Here is an excellent site. http://www.aldaily.com/
In a writing about Ayn Rand, Anne C. Heller spends the majority of her essay making the novelist less than honest in her proclaimed life. Yet Heller then writes of why she wants to live in the society Rand saw as that which best fits humanity.
“Who is Ayn Rand?”
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1708/article_detail.asp
Why should an author’s real life (whatever that means) be the same as the one philosophized?
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Earth abides
Thirty-one years ago a Pemex oil well exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil spewed from the well for 90 days. The disaster was the end of things as we know them. Two years later, the land and the ocean were fine.
Earth repairs things, all on its own.
"The bacteria as well as other marine life forms along the shoreline got a boost from a strategy employed by both the United States and Mexico: to more or less give up on stopping the oil spill from reaching beaches while concentrating on keeping it out of estuaries and wetlands.
"Texas just made a superhuman effort to keep the oil away from rivers, with two or three or four layers of booms to skim it away," said Thomas C. Shirley, a biodiversity specialist at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. "We know how to clean up beaches, and it's simple. It's just sand.
"But you get up into wetlands, where you're cleaning up shrubs and sea grasses, and it's far more difficult. Everything you're cleaning is alive, and you have to be careful not to do more harm than good."
Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/13/530250/after-big-1979-spill-a-stunning.html#ixzz0sfBenKE0
(Somebody somewhere must have decided the article is too positive, given the last three paragraphs.)
Earth repairs things, all on its own.
"The bacteria as well as other marine life forms along the shoreline got a boost from a strategy employed by both the United States and Mexico: to more or less give up on stopping the oil spill from reaching beaches while concentrating on keeping it out of estuaries and wetlands.
"Texas just made a superhuman effort to keep the oil away from rivers, with two or three or four layers of booms to skim it away," said Thomas C. Shirley, a biodiversity specialist at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. "We know how to clean up beaches, and it's simple. It's just sand.
"But you get up into wetlands, where you're cleaning up shrubs and sea grasses, and it's far more difficult. Everything you're cleaning is alive, and you have to be careful not to do more harm than good."
Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/06/13/530250/after-big-1979-spill-a-stunning.html#ixzz0sfBenKE0
(Somebody somewhere must have decided the article is too positive, given the last three paragraphs.)
What a job!
“NOT LONG AGO I was offered work as a quality-control expert with an American company in China I’d never heard of. No experience necessary—which was good, because I had none. I’d be paid $1,000 for a week, put up in a fancy hotel, and wined and dined in Dongying, an industrial city in Shandong province I’d also never heard of. The only requirements were a fair complexion and a suit.”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/rent-a-white-guy/8119
You don't need to know the language! All you need is to be in China!
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/07/rent-a-white-guy/8119
You don't need to know the language! All you need is to be in China!
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
You might be from a galaxy long ago and far away
if you:
Know why there is a bayonet lug on the end of your weapon.
Still don't trust the Russians.
Know who Iron Mike is.
Know that "Cav" is an abnormal condition that can be cured with testosterone shots. (OK, so the list was compiled by a lowlife inf dude.) **
Can remember the daily dozen.
Can remember running PT in boots.
Know that tankers exist in order to allow the enemy to deplete its basic load of sabot ammunition. (See above parenthetical.)
Know why you should carry two field dressings on your LBE.
Know how to do a daisy chain.
Have enough extra TA-50 in yourcloset to start a surplus store.
Still have jungle fatigues in your closet.
Are convinced that wall-to-wall counseling really works.
Know that it's not real coffee if you can't stand a track jack up in it.
Might admire the Germans, but still realize they got their asses kicked … twice.
(** In 1989 at the Benning clothing sales store, while filling a buggy with items I should have been issued but wasn’t, said items of uniform required for an NCO course, I decided to pick up a few extra Blackhorse patches. I didn’t find any in the patches area, so while checking out and before handing over a couple or three hundred dollars++, asked the cashier if the store had any 11th Armored Cavalry patches. She said, “Is that an infantry unit?”)
(++ That was almost like real money 21 years ago.)
Know why there is a bayonet lug on the end of your weapon.
Still don't trust the Russians.
Know who Iron Mike is.
Know that "Cav" is an abnormal condition that can be cured with testosterone shots. (OK, so the list was compiled by a lowlife inf dude.) **
Can remember the daily dozen.
Can remember running PT in boots.
Know that tankers exist in order to allow the enemy to deplete its basic load of sabot ammunition. (See above parenthetical.)
Know why you should carry two field dressings on your LBE.
Know how to do a daisy chain.
Have enough extra TA-50 in yourcloset to start a surplus store.
Still have jungle fatigues in your closet.
Are convinced that wall-to-wall counseling really works.
Know that it's not real coffee if you can't stand a track jack up in it.
Might admire the Germans, but still realize they got their asses kicked … twice.
(** In 1989 at the Benning clothing sales store, while filling a buggy with items I should have been issued but wasn’t, said items of uniform required for an NCO course, I decided to pick up a few extra Blackhorse patches. I didn’t find any in the patches area, so while checking out and before handing over a couple or three hundred dollars++, asked the cashier if the store had any 11th Armored Cavalry patches. She said, “Is that an infantry unit?”)
(++ That was almost like real money 21 years ago.)
Money talks
“Los Angeles voted Wednesday to make an exemption to its self-imposed boycott of Arizona, opting to extend a contract with an Arizona-based company that operates enforcement cameras at Los Angeles intersections -- a program that earned the city $6 million last year.”
Oh. It isn’t the money?
“Citing major safety concerns, council members argued that the red light camera program at 32 Los Angeles intersections should be exempt from the boycott.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/23/los-angeles-makes-exception-immigration-law-boycott-traffic-camera-dispute/
Okay. “Major safety concerns” always carry more weight than the possible loss of $6 million in traffic fines.
Oh. It isn’t the money?
“Citing major safety concerns, council members argued that the red light camera program at 32 Los Angeles intersections should be exempt from the boycott.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/23/los-angeles-makes-exception-immigration-law-boycott-traffic-camera-dispute/
Okay. “Major safety concerns” always carry more weight than the possible loss of $6 million in traffic fines.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Somebody agrees with me
(I only stated my belief several times to many people; I had no national venue.)
“This is the kind of powerful, incisive reasoning that led a guy who could take his pick of pretty much any woman in the world to shack up with Yoko Ono. Let me put it another way for emphasis – this guy chose to see Yoko Ono naked. Many times. The only response to someone with that kind of judgment is to listen carefully to what he says and then do the exact opposite.”
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/10/27/the-worst-song-of-all-time-imagine/
(Every time I heard somebody say “This was John Lennon’s best song,” I imagined my fist against the speaker’s nose.)
“This is the kind of powerful, incisive reasoning that led a guy who could take his pick of pretty much any woman in the world to shack up with Yoko Ono. Let me put it another way for emphasis – this guy chose to see Yoko Ono naked. Many times. The only response to someone with that kind of judgment is to listen carefully to what he says and then do the exact opposite.”
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kschlichter/2009/10/27/the-worst-song-of-all-time-imagine/
(Every time I heard somebody say “This was John Lennon’s best song,” I imagined my fist against the speaker’s nose.)
Friday, June 4, 2010
Cause and effect, or Liberal crybabyitis
Cause: “Sure, we waterboarded Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, former President George W. Bush reportedly said on Tuesday.
“And he would ‘do it again to save lives.’"
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/03/2010-06-03_former_president_george_w_bush_we_waterboarded_khalid_sheik_mohammed_and_id_do_i.html#ixzz0puKG3m9v
Effect: “George W. Bush's casual acknowledgment Wednesday that he had Khalid Sheikh Mohammed waterboarded -- and would do it again -- has horrified some former military and intelligence officials who argue that the former president doesn't seem to understand the gravity of what he is admitting.”
Retired BG from intel field: “We are seen by the rest of the world as having abandoned our commitment to international law. We have forfeited enormous amounts of moral leadership as the world's sole remaining superpower. And it puts American troops in greater danger -- and unnecessary danger."
Hey, BG. When “the rest of the world” has its own soldiers in great danger, then you can talk about how “we are seen.” As long as the US of A is dragging the wagon, we get to make the rules.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/03/bushs-glib-waterboarding_n_599893.html
(Probably the first time Huffyton Post used “glib” and “Bush” in the same sentence.)
“And he would ‘do it again to save lives.’"
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/06/03/2010-06-03_former_president_george_w_bush_we_waterboarded_khalid_sheik_mohammed_and_id_do_i.html#ixzz0puKG3m9v
Effect: “George W. Bush's casual acknowledgment Wednesday that he had Khalid Sheikh Mohammed waterboarded -- and would do it again -- has horrified some former military and intelligence officials who argue that the former president doesn't seem to understand the gravity of what he is admitting.”
Retired BG from intel field: “We are seen by the rest of the world as having abandoned our commitment to international law. We have forfeited enormous amounts of moral leadership as the world's sole remaining superpower. And it puts American troops in greater danger -- and unnecessary danger."
Hey, BG. When “the rest of the world” has its own soldiers in great danger, then you can talk about how “we are seen.” As long as the US of A is dragging the wagon, we get to make the rules.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/03/bushs-glib-waterboarding_n_599893.html
(Probably the first time Huffyton Post used “glib” and “Bush” in the same sentence.)
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