Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
Say "Hello!" to President Hillary
Well I was talking the other day to an old friend who lives in Topeka. This lawyer is very smart and over the course of time I have come to think of him as the very embodiment of the center of American politics. He was one of the first smart people I knew who supported Reagan, long before I would even have considered voting Republican.
We had previously discussed Giuliani, and I had expressed my belief that he is the least objectionable to me of the current crop of wanna-be Presidents. He's not terribly fond of Giuliani himself, but he's the sort of fellow who's never fond of any particular politician or party—all the more reason to sit up and listen when he ends up supporting one. Now we were on the subject of hospitals and he remarked that the VA hospital system has become truly awful and the people who are stuck in it are in very bad shape. He remarked that he can hardly bear to visit the VA hospitals any more because they are so dingy and depressing. I couldn't help but jump at the opportunity to put the wedge in, so I replied that once "his candidate" Hillary took over, every hostpital would soon become as dingy and depressing as the VA Hospitals.
I was rather shocked at his reaction. He immediately, and with surprising heat, starting attacking me over Iraq and Iran, saying things like "Do you believe we should go to war with Iran?" and "Do you really think Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction?". This unexpected barrage of assertive questions overwhelmed my ability to respond or answer in short time, but it made one thing abundantly clear to me: the country is frustrated and angry over the Iraq War. There is a widespread sense than Bush and the Republicans—no matter what the stripe—must be punished for their transgressions, and it matters little whether the instrument of punishment is Hillary or any other semi-reputable Democrat. The issue now is the Republicans, and unless that changes, Hillary will soon be in control.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Sunday Links
Facebook is stalking you.
Fly me over the Moon, in HDTV.
30-year vaporware.
William Gibson speaks.
7 engineering wonders of the modern world.
French nuclear bombs, circa 1968.
The big juicy Twitter guide.
201 Chekhov stories.
A dollar collapse is not likely yet.
Iraq is getting better. (H/T doug)
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Friday, November 09, 2007
Friday Links
Monkeys are also rationalizing animals.
The UK family today.
Russia abjures an arms treaty.
Top 10 most disturbing movies.
How to deal with peaceful student protests.
High speed photography.
The coming Chinese space station.
Wine tasting exposed.
The 5-planet system.
How to find low airfares online.
Emerging nefarious botnets in the shadows.
All the US city lists fit to scroll through.
The Journal of Geoclimatic Studies
Is a Fraud. Just thought I would do my bit to get the keywords out there. Dr Hiroko Takebe of the Journal of Geoclimatic Studies is a FRAUD. The study on the effect of benthic bacteria on global warming detailed in the "Journal of Geoclimatic Studies" is a FRAUD. More at Blue Crab Boulevard and The American Thinker.
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Weekly Links
Biofuels are a "crime against humanity".
Labor shortages in China.
Meet The Shadow.
Big German Brother?
Windows Home Server reviewed.
Pirate-hunting robots on the seas.
The world's tiniest radio.
Deathrays made of light—for viruses.
Monkey brains are hardwired for counting.
Food prices are rising.
Every robot lost the race.
Mining humans to circumvent captchas.
In Britain, they came first to track the animals, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an animal; And then they came to track the little children, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a little child; And then they came to track the students....
9 staircases.
87 rattlesnakes.
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
OPENING ARGUMENT: Mukasey And The Slippery Pols (11/05/2007)
OPENING ARGUMENT: Mukasey And The Slippery Pols (11/05/2007): "The attacks on Mukasey are an exquisite example of Congress's penchant for avoiding accountability by leaving the law unclear and then trashing the executive for whichever interpretation it adopts whenever something goes wrong."
The Brits have gone completely bonkers!
Spurning leftovers may hurt climate. (ht: Tim Blair)
British Environment Minister Joan Ruddock has warned citizens that by not eating leftover food, they are effectively causing climate change.
Ruddock said that through food waste and excessive shopping, British citizens were paying a significant cost in both environmental and financial terms, The Independent reported Friday.
"At this rate we will not have a place to live which is habitable if we don't address climate change globally and the U.K. has to make its contribution," she said of such social problems.
To which I say...
"If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you
have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?"
Monday, November 05, 2007
Too bad about the ghost infestation...
..otherwise I would buy one of these joints in a heartbeat.
Hello to the 21st Century is my motto.
Now, if these places are connected with
conveyor belt sidewalks the place is nirvana.
Hello to the 21st Century is my motto.
Now, if these places are connected with
conveyor belt sidewalks the place is nirvana.
(from CraigFergusonImages)
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Sunday Links
Shuck the ethanol.
How cosmic rays are created.
Putin is closing the last piece of non-state-controlled media: the Internet.
Gettings thing finished.
Hardware as-a-service.
What life really consists of.
Hydrogen-powered UAVs.
Why I never hire brilliant men.
Bring back the cyclogyros!
Why Buffalo is toast.
AIDS, with love, from Haiti.
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