Let us admit to ourselves, once and for all, that the
notion of history as an exact science is just for convenience – “for
simple folk”, as the museum guard used to say, showing two skulls – in
youth and old age – of one and the same criminal.--Vladimir Nabokov,
from "On Generalities," which opens "There is a very seductive and very
dangerous demon: the demon of generalities."
Fonts have become mysterious.
Arguing that the Whitewater investigation somehow initiated the bad blood in Washington one would have to overlook the Henry Hyde attack. Chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, Henry Hyde had been the victim of an attack by the liberal Internet publication Salon on September 15, 1998. That magazine had revealed that Hyde had engaged in an adulterous affair with a hairdresser named Cherie Snodgrass in 1965, back when Hyde was forty- one years old. Thirty- three years later, with his wife Jeanne dead of breast cancer and his four grown children raising children of their own, Hyde had been forced to confess his "youthful indiscretions," the most humiliating experience of his four decades in public life.
Fonts have become mysterious.
Arguing that the Whitewater investigation somehow initiated the bad blood in Washington one would have to overlook the Henry Hyde attack. Chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee, Henry Hyde had been the victim of an attack by the liberal Internet publication Salon on September 15, 1998. That magazine had revealed that Hyde had engaged in an adulterous affair with a hairdresser named Cherie Snodgrass in 1965, back when Hyde was forty- one years old. Thirty- three years later, with his wife Jeanne dead of breast cancer and his four grown children raising children of their own, Hyde had been forced to confess his "youthful indiscretions," the most humiliating experience of his four decades in public life.
Jonathan Broder, Washington bureau chief of Salon,
was forced to resign after criticizing the online magazine's decision
to disclose Rep. Henry Hyde's old affair. "Deservedly or not," Broder
wrote, "Salon already has a pro-Clinton reputation. With the
story you are now planning to run, which I do not believe meets the
journalistic threshold, Salon will be indelibly stained as a vicious Clinton attack dog. . . . There is no way in the world that you and Salon
will escape broad censure as hypocritical thugs. . . . We will become
the left-wing equivalent of the American Spectator." Salon's editorial
stated their reason for publishing it was "ugly times call for ugly
tactics."
Two themes seem to dominate commencement speeches. One is shameless self-advertising by people in government, or in related organizations supported by taxpayers or donors, saying how nobler it is to be in “public service” than working in business or other “selfish” activities.
In other words, the message is that it is morally superior to be in organizations consuming output produced by others than to be in organizations that produce that output. Moreover, being morally one-up is where it’s at.
The second theme of many commencement speakers, besides flattering themselves that they are in morally superior careers, is to flatter the graduates that they are now equipped to go out into the world as “leaders” who can prescribe how other people should live.
In other words, young people, who in most cases have never had the sobering responsibility and experience of being self-supporting adults, are to tell other people — who have had that responsibility and that experience for years — how they should live their lives.--Sowell
Two themes seem to dominate commencement speeches. One is shameless self-advertising by people in government, or in related organizations supported by taxpayers or donors, saying how nobler it is to be in “public service” than working in business or other “selfish” activities.
In other words, the message is that it is morally superior to be in organizations consuming output produced by others than to be in organizations that produce that output. Moreover, being morally one-up is where it’s at.
The second theme of many commencement speakers, besides flattering themselves that they are in morally superior careers, is to flatter the graduates that they are now equipped to go out into the world as “leaders” who can prescribe how other people should live.
In other words, young people, who in most cases have never had the sobering responsibility and experience of being self-supporting adults, are to tell other people — who have had that responsibility and that experience for years — how they should live their lives.--Sowell
Who is...Deirdre N. McCloskey?
Sen.
Elizabeth Warren, sometimes called “Pocahontas,” claims that she is of
Cherokee Indian ancestry. That helped her land a job at diversity-hungry
Harvard University as a professor of law. She described herself as a
minority in the Harvard Law School directory. Not only was her
great-grandfather not a Cherokee as she claimed, but he was a white man
who boasted of shooting a Cherokee Indian.
But there is a connection, right?
But there is a connection, right?
In 1850 Lionel
Rothschild 'loaned' Queen Victoria and her consort sufficient funds to
purchase the lease on Balmoral Castle and its 10,000 acres. When he was
secretary of state for India, Randolph Churchill (Winston's father)
approved the annexation of Burma on 1 January 1886, thus allowing the
Rothschilds to issue their immensely successful shareholding in the
Burma ruby mines. Churchill demanded that the viceroy, Lord Dufferin,
annex Burma as a New Year's present for Queen Victoria, but the
financial gains rolled into the House of Rothschild. Esher noted
sarcastically that Churchill and Rothschild seemed to conduct the
business of the Empire together, and Churchill's 'excessive intimacy'
with the Rothschilds caused bitter comment, but no one took them to
task.
Golden oldie:
In
March, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services temporarily
suspended the development of a proposed “Non-Recommended
Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA)–Based Screening” measure that would
discourage PSA screening in all men. The U.S. Preventive Services Task
Force (USPSTF) is currently in the process of updating its
recommendations for prostate-cancer screening. Much of the controversy
surrounding screening revolves around the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal,
and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial, which randomly assigned men
to annual prostate-cancer screening or usual care and showed equivalency
in the primary outcome of prostate-cancer mortality. The major
criticism of this trial relates to the degree of PSA testing in the
control group as reported in the 2009 publication of the trial results.
Subsequent analyses, including the 2012 USPSTF recommendations, have
interpreted the rate cited in the 2009 report as “approximately 50% of
men in the control group received at least 1 PSA test during the study.”
This is an inaccurate interpretation of PSA testing in the control group during the trial. But the information was obtain by questionnaire and recall, so who is surprised? Nonetheless, the powers-that-be want to stop the testing so we'll have to wait and see their twisted logic.
This is an inaccurate interpretation of PSA testing in the control group during the trial. But the information was obtain by questionnaire and recall, so who is surprised? Nonetheless, the powers-that-be want to stop the testing so we'll have to wait and see their twisted logic.
Playwright
J.M. Barrie conceived of a character named Peter Pan who escapes from
the nursery and attempts to live as a bird. Having cut himself off from
human society -- 'a Betwixt-and-Between' -- he becomes an outlaw. When
he tries to return to his bedroom, the windows are barred: 'There is no
second chance, not for most of us.' The idea was further developed in
the 1902 novel The Little White Bird, where Peter Pan
appears as a major subplot. After its success, Barrie set about
expanding the character into a full 'fairy play': a hasty first draft
was finished by April 1904, and Peter Pan was born.
In
1919, Fumimaro Konoe, future Prime Minister of Japan attended the Paris
Peace Conference. Though Woodrow Wilson espoused seemingly high-minded
principals such as his notion of national self-determination, the
Japanese and other Asians felt a deep sense of exclusion during the
conference, especially when a Japanese attempt to include clauses
regarding racial equality and religious freedom in the work of the
conference was rejected. Afterwards, Konoe denounced the inequity of an
Anglo-American dominated world in letters he thought were private but
they were translated and spread, earning him the reputation of a
radical. He wrote later in a booklet, that "the white people -- and the
Anglo-Saxon race in particular -- generally abhor colored people is an
apparent fact, so blatantly observable in the U.S. treatment of its
black people. I for one felt a sort of racial oppression more in London
than in Paris, and that sense was heightened even further upon my
arrival in New York."
The idea
behind the Indianapolis Motor Speedway started in the early 1900s as a
proving ground for the budding American auto industry. Detroit and
Indianapolis were battling for the right to be called 'the Motor City'
and Indy was the early leader, building more cars than its Michigan
rival. However, Detroit had the advantage of being located on the Great
Lakes, with a port to ship in raw materials and ship out vehicles, and
Henry Ford was hard at work there, developing the assembly line. So a
group of Indianapolis industry leaders figured a large testing facility
was needed to help tip the balance in favor of their city.
| Turpitude: n: 1. vile, shameful, or base character; depravity. 2. a vile or depraved act. usage: He
would, perhaps, argue that, though abstract Right is absolute and
unchangeable, the alternative Wrong, though never shading down into
Right, varies immeasurably in degree of turpitude ...-- Joseph Furphy, Such Is Life, 1903 ety: Turpitude finds its roots in the Latin term turpis meaning "base, vile." It entered English in the late 1400s. The Quiet Don was published in four parts in Russia between 1928 and 1940. It is one of the greatest of twentieth-century Russian novels, and when Mikhail Sholokhov was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1965, the Swedish Academy cited its “artistic force and integrity”. But ever since the end of the 1920s there have been rumors that Sholokhov was not the only, or even the main, author. These suspicions have recently received fresh support in the form of an unfinished manuscript by a Russian critic, no longer living, which was published last month in Paris by the YMCA Press under the title Stremya “Tikhovo Dona” (The Current of “The Quiet Don”), with an introductory essay by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. A twenty-three-year-old beginner had created a work out of material which went far beyond his own experience of life and his level of education. Neither the level of achievement nor the rate of production has been confirmed or repeated in the subsequent forty-five years of his career. Too many miracles !—writes Solzhenitsyn. But five “proletarian” writers (Serafimovich, Averbach, Kirshon, Fadeyev, Staysky) declared that those who were spreading doubt and suspicion were “enemies of the proletarian dictatorship” and threatened to “bring them to cowl.” Very similar to the old Shakespeare debate.
I have been interested in a woman named Deirdre
N. McCloskey who has been appearing with more frequency because of a
trilogy of books she has written on the emergence of the economically
successful West. She is a remarkable polymath. A review of her website
shows these generalities: Deirdre N.
McCloskey has been since 2000 UIC Distinguished Professor of Economics,
History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at
Chicago. Trained at Harvard as an economist, she has written fifteen
books and edited seven more, and has published some three hundred and
sixty articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy,
rhetoric, feminism, ethics, and law. She taught for twelve years in
Economics at the University of Chicago, and describes herself now as a
"postmodern free-market quantitative Episcopalian feminist
Aristotelian." And this surprising personal summary: “I’m a literary,
quantitative, postmodern, free-market, progressive-Episcopalian,
Midwestern woman from Boston who was once a man. Not ‘conservative’! I’m
a Christian libertarian.”
From a book review of Illiberal Reformers:
As Leonard’s title suggests, as a rule early progressives were far from
liberal in the broad sense of the word. Instead, combining a belief in
eugenics and trendy pseudo-science, a distrust of markets, a disavowal
of the American natural rights tradition and a broad faith in the power
of government to shape society for good, they sought public policies
that would benefit “fit” white male breadwinners of northern European
origin and their families at the expense of “unfit” African Americans,
Eastern and Southern Europeans, women and Northern European men with
physical or mental disabilities. Thus, for example, rather than
disputing the notion that minimum wage laws would lead to the exclusion
of the latter groups from the labor market, progressive reformers
thought that this was a strong point in favor of such laws. Moreover,
“in the early twentieth century, progressives displayed an open contempt
for individual rights.”
The State Department’s independent watchdog has concluded that Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server and months of missing records from her tenure were violations of State Department policies. Hillary never sought approval for her private email setup from senior information officers --who would have refused the request because of security risks, an inspector general report says. The IG also found no evidence that lawyers had reviewed Clinton's document-retention procedures to make sure the law was followed. Clinton, along with her top deputies Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan, and Huma Abedin, all refused to meet with investigators, the report's authors complained. I watched interviews and these people are absolute expert deceivers. Expert. The thing to remember in all the discussion is that the Federal Records Statute is not a custom or protocol, it is the law. It is true the State Department regulations are not a law--which these masters of deception emphasize--but the regulations are written to conform to existing law.
“When
has the Fed ever gotten it right about the economy? Did it see the
crash coming in 2000? Did it see the housing bubble? Did it see the
Wall-Street meltdown in 2008, or the bubble it’s creating now. The
answer is no…it has no clear view of the future.”--David Stockman
AAaaaannnnnndddd.....a news article:The Clinton flap is remarkable. The thing to remember in all the discussion is that the Federal Records Statute is not a custom or protocol, it is the law. It is true the State Department regulations are not a law--which these masters of deception emphasize--but the regulations are written to conform to existing law. So, if a=b and b=c, then..... Their casual, pointed insincerity is awe-inspiring. The Fukushima clean-up team remains in the dark about the exact locations of 600 tons of melted radioactive fuel from three devastated nuclear reactors, the chief of decommissioning told the ABC’s Foreign Correspondent program in an exclusive interview. Following the tsunami-caused 2011 meltdown at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant uranium fuel of three power generating reactors gained critical temperature and burnt through the respective reactor pressure vessels, concentrating somewhere on the lower levels of the station currently filled with water. The melted nuclear fuel from Reactor 1 poured out completely, estimated 30 to 50 percent of fuel from Reactor 2 and 3 remained in the active zone, Masuda said. The official estimates that approximately “200 tons of [nuclear fuel] debris lies within each unit," which makes in total about 600 tons of melted fuel mixed up with metal construction elements, concrete and whatever else was down there.  |
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