If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -Thomas Pynchon, writer (b. 1937)
Chinese police will help patrol tourist destinations in Paris this summer after a rise in muggings and attacks on Chinese tourists, a source in France's interior ministry said. You might want to read that again.
Common Core is a concept ostensibly created to develop national education norms. One program in the Los Angeles-area Rialto Unified School District had 8th-graders write a paper on whether they believe the Holocaust was a "hoax" created by Jews to "influence public emotion and gain wealth." That sounds like a reasonable assignment, right? Bangladesh-born Mohammad Z. Islam happens to be Rialto's superintendent, and Pakistan-born Syeda Jafri serves as its director of communications.
Question from the NYT to George R.R. Martin, the author of Game of Thrones:
In Barringer Crater, Arizona approximately 37 miles (60 km) east of Flagstaff, and 18 miles (29 km) west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert. an asteroid roughly 130 feet wide hit in the desert 50,000 years ago and created a crater 570 feet deep and 4,100 feet (1.25 kilometers) across . Scientific calculations estimate the speed of the meteor in the moment of impact to be more than 27,000m/h, while the size of the explosion is believed to be 150 times larger than the one created by the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima, pulverizing the meteorite as a result. The surrounding landscape was filled with a mist of molten nickel and iron.
According to the U.N. World Health Organization Fact Sheet No. 150 on child maltreatment, "approximately 20% of women and 5-10% of men report being sexually abused as children."
David Remnick, an Obama biographer and the editor of the New Yorker, said this interesting thing about Obama: "...what's frustrating to me sometimes about Obama is that the world seems to disappoint him." He continued (to laughter from others on the TV set), "Republicans disappoint him, Bashar al-Assad disappoints him, Putin as well. And the fighting spirit sometimes is lacking in the performative aspects of the presidency."
Our sun is just one of at least 100 billion stars in our galaxy and our galaxy is just one of 100 billion in the observable universe.
The Brookings Institution--a pretty liberal group--found that for the first time on record U.S. businesses are being destroyed faster than they're being created. In fact, the American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades.
20% of job creation comes from startups, soooooo.......
Who was...Manfred von Richthofen?
If you want to know how difficult the small market baseball road is, take a gander at this, a story about a guy in the Pirates' minors system, Gregory Polanco, who has never played in a major league game and recently turned down a contract offer. Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports was the first to report Polanco rejected the offer, which was worth slightly less than $25 million. The deal was for seven years plus three club options that would have bought out Polanco's first three years of free agency. Jon Heyman of CBSsports.com reported the deal's total value would have been between $50 million and $60 million if all the options were picked up. A guy who has never played a major league game turned that down.
Some activists want to accuse the Catholic Church of violating the U.N. Convention Against Torture. The Center for Reproductive Rights has claimed that the Catholic beliefs regarding birth control and abortion are tantamount to psychological torture because they insidiously shape human behavior and bring feelings of shame to individuals who seek access to birth control or abortion services.
Poetry.
If your modified adjusted gross income is $75,000 or more, you can't deduct any student loan interest.
Judgment of Paris: means a difficult decision. Paris was a Trojan prince asked to decide which of the goddesses--Athena, Aphrodite, or Hera--was the most beautiful. All tried to bribe him and Aphrodite, the goddess of love, won. So Paris--and Troy--earned the enmity of the other two. ("The Judgment of Paris" was also the title of a book describing the competition in France between American and French wine which the Americans won.)
The American Physical Society (APS) has signaled a dramatic turnabout in its position on "climate change" by appointing three notorious climate skeptics to its panel on public affairs: Professor Richard Lindzen, formerly Alfred P Sloan Professor of Meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who once categorized global warming on the Larry King Show as "just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves," John Christy, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, who has written: "I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see," and Judith Curry, Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, who testified to the US House Subcommittee on the Environment that the uncertainties in forecasting climate science are much greater than the alarmists will admit.
AAAAAaaaaaaannnnnddddd...........a picture of Barringer Crater:
Chinese police will help patrol tourist destinations in Paris this summer after a rise in muggings and attacks on Chinese tourists, a source in France's interior ministry said. You might want to read that again.
Common Core is a concept ostensibly created to develop national education norms. One program in the Los Angeles-area Rialto Unified School District had 8th-graders write a paper on whether they believe the Holocaust was a "hoax" created by Jews to "influence public emotion and gain wealth." That sounds like a reasonable assignment, right? Bangladesh-born Mohammad Z. Islam happens to be Rialto's superintendent, and Pakistan-born Syeda Jafri serves as its director of communications.
Question from the NYT to George R.R. Martin, the author of Game of Thrones:
"Why have you included incidents of rape or sexual violence in your “Song of Ice and Fire” novels? What larger themes are you trying to bring out with these scenes?"
His answer:
"An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. My novels are epic fantasy, but they are inspired by and grounded in history. Rape and sexual violence have been a part of every war ever fought, from the ancient Sumerians to our present day. To omit them from a narrative centered on war and power would have been fundamentally false and dishonest, and would have undermined one of the themes of the books: that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil."
---Is this the artistic equivalent of the naturalistic fallacy?
In Barringer Crater, Arizona approximately 37 miles (60 km) east of Flagstaff, and 18 miles (29 km) west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert. an asteroid roughly 130 feet wide hit in the desert 50,000 years ago and created a crater 570 feet deep and 4,100 feet (1.25 kilometers) across . Scientific calculations estimate the speed of the meteor in the moment of impact to be more than 27,000m/h, while the size of the explosion is believed to be 150 times larger than the one created by the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima, pulverizing the meteorite as a result. The surrounding landscape was filled with a mist of molten nickel and iron.
Golden oldie:
According to the U.N. World Health Organization Fact Sheet No. 150 on child maltreatment, "approximately 20% of women and 5-10% of men report being sexually abused as children."
David Remnick, an Obama biographer and the editor of the New Yorker, said this interesting thing about Obama: "...what's frustrating to me sometimes about Obama is that the world seems to disappoint him." He continued (to laughter from others on the TV set), "Republicans disappoint him, Bashar al-Assad disappoints him, Putin as well. And the fighting spirit sometimes is lacking in the performative aspects of the presidency."
Our sun is just one of at least 100 billion stars in our galaxy and our galaxy is just one of 100 billion in the observable universe.
The Brookings Institution--a pretty liberal group--found that for the first time on record U.S. businesses are being destroyed faster than they're being created. In fact, the American economy is less entrepreneurial now than at any point in the last three decades.
20% of job creation comes from startups, soooooo.......
Who was...Manfred von Richthofen?
If you want to know how difficult the small market baseball road is, take a gander at this, a story about a guy in the Pirates' minors system, Gregory Polanco, who has never played in a major league game and recently turned down a contract offer. Jeff Passan of Yahoo! Sports was the first to report Polanco rejected the offer, which was worth slightly less than $25 million. The deal was for seven years plus three club options that would have bought out Polanco's first three years of free agency. Jon Heyman of CBSsports.com reported the deal's total value would have been between $50 million and $60 million if all the options were picked up. A guy who has never played a major league game turned that down.
Some activists want to accuse the Catholic Church of violating the U.N. Convention Against Torture. The Center for Reproductive Rights has claimed that the Catholic beliefs regarding birth control and abortion are tantamount to psychological torture because they insidiously shape human behavior and bring feelings of shame to individuals who seek access to birth control or abortion services.
Poetry.
If your modified adjusted gross income is $75,000 or more, you can't deduct any student loan interest.
Judgment of Paris: means a difficult decision. Paris was a Trojan prince asked to decide which of the goddesses--Athena, Aphrodite, or Hera--was the most beautiful. All tried to bribe him and Aphrodite, the goddess of love, won. So Paris--and Troy--earned the enmity of the other two. ("The Judgment of Paris" was also the title of a book describing the competition in France between American and French wine which the Americans won.)
The American Physical Society (APS) has signaled a dramatic turnabout in its position on "climate change" by appointing three notorious climate skeptics to its panel on public affairs: Professor Richard Lindzen, formerly Alfred P Sloan Professor of Meteorology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who once categorized global warming on the Larry King Show as "just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves," John Christy, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, who has written: "I see neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human activity is to blame for most of the warming we see," and Judith Curry, Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, who testified to the US House Subcommittee on the Environment that the uncertainties in forecasting climate science are much greater than the alarmists will admit.
AAAAAaaaaaaannnnnddddd...........a picture of Barringer Crater:
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