Saturday, September 13, 2014

Cab Thoughts 9/13/14

"We are the friends of liberty everywhere but custodians only of our own."--John Adams


The Constellation Program was a human spaceflight program developed within NASA, the American space agency, from 2005 to 2009. The milestone goals of the program were "completion of the International Space Station" and a "return to the moon no later than 2020" with the planet Mars as the ultimate goal. It was cancelled on October 11, 2010 by President Obama.

Now I understand the desire of all these sports reporters to become real reporters (they are talking about Goodall being "impeached") and how they need to fill the current Rice story with Nixon and coverup verbiage but.....what is the implication of getting and taking advantage of an illegally obtained and illegally viewed film stolen from police files by reporters? By the NFL?


Japan, the world's third-largest economy, contracted at an annualized rate of 7.1 percent in the April-June quarter, according to updated government figures Monday.

A few years ago the study of English Literature was the single highest course choice in college. It is now not in the top 70.

Obama has ordered the investigation of the "militarization of the police" as shown in the Missouri. The source of the militarization is the Federal Government who has given the local police their military equipment. By the way, Obama campaigned on creating a national police force. Now he's investigating it. I expect a red line in the sand.

In a vaguely similar vein, Obama has called the bombing attacks by the Kurdish wells "humanitarian."

Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-church-of-materialism.html

10% of Americans polled said they knew "something" about the Bitcoin. 18% of Hispanics said the knew "a lot" about it.

Obama has publicly regretted underestimating "the optics" of his playing golf immediately after his "heartfelt" sympathy to the family of the beheaded journalist. He also talked about his understanding of the "theater" of the office. He sounds like a rock star insisting he is deeply involved in the emotion of the song after singing it on stage 83 nights in a row.

Who was.... Adolfo Farsari?


Egyptian President General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has reportedly offered Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas a Palestinian State, in Egypt’s Sinai, which would be five times bigger than anything Israel could offer them in negotiations.
The reason for rejecting such an offer would be....?


A recent survey showed that while only 18.9 percent of the unemployed said they spent time during the previous day in job-search and interviewing activities on an average day, the survey shows that when someone was looking for a job they spent an average of only 2.48 hours of the day doing so. An unemployed person—on the average day—was more likely to spend time on shopping, sports and recreation, socializing and leisure, than they were searching for and interviewing for a new job, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“High-frequency traders are gaming the system, reaping billions in the process and undermining investor confidence in the fairness of the markets,”Charles Schwab, founder and chairman of the discount brokerage firm that bears his name, said, quoted in the WSJ.

Each culture, in its way, asks the same question, "Who are the Orcs?"


tenebrous \TEN-uh-bruhs\, adjective: Dark; gloomy. From Latin tenebrosus, from tenebrae, meaning, not surprisingly, "darkness."

The righteous again have created some collateral damage. Anonymous, the self-proclaimed bringer of truth, exposed the name of the cop who shot the guy in Missouri. Wrong cop. Oh, well. Their intentions were good.

A study by online automotive research company Edmunds.com suggests a stall in the market for electrically powered cars, led by a decline in hybrids. “This was a market that was supposed to grow, relatively rapidly, as people embraced these new technologies and more brands began selling these models,” said Edmunds senior analyst Jessica Caldwell. “That hasn’t happened.”


Caldwell’s research showed substantial gains in the pure EV and plug-in hybrid segments -- 35% and 44%, respectively.
But the study also showed a drop in traditional hybrids -- by far the largest segment in the electrified vehicle market -- that offset sales gains in pure EV and plug-in hybrids sales, which remain a tiny fraction of the market.


In 1966 it was estimated that around 44 percent of the world’s population was functionally illiterate. Today, the rate has fallen to around 16 percent.

"Should Scotland be an independent country?" is not a political question, it is a debating proposition for colleges. It is a position without a direction. The question is a starting point, not a solution, and attracts youth fervor, idealism, nationalism and heartfelt inaccuracy more than any other element. It is not a coincidence that sixteen-year-olds are allowed to vote on the question. Reminiscent of the new politics of the U.S. as embodied by Obama, it is, indeed, a question for our age.

Malpractice awards. Of the awarded money, the lawyer gets 40% plus costs. The client averages 37% of the verdict.


My daughter was at a wedding recently where five couples cancelled at the last moment. The bride immediately invited five other couples. Biblical.


AAAnnnnddddd....a photograph by Adolfo Farsari:



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