One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole. We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy.”--Former United Nations climate official Ottmar Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015.
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From an article wonderfully titled "Circle the Clydesdales:"
Craft beer's market share rose to 12.2 percent in 2015, more than double its market share of 5.7 percent just five years ago.
While the total U.S. beer market volume declined in 2015 by 0.2 percent, craft brewer's volume rose 13 percent.
More than 600 new breweries opened in 2015, while 68 closed. Overall, there were 4,269 breweries in the country by year's end — the highest total ever— of which 99 percent were small and independent craft breweries.
James Brown recorded 321 albums, wrote 832 songs and had 45 gold records.
Sanders’s socialist policies would replace banks that are too big to fail with a government that is too big to succeed. Taft warned about exactly this in his 1911 State of the Union. Busting the trusts was to free the market, not to insert the government into it. It was necessary to break up Standard Oil and American Tobacco in order to preserve capitalism, not to institute socialism. Taft said, “The anti-trust act is the expression of the effort of a freedom-loving people to preserve equality of opportunity. It is the result of the confident determination of such a people to maintain their future growth by preserving uncontrolled and unrestricted the enterprise of the individual, his industry, his ingenuity, his intelligence, and his independent courage.”--Garry Kasparov in an article in The Daily Beast, believe it or not
According to scientist Freeman Dyson, the worst political decision in history was the decision of the emperor of China in 1433 to cut off his country from the outside world. In the wake of that decision, China lost its position in the forefront of human achievements and fell behind, over the centuries, to become a Third World country.
One explanation of current economic debate is the idea that scarcity is unreal, perhaps the artifact of human evil. Or inefficiency. So countless politicians, professors, pundits, preachers, and popes regularly speak and write as if trade-offs to solve these scarcities need not be made.
Despite being the fourth largest ethnic group in the Middle East (after Arabs, Persians, and Turks), Kurds are now minority populations in four countries, making up roughly 20% of Turkey and Iraq, 15% of Syria, and 10% of Iran. Kurds are one of the world’s largest ethnic groups without a state.
A characteristic of the revolution in the political world in this country is the feeling that many have that they are unappreciated by the people who tax them and the people they support. And apparently Romney thinks he will improve matters by calling them suckers.
There's a funny article on "Political Entrepreneurs" by Robert Samuelson; he writes there’s a thriving industry of campaign consultants, pollsters, media buyers, digital experts, fundraising and direct-mailing companies advising would-be political aspirants. In 2012, there were 1,765 of these firms that oversaw $3.6 billion of campaign spending, reports political scientist Adam Sheingate of Johns Hopkins University in his new book “Building a Business of Politics.”“Who sent us the political leaders we have?” asked political writer Alan Ehrenhalt in his 1991 book “The United States of Ambition.” “There is a simple answer. … They sent themselves.” He writes longingly for the return of the days of political bosses.
"The future existence of Japan as a whole was at stake," admitted Japan's prime minister regarding the time of the 2011 quake and tsunami, revealing that the country came within a "paper-thin margin" of a nuclear disaster requiring the evacuation of 50 million people. Conservation group Greenpeace warned that "signs of mutations in trees and DNA-damaged worms beginning to appear," while "vast stocks of radiation" mean that forests cannot be decontaminated.
The U.S. Army's elite Delta Force operations to target, capture or kill top ISIS operatives have begun in Iraq, after several weeks of covert preparation, an administration official with direct knowledge of the force's activities told CNN. Now why would an admin say something like that?
Who is.....John Bunyon?
Art thou for something rare and profitable?
Wouldest thou see a truth within a fable?
Art thou forgetful? Wouldest thou remember
From New-Year's day to the last of December?
Then read my fancies; they will stick like burs,
And may be, to the helpless, comforters. . . .
Wouldst thou be in a dream, and yet not sleep?
Or wouldst thou in a moment laugh and weep?
Wouldst thou lose thyself and catch no harm,
And find thyself again without a charm?
Wouldst read thyself, and read thou knowest not what,
And yet know whether thou art blest or not,
By reading the same lines? Oh, then come hither,
And lay my book, thy head, and heart together. --From "The Author's Apology for His Book," John Bunyon
Asterism: noun 1. Astronomy. a. a group of stars. b. a constellation. 2. Mineralogy. a property of some crystallized minerals of showing a starlike luminous figure in transmitted light or, in a cabochon-cut stone, by reflected light. Usage: Everything focused toward the north; every curve and asterism of the glittering sky became part of a vast design whose function was to hurry first the eye and then the whole observer onward to some secret and terrible goal of convergence beyond the frozen waste that stretched endlessly ahead. -- H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, 1943 ety: Asterism derives from the Greek term asterismós meaning "a marking with stars." It entered English in the late 1500s. |
The anti-Obama guys jumped on the report that, while hiring was up, average wages were down in February. But, as a letter to the editor of the WSJ shows, this may not be bad. If most of the jobs created in February pay wages below the average wage for January, then this growth in jobs for newly hired workers can easily pull down the average wage even if no workers’ wages were cut – indeed, even if all workers’ wages rose. In this plausible scenario, all workers’ incomes rise: newly hired workers’ wages rise from $0 to whatever wages they now earn, while non-newly hired workers also enjoy higher wages. So, as Ned says, numbers are just numbers.
ISIS has officially been the deadliest terrorist group in history. In a tool that maps out the activity of the world’s most prominent terrorist groups, when you filter by “Most Victims,” ISIS comes up first, despite being around for less than a decade (their death count is more than double al-Qaeda’s lifetime total).
While there is uncertainty in exact rates, the Global Average Temperature was slightly decreasing from the 1940s to the 1970s. This decrease, as climatologists then said, was caused by too much pollution, which itself was caused by a “population bomb”. This pollution, the theory said, was knocking back the sun’s rays, an effect which was about to cause us to hit our next glaciation ahead of schedule. This was the consensus at the time. The models. Many books and articles were written about it. But....it didn't happen.
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. -André Maurois, author (1885-1967) This sounds a lot like politics. For example: [T]he case for democracy is simply a case for making political decisions by one particular kind of rules rather than another; it is not a case for unnecessarily politicizing more and more aspects of life. This distinction unmasks the familiar demands for “democratizing” something or subjecting something to “democratic control,” which means government control. The distinction also reveals how illogical or disingenuous the phrase “economic democracy” is; such pairings of adjective and noun as “culinary monarchy,” “chemical theocracy,” or “meteorological dictatorship” are hardly less meaningful.--Leland Yeager and David Tuerck
The unemployment rate is declared at about 5%. If you include people who have given up looking for work, the unemployment rate is 6%. If you include people stuck in a part-time job for 20 or 25 hours a week, the real unemployment rate is a dreadful 9.8%.
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights. -André Maurois, author (1885-1967) This sounds a lot like politics. For example: [T]he case for democracy is simply a case for making political decisions by one particular kind of rules rather than another; it is not a case for unnecessarily politicizing more and more aspects of life. This distinction unmasks the familiar demands for “democratizing” something or subjecting something to “democratic control,” which means government control. The distinction also reveals how illogical or disingenuous the phrase “economic democracy” is; such pairings of adjective and noun as “culinary monarchy,” “chemical theocracy,” or “meteorological dictatorship” are hardly less meaningful.--Leland Yeager and David Tuerck
The unemployment rate is declared at about 5%. If you include people who have given up looking for work, the unemployment rate is 6%. If you include people stuck in a part-time job for 20 or 25 hours a week, the real unemployment rate is a dreadful 9.8%.
AAAaaaaannnnnddddd.......a graph:
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