"If you are planning for one year, grow rice. If you're planning for 20 years, grow trees. If you're planning for centuries, grow men." - Chinese proverb
Who is... John Thomas Scopes?
Half of Americans reject evolution, the second lowest acceptance rate of 34 developed countries. Turkey is the lowest. The first effort to pass an anti-evolution law (led by William Jennings Bryan) happened in Kentucky in 1921. It proposed making the teaching of evolution illegal. Much of the resistance to the proposed law came from the faculty and the president of the University of Kentucky. It failed in the legislature 42 to 43. At the time, John Thomas Scopes was a student at the University of Kentucky. Then he, and the debate, moved to Tennessee.
“When it becomes serious, you have to lie." -Jean Claude Juncker, the 12th and current President of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union (EU). So, is he lying or telling the truth?
Ravensbrück was a prison camp opened by the Nazis in 1939 about 50 miles north of Berlin. As time went by it became a camp for women only. The women were kept alive if they could work and were used for medical experiments, especially Polish women, who suffered incisions in their legs to break their bones or insert contaminated materials for the purpose of finding treatments that could be used for wounded German soldiers.
Lois Lerner gave a lecture at Duke University in October 2010 in which she said the IRS was under pressure. "Everyone is up in arms because they don't like it," she said of the Citizens United case opening up the donor floodgates for conservatives. "The Federal Election Commission can't do anything about it. They want the IRS to fix the problem. The IRS laws are not set up to fix the problem ... so everyone is screaming at us right now: fix it now before the election." Long term IRS opponent, Grover Norquist, in his book End The IRS Before It Ends Us, writes that Obama would have lost the election in 2012 had the IRS not clamped down on conservative fund raising entities.
Two days after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a lecturer at Berlin University, took to the radio and denounced the Nazi Fuhrerprinzip, the leadership principle that was merely a synonym for dictatorship. Bonhoeffer’s broadcast was cut off before he could finish. After a period in London, Bonhoeffer returned to Germany in 1935 to run a seminary; the government closed it in 1937. Bonhoeffer’s continued vocal objections to Nazi policies resulted in his losing his freedom to lecture or publish. He soon joined the German resistance movement, even the plot to assassinate Hitler. He was eventually court-martialed and hung. His last words were, “This is the end–for me, the beginning of life.”
Golden oldie:
In the late 40s J. D. Salinger sold the film rights of the story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" to Samuel Goldwyn, who had his scriptwriters (the Epstein brothers, of Casablanca fame) add characters and plot and a Top Twenty theme song, so turning Salinger's indictment of bourgeois emptiness into the sentimental, My Foolish Heart. Critics found the film a "four handkerchief" tearjerker, one so "full of soap-opera cliches," said the New Yorker, that it was "hard to believe that it was wrung out of a short story...that appeared in this austere magazine a couple of years ago." Salinger was angry over the adaptation and never gave up the film rights to The Catcher in the Rye.
"The mixed economy that has prevailed in the United States since World War II, a uniquely American form of participatory fascism, has lent itself to a substantial expansion of the scope of government authority over economic decision-making. Given capitalist color by the form of private property rights, the system has denied the substance of any such rights whenever governmental authorities have found it expedient to do so."--the rather harsh view of Robert Higgs in Crisis and Leviathan.
North Korean women are a major source of human trafficking in China. Prices for North Korean women in China range from several hundred dollars to $2,000. They are often sold to farmers or to old or disabled men.
Charlie Munger has said Darwin taught him the value of forcing yourself to search for disconfirming evidence. Did he learn anything from Einstein? " I didn’t know anything about relativity until Einstein taught me. I wasn’t smart enough to figure it out for myself." Interviewed after his Daily Journal Corporation meeting in Gorbes he said:"When you have a wonderful monopolistic position, and then some more talented people work harder, of course you’re less rich. These damned economists keep looking for ways to handle the federal reserve system in Japan or something. Think how stupid that is. The solution is really obvious of why they lost. They got huge competition they didn’t formerly have when they were the export powerhouse. Japanese were better at quality control and so forth. Then other people learned to play the same game.
Koreans came up from nothing in the auto business. They worked 84 hours a week with no overtime for more than a decade. At the same time every little Korean came home from grade school, and worked with a tutor for four full hours in the afternoon and the evening, driven by these Tiger Moms. Are you surprised when you lose to people like that? Only if you’re a total idiot."
Scientists in China are believed to have altered the DNA of human embryos so that changes can be passed on to future generations.
It appears as if the U.S. will change its relationship with Cuba in the next few months.Speaking in an interview Tuesday with National Public Radio, President Obama said the only reason he hasn't lifted the terrorist designation already was that he was waiting for a State Department report. "As soon as I get a recommendation, I'll be in a position to act on it," Obama told NPR. So our relationship with Cuba will be based on State Department recommendations.
In 1964, Cuba planned a massive terror attack in the subways under Bloomingdale's, Macy's and other retailers on the busiest shopping day of the year in New York City, in a plot foiled by the FBI. The State Department estimated that Cuba shelters about 70 cop-killers, revolutionaries, hijackers and other criminals, and has refused to return them to justice. Cuban agents run Venezuela's identification system, its electrical system, its internal spies, its agriculture and much of its military.
Anyone interested in Cuba's fascinating political/intelligence activity should read Brian Latell's Castro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine (2012). While there is the inevitable Kennedy hook, the general story is quite astonishing.
The U.S. Postal Service issued a new limited edition "Forever" stamp Tuesday, honoring the late poet, author and civil rights champion Maya AngelouThe stamp includes the quotation: "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." Children's book author Joan Walsh Anglund told The Washington Post the quotation is in her book of poems "A Cup of Sun," published in 1967.
Edward Snowden continues to publish batches of material: the latest, last week, addressed potential British disinformation techniques against Argentina.
Interviewed on American TV by British comedian John Oliver, Snowden admitted he has not read the material he blithely unloads. He merely 'evaluated' two million files stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency — about 68,000 of them from GCHQ, Britain's intelligence agency.
According to researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Germans established 980 concentration camps; 30,000 slave labor camps; 1,150 Jewish ghettos; 1,000 P.O.W. camps; 500 brothels where women were used as sex slaves; and many other places where victims were killed--an astonishing 42,500 sites in all.
Thomas D'Arcy Etienne Hughes McGee was an Irish Nationalist, Catholic spokesman, journalist, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. He fought for the development of Irish and Canadian national identities that would transcend their component groups. He is, to date, the only Canadian victim of political assassination at the federal level. Patrick J. Whelan, a Fenian sympathizer and a Catholic, was accused, tried, convicted, and hanged for the crime on February 11, 1869, at Ottawa. Decades later, his guilt was questioned and many people believe that he was a scapegoat for a Protestant plot.
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer just paid $2 billion for ownership of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers. According to Forbes, the Clippers had $20 million in operating income last year on $146 million in revenue. By comparison, the Penguins had $22 million in operating income on $141 million in revenue.
Who is... John Thomas Scopes?
Half of Americans reject evolution, the second lowest acceptance rate of 34 developed countries. Turkey is the lowest. The first effort to pass an anti-evolution law (led by William Jennings Bryan) happened in Kentucky in 1921. It proposed making the teaching of evolution illegal. Much of the resistance to the proposed law came from the faculty and the president of the University of Kentucky. It failed in the legislature 42 to 43. At the time, John Thomas Scopes was a student at the University of Kentucky. Then he, and the debate, moved to Tennessee.
“When it becomes serious, you have to lie." -Jean Claude Juncker, the 12th and current President of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union (EU). So, is he lying or telling the truth?
Ravensbrück was a prison camp opened by the Nazis in 1939 about 50 miles north of Berlin. As time went by it became a camp for women only. The women were kept alive if they could work and were used for medical experiments, especially Polish women, who suffered incisions in their legs to break their bones or insert contaminated materials for the purpose of finding treatments that could be used for wounded German soldiers.
Lois Lerner gave a lecture at Duke University in October 2010 in which she said the IRS was under pressure. "Everyone is up in arms because they don't like it," she said of the Citizens United case opening up the donor floodgates for conservatives. "The Federal Election Commission can't do anything about it. They want the IRS to fix the problem. The IRS laws are not set up to fix the problem ... so everyone is screaming at us right now: fix it now before the election." Long term IRS opponent, Grover Norquist, in his book End The IRS Before It Ends Us, writes that Obama would have lost the election in 2012 had the IRS not clamped down on conservative fund raising entities.
Two days after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a lecturer at Berlin University, took to the radio and denounced the Nazi Fuhrerprinzip, the leadership principle that was merely a synonym for dictatorship. Bonhoeffer’s broadcast was cut off before he could finish. After a period in London, Bonhoeffer returned to Germany in 1935 to run a seminary; the government closed it in 1937. Bonhoeffer’s continued vocal objections to Nazi policies resulted in his losing his freedom to lecture or publish. He soon joined the German resistance movement, even the plot to assassinate Hitler. He was eventually court-martialed and hung. His last words were, “This is the end–for me, the beginning of life.”
Golden oldie:
In the late 40s J. D. Salinger sold the film rights of the story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" to Samuel Goldwyn, who had his scriptwriters (the Epstein brothers, of Casablanca fame) add characters and plot and a Top Twenty theme song, so turning Salinger's indictment of bourgeois emptiness into the sentimental, My Foolish Heart. Critics found the film a "four handkerchief" tearjerker, one so "full of soap-opera cliches," said the New Yorker, that it was "hard to believe that it was wrung out of a short story...that appeared in this austere magazine a couple of years ago." Salinger was angry over the adaptation and never gave up the film rights to The Catcher in the Rye.
Wasabi is a member of the cabbage family. Its hotness is more akin to that of a hot mustard than that of the capsaicin in a chili pepper, producing vapours that stimulate the nasal passages more than the tongue. The plant grows naturally along stream beds in mountain river valleys in Japan. Due to its high cost, a common substitute is a mixture of horseradish, mustard, starch and green food coloring.
"The mixed economy that has prevailed in the United States since World War II, a uniquely American form of participatory fascism, has lent itself to a substantial expansion of the scope of government authority over economic decision-making. Given capitalist color by the form of private property rights, the system has denied the substance of any such rights whenever governmental authorities have found it expedient to do so."--the rather harsh view of Robert Higgs in Crisis and Leviathan.
North Korean women are a major source of human trafficking in China. Prices for North Korean women in China range from several hundred dollars to $2,000. They are often sold to farmers or to old or disabled men.
Charlie Munger has said Darwin taught him the value of forcing yourself to search for disconfirming evidence. Did he learn anything from Einstein? " I didn’t know anything about relativity until Einstein taught me. I wasn’t smart enough to figure it out for myself." Interviewed after his Daily Journal Corporation meeting in Gorbes he said:"When you have a wonderful monopolistic position, and then some more talented people work harder, of course you’re less rich. These damned economists keep looking for ways to handle the federal reserve system in Japan or something. Think how stupid that is. The solution is really obvious of why they lost. They got huge competition they didn’t formerly have when they were the export powerhouse. Japanese were better at quality control and so forth. Then other people learned to play the same game.
Koreans came up from nothing in the auto business. They worked 84 hours a week with no overtime for more than a decade. At the same time every little Korean came home from grade school, and worked with a tutor for four full hours in the afternoon and the evening, driven by these Tiger Moms. Are you surprised when you lose to people like that? Only if you’re a total idiot."
Scientists in China are believed to have altered the DNA of human embryos so that changes can be passed on to future generations.
It appears as if the U.S. will change its relationship with Cuba in the next few months.Speaking in an interview Tuesday with National Public Radio, President Obama said the only reason he hasn't lifted the terrorist designation already was that he was waiting for a State Department report. "As soon as I get a recommendation, I'll be in a position to act on it," Obama told NPR. So our relationship with Cuba will be based on State Department recommendations.
In 1964, Cuba planned a massive terror attack in the subways under Bloomingdale's, Macy's and other retailers on the busiest shopping day of the year in New York City, in a plot foiled by the FBI. The State Department estimated that Cuba shelters about 70 cop-killers, revolutionaries, hijackers and other criminals, and has refused to return them to justice. Cuban agents run Venezuela's identification system, its electrical system, its internal spies, its agriculture and much of its military.
Anyone interested in Cuba's fascinating political/intelligence activity should read Brian Latell's Castro's Secrets: The CIA and Cuba's Intelligence Machine (2012). While there is the inevitable Kennedy hook, the general story is quite astonishing.
The U.S. Postal Service issued a new limited edition "Forever" stamp Tuesday, honoring the late poet, author and civil rights champion Maya AngelouThe stamp includes the quotation: "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." Children's book author Joan Walsh Anglund told The Washington Post the quotation is in her book of poems "A Cup of Sun," published in 1967.
Edward Snowden continues to publish batches of material: the latest, last week, addressed potential British disinformation techniques against Argentina.
Interviewed on American TV by British comedian John Oliver, Snowden admitted he has not read the material he blithely unloads. He merely 'evaluated' two million files stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency — about 68,000 of them from GCHQ, Britain's intelligence agency.
Al Qaeda now publishes a manual instructing its supporters on how to evade government eavesdroppers.
Sir David Omand, who was once Britain's homeland security adviser, described Snowden's revelations as 'the most catastrophic loss to British intelligence ever'.
Fulsome: adj: 1. complimentary or flattering to an excessive degree. e.g. "they are almost embarrassingly fulsome in their appreciation" 2. of large size or quantity; generous or abundant. e.g. "a fulsome harvest" So one must be careful of the word as it can be both critical and complimentary.
According to CNN, one of State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's top investigators in the investigation of the death of Freddie Grey is Avon Mackel, a former high-ranking Baltimore police officer who was stripped of his command post in 2009 for failing to follow through on a robbery investigation that two of his officers mishandled and did not report. A Baltimore Sun report said police in the district were accused of classifying serious crimes as lesser in order to log lower crime rates. In October 2009, four months after his demotion, Baltimore County police sent a SWAT team to Mackel's home, responding a drunken incident in which he was seen holding a gun, according to a police report of the incident obtained by CNN.
AAAAaaaannnnnddddd..........a picture of Mick Jagger and his ballerina girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick, a 28 year old :
Sir David Omand, who was once Britain's homeland security adviser, described Snowden's revelations as 'the most catastrophic loss to British intelligence ever'.
Fulsome: adj: 1. complimentary or flattering to an excessive degree. e.g. "they are almost embarrassingly fulsome in their appreciation" 2. of large size or quantity; generous or abundant. e.g. "a fulsome harvest" So one must be careful of the word as it can be both critical and complimentary.
According to CNN, one of State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby's top investigators in the investigation of the death of Freddie Grey is Avon Mackel, a former high-ranking Baltimore police officer who was stripped of his command post in 2009 for failing to follow through on a robbery investigation that two of his officers mishandled and did not report. A Baltimore Sun report said police in the district were accused of classifying serious crimes as lesser in order to log lower crime rates. In October 2009, four months after his demotion, Baltimore County police sent a SWAT team to Mackel's home, responding a drunken incident in which he was seen holding a gun, according to a police report of the incident obtained by CNN.
Officers said an intoxicated Mackel refused to cooperate and was visibly upset, according to the report provided in response to a public records request. An officer then "observed the barrel of Mackel's handgun hanging over the edge of the molding at the top of the steps and saw Mackel pull the gun out of sight," the report said.
Police used a Taser on Mackel while he was on the phone with his father "crying and yelling," before he barricaded himself in his bedroom. The report doesn't say how the incident ended, but police said there was no arrest. A spokesman for the Baltimore County Police Department said "the [SWAT] tactical unit did assist with this incident, which ended peacefully."
Good. A crackerjack impartial look.
AAAAaaaannnnnddddd..........a picture of Mick Jagger and his ballerina girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick, a 28 year old :
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