February 2010
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“You can say that a miracle occurs except that it doesn’t explain anything. It...”
– Michael Shermer (via metheliving)
November 2009
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Scientific Red Flags - Jonah Goldberg - The Corner... →
Relates, in particular, to the current ClimateGate affair. All the warning signs were there but the politically correct community didn’t want to know the truth; they only wanted to demonstrate their disdain for the industrialized world, particularly the United States.
John Bolton Was Right - Jonah Goldberg - The... →
Apple Science - Profiles - Rural Radiology... →
This is the power of the Mac computer to reduce health care cost. Maybe Congress should get out of the way and let the true innovators — doctors and hospitals that want to reduce costs with technology — lead the health care reform movement.
But, instead, Congress knows better than everyone about how the health system should be fixed. Right! The government can’t even run a...
The Apple vs. Microsoft GUI Lawsuit →
An example of how John Sculley almost completely destroyed Apple and gave the store away to Microsoft.
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"Going Muslim" →
Excellent analysis of the danger of political correctness especially in the military.
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Jesse Jackson: You Can't Vote Against Health Care... →
When is Jesse Jackson going to stop trying to turn everything into a racial issue? He loses more and more credibility every time he does so. It is about time for not liberal media to call him out on this insulting tactic? I do not believe that African-Americans think in a monolithic manner. Apparently, he thinks they should.
He is a washed-up demagogue who shouldn’t be taken seriously by...
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Reid Health Bill Perpetuates the $1.5 Trillion... →
When are Harry Reid and his brethren going to stop lying to the American people and insulting our collective intelligence? If you don’t include all of the state mandates and increased taxes to the cost, you are not being honest about the total cost of so-called “Health Care Reform”.
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The Truth About Apple v. Microsoft
It amazes me when people ooh! and aah! over various upgrades to the Windows operating system. Why? Because most of the items have already been in the Mac OS X system for quite a while or years and Windows is just trying to copy them and, usually, poorly so.
Many people especially under 35 or so don’t recall that Apple was using a Graphical User Interface since at least 1987 under Mac System...
Lyrics to "Razzle Dazzle" from Musical Chicago →
This sounds like a conversation between Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama. Picuture Emanuel exhorting Obama to turn the health care reform debate into a circus. Not so far fetched, eh?
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““No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are...”
– Animal Farm by George Orwell
Conservative v. Liberal
Give a man a fish (Liberal). Teach a man to fish (Conservative). Who is truly more compassionate?
I caught a fish. (1) Would u like it? OR (2) Would you like me to teach you how to catch your own fish? Answer “yes” to one question only.
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Did ACORN buy Dirty Harry's silence for $50,000? →
Fort Hood Attack Was Terrorism →
For the Obama Administration to treat the Fort Hood incident as merely an act of violence of a deranged individual as opposed to “terrorism” speak legions. It reflects a disconnect with reality as well as political correctness gone amok.
I think Obama sometimes forgets, intentionally or not, that he is President of the United States and not some unaffiliated world leader. He is the...
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“As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize...”
– Newt Gingrich
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Milton Friedman v. Phil Donahue on Capitalism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A
In his book “Capitalism and Freedom” (1962) Milton Friedman (1912-2006) advocated minimizing the role of government in a free market as a means of creating political and social freedom. An excerpt from an interview with Phil Donahue in 1979. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman
My commentary:
While Phil Donahue waves the liberal...
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“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely...”
– Steve Jobs (via allironman)
At Least There's Warren
myvitaminsaresomewhere:
From a recent “Briefly Noted” column in The New Yorker, regarding Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “Too Big to Fail”:
Sorkin, a business reporter and columnist for the Times, tells the story of how the financial crisis unfolded from the perspective of some of the giants of finance, who, seen close up, appear to be disconcertingly petty. Sorkin’s analysis is fairly perfunctory (it...
Triumph of a Dreamer →
Incredible story. Incredible perseverance. It is almost to difficult to believe that someone could overcome such struggles. Whoever says America is not a compassionate country knows nothing about stories like these that occur daily in our great land.
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Virgins Equal Paradise?
Could someone please explain to me why paradise for a marytr consists of 72 virgins? Sounds like hell to me. Bring on the non-virgins, I say!
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“Some nice people say to me, ‘Bill, you’re prejudiced against the Muslims.’ No. I...”
– Bill Maher (via cocknbull) (via metheliving)
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Sunday Morning
Sunday morning is one of my favorite times of the week. I live in the West Lincoln Park area of Chicago and the streets are quiet up until noon. Great time to take a walk around the neighborhood or to simply enjoy the outdoors. Meet with friends, devour a great newspaper and linger in your favorite cafe. What did we do before coffee shops?
I think Howard Schultz is correct when he refers to...
“Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and...”
– Richard Dawkins (via sharklauncher)
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never...”
– Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow (1998) (via thegildedcage)
“…when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth...”
– Richard Dawkins (via ashtronomy)
“There really is something special about scientific evidence. Science works....”
– Richard Dawkins (via cocknbull)
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Obama Irrelevant to Middle East Peace Process?
The problem with President Obama is that he not only wants to be president of the United States but he also wants the rest of the world to adore him. As such, his message is unclear and unfocused. Does he favor Israel as the Palestinian leadership contends because he wasn’t able to stand down Netanyahu from further settlement development or has he become the most hostile American president...
Apple wins clone suit - Apple 2.0 - ... →
Fortunately, the U.S. protects intellectual property rights whereas in many other countries U.S. intellectual property is freely pirated without any real consequences (China, for example).
Since intellectual property, in the form of computer software, movies, video, music, books, etc. is a major export, it’s about time that the U.S. demanded stricter enforcement from our trading partners.
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Meetup.com: Spanish Group in Chicago
Just attended a Spanish Meetup.com group in Chicago. It meets every Saturday at a Panera Bread location downtown. The participants are diverse. Some are native speakers from Spain to Latin American and South American. Others are just learning Spanish or have different levels of ability. All in all, the group functions well and everybody usually learns something about Spanish or English in the...
Codes of the Portena Milonga and 'Everyday Law' →
argentinetango:
[FR] Milongas, where Argentine tango is danced, are an interesting test case for theories of norms and regulation in the micro-legal realm. As highly integrated yet decentralized communities, they rely on a heavy substratum of rules. This article seeks to identify the logic of the system of rules known in Buenos Aires as the “milonga code”. […] The article concludes with a few...
“Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can...”
– This. This may be my favorite quote of all time. I had to repost it here. I do not remember where it came from as it was some random guy’s comment on a random thread on some random site. BUT here it is for the world to enjoy! (via metheliving)
Rep. Jan Schakowsky: My Conversation with Goldman →
Jan Schakowsky’s outrage is justified, but the fact that Goldman was not required to return the AIG payment of $12.9 billion to Goldman (or to otherwise assume that loss) and to “accrue” absurd bonuses of nearly $21 billion is largely the fault of the government. No TARP money should have been given to Goldman or AIG or the other firms without certain pre-conditons. This is...
Israel: Leader of Business Innovation - CNBC.com →
In the midst of almost continuous war with its neighbors since its inception as a country, Israel has been an economic success story. I hope for a day when Israel and its Arab neighbors can learn from each other as opposed to fighting each other.
Don't Send Additional Troops to Afghanistan
I wholeheartedly agree with President Obama’s decision not to commit additional troops to Afghanistan without a definitive exit strategy. We have been mired in a war there for over eight years with no tangible or lasting signs of success. We are no longer even talking about victory which seems a meaningless objective as time marches on.
The government in Kabul is corrupt and is not to be...
JAMES JOHNSTON: Congress should give up its... →
I am still not clear whether Congress itself is going to be subject to any health care reform bill like all other Americans or if it is going to be exempted and continue its current exceptional health care coverage. From my perspective, Congress must abide by the very law it passes or there is simply a lack of credibility. Do as I say and not as I do won’t work this time. The two-tiered...
Wall Street Makes It Hard to Earn Legal Living:... →
Blankfein Invokes God and Man at Goldman Sachs:... →
Wall Street bankers at front of queue for scarce... →
barnish:
Wall Street bankers at front of queue for scarce swine flu vaccine Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley among first New York employers to receive shipments of H1N1 antidote
“‘Saturday Night Live’ was tougher on Goldman Sachs than the government, giving...”
– Maureen Dowd (via comosehomo)
Clumsy Liberal Thinking On Gay Marriage and...
A political science professor on Sean Hannity’s program tonight called Carrie Prejean, the former Miss California, a bigot for opposing gay marriage. When Hannity indicated that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton also were opponents, he asked her whether they were bigots too.
The amazing answer was that Obama and Clinton had to oppose it for political reasons even though they weren’t...
Lou Dobbs: Overreaction to His Departure
Don’t understand the visceral and virulent negative criticism of Lou Dobbs. He is accused of being a racist because he supports legal immigration and opposes illegal immigration.
From my perspective, he has always asked the tough questions of politicians and other guests that the public wants to hear. He has supported and criticized candidates of different political persuasions. He is not...