“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”
–John F. Kennedy
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When did you leave? I mean, physically you left Colorado, but you didn’t really leave the blog. I don’t know which is sadder, the fact that you think you actually took a break from Pols, or the fact that you went to Hawaii and kept posting inane bullshit.
Well worth reading – Jeff Jarvis
Probably too simple and inexpensive for the Army to officially do this – Afghanistan War: Hobbyists’ Toy Truck Saves 6 Soldiers’ Lives
Thirty one American soldiers killed this am.
J.F.K. didn’t leave much room for God in his quote.
Were you alive for his campaign?
You hadn’t noticed?
You have said many supremely stupid things but this is perhaps the stupidest. Sounds like you agree with Governor Perry that the way to solve, say, economic problems is by praying on it.
Funny story… Perry also suggested prayer back in the spring to address the terrible Texas drought. It’s much worse now. Hear he’s praying on whether or not he ought to run for president. Why not just read entrails or tea leaves? Who needs information, science or technology when you have delusions that the voice in your head that tells you what you want to hear is God’s.
Mark’s not wanting, or hoping for, things to get better. He wants us to fell wrath, God’s and his.
He’s this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
(sorry, won’t imbed)
yeah rickie is cozying up to the scripture spewing zealots this weekend while his minions are straw polling the masses and glad handing the money lenders.
Rick isn’t solely relying on a voice from above to tell him to run. He’s got his ego-feeding revival meeting, his Rolodex and all the brainwashed amens from the pews making him confuse just who is G*d.
“…Here on Earth, God’s work must truly be our own.”
JFK Inaugural 1961
He was a decent man. I remember seeing the Inaugural on black and white TV in UMC in Boulder. I felt glad.
I feel so sorry for people like you. You have missed so much.
True story. My freshman year at CU, Atlas Shrugged was all the rage. We were all John Galts. Then, next year, the sanction against distributing “Lady Chatterly’s Lover” in the United States was lifted. Wow. Bye, bye Aynie.
I have been a liberal every since.
I guess he isn’t quite bright enough to grasp that the golden rule and Libertarianism cannot coexist.
It’s not that Rand didn’t write good sex scenes, but all her novels featured women who liked to be raped by their annointed ubermensch. Weird stuff, Rand’s love life. See Barbara Brandon’s “The Passion of Ayn Rand” to discover just how weird it was.
and look at what that did to our economy.
I’m not a prude about my literature, but reading Rand sex scenes always makes me want to take a shower–and a quick, scrubby kind of shower, not a relaxing one. It’s something about how outrageously pathetic the women are. Gorean, almost. Or proto-Twilight, which gives me the same yucky feeling.
(Although, I will give the Goreans credit for one thing–without them we would not have The Houseplants of Gor.)
That whole soliloguy about Robin Hood in Atlas Shrugged? Even the first time that I read that book, before I knew Rand was an athiest, I thought it was tansparently obvious that Robin Hood was just her pc golem for Jesus — the times she wrote in, her editor, and her likely gutlessness all conspired to keep her from putting the obvious into print.
and got their picture on the cover of the Rolling Stones.
This song should be your mantra for awhile:
I guess I’m still a moderate. I only object to my tax dollars being used to kill people who don’t need killing and my tax dollars being used to save people who don’t need saving. The Taliban and Wall Street would see to qualify on both points.
and it’s miles away from the way it’s usually used by pols and talking heads to mean either not totally crazy conservative Rs or pretty darned conservative Ds. Suspect it makes you a lefty compared to both of the above.
http://www.colbertnation.com/t…
Can’t embed, but hillarious as usual, and the source of some of the most misogynistic words to ever trip off the tongue of another woman.
Because spray-tan-lady is saying that using birth control makes one act irresponsibly. Of course, the exact opposite is true, as using birth control demonstrates that one is taking responsibility for the potential consequences of their actions.
The other disturbing thing is that the liberal guest allows the “fair and balanced” Fox interviewer to say the government is paying for the free pills, but it’s actually the insurance companies doing so by government mandate.
down pat, I’ll give her that. Facts be damned. She’s got her talking points memorized to a tee.
when I, myself, might start missing Nixon . . .
The Madman Theory
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08…
Wow, Dio — that column is a real shocker, particularly on the “left-wing socialist” (in 2011 GOP parlance) policies that Nixon was able to implement.
The final paragraph should give pause to Independents and moderate Republicans (and be forwarded repeatedly by Democrats to everyone they know):
It made me remember why I could never work up a good hate against Nixon, like I did with LBJ. LBJ got me into the army in a useless war (technically, I enlisted, but face it, I was draft bait.) But Nixon’s drawdown of forces kept me from being sent to Vietnam. As Catch-22 puts it, the enemy is anyone who is trying to kill you. And the way Moynihan sold Nixon on the theory of tory reform, I have expected the Communist Manifesto to turn up in the state of the union speech.
Draw down was too late to benefit my guy, also enlisted draft bait, so he has always felt free to hate Nixon’s guts but not as much as McNamara’s. I don’t think he ever hated anyone as much as he hates McNamara.
Two of my brothers were lucky — when they got their notice to report to the draft board, they toodled over to the nearest Air Force recruitment office and got state-side deployments (although the oldest was sent to Homestead AFB in south Florida during the Cuban Missle Crisis as a crew chief on a C-130).
Another brother and I got high numbers in the draft lottery, so we got to stay in college.
My villain of the Viet Nam War was Gen. Westmoreland, for making body counts the measure of success, and deceiving the Pentagon and yes, even LBJ, on the prospects for victory.
And chickens and such were included in body counts. It was pure bull from start to finish.
There is no way to quantify national will or the lack thereof. I never quite forgave him for admitting that he knew the war could not be won while still sending my comrades off to the killing grounds. Moral cowardice of the highest order. Still, in my more reflective moods, I wonder if I would have done any differently had I been in his place. The stay in the system and work for change argument is very seductive and in the end, you are left with no real moral core. Knowing when to resign on principle is probably the ultimate test of character.
is the same lesson as was Korea, as is for Iraq and Afghanistan, as is ad toomanyofum . . .
As long as you continue waging and prosecuting a futile war, even after you know you have no chance of “winning,” you will leave the inevitable “loss” to be pinned on some future sap. This is a dangerous truth for someone (a President, a SOD, a theater General) who is more about ego and personal legacy than the actual good of the country.
I picked this up because the author was on The Daily Show and I thought it might be interesting. Couldn’t put it down – best book I’ve read in the last 6 months or so.
The link between education and the income level of a city:
The correlation between historical preservation and pricing the lower and middle class out of a city:
Why people in the sun belt have a different view of middle class income from those in the NorthEast and West coast.
Read the book – the above barely scratches the surface of what it walks you through.
Your eyes must be better than mine.
Last thing I read was USGS Professional Paper 690, “Stratigraphy and Origin of the Chinle Formation and Related Upper Triassic Strata in the Colorado Plateau Region”
With my eyes, it was a chore.
Is the nastiest thing on earth to get on your mountain bike tires if it’s wet.
which can make a sticky mess. The stuff to avoid looks like popcorn when it weathers.
But the Brushy Basin member of the Morrison Formation and the Wasatch Formation are worse.
Although I admit I don’t always finish coloring them…
Stratigraphy and Origin of the Chinle Formation and Related Upper Triassic Strata in the Colorado Plateau Region . . . all pretty much brown or gray (and it really doesn’t matter if you stay in the lines) — shouldn’t take more than a couple of weeks.
a novel or something once in a while. Books don’t always have to be a serious slog.
Always looking for good book recommendations
Mark Cuban
What makes the most sense is go back to how it used to be – software can’t be patented. Same for business processes like “one click” – patents are issued time after time for work that many come up with independently.
It’s way too easy to get a patent on some little tweak that really isn’t independently original enough to warrant one so its getting harder and harder to avoid violating silly patents.
Still think we need good old fashioned massive infrastructure projects. Some of us do have to leave our screens to, you know, use roads and bridges and enter buildings. We also need to get water delivered to wherever we are parked in front of a screen, sewage taken away and we’d like to not be surfing the net and have a faulty gas line cause the little room or cubicle we’re in to explode.
that infrastructure provides lots of jobs as I know you know.
Infrastructure jobs probably more immediately helpful than improving tech biz via addressing patent situation. Plus we don’t get crushed under collapsed bridges.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/109…
Interestingly he refutes the WH lies
responsible for a large chunk of the deficit. They certainly weren’t lowering ratings on worthless crap when it might have done some good.