Friday, October 30, 2015

Obama plans to send special operations forces to N. Syria

Singing...It's beginning to feel a lot like Vietnam...
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How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed

Really interesting, especially the "number needed to treat" statistic.
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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Performance Parts Ltd

And this was done in the last decade, before modern technology was available! (And it's not Triumph's. It's Triumphs).
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: A Zemlinsky moment

Zemlinsky - new to me - but based on this snippet worth exploring.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Deerfield Rated Among America's Best Suburbs by Business Insider | Patch

So in 1979 I made a good decision after a week in Chicagoland
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Sunday, October 25, 2015

South Africa’s Student Revolt

"Because even in South Africa, even now, unruly white bodies aren’t threatening but unruly black bodies are." So sad.
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The Numbers Are In: After $15 Minimum Wage, Seattle's Restaurants Are BOOMING

The Right Wingers will surely claim that it is unfair to use to use numbers to oppose their doctrines.
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Benghazi Hearing: What’s New?

"Obama administration officials in the days after the attack publicly cited the anti-Muslim video as a possible reason for the attack, even though the State Department had evidence at the time that it may have been a planned terrorist attack." All this incredible effort to parse out "possible" and "may have been". What a waste of time and money.
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Friday, October 23, 2015

Three Years Of The Benghazi Hoax In Five Minutes

If you still think Fox is a news source, the word "news" has changed its meaning. You know who you are :-)
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The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds

Why does this remind me of the Congressional Benghazi Committee?
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The US just lifted a crushing burden on prison inmates and their families

The new Democracy - when you have them by the balls their hearts, minds, and Dollars will follow.
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Thursday, October 22, 2015

A billionaire explains why the GOP donor class fears Trump

In other news this week, experimental evidence once again supports the quantum physics prediction of "spooky action at a distance", which is analogous to the effect of dark money on Congress. Dark money is also akin to dark matter. Its effects can be seen, but it can't be found. Physics gives credence to the "science" of "Political Science"
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Choosing Empathy | Edge.org

Mutual lack of empathy is at the root of conflict - from the partisan BS in the USA to the Middle East mess and everything in between.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Describing events

What baseball commentary sounds like to me.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Fox Host Attacked Bill Clinton For Striking Bin Laden, Now Blames Clinton For 9/11

We must stop defaming bulls. Foxshit is the appropriate term.
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Jim Webb and the culture gap

"Webb . . . doesn't care much for campaigning and he really hates asking people for money." ... which indicates that he is a good guy, but that he is divorced from reality - as are most good guys! Unfortunately, as the article quotes "nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos." Was Webb the most middling Republican candidate this cycle?
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Leica SL (Typ 601) Mirrorless Digital Camera 10850 B&H Photo

Tempting, but I will wait for the Panasonic branded version for $745.00
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Monday, October 19, 2015

Calling out the Chicago Sun-Times and USA Today Newspapers

Fortunately I do not regularly read these "newspapers." It is hard to find a well curated source of news (or rational opinion.) OTOH, in the good old days, all we had were the local dailies and a few newsweeklies.
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CIA: Trey Gowdy Altered Documents To Frame Hillary Clinton

THE DA in Chicago routinely sends people to prison for lying - when will Gowdy be indicted - or are the rules in Congress different?
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

The Roots of the Latest Palestinian Uprising

"There will not be peace between Israelis and Palestinians so long as parties on both sides of the conflict continue to deny the national and religious rights of the other." True - and unfortunately unlikely.
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The Artist Statements of the Old Masters

What he actually said (translated): "I have been working on that damn mouth for weeks and I can't get it quite right. Gotta move on to the next one"
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Friday, October 16, 2015

Noah’s Original Identity: The First Winemaker - TheTorah.com

Noah’s Original Identity: The First Winemaker. What’s not to like?
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Turkey's 10-Sided War With Itself

Our political system in the USA is heading in this direction. Not close now, but history takes time. Democracy works well when there is agreement on ends and disagreement on means. It fails when there is disagreement on ends.
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Sunday, October 11, 2015

Saudi Arabia’s last best chance may be an alliance with Israel

Your enemy's enemy is also your enemy. Welcome to the Middle East.
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Language Log » Denying that the earth is not flat

"...this example illustrates how hard — even unnatural — it is to process phrases with multiple negations, because in fact the example is semantically correct."
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Friday, October 09, 2015

William Kentridge Gives Major Collection to George Eastman Museum

I have seen his work at the MCA in Chicago. Very interesting - sometimes disturbing - images.
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This Document Reveals Why The House Of Representatives Is In Complete Chaos

Be afraid. Be very afraid. These 40 "Tea Party" conservatives (anarchist radicals, actually) want to become a junta that will run the country. Do what we want or do nothing is their motto.
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Thursday, October 08, 2015

Kevin McCarthy Suggests House Republicans Are Ungovernable, May Need To ‘Hit Rock Bottom’

They can't even govern themselves - how can we expect them to govern the country. It seems to me that the two party system - created by the parties to protect themselves, not by the constitution - is becoming a serious impediment to a viable political process.
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Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Scott Adams Blog

"...we can make predictions based on both filters and see which one does the best job of explaining our reality. Just for fun. Don’t get your opinions on world politics from cartoonists."
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Rabbi Sharon Brous – Holding On: A Plea to Stay in the Conversation; Yom Kippur 5776 | IKAR LA

Yes, it's another sermon -- but well worth a listen if you are about to go to college, or if you know someone about to go to college, or if fall into neither of these groups.
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Chiropractors Lobby for Acceptance by the VA and TRICARE « Science-Based Medicine

So despite the protestations by members of Congress that "I am not a scientist, but...", here they go attempting to legislate science. American law - the best that money can buy.
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Photogrammar

Thinks, BD. Wonderful collection of a sad period. It is almost a curated Flickr of the 30s.
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Monday, October 05, 2015

Michael Savage Suggests UCC Shooting Was An Obama Conspiracy To Distract From Syrian Civil War

It is the stock in trade of the oddly right to turn every issue into a discussion of what our president says, does not say, thinks, does not think, or does, does not do. If something does wrong he is responsible - either by action or inaction. If something goes right it is because of external forces that he cannot control. Tiresome in the extreme.
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Fox Host Says Background Checks Will Force Poor, Minorities To Choose Between Guns And Food

Yay Fox - Guns are more important than food! Because, with a gun, you can shoot something in the inner city and eat it?
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Sunday, October 04, 2015

A US airstrike hit a charity-run hospital in Afghanistan—killing doctors and patients

Bombing has always been a failed strategy unless its objective is total conquest of the adversary. Without total submission the result of the "collateral damage" (military speak for "total fuck up") is more hatred of the bombers (us) by the general population that we purport to be helping.
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Saturday, October 03, 2015

The Three Similarities in Conversations Around the World

This is why Internet postings and comments degenerate into squabbles- no opportunity to clarify miscommunications.
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Meet Google Drive – One place for all your files

Fall at Rosewood Beach - lots of wave action.
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Stormy Lake Michigan at Rosewood Beach

I walked down to the Beach with my 2nd try - iPhone to see what a few windy days did to the Lake.
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Stormy Lake Michigan at Rosewood Beach

I walked down to the Beach with my iPhone to see what a few windy days did to the Lake.
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America's Test Kitchen | Netflix

Most important news of the month...
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Jeb Bush on Oregon mass murder: "Stuff happens"

Can you imagine this insightful analysis during his thankfully unlikely State of the Union address.
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GOP leader tries to undo damage after Benghazi concession

Politicians of all ilks will take this as a lesson that telling the truth will get them into trouble.
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