A popup ad when I accessed Dilbert on Yahoo main page: Take a survey. To each it’s own.
How does each possess own? Or, What is meant by To each it is own?
Mentioned a few months ago: A question at the Pentagon Channel: How many live’s have you saved today?
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Texarkana
Last Saturday, Priscilla and I went to Texarkana and picked up John from the group home. John’s workshop is closed this week, so he will spend the week with us.
Texarkana is an energy-sucking, mentally debilitating town. I lived there from January 1971-December 1973 and from June-November 1975. I spent two years there in college and more than two years working for the Texarkana Gazette. Priscilla and I were married there in 1972.
Every time I arrive in Texarkana, I lose 25 IQ points and about a third of my physical abilities.
Texarkana is a mean town. Part of that meanness comes from racial history, decidedly Southern white and Southern black. Of the approximately 35,000 people on the Texas side, 59 percent are white, 37 percent are black. The Arkansas part of Texarkana has a population of around 26,000 – 66 percent white, 31 percent black.
Towns with a history of racial animosity and roughly 60 percent to 30 percent racial population breakdown are always mean towns, as are towns with an almost even racial demographic split. Little Rock, for example, is 49 percent white and 42 percent black. North Little Rock is 62 percent white, 34 percent black.
Racial demographics cause a dome of other worldness, a modified Hotel California aspect. People who don’t check out are doomed cynicism and anger.
Texarkana is an energy-sucking, mentally debilitating town. I lived there from January 1971-December 1973 and from June-November 1975. I spent two years there in college and more than two years working for the Texarkana Gazette. Priscilla and I were married there in 1972.
Every time I arrive in Texarkana, I lose 25 IQ points and about a third of my physical abilities.
Texarkana is a mean town. Part of that meanness comes from racial history, decidedly Southern white and Southern black. Of the approximately 35,000 people on the Texas side, 59 percent are white, 37 percent are black. The Arkansas part of Texarkana has a population of around 26,000 – 66 percent white, 31 percent black.
Towns with a history of racial animosity and roughly 60 percent to 30 percent racial population breakdown are always mean towns, as are towns with an almost even racial demographic split. Little Rock, for example, is 49 percent white and 42 percent black. North Little Rock is 62 percent white, 34 percent black.
Racial demographics cause a dome of other worldness, a modified Hotel California aspect. People who don’t check out are doomed cynicism and anger.
Hanukkah miracle in Aleppo
Or, Assad goes supersonic.
"The story is widely spread in the Russian internet sites, but I haven't seen yet its English rendering. So here it comes, in the midst of the summer, but there is always the next Hanukkah (Chanukah or Chanukkah). Whether the story is true - I don't know, but it is all good, I promise. So enjoy and prepare your dreidels.
"Everything happens for the first time once. Once upon a time the Israeli Air Force decided on a kind of a flying warning: a supersonic bypass at low altitude. Over a Syrian town of Aleppo, and the flight should have passed the main street of the city. Since then, much Cast Lead was spilled, and every time that Assad mentions in his speech the recapture of the Golan Heights, Israeli jets are visible from his window again.
"But then, that first time, it was an experimental trick with a powerful propaganda effect in the form of a strong sonic boom along the flight path, which creates a pressure differential in the front known as the Mach Cone. Since it was the first time and quite a long time ago, when computers were large and cumbersome, the calculation of the best flight altitude was assigned to the IDF eggheads, which, as it happens with theorists, made a mistake of about 100% in their estimates.
"The planes flew too low - and all the windows and lights on the main street of the peaceful and quiet Syrian town were shattered. Which was considered by the Israeli military experts an unexpected propaganda effect. It took the surprised Syrians a week to clean the debris from the street, the IDF conducted a usual debriefing, physicists were looking for the unexpected twist in the equations ...
"Time passed, and the chief of that Aleppo operation, David Ivry, who later became a commander of the Israeli Air Force, picked up a kid hitchhiker. The kid was a new immigrant from Aleppo (in those days there were immigrants from other than CIS countries). And the boy told him that life in the city of Aleppo in Syria was good to the Jews, none of the Arabs touched them, until suddenly a miracle happened on Hanukkah - and the miracle caused his father to decide to come to Israel. And what, in fact, was that miracle? On Hanukkah, Israeli planes flew over and completely blew out all the windows on the main street - except at the Jewish shops!
"- Are you sure about this? - asked Ivry. - Absolutely! - replied the boy, and added: - The Jews used the same glass as everyone else. The same! This is a miracle, and that's it!
"Where lies the solution of this phenomenon? - Ivry wondered. And he appointed an investigation committee. So what was the result? A long time ago in Aleppo some Emir or Pasha issued a decree, according to which Jews were forbidden to trade on the main street. And the cunning Jews kept their shops only in lanes perpendicular to the central street. Historically there were none of non-Jewish shops in these alleys. When the devastating Israeli sonic boom has come, the Jewish shops' windows were positioned perpendicular to the sonic boom front, and thus survived intact...
"And Aleppo Jews decided that it was a divine sign given to them on Hanukkah - to immigrate to Israel before it's too late ..."
Hat tip: L.G.
http://www.simplyjews.blogspot.co.il/
"The story is widely spread in the Russian internet sites, but I haven't seen yet its English rendering. So here it comes, in the midst of the summer, but there is always the next Hanukkah (Chanukah or Chanukkah). Whether the story is true - I don't know, but it is all good, I promise. So enjoy and prepare your dreidels.
"Everything happens for the first time once. Once upon a time the Israeli Air Force decided on a kind of a flying warning: a supersonic bypass at low altitude. Over a Syrian town of Aleppo, and the flight should have passed the main street of the city. Since then, much Cast Lead was spilled, and every time that Assad mentions in his speech the recapture of the Golan Heights, Israeli jets are visible from his window again.
"But then, that first time, it was an experimental trick with a powerful propaganda effect in the form of a strong sonic boom along the flight path, which creates a pressure differential in the front known as the Mach Cone. Since it was the first time and quite a long time ago, when computers were large and cumbersome, the calculation of the best flight altitude was assigned to the IDF eggheads, which, as it happens with theorists, made a mistake of about 100% in their estimates.
"The planes flew too low - and all the windows and lights on the main street of the peaceful and quiet Syrian town were shattered. Which was considered by the Israeli military experts an unexpected propaganda effect. It took the surprised Syrians a week to clean the debris from the street, the IDF conducted a usual debriefing, physicists were looking for the unexpected twist in the equations ...
"Time passed, and the chief of that Aleppo operation, David Ivry, who later became a commander of the Israeli Air Force, picked up a kid hitchhiker. The kid was a new immigrant from Aleppo (in those days there were immigrants from other than CIS countries). And the boy told him that life in the city of Aleppo in Syria was good to the Jews, none of the Arabs touched them, until suddenly a miracle happened on Hanukkah - and the miracle caused his father to decide to come to Israel. And what, in fact, was that miracle? On Hanukkah, Israeli planes flew over and completely blew out all the windows on the main street - except at the Jewish shops!
"- Are you sure about this? - asked Ivry. - Absolutely! - replied the boy, and added: - The Jews used the same glass as everyone else. The same! This is a miracle, and that's it!
"Where lies the solution of this phenomenon? - Ivry wondered. And he appointed an investigation committee. So what was the result? A long time ago in Aleppo some Emir or Pasha issued a decree, according to which Jews were forbidden to trade on the main street. And the cunning Jews kept their shops only in lanes perpendicular to the central street. Historically there were none of non-Jewish shops in these alleys. When the devastating Israeli sonic boom has come, the Jewish shops' windows were positioned perpendicular to the sonic boom front, and thus survived intact...
"And Aleppo Jews decided that it was a divine sign given to them on Hanukkah - to immigrate to Israel before it's too late ..."
Hat tip: L.G.
http://www.simplyjews.blogspot.co.il/
Back when Russian designers were ordered to design
Soviet concept cars.
http://io9.com/these-soviet-concept-vehicles-are-clearly-from-an-alter-1597889367/all
In the 1930s, Soviet aircraft designers turned out some of the most amazing airplanes ever built.
At fark.com.
http://io9.com/these-soviet-concept-vehicles-are-clearly-from-an-alter-1597889367/all
In the 1930s, Soviet aircraft designers turned out some of the most amazing airplanes ever built.
At fark.com.
From whence came Iraq?
Answer: British diplomats and British intelligence.
“The Kurds have been Kurds for thousands of years but Iraq has existed for only nine decades.”
http://americanthinker.com/2014/07/the_land_of_coup_detat.html
“The Kurds have been Kurds for thousands of years but Iraq has existed for only nine decades.”
http://americanthinker.com/2014/07/the_land_of_coup_detat.html
Sunset in Mecca
“ISIS member Abu Turab Al Mugaddasi said that they would destroy the Kaaba in Mecca: ‘If Allah wills, we will kill those who worship stones in Mecca and destroy the Kaaba. People go to Mecca to touch the stones, not for Allah.’”
http://en.apa.az/xeber_isis__we_will_ruin_the_kaaba_after_captu_213369.html
Through maggiesfarm and gatewaypundit.
(ISIS/ISIL/IS can kill and conquer, but its members are incapable of governing.)
http://en.apa.az/xeber_isis__we_will_ruin_the_kaaba_after_captu_213369.html
Through maggiesfarm and gatewaypundit.
(ISIS/ISIL/IS can kill and conquer, but its members are incapable of governing.)
Victory is just over the next hill
“For the west to ‘win’ in Ukraine, it’s going to have to win against three very powerful forces: Putin’s Russia, the oligarchs who have run Ukraine since 1990 and who still run it today, and the historical inertia, pessimism, and cynicism that are the legacies of Ukraine’s ruinous 20th-century history. There is little sign yet that either the EU or the U.S. has the wisdom, resources, ruthlessness, and long-term commitment to overcome these forces.”
http://www.the-american-interest.com/blog/2014/06/30/the-sad-status-quo-in-ukraine/
(Two things: 1. God has been pi$$ed at the Russians and the Ukrainians for a looong time; 2. Nobody in the West is ruthless enough to do anything necessary.)
Via maggiesfarm.
http://www.the-american-interest.com/blog/2014/06/30/the-sad-status-quo-in-ukraine/
(Two things: 1. God has been pi$$ed at the Russians and the Ukrainians for a looong time; 2. Nobody in the West is ruthless enough to do anything necessary.)
Via maggiesfarm.
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