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4, 2006 Labor Day -- Get to work Harry Erwin: Subject: Letter from England C N Parkinson would have understood perfectly: <http://politics.guardian.co.uk/whitehall/story/0,,1863450,00.html> Police monitoring thousands of possible terrorists in the UK: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5306580.stm> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5309604.stm> <http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1863820,00.html> Labour proposal to intervene prior to birth to deal with problem children. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5309890.stm> UK population expects too much of the NHS: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5298824.stm> (Note, the report indicates the NHS has not yet 'caught up' with the standards in other countries.) <http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1863760,00.html> Belgian town bans use of French in schools (both children and parents). <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5305484.stm> FBI data mining student financial aid records. Note that these students are either US citizens or permanent US residents, so it's not as if they're likely to be Islamic terrorists from the Middle East. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/washington/01educ.html> Civil war in Iraq? <http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1863851,00.html> Al Qaeda figure captured: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5309868.stm> Did Ebola kill the Aztecs? <http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1863720,00.html> Language expert challenges 'Queen of commas'. <http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1863807,00.html> Hillary out of presidential race? <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2340352,00.html> -- Harry Erwin, PhD, Program Leader, MSc Information Systems Security, University of Sunderland. <http://scat-he-g4.sunderland.ac.uk/~harryerw> Weblog at: <http://scat-he-g4.sunderland.ac.uk/~harryerw/blog/index.php> Because he was readable, and often hilarious, but even more because he was a best selling writer with a huge popular following, C. Northcote Parkinson wasn't taken very seriously by the academic community. He should have been. His insights into history are very much worth study, and his two "serious" works, The Evolution of Political Thought, and East and West, should be required reading for all those who want to understand modern times. I don't mean that everything Parkinson says should be taken as unbridled truth; I do mean that his approach to understanding history is worth study and reading those books will be rewarding. == Subject: Monday Morning Stories I usually put the Letter from England together on Monday so I can catch both the Sunday and the Monday stories. This week I'm preparing and teaching a lot of classes, and wasn't sure I had the time. Arrest in Iraq: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1864312,00.html> Brown's Treasury Rules seem to be getting in the way of fighting a war in Afghanistan: <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1052-2341666,00.html> <http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,1864263,00.html> Adapting to global warming: <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2341516,00.html> I get similar headaches. Partly it's due to allergic inflammation of the back of my neck and throat after exposure to shampoo, smoke, or scents, and partly it's a sinus thing, probably due to the bacteria that live in there. My eustachian tubes often plug up, which relates to both. It just takes careful monitoring and management. -- Harry Erwin, PhD, Program Leader, MSc Information Systems Security, University of Sunderland. <http://scat-he-g4.sunderland.ac.uk/~harryerw> Weblog at: <http://scat-he-g4.sunderland.ac.uk/~harryerw/blog/index.php> Tomorrow I camp out at the CT Scan place until that is done. Once I understand whether this is structural or bacterial I can do something about it. I don't mind PT; I stretched my way out of seriously crippling back problems back when we were writing Footfall. I can do that again once I am sure it's just muscle stuff. But until I know it's hard to get serious about it. ============= Subject: Daily Diatribe Starting off with the diatribe then finishing it off with some interesting science related news. Britain arrests their worst unincarcerated home grown terrorist The US is not alone in having home grown Mohammedan terrorists. Abdul Abdullah has been perhaps the most venomous of the young Mohammedan Mullahs in Britain for quite some time. They finally decided he had done enough that he was among the 14 recently arrested regarding a home grown terrorist training camp in Britain. http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/03/guess-who-got-arrested-yesterday-in-britain/ Hamza down. Abdullah (son of Turkish-Cypriot parents living in Britain). There are several others who need to go down, too. I understand that one are in "surprising" places in the British governance, too. For a nicely venomous hint of how Abdullah carries on here is a rather nasty video pointer to a CNN clip: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22219&only That man is pure evil. {^_^} == Well, the UN told us we had best leave Sadr alone. They f**k up every place they get involved. Is it not time to eliminate our participation in this ethically, morally, and capability emasculated body of hate worshippers? It seems Sadr has won the hearts of the Shi'ites in Iraq. The Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has thrown in the towel and will make no pronouncements against the growing Sunni-Shi'ite violence as his followers melt away to follow Sadr instead. He is not willing to face the ignominy of being ignored. Thank you, United Nations, you creeps. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/03/wirq03.xml Somehow against that backdrop nailing the number 2 al-Qaeda in Iraq leader loses its flavor. <gigasigh> {o.o} == And the Boobs at the Beebe still think we can negotiate with al Qaeda http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/5301512.stm "Why can't Johnny read?" was our question not long ago. Now MY question is "Why can't liberals read and put together the pieces to make sense?" For that matter with the recent 45 minute al Qaeda tape it seems the liberals can't even listen and make sense. Maybe it's simply because liberals can't make sense? {o.o} == And now some science. Scientists Discover Memory Molecule Memories can now be erased in the same sense as erasing content on disk drives. The erased space is available for new storage. I am not sure I am "comfortable" with the implications of this. It is a concept about which much science fiction has already been written, some of it rather "dark" science fiction. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060830204206.htm {^_^} == Perhaps this is good news for people with orphan disease problems. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060901161516.htm "New Technique Allows Researchers To Statistically Analyze Results Of Clinical Trials "Statisticians at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have developed a new technique that allows researchers to statistically analyze results of clinical trials. In it, all participants receive a new treatment and none are assigned to a control group getting the existing treatment. Instead, the treatment group is compared with a so-called "historical control" composed of patients who received the existing treatment in a previous study." This is something that I've often suggested to people involved in the field as quite practical when "no treatment at all" is a very POOR option for the control group. {^_^} ========== Subject: Weapons of Cultural Mass Destruction Jerry, I find this somewhat reassuring: "Beyonce Knowles, Freedom Fighter" ( http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/08/31/beyonce/ ) "Soviet soldiers returning home from the western front after World War II brought the virus with them. Within a few years, it had infected large portions of the Soviet and Soviet bloc populations. By the late 1940s, the Communist Party leadership feared it would destroy the socialist fatherland from within. But it was not a biological disease that threatened communism. Joseph Stalin and his commissars called it an "amoral infection" in the minds of Soviet youth. It was "American primitivism," "capitalist cultural imperialism" and "bourgeois cosmopolitanism." But it was really African-American culture. It was the same infection that today is spreading underneath the police, the laws and the censors of Islamic regimes. This month, Beyoncé and Jay-Z's "Déjà vu" is No. 1 on the top 40 of the biggest Muslim nation in the world, Indonesia. Nine of the top 10 songs on the United Arab Emirates singles chart are hip-hop or R&B. Earlier this year Egyptian rappers MTM -- whose hit song "Ummi Musafra" ("My Mother's Away") is about a teenager who holds a dance party while his mother is away on holiday -- were voted best modern Arab act at the first Arabian Music Awards. Several journalists have reported on the vast Iranian black market in Western music and movies of all sorts. And everyone seems to agree that youth in Iran are engaged in widespread rebellion against Islamic sharia law. Tattoos, sneakers, platform shoes, belly rings, and public displays of affection are ubiquitous in the most militantly Islamic republic." CP, Connecticut Cultural weapons of Mass Destruction may sap the zeal of the Muslim militants; and may not. Hedonism and the Libertines have their adherents, but there have been few armies of Libertines. Giovanni Mosca said it a long time ago: "those who have the will and, especially the moral, intellectual, and material means to force their will upon others take the lead over the others and command them." This is an intellectual truth, and one ignores it at one's peril. Those with the will to do so have long been able to make pretty good soldiers out of alienated and disaffected young men. See Kipling's The Heathen ============ Anarcho-Tyrrany, Part XXXIX. http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/12/1296.asp -- Roland Dobbins =============f
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September 5, 2006 The State of Research Isn't Grand. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/business/yourmoney/ - Roland Dobbins ========= Subject: Russian Footprints http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjUzMGU4 --- Roland Dobbins ============ Subject: Moral Hazard and the All Volunteer Military Jerry, An interesting, but unlikely proposal: http://finance.yahoo.com/columnist/article/economist/8060?p=1 "For all the bombast surrounding Iraq, to my mind the most subtle question gets too little attention: Would the same Americans who were originally for the war -- both the politicians and the electorate who strongly supported them -- have made the same decision if they, or their children, actually faced some risk? In other words, has our extraordinary all-volunteer military created a moral hazard problem? " "Patriotism is cheap right now. And so, too, is humanitarianism. All it takes for most of us to demand that America "do something" is a comfortable chair and a remote control. But there is nothing cheap about "doing something" for the men and woman who actually have to do it. CP, Connecticut Republics have always thrived with conscript defense. That doesn't mean that they can't have a small standing army of paid soldiers. Career soldiers in a small regular army have always been part of our defense, and that of most republics. But large standing armies were resisted by the Framers for the obvious reason: "What's the good of having this great army if you can't use it?" So the temptation is to use it. The burgers in the towns and the peasants in the fields need neither know nor care that the state is at war. That was Frederick the Great's view. and the Framers understood that perfectly. The King of England had the right to make war on whomever he pleased. The Framers gave that power to Congress for a reason. What's the use of being the only superpower if you can't go make war on people? But Republics normally have peace, and make war with effort. We have made it painless. Is that good? ========= Sir, The following table is from one of my Beast Barracks room mates, who works in HQDA DCS G-1: FY Expected(Goal) Actual % FY06* 64,200 64,907 101.1% FY05 64,162 69,512 108.3% FY04 56,100 60,010 107.0% FY03 51,000 54,151 106.2% FY02 56,800 58,237 102.5% * Through 5 Sep 06 Those are Regular Army only and do not include the Reserves/National Guard. Another classmate of mine had mentioned that due to the reinforcement mechanisms in recruiting/reenlistment, targets are rarely surpassed by much. According to him, you were slightly rewarded for meeting your quota, rewarded a little bit more than that if you exceeded your quota, and would have the ass chewing of your life if you missed your quota. Sure. But "does not include reserves and national guard" is significant, no?But we can hire standing armies. We always could. ======== Subj: "Multicore ueber alles" *vs* "Let a thousand special-purpose processors bloom!" 8-) Previous postings discussed the predicted demise of the dedicated graphics processor, the functions thereof to migrate into software for massively-multicored general-purpose CPUs. Some participants considered that prediction questionable. There appears to be some evidence that not only are the graphics functions staying in their special-purpose processors, but *other* functions are migrating to special-purpose processors, or at least thinking about it: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060322-6436.html Physics acceleration: the Next Big Thing™? http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=15743 New Chip Promises Better AI Performance in Games - OSNews.com http://www.dsp-fpga.com/news/db/?2609 FPGA Acceleration Solution Released for AMD Opteron Processor-Based Systems | DSP-FPGA.com Note that the FPGA-for-Opteron processors plug into *motherboard CPU slots*, and consequently have *direct* access to the very-high-speed HyperTransport(tm) communications channel. My personal impression: we live in interesting times! 8-) Rod Montgomery==monty@sprintmail.com We certainly do live in interesting times. A supercomputer on every desk... ========= Subj: IBM Roadrunner = Opteron + Cell Now this should be entertaining! 8-)
http://news.com.com/IBM+to+build+Opteron-Cell IBM to build Opteron-Cell hybrid supercomputer | CNET News.com Rod Montgomery==monty@sprintmail.com ============ Subject: Hedons and Combat Dr. Pournelle, You state quite correctly that there have been few armies composed of hedons or libertines. I'll leave it to those with more knowledge than I to argue whether such have ever occurred and were successful. There is an alternative, though. There are people who can shift from one role to another with some ease. Have you ever heard of the Hash House Harriers? Quite a few of our members are active duty military. Think of the group as really enthusiastic rest and recreation. They're also quite good at their chosen profession. Fanatics screw up to a fare thee well because they are so narrow and, surprisingly, don't know when to quit when they are exhausted. Give me a rested soldier who's ready for battle over a tired fanatic any day. Best regards, -- Charles J. Divine <Charles_J_Divine@alumni.rutgers.edu> ======== Subject: Tuesday Morning News I guess things have warmed up with the beginning of September. Shootings of UK tourists in Jordan <http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1865104,00.html> <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2342832,00.html> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5314746.stm> Events in Iraq and Afghanistan <http://www.guardian.co.uk/military/story/0,,1865037,00.html> <http://society.guardian.co.uk/asylumseekers/story/0,,1865093,00.html> <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2342707,00.html> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5314684.stm> Censorship in China <http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1865012,00.html> Blair under pressure. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5314632.stm> <http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labourleadership/story/ 0,,1865108,00.html> Autism and older dads. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5313874.stm> <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2342915,00.html> Pharmacists instead of doctors to diagnose and treat
long-term illnesses in UK. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/ NHS IT upgrade overrun. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5313974.stm> <http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1864956,00.html> Good luck with the tests. An NHS doctor would tell you it's simply old age and just get used to it. -- Harry Erwin, PhD, Program Leader, MSc Information Systems Security, University of Sunderland. <http://scat-he-g4.sunderland.ac.uk/~harryerw> Weblog at: <http://scat-he-g4.sunderland.ac.uk/~harryerw/blog/index.php> It is not old age and I am not going to get used to it. ============== Joanne Dow's Daily Diatribe: Memorial day - so we celebrate it with illegal alien rallies. There's something wrong here. I thought out WW-I and WW-II vets fought to keep the barbarians away from the gate not shove them through. And the WONDERFUL Republicans have decided to give up on the whole thing leaving the border porous as heck, a national security risk; and we still have to live with the idiot TSA. Dang - here I'd hoped there'd be something to celebrate today. http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005854.htm {+_+} ==== Chamberlainism is alive and well in Britain. They did not learn from the Nazis and WW-II. This BBC video urges appeasement. The commentary around it provides some background on the participants. http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/04/video-bbc-urges-appeasement/ But the British Mohammedan extremists lapped it up. More here:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22418_ It is time, people, to read up about Mohammedanism from their own sources. The USC Moslem Students Association has an EXCELLENT resource on the web for doing this. http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/ includes an full text for the Koran with three parallel translations. It also provides a law search for the Sunnah (the way Mohammed supposedly lived) and Hadith (the narration of Mohammed's life). Finally it includes a full explication of Shair`ah and Fiqh, Mohammedan law. Be sure to read chapter 9 of the Koran. Supposedly it is the last one written and supercedes teachings of all the others. (The chapters are arranged by size except for the first one.) As an aside the Muslim Students Association is claimed to be a front for Wahhabists in the US. This search of LGF shows how long Charles has been "on about it."
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/lgf-search.php? {^_^} ==== Worthwhile book to read: The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims by Andrew G Bostom. This is a corrective for historical teachings about Mohammedan expansion in the eighth and ninth centuries through modern times. It documents the unique Mohammedan concept if jihad and how it applies to the expansion of the Mohammedan nastiness. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591023076?v=glance I want to like them. I rather want to like all people. But the seem to be doomed by their own history and institutions. And those who do not recognize this threat will die by it. {^_^} ==== Somebody doesn't like Senator McCain - and has access to missiles....
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22419 Sounds like a possible endorsement for the senator if some terrorist hates him THAT much. {^_^} ==== And if allowing Hezbollah to rearm the Europeans are trying to prevent the Israelis from rearming. Maybe they see a final solution to "the Jewish problem" after all these years?
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22412_ The Europeans seem to REALLY HATE Israel. {^_^} ==== Crime boss brokered nuclear-delivery missile sale to Iran http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/012984.php Oh goodie! {+_+} ==== And as our daily reminder about live as a Mohammedan subject: http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/012981.php {^_^} |
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September 6, 2006 Is this accurate?
http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-oe-brooks1sep01,0, George Sometimes. Niven's Law applies here. ========= Joanne Dow: Subject: Daily Diatribe {o.o} ==== For Washington Post readers who don't have time to go look for facts about this one: "For Conservative Muslins, Goal of Isolation a Challenge"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ please note that the school in question is the one that featured a third grade teacher Ali Asad Chandia recently convicted of terrorism: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22275&only But they're really really honestly cross my heart and hope to die moderate. {O.O} Aren't they? ==== And LittleGreenFootballs gets it wrong. It really IS as Reuters says, if we go on fighting terrorism it WILL breed more terrorism:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22426_ You see, by not becoming Mohammedans we are fighting terrorism. Thus they are duty bound to deal with us: accept humiliation and pay Jizya or die. If we want peace all we have to do is absolutely capitulate or die. {^_^} ==== Danish arrest 9 men, all Mohammedans under 30, on suspected terrorist plot. BBC fails to report that they were Mohammedans.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry Too politically correct for words. {^_^} ==== Pakistan has withdrawn from N. Waziristan. http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/012996.php But maybe Robert misses the point that now "hot pursuit" will not be quite so politically loaded for the Pakistani government when our military indulges itself a little. {^_-}
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September 7, 2006 There seems to be a little gray in that old Army Blue: http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20060906/ts_csm/aoldprivate Newest Army recruits: the over-35 crowd Pfc. Russell Dilling - at 42, the oldest-ever recruit in the modern Army - Petronius ==========w Subject: animated Iraq War coalition fatalities chart Dr Pournelle, If someone's sent you this link already I missed it: "The animation runs at 10 frames per second - one frame for each day - and a single black dot indicates the geographic location that a coalition military fatality occurred. Each dot starts as a white flash and a larger red dot which fades to black over a span of thirty frames/days" Paul. Impressive. Of course if you did a similar presentation of traffic accidents in the US... =========== Subject: Beep Beep <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5322704.stm> ***************************** “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” ----Albert Einstein ========= Danny Hillis profile in Newsweek. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9558120/site/newsweek/ - Roland Dobbins ========= And Joanne Dow Subject: Daily Diatribe Part two of Clint Taylor's investigative report on Hezbolla in Venezuela http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005870.htm Take his last words to heart, "For these guys it is all one war." {^_^} ==== The President speaks.... Malkin analyzes. President Bush has completely rewritten the rules of engagement for the Democrats trying to do him dirty in upcoming elections regardless of the cost. Now let's see how "regardless" the Democrats can get. (From the looks of Biden's reply it's going to get raw. I saw that on FoxNews.) http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005869.htm If you skip the above at least visit this PDF of the "Summary of the High Value Terrorist Detainee Program."
http://www.odni.gov/announcements/content/ If you think we're no safer think again. TSA is only the visible part of the efforts to prevent Mohammedan terrorism on US soil. {^_^} ==== Pulling your head out of the sand is the theme of this interesting piece by Michelle Malkin on JWR. http://jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin090606.php3 As she defines several Mohammedan terms she points out little details such as Ayatollah Kohmeini remarking back in 1942 that '"Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war. Those (who say this) are witless."' The definition of Taqiyya or Religious deception is something we must learn at a visceral level: "Jihadists are taught in al Qaeda training manuals to lie." (The religious lie is doctrine right out of the Koran.) {^_^} ==== The Ambulance hoax that never dies.... http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005866.htm Right at the top we find Dafydd ab Hugh weighing in via a pointer to his piece "Debunking the rebunking of the debunking." http://biglizards.net/blog/archives/2006/09/debunking_the_d.html. Yeah, it's nailing MSM to the cross again as they try to waffle and lie their way out of the ambulance case. He starts with the initial IRC report, the sensationalistic AP rewrite, and basically runs the recent attempts to spin the lines right back into the ground. Main Stream Media is lying to you. It is lying to me. It is lying to anyone who uses their reports for anything other than amusement and entertainment. Certainly factual content is not something Main Stream Media News Reporting is all about anymore. (As an aside even Centanni is waffling and "nicing up" some of the details about his forced conversion to Islam and what it means for him to have declared he did not accept the forced conversion now that he is home and not under direct threat. What it basically means is that if he puts his handsome head anywhere near Mohammedan controlled territory it will not remain attached to his head any longer than he is convenient for those living in the area. He is now apostate and must be killed at any cost. God but these Mohammedans are NICE people, aren't they?) Malkin rounds up nailing the coffin lid on faux media by quoting Andrew Bolt's little points like the way the bullseye in the red cross was created small weapons fire or the attack originally by Apache helicopters is not by drones. (Um, the drone armament is basically the same as the Apache except there is less of it, of course.) She moves on to point to several other blog debunkings. She rounds it up with a link to a humorous Jawa blog video. Call your local Reuters office.... "Hello, Reuters?" "Yes" "Ah, good, Liar Liar pants on Fire!" And do watch the video. "Take me on a rocket ride!" Now I wonder if I have a case of "delayed onset missilosis." Also be sure to catch Zombie's expanded article about the incident and how the ambulance strike is becoming quite clearly a massive hoax. http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/ It keeps growing and growing as the MSM puts its collective feet ever deeper down its collective throats. {^_^} ==== And indeed, Pakistan has given up control of "The Emirate of Waziristan" to the Taliban. http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005864.htm The good: I suppose that we do not have to deal with the Pakistani government if we want to pursue terrorists into Waziristan. In fact, after this humiliation they might be quite happy and pleased if we did. The bad: Pakistan will turn over weapons and other equipment seized during Pakistani Army operations. The Ugly: Over 130 mid-level al-Qaeda commanders and foot soldiers were released from Pakistani custody. The REALLY ugly: Musharraf will not allow US troops in Waziristan. (And if we have any sense we'll recognize Waziristan and declare it an enemy state as we go to war on it.)
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/06/breaking- {^_^} At least Pakistan says, "No amnesty for bin Laden." Or do they really? He is exempt if he lives peacefully and obeys the law. But, of course, the Taliban has setup its own Sura council as "The Law" in the area. And we KNOW what that means. ==== And THIS is your splendid Green Party policy on the death penalty
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/06/video- Only if it's used on Bush. And Chris Matthews agrees with him. {+_+} ==== And now the Arab League is pursuing nuclear energy.
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/06/good-news-arab Cave in one place; and, you give up the game with these creeps. {^_^} ==== And now Alaska's Sen. Stevens has a NEW hold on the anti-pork bill. He has NO shame. (video)
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/06/video- {+_+} ==== It seems the Democrats cannot stand the truth. ABC's documentary "Path to 9/11" has the Democrats up in a FRENZY accusing them of trying to rewrite the truth and so forth. They are also trying to Googlebomb their sites so that searches for 9/11 bring up only the Democrat views on the affair. This documentary includes a scene in which a CIA operative is in place to cleanly take out bin Laden with no incidental damage. Clinton's people stonewall the agent who is asking for go ahead approval. Other similar direct opportunities were skipped by the do nothing Clinton administration. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ If the truth is not on your side, obfuscate, shout, and lie better. {^_^} ==== And beating a woman is for her own protection according to Mohammedans at North America's national convention:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry= "Session 9G: "...And Beat them Lightly": An Analysis and In-Depth Discussion of Verse 4:34" What nice protective people these are.... {^_^}
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September 8, 2006 Subject: Daily Diatribe - with some doozies Demos using FCC threat to censor ABC! (Joanne Dow) Regarding the ABC "Path to 9/11" film. It's apparently being toned down a little as the Democrats whine.
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/07/report-abc- Some of their whines might have been almost appropriate as the rest of this report describes. But as this report reveals from several blog sources that are reading the 9/11 report it is only "almost". The pair of two paragraph reports are especially pertinent here. http://www.texasrainmaker.com/2006/09/07/the-cover-up-continues/ contains some of the most trenchant comments about the Democrats THREATENING THE FCC LICENSES for ABC if "Path to 9/11" was not properly Bowdlerized. Note the OTHER direct Democratic party threats to stations who might broadcast material which the party did not approve with threats to have the FCC pull licenses. If the Democrats accuse Republicans of doing something you can rest assured the Democrats are doing it in spades already. {^_^} ==== And of course, the new old al Qaeda tape shows quite conclusively, much to the pain of many lefties, that Saudi Arabia and especially bin Laden were right plumb in the middle of the 9/11 disaster. Allahpundit has a LONG article on hotair: Yeah, if we convert and surrender everything will be hunky dory. Of course we lose VASTLY more "freedoms" than anything the Patriot Act has taken from us. There ARE no "Constitutional Freedoms" around the Mohammedan religious law circles. They laugh at it as a concept. Marisol's article on JihadWatch is interesting and not too long: http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013022.php {^_^} ==== Michelle takes on Miller Brewing Company supporting undocumented aliens http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/07/no-more-miller-time/ Boycott Miller Brewing Company if you think illegal immigration is bad. {^_^} ==== BEHEAD THOSE WHO INSULT ISLAM Mohammedan Sudanese journalist beheaded for "insulting Islam." http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005874.htm I like Robert Spencer's take on this. http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013017.php (Title taken from the picture at the bottom of Michelle's blog post.) {^_^} ==== Armitage: 'I Made a Terrible Mistake... I'm Very Sorry' (If there is an animate homo sapiens reading this that is not aware of that comment and "revelation" read the report. But this is MY take on it. I want my special prosecutor funds BACK - from the Democrats.) He sure did. And then he ever so conveniently for the baying Democratic dogs of political war refrained from admitting it until well after the whole affair died out. This is typical of Democratic far left and leadership, "If it hurts the other party who gives <expletive deleted> what it does to the country as a side effect." The Democrats owe the country the cost of the entire special prosecutor office's attempt to track this all down. They owes compensation to those whose careers were damaged or tainted. I betcha it never pays up. They have no ethics or morals so why SHOULD they pay up. After all, "All's fair in love, war, and politics." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,212857,00.html And of course, the Democrats NEVER EVER lie.... Like <the place that is their destination in the afterlife> they don't. {^_^} ==== Over on Hot Air is this video flashback - Osama bin Laden in Predator view during the Clinton era:
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/08/video-flashback The video is from MSNBC. Note the Clinton era rules of engagement. And I bet had Clinton actually nailed with this action the election would have been different. {^_^} ==== CAIR chooses to defame Robert Spencer. Seems he's on to something. This is his reply to CAIR's Ibrahim Hooper's article in the Chicago Sun-Times. All of Ibrahim's "quotes" are from COMMENTS posted by users and not edited in the interest of free speech. http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013018.php In his reply to Ibrahim (above) on JihadWatch Robert Spencer cites a LONG litany of Mohammedan mis-deeds and CAIR comments. Um, it's "telling." {^_^} ==== From JihadWatch titled "Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts: We accept no constitution other than an Islamic one" we learn that "Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts has indicated on Wednesday that the Islamists are never intending to make a deal with the Somalia federal government led by President Abdulahi Yusuf over [a] non-Islamic constitution." Such is Sharia law, folks. If you don't want to fight these people get used to it as a way of life. http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013026.php {^_^} Personally I think it's a way of death. And many Mohammedans might agree with that assessment and be proud of it. ==== And here at home the HP Boardroom scandal also involved getting records of calls by two reporters as well. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14721854/ The Mohammedans ARE correct when they say we are a shameful culture, perhaps. We seem to wink at this sort of thing too often. But if the GOVERNMENT does it people go ballistic. "Double standards -R- us" {^_^} No docudrama ever done before was inaccurate, and Bowling for Columbine was strictly factual, and pigs have wings and ============ Subject: missed column apologies There is no need to apologize for missed deadlines. Having your head examined is a perfectly good excuse. We all want you to have your head examined. R Hunt
Thanks, I think... =============== Subject: More on Steorn and their "free energy" The bit at the beginning where he discusses how this works make me think of a Casimir effect mechanism. The middle section covers such details as the orthodoxy of science and how he's put it out. He's got some interesting bits in this.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/ I suspect it's worth looking into it - it may not actually be free energy, but he's presenting it in much the right way - "We think we've found something odd. We'd like other people to test it, we'll fund the testing, but the only way we'll get this settled is to have outside testing on it. We only require that the final results be published to the scientific community at large." Could be interesting - he doesn't strike me as the usual crackpot. Ken Burnside President Ad Astra Games http://www.adastragames.com 608 AD ASTRA Surely it can't cost more to build one than to take out that advertisement? ========== Subject: Maps Iraq Area = 438,317 km2 California Area 410,000 km2 So Iraq and California are about the same size within 5% and population within 20%. California 2004 3701 traffic fatalities in 538,000 accidents, 204,000 injury accidents. So soldier fatalities in Iraq are occurring at about 1/3 the rate of traffic fatalities in California. J I do wonder how much greater chance a young Marine has of begin killed on patrol in Iraq as opposed to driving like mad on I5 past Pendleton. ========= A New Scam Jerry, Don't know if you've seen this one, but it's pretty creative. Can't imagine it's legitimate. A company called TNS contacted my son about a survey. They will pay him a couple of bucks and he is supposed to keep track of all credit card offers he receives over a month's time then at the end of the month, submit all these credit card offers in an envelope to them along with a completed check list of when he received them. They even ask for his SSA number. Uh huh. Sounds like a nice identity theft scam to me. It all looks very good and they even send a pre-paid priority mail envelope. Hmmm. Randy Powell Port Orchard, WA Certainly looks phishy to me =============== Subject: Men may have developed a psychology that makes them particularly able to engage in war Researchers identify "male warrior effect" Men may have developed a psychology that makes them particularly able to engage in wars, a scientist said on Friday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060908/sc_nm/science_war_dc Men may have developed a psychology that makes them particularly able to engage in wars, a scientist said on Friday. New research has shown that men bond together and cooperate well in the face of adversity to protect their interests more than women, which could explain why war is almost exclusively a male business, according to Professor Mark van Vugt of the University of Kent in southern England. MAY have?! Petronius Pretty well straight out of Pareto, or 2000 years of literature... f g
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September 9, 2006 Subject: Troops in Iraq in significantly more danger than Californians J wrote that soldier fatalities in Iraq are happening at about 1/3 the rate of traffic fatalities in California. With all due respect . . . poppycock. In 2004, there were about 140,000 troops in Iraq and 848 U.S. troops died during 2004 ( http://www.icasualties.org/oif/ ). That comes to a rate of 602 deaths per 100,000 (100,000/140,000 =.71; .71*848=602). Using J's figures, there were 3,871,000 people in California during 2004 and 3,701 traffic fatalities. That comes to a rate of almost 11 deaths per 100,000 (100,000/3,871,000=.002952; .002952*3701=10.925). A soldier in Iraq is, therefore, almost 55 times more likely to be killed while in Iraq than a Californian is to be killed in an automobile accident. I have no idea what the rate of non-natural deaths per 100,000 is in California (which would be closer to apples to apples), but J's claim is just wrong. Rene Daley P.S. I'm very glad to hear that the tests look like there is nothing seriously amiss in your brain. I do wonder how much greater chance a young Marine has of begin killed on patrol in Iraq as opposed to driving like mad on I5 past Pendleton. Having said that, I am sure it's not a valid comparison; but if you drive on I5 near Oceanside you will know what I meant. They do drive as if they are immortal. Of course any such figures can come up with wildly differing results depending on assumptions made, and what you are looking for. It is certainly dangerous to be in Iraq. Perhaps the more relevant figures, which I do not have, would be for Iraqi citizens over the period after we declared mission success to present compared to Iraqi citizen deaths in the period after we withdrew from the Kuwaiti Defense. I don't have the numbers, but apparently Saddam did a pretty good job of slaughtering our potential allies (and potential supporters of democracy). Since it was those slaughters that induced young Bush to go in and try to make right what his father left as a shameful legacy, we ought to know more about them. I am sure that young Bush, whatever the rhetoric, has a personal goal of leaving Iraq better off than when he went in; and preferably better off than when his father went in. This may be a goal impossible, but I suspect it is the driving force of his determination, as it was the driving force of his decision to go into Iraq in the first place. I have increasing evidence that whatever is wrong with my head is fixable. It helps to know that even if so far we aren't doing a lot of fixing. The Long War: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Protracted Conflict — and Defeat. http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=11982 - Roland Dobbins An important paper. Thank you for finding it. I have known Vlahos for many years-- we were going to to a book with Newt Gingrich but things didn't work out. The astonishing thing is that this paper is published in the elder Krystal's magazine. ============= "We're really hurting right now."
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-21075sy0se -- Roland Dobbins Does it ever do any good to say "I told you so?" I keep hoping that Rumsfeld and Bush know something I don't. Knew something I didn't know. That there was some rational reason for all this... ========= Climate change caused civilisation, scientist says. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1867936,00.html Roland Dobbins See also Adrian Berry's Ice With Your Evolution... =========== Build a Simple Bat Detector. http://pw1.netcom.com/~t-rex/BatDetector.html -- Roland Dobbins How did I ever live without one?
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Subject: 46 pieces of travel advice in our world today, Jerry Here are 46 pieces of travel advice in our world today:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content Look what we've come to. Ed Salve, Sclave ============== The Many Faces of Belgian Fascism. http://www.opinionjournal.com/wsj/?id=110008853 - Roland Dobbins Coming to a neighborhood near you in perhaps thirty years. Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western Civilization as it commits suicide. Salve, Sclave. =========== Letter from Prague: Dear Mr. Pournelle, Adam Daniel Mezei emailing from Prague, in the Czech Republic. I'm a friend and colleague of Francis Hamit's from California, and it was suggested to me by Francis that I send a quick note in reference to the following scoop <http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2006/Art/0907/tempo1.php> . Kamil Hornoch was the very first Czech (and Central or Eastern European) ever to win the coveted Amateur Astronomer's Award from the ASP (Astronomical Society of the Pacific) based in San Francisco. The award came along with a $500 honorarium, and Mr. Hornoch had been responsible over four years for the discovery of over 40 nova on his own with a homemade telescope from the backyard of his Lelekovice apartment (a city in the Moravian region of the country). Currently, Mr. Hornoch is also in the process of ascertaining the discovery of over 30 more nova in the M81 galaxy. In any event, I will often get assigned the "science beat" for the local English daily here in town, THE PRAGUE POST <http://www.praguepost.com> , and was wondering perhaps if I might interest you in a link to the unprecedented achievement out here? Most sincerely, ADM -- Adam Daniel Mezei Prague, Czech Republic freelance journalist // novellist // screenwriter GSM: +420-728-275-427 Author of We Are the New Bohemians: The Post-Communist Collection and other works at Amazon.com I am not sure how many Czech readers we have, but thanks. =================== An important three-part essay by Martin Amis on 'Horrorism'. I don't agree with all of this, but it's well worth reading in its entirety: - Roland Dobbins One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. -- Robert Firth ============= The dangers of biometrics. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4396831.stm - Roland Dobbins Ugh ========== Up the Empire “It’s completely barking mad." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2761-2350795,00.html -- Roland Dobbins Upholding freedom and democracy. We could have put enough resources into Afghanistan to create a viable republic, or constitutional monarchy, that worked and was healthy. We chose to send those resources to Iraq. ========== "There's nobody in the United States government whose job it is to find Osama bin Laden!"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ -- Roland Dobbins =================
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