Brown again.
Brown, a well-regarded classicist, suddenly got very hot in the 1960s. He
got very hot because of his books, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical
Meaning of History (1959) and Love’s Body (1966).
We don’t recall what those books were about, or why Brown suddenly got so
hot as a visionary of the revolution. If you’re interested, this
remembrance of Brown from 2005 helps explain how it was.
That said, we have always remembered that one brief passage from Love’s... more »
Oy, Politico
Alexander Burns and John F. Harris tell us that the Syria matter has exposed
the "weakness" of several institutions...I'll only pay attention to the one
I know best: the parties. Here's what Politico would have us believe:
The diminishment of the parties has been underway for years, fueled by the
rise of outside groups and politicians who don’t depend on their parties
for money and influence.
This is...exactly backwards. The parties are very strong and have been
getting stronger. The "outside" groups are mostly party-aligned groups,
organized outside of formal party organizations b... more »
SYRIAN REBELS 'PLAN FALSE FLAG ATTACK ON ISRAEL'; UN SAYS GAS VIDEOS FAKE; McGOVERN
And, the UN rights council says the Syria gas attack videos and photos are
fake.
And, the intelligence gathered against Syria’s Assad was manufactured by
elements within the spy community in order to mislead the US President to
take punitive action, Ray McGovern, a veteran CIA analyst, told RT.
*'CIA fabricated evidence to lure US into war with Syria'*
Tony Abbott and family
This picture of the newly elected Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and
his wife and three daughters caught my eye. Eyes right!
The Tipping Point In The Fight Against GMOs Will Be Moms by Nancy Massotto
The Tipping Point in the Fight Against GMOs: Moms
Green Med Info, 9 September 2013
*By Nancy Massotto, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director of the Holistic
Moms Network*
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are taking over our food supply.
Nearly 80 percent of processed foods, including those labeled "natural,"
contain *GMOs* and experts agree that organic foods are not likely entirely
organic anymore due to cross-pollination (aka "genetic pollution") between
conventional and organic fields. The facts are sobering.
Our food system has truly run amok. Our children are increasi... more »
Stephen Harper's Pipedreams
Poor Steve! He wants black-gold to flow through these pipes all over North
America.
Pepsi Settles Naked Juice Lawsuit for 'All Natural' BS
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Naked Juice (owned by Pepsi), is paying out $9,000,000 to drinkers after
falsely using the term "natural," The FDA has fumbled with the definition
of "natural," but the class action lawsuit against Pepsi continues to
welcome submissions who bought Naked Juice until November.
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Localized VAM and Nationalized Scam
Part of the story we tell in TMoE focuses on how value-added modeling (VAM)
grew up out of the backwoods of Tennessee to become an essential component
of the national Common Core testing delivery engine that now appears to be
running on fumes way short of its destination. Had anyone at the Gates
Foundation or […]
Farewell to Arms?
Now that he has apparently been given a huge out by Uncle Vlad after
getting all mucked in his own red line, President Obama's appearance before
the nation tonight might as well consist of just two words:
After all the high drama that has distracted us from such important crap as
the debt ceiling and where Hillary ate lunch, Herr Assad Hitler is,
according to reports, giving up his CW stash in exchange for not getting
blown to bits (not that the presidential palace or the royal presidential
person itself was ever on Obama's hit list, or anything untoward like
that.)
So, there i... more »
6 Ways To Prove You're A Victim Of Age Discrimination
This was a question I got from an AOL Jobs reader:
*Last year they hired a younger employee and I have been working at this
job for over 30 years and have always been in charge of the bookkeeping
department. The new girl is head now. I am 53 years old and I feel I have
been discriminated against. I got a huge raise because they were paying the
new girl a ton more than what I was making. I need help in deciding whether
I could win a discrimination suit.*
Age discrimination is rampant in this economy. It's not unusual for older
employees to be the first selected in layoffs and demot... more »
U.S. Government Also Spying On Corporations
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Playing Into His Hands
A lot can happen before the next election. But, Andrew Coyne writes, public
perceptions of the opposition leaders are beginning to solidify. Justin
Trudeau has had a good summer:
The Liberals continued to draft in the jetstream of their leader, Justin
Trudeau, who demonstrated at several points his effortless ability to
command the media’s attention, as few opposition leaders can. Yes, in part
this is mere celebrity fascination — dynastic politics at its shallowest —
but in part it is owing to the personal qualities that a life in the public
eye seem to have instilled in Trudeau.
... more »
Yaqui host National Indigenous Congress for Northwest Mexico Sept. 14 - 15, 2013
Marcos
and Juan Chavez in Sonora
TRIBU YAQUI-CNI CONVOCAN A REUNIÓN REGIONAL NOROESTE DE PUEBLOS,
COMUNIDADES Y ORGANIZACIONES INDÍGENAS DE BAJA CALIFORNIA, CHIHUAHUA,
SONORA Y SINALOA
Indigenous National Congresss of the Yaqui Tribe calls for Northwestern
Regional Meeting of Indigenous organizations and Indigenous communities
of Baja and Chihuahua, Sonora and Sinoloa, in Vicam Pueblo, Sept
ADULT ABUSE: Same old memorized standardized lines!
*TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2013*
*Part 2—Who is Professor Gordon:* Adults don’t stand a chance with the New
York Times.
Consider what happened in this week’s Sunday Review. Eventually, the bright
young couples you see in those Times TV ads glanced at Professor Robert J.
Gordon’s piece about the public schools.
They may not have actually read what he wrote. But they saw the gloomy
headline, and they saw the gloomy visual. You can see the headline and
visual just by clicking this.
The headline tells a gloomy tale, a story that’s very familiar. “The Great
Stagnation of American Educatio... more »
Without hesitation, repetition, deviation, or repetition...
*Psittacus naughtiecus*
The second half hour of this morning's *Today *programme began with James
Naughtie talking (from Washington) to Justin Webb about yesterday's
remarkable events over Syria, when Presidents Obama and Assad both giving
interviews to the U.S. media, John Kerry made a throwaway remark about
Syria giving up its chemical weapons and Russia pounced on that remark to
throw an almighty spanner into the U.S. administrations calculations by
saying that Syria might indeed give up its chemical weapons, so there's no
need whatsoever for strikes.
From everything I've been ... more »
Read Stuff, You Should
Happy Birthday to Siobhan Fahey, 55.
And good stuff:
1. Scott Lemieux on the presidency.
2. Good points by Kevin Drum about Obama and Syria.
3. And Dan Larison on "isolationism." Yeah; there ain't much, at least
among politicians (not to mention foreign policy professionals).
Another ConservaDem Will Try-- And Fail-- To Win A Republican Seat In Pennsylvania
After John Murtha died, his chief of staff/in-house thug, John Hugya,
became a lobbyist and a shooting range owner. Today he is a 79 year old NRA
fanatic, stinking of Beltway corruption, who wants his old boss' seat in
Congress, PA-12. The highly-gerrymandered western Pennsylvania district
carefully skirts Pittsburgh but includes some of the northern suburbs plus
Johnstown. With blue-leaning Cambria and Lawrence counties balancing out
against red-leaning Somerset and Westmoreland counties, elections here are
decided by margins in the two biggest counties, red Allegheny and blue
Be... more »
"9/11/2013: Tomorrow, We Go Dark"
*"9/11/2013: Tomorrow, We Go Dark"*
by Karl Denninger
“Tomorrow is 9/11.
On 8/21, I posted this: “On 9/11/2013 if you run an Internet site you go
dark. If you use the Internet you go dark. And whatever you were going to
buy, whatever you were going to do on 9/11/2013, you do not do on 9/10,
9/12, or at any other time. You get your friends to do it, or you decide
they're not your friends any more. You get your business associates to it,
or they're not your business associates any more.
If just 10% of the people in this nation will demand and enforce these
changes, the... more »
Government rejects the science of Pesticide
*The government says it accepts the EU ban on the use of some pesticides
linked to bee deaths, but it discards the knowledge behind the
moratorium.*In a response to the ecological Audit commission, the
government indicates
it will not ban the use of these chemicals for gardeners. The Committee
says they are dissatisfied with this approach.
The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) criticized the
government's approach in their report earlier this year. The government
confirmed they were not convinced by the results of laboratory studies
showing destructive effects to... more »
Rick Hess and the Art of Truly Bad Writing
I have been teaching writing now for thirty years. Eighteen of those years
were spent in a rural South Carolina high school, and more recently I have
been teaching first year writing seminars at a selective liberal arts
university. Young writers are quite predictable in their writing. They
gravitate toward huge, sweeping claims, but shy […]
Untitled
*Rob Ryan moves with the stealth of a cat as Russel Honor stands up to Big
Oil and Gas ~Library Chronicles*
*Iberville demo begins, marking end of an era ~Jaquetta White, New Orleans
Advocate*
*New Orleans inspector general, police monitor at odds ~Meg Gatto, WVUE*
*Lawmakers want to delay skyrocketing flood insurance rate hikes ~Bill
Capo, WWLTV*
*Coastal Lawmakers Seek Delays in Flood Insurance Changes, Rate Hikes ~Insurance
Journal*
*Tropical Storm Gabrielle re-forms in the Atlantic*
*City of New Orleans strikes 18-wheeler in MS*
*Monster Lawsuit: Godzilla Creator Sues NOLA Br... more »
Untitled
*Mad Monster Party Gras this weekend!*
*~Hat Tweet @LeslieJAlmeida*
"Song of Childhood," by Peter Handke
I first watched Wim Wenders’s film *Wings of Desire* years ago, drunk, at
the picture theatre, and really had no clue what was going on--except that
it was worth watching later.
Later turned out to be much, much, much later. Twenty-six years later. Just
last weekend. And I’m glad I finally did, because it’s a frankly earthly
celebration. And it has this neat poem running through it by Peter Handke,
based on the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, whose poetry is supposed to have
partially inspired the movie.
*Song of Childhood
By Peter Handke*
When the child was a child
It walked wit... more »
Neil Turok's crisis in physics is a hallucination
Cosmologist Neil Turok, the new director of the Perimeter Institute in
Canada, gave this 82-minute welcome speech (well, only 1/2 of it is his
presentation) to the participants of the 2013 Perimeter Scholars
International. It's been discussed in Macleans, a Canadian newspaper, where
an equally large article is dedicated to the Perimeter school canteen.
The beginning of the talk is a fine but not too original promotion of
physics as a science. Some comments about his institute's being unique are
exaggerated. Look e.g. at all topcite 250+ papers from the Perimeter, ever,
and compare t... more »
Japan's nuclear Industry will be shutdown - no active reactors for the first time since the 1970's - as of September 15 , 2013...
The Looming Shutdown Of Japan's Nuclear Power
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- Japan
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*Via Stratfor,*
Japan commissioned the country's first nuclear power plant in 1966 and
nuclear power has been a staple of the country's energy strategy since the
1970s. But when the last active reactor at the Ohi plant shuts down for scheduled
maintenance on Sept. 15, Japan will be without nuclear power for the first
time since May 2012.
While a small amount of nuclear energy production resumed in July 2012,... more »
Ilana Horn: Recipe for Inequality
Recipe for inequality* 1. Find a metric that correlates to poverty. 2. Use
it to measure quality. 3. Find that high poverty schools are bad. 4. Make
schools’ resources dependent on quality. 5. Allow affluent to develop other
revenue for their schools. 6. Close schools in poverty. 7. Justify school
closures in high poverty neighborhoods […]
'Today' - the first half hour of bias
Just taking a listen to the first half hour of this morning's
*Today*programmeon BBC Radio 4 let to the following thought: My
goodness, it's amazing how
much BBC bias can be found in just half an hour of BBC broadcasting!
(Especially if you're looking for it.)
Justin Webb and John Humphrys presented. Here's how it went.
*The first paper review*
After the news bulletin, the first hour of this morning's *Today
*programme
began with the paper review. Justin and John kicked off (as so often
happens) with the *Guardian* (56 seconds)* *on Syria, then the *Times
*(59
seconds) on bank 'r... more »
Syria updates - September 10 , 2013....Syria agrees to Russia proposal to handover its chemical arsenal to international control - this being done to thwart US military strikes......US military action apparently averted for now , however , the battle to debunk the basis for US intervention continues as russia leads the effort to refute Syria Rebel claims concerning the alleged August 21 , 2013 attack !
http://www.juancole.com/2013/09/congress-embarrassing-themselves.html
How Putin Saved Obama, Congress and the European Union from Further
Embarrassing themselves on Syria
Posted on 09/10/2013 by Juan Cole
Secretary of State John Kerry was asked at a press conference in London
Monday morning if there was anything that could forestall a US missile
attack on Damascus, and he replied off the cuff that Syria could surrender
its chemical weapons stockpile to the international community within a week.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
pounced on ... more »
Who used Sarin gas in Syria?
An interesting piece of video of one of the recently released Belgian
journalists has come to my attention. If what he says is true it might
explain why the BBC and other pro-Jihadi news organisations have downplayed
the reporting of the release of these journalists.
Dog scores a Goal with his Head!
*Thanks to Danny Baker for the spot *
Thomson, Compton, Bloch: anniversaries
George
Paget Thomson (1892-1975) died exactly 38 years ago. Arthur Holly
Compton (1892-1962) was born exactly 121 years ago. And Felix
Bloch(1905-1983) died exactly 30 years ago. I wrote some biographies of
these
men, especially Compton, in 2007.
While these September 10th men were not the ultimate fathers of the
quantum
theory or quantum mechanics, they surely belong to "next to the front
line"
of the 20th century quantum revolution. In this blog entry, I want to
avoid
their personal lives and focus on their key discoveries, especially in
the
context of the permanently persisting do... more »
Fight!
Ian Katz's editorship of *Newsnight *began last Monday.
His editorial choices have been interesting, shall we say. Last night, we
got the Arctic Monkeys.
Ian Katz is clearly trying to put a bit of trendy pep back into BBC Two's
battered flagship, that forlorn Fighting Temeraire which, due to poor
viewing figures and a string of self-inflicted wounds (Savilegate, Lord
McAlpine), looked in danger of being tugged to its berth and broken up.
'Trendy pep' is probably how he sees it.
Last week saw two separate features on mobile phones, accompanied by a
request for viewers to record ... more »
Do Vaccines Cause Autism? - A Canary Party Video Presentation
*Published on Sep 7, 2013*
**
**
Why is there still a vaccine/autism controversy? Because families have been
blocked from getting into a REAL court to prove that vaccines have caused
their child's autism.
The Canary Party presents a video on the corrupt Vaccine Injury
Compensation Program to show how the federal government and pharmaceutical
companies continue to get away with claiming that vaccines don't cause
autism in the face of mounting evidence that they are doing just that in a
growing number of children.
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Fin... more »
Ouch!
And talking of BBC staff opening their oh-so-impartial mouths and somehow
managing to wedge their own oh-so-impartial feet firmly into them....
*...Newsnight*'s new editor, Ian Katz, may well be choking on one of his
own toes at the moment, having not DM-ed something on Twitter which he
meant to DM.
For those of you who don't know, 'DM' means 'direct message' - a way of
holding private chats on Twitter. It doesn't mean 'Daily Mail'. (Ian Katz
is ex-*Guardian *after all.)
*Order Order* captured the toe-curlingly embarrassing tweet (now deleted)
for posterity. It read:
Tnks...exc... more »
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Might this distant planet hold water? Actually, given how close Gliese
1214b is to its parent star, any water, if it exists, would surely be in
the form of steam. In the above artist's illustration, the super-Earth
Gliese 1214b is imagined passing in front of its parent star, creating a
mini-eclipse that alerted humanity to its presence. Gliese 1214b, also
designated GJ 1214b, has been designated a super-Earth because it is larger
than the Earth but smaller a planet like Neptune.
*Click image for larger size.*
The entire Gliese 1214 planetary system is of the closest known sys... more »
"Shaya's Home Run"
*"Shaya's Home Run"*
by Rabbi Paysach Krohn
"In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters to learning-disabled
children. Some children remain in Chush for their entire school careers,
while others can be mainstreamed into conventional yeshivos and Bais
Yaakovs. There are a few children who attend Chush for most of the week and
go to a regular school on Sundays. At a Chush fund-raising dinner, the
father of a Chush child delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by
all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he
cried out, “Where is the ... more »
Cheers at the BBC
Well, Margaret Hodge's especially aggressive grilling of ex-BBC man Mark
Thompson is unlikely to have gone down too badly with the current staff at
the BBC itself (nor with her BBC employee daughter, presumably).
We certainly know that's the case for her other main target, HR manager
Lucy Adams.
The *Mail* reports a tweet from Nick Higham, the BBC's media correspondent:
*There was an audible cheer in the BBC newsroom when Margaret Hodge accused
BBC HR director Lucy Adams of lying to the PAC.’*
Such an impartial bunch, aren't they!
"Choices..."
“Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over,
remembering them for the rest of our lives.”
- Richard Bach
He's back!
Ah, the Chris Huhne comeback tour, as sponsored by the *Guardian*, rolls on
at the BBC.
After his appearance on *Today *this morning, *Newsnight *is offering him
the chance for another Murdoch-bashing outing tonight.
Is the hand of new *Newsnight *editor Ian Katz, former deputy editor of the
*Guardian*, being felt? (Was it being felt last week when George Monbiot
received an invite, just two days into his editorship?)
OK, so how did the interview go?
Well, Paxo may have put him through his paces at the start over his past
lying, but when the interview turned to Rupert Murdoch... more »
"Reflections of Self: We Are All Mirrors for Each Other"
*"Reflections of Self: We Are All Mirrors for Each Other"*
by Madisyn Taylor, The DailyOM
"People you feel drawn to reflect your inner self back at you, and you act
as a mirror for them as well. When we look at other people, we see many of
their qualities in innumerable and seemingly random combinations. However,
the qualities that we see in the people around us are directly related to
the traits that exist in us. “Like attracts like” is one of the spiritual
laws of the universe. We attract individuals into our lives that mirror who
we are. Those you feel drawn to reflect your ... more »
The Daily "Near You?"
Ferreiras, Faro, Portugal. Thanks for stopping by.
Webster Griffin Tarpley (2006) - 9/11 Angel Is Next - World War Three in the making
Here's American author, historian, economist, journalist Webster Griffin
Tarpley talking about war in Syria, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and other
places around the world and how it relates back to the September 11th
(financial towers) Event in 2001 and the London bombings of 2005 and the
Madrid bombings of 2004.
Strong words (indeed) from this ex-LarouchePAC member, and strong words are
always welcome on Free Planet, right? If you found your way here, you
probably need to know that this kinda 'thought' or 'theorising' is out
there.
Tarpley pinpoints FIFTEEN military drills tak... more »
TRF, the Earth's 10th-13th most central climate blog
If this blog were *primarily* or even *exclusively* a blog dedicated to the
climate, which is the case of *all* the colleagues and competitors listed
below, I would find the results mediocre. But because it's primarily a
theoretical particle physics blog, the results are OK. ;-)
According to
Mapping the climate sceptical blogosphere (full paper in PDF)
by Amelia Sharman, *The Reference Frame* is the 10th "most central"
skeptical climate blog on this blue, not green planet, tied with 3 more
blogs.
The author analyzed the links inside a network of 171 climate blogs by two
method... more »
Obama Adviser: Strike at Syria Not 'another War'
*President Obama and National Security Advisor Susan Rice live in a
post-war universe. In their crazy world, attacking another country is not
considered an act of war. Imagine if the leaders of every country thought
this way. It is a scary thought. This view goes beyond arrogance. It
surpasses arrogance and leaves it behind in the dust. The face of arrogance
is aghast when it looks at Obama and Rice. It puts on a mask to protect
itself from the smoke coming from their fire of bullshit. *
*Obama Adviser: Strike at Syria Not 'another War.' Source:
AssociatedPress. Date Publishe... more »
“Washington at the Centre of The Axis of Evil”
*“Washington at the Centre of The Axis of Evil”*
By Paul Craig Roberts
“The European race’s last three hundred years of evolutionary progress
have all come down to nothing but four words: selfishness, slaughter,
shamelessness and corruption.”
- Yan Fu
“It only took the rest of the world 300 years to catch on to the evil that
masquerades as “western civilization,” or perhaps it only took the rise of
new powers with the confidence to state the obvious. Anyone doubtful of
America’s responsibility for the evil needs to read The Untold History of
the United States by Oliver St... more »
Russia seeks peace for Syria, "...calling on the Syrian authorities not only agree on putting chemical weapons storages under international control, but also for its further destruction and then joining the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons." Thus calling Kerry's bluff.
------------------------------
*Lavrov Calls Kerry's Bluff*
By Stephen Lendman
September 09, 2013 "Information Clearing House - Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov wants peace. He's going all out against war on Syria. He's
doing it responsibly.
Important world leaders back him. So does overwhelming global anti-war
sentiment.
On Monday, Lavrov met with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem. He
did so in Moscow.
"We are calling on the Syrian authorities not only agree on putting
chemical weapons storages under international control, but also for its
further destruction an... more »
Putin Trips Up Obama
Russia has announced a plan to put Syrian government chemical weapons under
the control of international monitors who will then destroy them. The
proposal apparently is acceptable to Assad provided the U.S. agrees not to
attack Syria.
MYSTERIOUS HOSS FAMILY; ESCAPE TO SOUTH AMERICA
*Brigitte (left) and her father Rudolf Höss*
The Daughter of the Nazi in charge of Auschwitz worked for a Jewish boss in
Washington.
Brigitte Höss questions the number of people her father murdered: 'How can
there be so many survivors if so many had been killed?'
*Washington Post* / *Hiding in N. Virginia, a daughter of Auschwitz */*
dailymail.co.uk*
*Rudolf Höss*
Brigitte Höss is the daughter of Rudolf Höss, the Kommandant of Auschwitz.
Rudolf Höss was born into a strict Catholic family. During his early years,
there was a constant emphasis on sin, guilt and the need to do pena... more »
Syria's Assad: U.S. Has No Evidence, No Credibility
*Title: Syria's Assad: U.S. Has No Evidence, No Credibility. Source:
YouTube Channel Bloomberg. Date Published: September 9, 2013. Description:*
Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- In an exclusive interview for "The Charlie Rose
Show", Rose sits down with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad. The interview
will be broadcast on Bloomberg Television on September 10 at 8pm EDT.
(Source: Bloomberg)
"This war is against the interest of the United States." - Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad.
Steve Israel Seeks To Jump Start A Conservative Takeover Of The House Democratic Caucus
For Democrats, this is the problem, not the solution-- Israel and Garrison
In his Sunday column, The Wonk Gap, Paul Krugman highlighted "the G.O.P.’s
near-complete lack of expertise on anything substantive. Health care is the
most prominent example, but the dumbing down extends across the spectrum,
from budget issues to national security to poll analysis."
Political conservatism and serious policy analysis can coexist, and there
was a time when they did. Back in the 1980s, after all, health experts at
Heritage made a good-faith effort to devise a plan for universal health
coverage--... more »
Guest Post - A Guide to Going Green - Improvements You Can Make Around the Home
Buying a home is one of the biggest investments you will ever make, however
the spend doesn’t stop there as throughout your time in the property you
will need to spend money on many factors to ensure the space is comfortable
and meets your needs. Spending money on energy bills is arguably one of the
largest regular expenses you will have, and with finances tighter in this
day and age for a rising number of households, any ways that this can be
reduced are likely to be welcomed with open arms.
There is often not a day that goes by where there isn’t a story about going
green or becomi... more »
WILL AUSTRALIA JOIN THE U.S. TO ATTACK SYRIA AND IRAN?
It was clear before Australia’s recent elections that the previous Labor
government under Kevin Rudd would have supported US ‘punitive’ action
against Syria – and this despite Australia taking over the presidency of
the UN Security Council (UNSC) this month. However, while the Rudd
government may have given political support to the US, it is not known if
Rudd would have provided any military support apart from the intelligence
and communications resources that are based in Australia.
That was before last Saturday’s election. Australia’s conservative incoming
Prime Minister, Tony Abb... more »
The Upcoming War On Syria: Has The US "Intelligence" Community Fabricated Evidence To Lure US Into War With Syria? (Why Do I Smell Mossad?)
It does seem that there has been a momentary delay in the US launching its
insanely stupid war against the innocent nation of Syria.... With the
recent findings that absolutely prove that Assad did not gas his own
people, and with the Syrians themselves allowing their own chemical weapons
stockpiles to be turned over to international control, there is now
definitely a backing off by the US, at least for the time being, in their
rush to launch its missile attack on that peaceful nation.....
With rising anger in the American people towards their own criminal federal
government, there ... more »
The Computer of Tomorrow
About 60 years ago this is what scientists thought home computers would
look like in 2004 (h/t kpete via *Democratic Underground*).
In this TED Talk from last summer in Sidney, quantum physicist Michelle
Simmons talked about the race to complete the quantum computer and how it
will change everything.
Do medical doctors improve health?
By
Denis G. Rancourt
It is a serious question. If any other profession caused a fraction of
the death rate due to medical interventions, then that profession would
be prohibited from practicing until a full coroner's inquiry was ordered
and completed. But not the medical profession. It kills with impunity,
without any real oversight.
The numbers are staggering. In 1999, the Institute of
Everyone has their part to play in the kabuki
Long day offline. My internets tell me we aren't bombing Syria this week.
I'm good with that. George Zimmerman is still a raging maniac who's allowed
to wander the streets waving around loaded guns. Not so good with that but
unsurprised. And apparently somebody killed the Redskins which launched an
epic breakdown on my twitters.
In the words of Scarlett O'Hara: "I can't think about that right now. If I
do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow."
How to swear
These words may be offensive. The Broadcasting Standards Authority advises
reader discretion. Robyn Gallagher reckons reading them backwards is like a
top 40 of cussing. Well, top 31, anyway. The Broadcasting Standards
Authority’s list of rude words is at least a great start, proving if
nothing else that there still ain’t no word like the ‘c’ word.
Susan Freeman-Greene [of the Broadcasting Standards Authority] says … “The
extent to which people are offended by swearing varies markedly across
different groups of society, and from individual to individual. This survey
is a way for... more »
Skydiving and SCUBA
Not at the same time, of course.
My new ModCloth pug shirt. LoveAt a firm lunch outing, we decided we are
going skydiving. Well, not all of us, but some of us. Lauren and I are
going for sure and have already paid our deposit and signed up. Kory's
girlfriend Jennifer is going, and I think she will talk kory into going.
Kurt and Megan for sure are not going, LOL. My friend Stacy is going as
well, and I think some others may sign up. I think it would be super kewl
to have a group. We are going at Tecumseh Skydive, which is the most
respected place around here.
Then, last week... more »
Multi-Choice Test: The Australian Election
The Australian Election: Was it (choose one):
a) a victory for a neanderthal who doubts the global warming nonsense,
likes women, sports, beer, and wants lower taxes?
b) a sign that the voters of Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Britain are
all to the right of those in the US?
c) a referendum on axing the carbon tax?
d) an indication Australia has now decided to permanently enshrine itself
as the 'Lucky Country': i.e., only by the luck of birth can one now reside
in Australia.
Please select one.
[Hat tip Catallaxy Files]
Content is copyright PC.BlogSpot.Com © Please contact a... more »
Contract interpretation
Northwest Plaza Ltd. v. Zellers Inc. and Target Canada Co., 2013 NBCA 54:
According to classical contract theory, the interpretive issue involves a
search for the intention of the parties as viewed by a disinterested
bystander having regard to the circumstances in which the parties found
themselves at the time they entered into the lease: see generally *Robichaud,
Williamson, Theriault and Johnstone v. Pharmacie Acadienne de Beresford Ltée
*,2008 NBCA 12 (CanLII), 2008 NBCA 12, 328 N.B.R. (2d) 205, at para. 18. Or
as Brooke J.A. stated in *Leading Investments Ltd. v. New Forest
Invest... more »
While sense on the hard realities of the Syrian mess is hard to come by, nonsense abounds
*"A bitter past hangs over this debate and could overwhelm a discussion of
what's actually at stake."*
*-- E. J. Dionne Jr., in his* Washington Post *column
today,* "Syria puts our system on trial"
*by Ken*
I've been watching from the sidelines with mounting confusion and
incredulity as the Syrian mess has hardened U.S. political lines in
hard-to-comprehend ways and moved us toward a crisis point from which it's
just about impossible to imagine a sane exit.
I've stayed out of it mostly because I have no halfway clever ideas of how
to reshape the mess into something that might stan... more »
David Stockman on his Book and the Bailouts
*I’ve been recommending to friends the bestselling book by former Reagan
Budget Director, David Stockman:* The Great Deformation: The Corruption of
Capitalism in America—*a telling account of the twentieth-century’s
monetary and political breakdown, and how mistakes begun in the Reagan era
and perpetuated by the GOP helped bring about the global financial
meltdown.
In this interview with the **Mises Institute**, Stockman discusses his
book, the gold standard, bailouts, and the problems the American economy
faces today.*
*[image: Stockman, David A.]Mises Institute**:* *In the book... more »
Iran : Meme vs. Truth
*Meme:*
*Truth*
“Under difficult living conditions of the Syrian people, the (Iranian)
government will continue sending its humanitarian aid and assistance (to
them) while condemning any hostile act against the regional countries,
especially Syria,” said president Rouhani.
Dr.Rouhani stated: “We strongly condemn any hostile measure against
regional countries, particularly Syria,” Dr.Rouhani adding, “Today, our
region suffers from a severe crisis and is in a sensitive condition -- a
clear example of which is seen in Syria.”
He also reaffirmed Tehran’s resolve to conti... more »
Putin poses THE question to Obama and the West " What Will You Do If Rebels Are Ones Using Chemical Weapons ? "
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
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Oh, Death, Where is Thy Sting?
Sweet fucking Jesus on whole wheat toast, this fat prick again?
George Zimmerman is the Teflon Terrorist, the Jenny Craig version of
Ronald Reagan, a man with a soft, blubbery face like second generation
dictators such as Baby Doc Duvalier and Kim Jong Un. It's preordained that
before he's 32, George Zimmerman will be found dead in the back room of a
Cancún bodega that doubles as a gay porn movie set, his bloated corpse on
discovery by the laughing Mexican authorities being stripped, deformed
penises drawn on him with eyeliner and picked over by barely-illegal gay
por... more »
How come you’re still alive?
Here is the most important news of the last 150 years: You’re alive when
you should be dead!
The most important difference between the world today and 150 years ago
isn’t airplane flight or nuclear weapons or the Internet. It’s lifespan. We
used to live 35 or 40 years on average …, but now we live almost 80. We
used to get one life. Now we get *two*.
Cool, huh. Which gives you more time to handle all those neat
#FirstWorldProblems.
This whole ‘second lifetime’ is a gift from our industrial civilisation.
And, given how much our industrial civilisation is so regularly abused and
... more »
Catch of the Day
Have to give one of these to Dan Drezner, for celebrating the craven
self-interest displayed by politicians in the Syria matter:
Look, this isn't rocket science: the opposition party will always be more
skeptical of administration policy. Throw in a nation that's pretty sick of
war and pretty hostile to taking action in Syria and this is a no-brainer
position to adopt for most Republicans. This is particularly true since I
suspect enough Republicans will join with most Democrats to give the
administration the necessary authorization.
Old foreign policy hands will likely cluck a bi... more »
November’s North American Power Grid Take Down Drill - Is November 13 - 14 when the lights go out for America ?
Catharsis Ours - 1 day ago
http://thecommonsenseshow.com/2013/09/07/when-the-lights-go-out-on-november-13-2013/
When the Lights Go Out On November 13, 2013
There are very dark storm clouds gathering around the country and North
America as a whole. Things are about to get dark, very dark in just a few
short weeks. In just over two months, on November 13-14, 2013, the lights
are about to go out. Will the lights come back on? It depends on who you
ask. Given the past behavior of those in power, it would behoove all of us
to prepare for the fact that we could be living for an extended time with
no electricity.
... more »
Monti Paschi faces Bail - In , depositors and senior bondholder at risk ? Meanwhile , Italy consider to face turmoil concerning the future of a present Coalition - will Berlusconi be forced out , will the PDL withdraw from the Coalition if Berlusconi i stripped of his Senate seat ? PM Letta warns of permanent chaos .....
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-09/monti-paschi-faces-bail-capital-needs-point-nationalization
Monti Paschi Faces Bail-In As Capital Needs Point To Nationalization
[image: Tyler Durden's picture]
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/09/2013 08:32 -0400
- Bond
- Monte Paschi
- Nationalization
- Reuters
inShare
Just as we warned 4 months ago, the oldest bank in the world now faces a
critical need to raise EUR2.5 billion in fresh capital - more than double
its original plan. "*There is no chance on the planet that they can raise
[this] in 12 months... they are h... more »
Bloomberg:Dear NSA, Thanks for Making Us All Insecure
Photograph by Mark Viker/Getty Images *Comments in red mine... -Bill*
Definition of PANGLOSSIAN
: marked by the view that all is for the best in this best of possible
worlds : excessively optimistic
Origin of PANGLOSSIAN
Pangloss, optimistic tutor in Voltaire's Candide (1759)
First Known Use: 1831
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-06/dear-nsa-thanks-for-making-us-all-insecure#r=rss
*
* *Dear NSA, Thanks for Making Us All Insecure*
By David Meyer September 06, 2013
Dear stupid, stupid NSA,
I’ve got to hand it to you: As an agency set up with the task of breaking
c... more »
Float like a butterfly, sting like an SOB
We need a formal welcome for Michael Paul Goldenberg. Take a look at his
page here and be sure to follow him here At the Chalk Face. Tagged: at the
chalk face, michael paul goldenberg
Alan Waldman: ‘New Street Law’ is a Dramatic English Legal Series
Waldman's
film and TV
treasures you may have missed:
Scottish actor John Hannah heads a strong cast as two competing law
firms seek justice.
By Alan Waldman / The Rag Blog / September 9, 2013
[In his weekly column, Alan Waldman reviews some of his favorite films
and TV series that readers may have missed, including TV dramas,
mysteries, and comedies from Canada, England, Ireland, and Scotland
Untitled
*In Advocate ad, retired Gen. Russell Honore backs lawsuit against oil and
gas companies ~Kevin McGill, AP*
Syria: “Watch NoBama Hit 'Em Anyway”
*“Watch NoBama Hit 'Em Anyway”*
by Karl Denninger
"Now Obama is ****ed. Gaining traction is a push to compel the Assad
regime to turn over its chemical weapons. The idea caught fire unexpectedly
on Monday after Secretary of State John Kerry made an off-hand comment that
Syria could resolve the stand-off by relinquishing its chemical weapons
within a week. Kerry claimed that Assad "isn't about to do it"- and an aide
suggested the secretary was not being serious. But within hours, Russian
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Moscow would push Syria to place its
chemical weapons ... more »
Richard Dawkins on Paedophilia
Is it just me, or has Dawkins become a parody of himself? Here's his
trolling from the weekend's *Times Magazine*:
Just as we don’t look back at the 18th and 19th centuries and condemn
people for racism in the same way as we would condemn a modern person for
racism, I look back a few decades to my childhood and see things like
caning, like mild paedophilia, and can’t find it in me to condemn it by the
same standards as I or anyone would today.”
Professor Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist, describes in a new
autobiography how a master at his Salisbury prep school “pulled me on to
h... more »
Untitled
*Judge: LSU board could face jail if search records not released ~Joe Gyan
Jr., The Advocate*
From my other blog, Rational Mathematics Education: “If We Weren’t Meant to Use Calculating Devices, Why Didn’t We Evolve A Lot More FIngers and Toes?”
Some readers here may be familiar with my much longer-running blog,
Rational Mathematics Education. I just posted something there that I
believe will be relevant to many readers here: If We Weren’t Meant to Use
Calculating Devices, Why Didn’t We Evolve A Lot More FIngers and Toes?
Excerpt: Yes, of course handheld calculating devices (with or […]
Michelle Nunn Fumbles Badly On Syria-- Steen Miles Would Make A Better Choice For Georgia Democrats
Most Senate candidates are on the same page as the American people-- they
oppose attacking Syria. According to a report by Sam Stein at HuffPo last
week "[o]f the 50 candidates-- which included incumbents, members of the
House of Representatives seeking higher office, top challengers and
long-shots-- 43 either returned a request for comment or have already
announced their position. Of those 43 candidates, 21 fully oppose the
president's plan for limited engagement, nine are skeptical of the idea and
seven are undecided. Just six support the proposed air strikes."
This could be the... more »
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