Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet (1809-1892)
IG Farben was the largest chemical company in the world and the fourth largest overall industrial in the late 1920s and 30s. It was formed as a conglomeration of companies, including Bayer. The IG Farben factory in Germany produced Zyklon B, the chemical agent used to gas millions of Jews and other "undesirables" to death during the Holocaust, as well as Tabun, the first nerve gas out of the Nazi nerve gas program and the forerunner of Sarin.
It is interesting that Obama, with his philosophical background in moral relativism, is unforgiving in the Middle East and unwilling to see their problems in their religious and historical context. More, he is willing to see the United States as a moral and political leader with Bush-like evangelistic qualities when he has publicly disavowed that attitude in the past.
A look back in history: The October 2002 authorization for Bush's military force in Iraq passed by an easy 77-23 margin in the Senate and a 296-133 margin in the House.
Jesse Jackson, Jr., a 17-year veteran of the US Congress, is going to prison for 2 1/2 years. He got a "mood disorder" about the same time he learned he was to be indicted. His "mood disorder" is so severe, he has become disabled and will receive $8700 per month as a disability payment as well as $45000 a year from his congressional pension, a total of about $150K per year.
Another victory for equality: Iowa is granting permits to acquire or carry guns in public to people who are legally or completely blind.
"Stork detained as spy in Egypt found dead." This is a headline in the press as it ruminates on the chaos and madness that is Egypt. But no headline about Coptics, abuse of the press, abuse of female reporters. Always the sideshow, never the show.
tycoon: noun: A wealthy and powerful person, especially in business or politics. From Japanese taikun (great lord or prince), from Chinese ta (great) + kiun (prince). The word was used as a title for the shogun of Japan. Abraham Lincoln's aides used the word as an affectionate nickname for him.
DC Comics continues to grab far too much attention with the Catwoman controversy. The strip's writers resigned because they said the publishers would not allow the comic strip character to marry her girlfriend. The publisher said: "heroes shouldn't have happy personal lives. They are committed to being that person and committed to defending others at the sacrifice of their own personal interests." This is a comic strip character.
The single largest portion of the university budget is the maintenance of buildings and lands. Sooooo........
Who was ......Jean-François Champollion?
"From 2001–2002 to 2009–2010, the rate of emergency department visits for alcohol-related diagnoses for males increased 38%, from 68 to 94 visits per 10,000 population," reported the Center for Disease Control. "Over the same period, the visit rate for females also increased 38%, from 26 to 36 visits per 10,000 population."
George Will wrote the following about Hilary Clinton: "That contemporary feminism is thin gruel is apparent in the fact that it has found its incarnation in a woman who married her way to the upper reaches of American politics. There her wandering husband rewarded her remarkable loyalty by allowing her the injurious opportunity to produce a health-care proposal so implausible that a Democratic-controlled Congress (56 to 44 in the Senate, 256 to 178 in the House) would not bring it to a vote. Still, the world’s oldest political party might not allow a contest to mar the reverent awarding to her of its next nomination." Is that a reasonable criticism?
Does "The greatest good for the greatest number" justify the torture of an individual to gain information to protect a group?
On September 6 a Minotaur V rocket was launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. It is "LADEE", the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer, and is moon-bound.
48 million Americans, 20% of the eligible population, are now on food stamps.
According to the CDC, there are 800,000 accidental needle-sticks that occur in the U.S. health system annually.
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George Will and I are through. This quote, which I read to you actually, is unworthy of the woman who is certainly one of the top 2 or 3 Secretaries of State the country has had, who ran on her own platform and was elected, twice, by the people of New York as their Senator and who told us, "in the end, we feel we have never been so well represented as we have by her."
A better and less demeaning question is, would Bill Clinton have been able to have 19 successful political campaigns before the presidential election without her managing hand on the tiller? His presidential campaign would certainly have run amok re Gennifer FLowers and his lady friends without Hilary's management of that crises which allowed him to put that mess behind him.
This is the problem with columnists. They need grist for their mill, every week, and flamable grist, stuff that will generate letters to the editor in response, so they can keep their jobs. He knows perfectly well this is an unjustivied slash at her and I will never respect his opinion again. See you never, George.
This is the problem with columnists, they have got to have grist for that column mill, every week, and it should be inflammatory grist, stuff that will generate fiery response from their readers, so the readers will write letters in response, so the lines of type can be counted, so the columnist can keep his job.
Now George Will has been a well thought of guy, a smart, conservative, insightful talking head you can get behind and know you will not be thought a fool. A grown up. An adult. But this, the paragraph about Hilary Clinton, has shown that George too is worried about his job and will throw out this completely inappropriate, unbelievable really, paragraph about Hilary Clinton marrying into politics.
Not a word about the 19 political campaigns she managed for Bill in the cutthroat southern races, 19 of them on the way to the Governors Mansion. Several more after that. Not a word about how Hilary saved his presidential campaign from destruction with the Genefer Flowers taped calls broadcast to the media. She herself saved that campaign and had she not done so, no James Carville team could have pulled it out of the fire. Bill betrayed her time after time, but she knew that going in, she installed her father in the Governors office when she traveled to keep away the whores. She knows Bill is an old hound dog, but she knows he had some wedge of greatness in him and she was going to get it out of him, and she did. And she made it possible for that greatness to be served up to the American people, and to the world, which recognized it in him.
Also, George, she walked through an impeachement with him and the two of them actually made impeachment less of a weapon and a threat afterward than before. I don't like it, but they did that.
Now on her own she ran for the United States Senate and won, twice, and her citizens said this to me about her service to them .."we really feel that we have never been so well represented before, and we love her." There was nothing at stake for them to say that, but I asked them how she had been and that is what they said, and this was from a group of very smart women, George, apparently smarter than you.
History will vote her record as Secretary of State up or down but my view is that she has been in the top two or three the country has ever had, and in the most perilous times for the United States excempting WWll. I admire her tremendously for that alone.
The problem is that George thinks that he, sitting at his desk and thinking and making notes and doing his dictations, is the same as she, flying in that plane of hers,under fire, carrying the interests of the United States in her hands alone. Negotiating every day with people who would like to have her killed, just not on their watch.
She is better, George. Better than you are. You let that slip out, and you didn't have to. How about a column on the Anthony Weiner wreckage and the damage done to the future of Hilary's aide? Maybe there is some grist for you mill, George.
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