"....[in politics]...every man must be supposed a knave.”--David Hume
Slave owners were a tiny minority (1.4%) in the U.S. and they were not only whites. In 1830 about 25% of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves: that is a much higher percentage (ten times more) than the number of white slave owners.
As of Jan. 1, 2015, physicians will be fined if they have not gone to electronic medical records. Medicare payments will be cut, by 1% this year, rising to 3% (potentially 5%) in subsequent years.
91 percent of Wikipedia editors are men.
At 9:30 a.m. on a sunny weekday, the phones at Candelia, a purveyor of sleek office furniture in Lille, France, rang steadily with orders from customers across the country and from Switzerland and Germany. A photocopier clacked rhythmically while more than a dozen workers processed sales, dealt with suppliers and arranged for desks and chairs to be shipped. (Times)Candelia is one of a number of so-called “Potemkin” companies operating in France. Everything about these entities is imaginary from the customers, to the supply chain, to the banks, to the “wages” employees receive and while the idea used to be that the creation of a “parallel economic universe” would help to train the jobless and prepare them for real employment sometime in the future, these “occupations” are now serving simply as way for the out-of-work to suspend reality for eight hours a day. Here’s The Times again: These companies are all part of an elaborate training network that effectively operates as a parallel economic universe. For years, the aim was to train students and unemployed workers looking to make a transition to different industries. Now they are being used to combat the alarming rise in long-term unemployment, one of the most pressing problems to emerge from Europe’s long economic crisis.
So many fans visit King’s Cross station to take pictures of platforms 9 and 10 that the station management erected a sign that says “Platform 9 ¾” which, in the Harry Potter books, is invisible to Muggles but acts as a gateway for witches and wizards.
"For Congress to guarantee a right to health care, or any other good or service, whether a person can afford it or not, it must diminish someone else’s rights, namely their rights to their earnings. The reason is that Congress has no resources of its very own. ...for government to give one American citizen a dollar, it must first, through intimidation, threats and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American. If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.
To argue that people have a right that imposes obligations on another is an absurd concept. A better term for new-fangled rights to health care, decent housing and food is wishes. If we called them wishes, I would be in agreement with most other Americans for I, too, wish that everyone had adequate health care, decent housing and nutritious meals. However, if we called them human wishes, instead of human rights, there would be confusion and cognitive dissonance. The average American would cringe at the thought of government punishing one person because he refused to be pressed into making someone else’s wish come true.
None of my argument is to argue against charity. Reaching into one’s own pockets to assist his fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else’s pockets to do so is despicable and deserves condemnation."--Walter Williams
Slave owners were a tiny minority (1.4%) in the U.S. and they were not only whites. In 1830 about 25% of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves: that is a much higher percentage (ten times more) than the number of white slave owners.
As of Jan. 1, 2015, physicians will be fined if they have not gone to electronic medical records. Medicare payments will be cut, by 1% this year, rising to 3% (potentially 5%) in subsequent years.
700 to 200 BC is what historians have called the Axial Age because it was pivotal to the spiritual development of humanity. It saw the rise of agricultural societies that created a large and vulnerable peasant class, unlike the more egalitarian hunter-gatherer period that preceded it. At the core was the development of surplus, the ability of a farmer to feed more than himself and his family. That is, surplus gave rise to wealth and a distinction among people. This seems to have been a major impetus for the independent beginnings of Buddhism and Hinduism in India, Confucianism and Taoism in the Far East, and monotheism in the Middle East--religions and philosophies that seemed to arise to accommodate these new disparities. The problem is that this thesis is entirely manufactured; we have no way of knowing if any part--even the Rousseau-like egalitarianism of the hunter--is even remotely true.
But one thing is true: We carbon units love a story.
Who is ....Oswald Spengler?
Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology was published in Marion Reedy's weekly magazine, The Mirror. Over the next six months Masters would write the remainder of his 244 "epitaphs," publishing them in book form in 1916. Both the magazine and book publications carried the pseudonym of "Webster Ford" as protection: Masters was a successful lawyer, and he feared that the backlash from local readers who objected to his unflattering view of life in a Midwest village -- a "degenerated" New World Eden, said one critic -- would ruin him. The book was an instant hit and soon became the best-selling book of American poetry to date. Masters was eventually able to give up legal practice and become a full time writer. Of his fifty books -- poetry, novels, plays, biography -- none would come close to the popularity of Spoon River.
Edgar Lee Masters's Spoon River Anthology was published in Marion Reedy's weekly magazine, The Mirror. Over the next six months Masters would write the remainder of his 244 "epitaphs," publishing them in book form in 1916. Both the magazine and book publications carried the pseudonym of "Webster Ford" as protection: Masters was a successful lawyer, and he feared that the backlash from local readers who objected to his unflattering view of life in a Midwest village -- a "degenerated" New World Eden, said one critic -- would ruin him. The book was an instant hit and soon became the best-selling book of American poetry to date. Masters was eventually able to give up legal practice and become a full time writer. Of his fifty books -- poetry, novels, plays, biography -- none would come close to the popularity of Spoon River.
91 percent of Wikipedia editors are men.
Oswald Spengler was a German historian and philosopher whose major work, The Decline of the West, brought him worldwide fame. In it, he contends that every civilization passes through a life cycle, blossoming and decaying like a natural organism, and that Western culture has passed its creative stage and entered the period of decline. He was ostracized after 1933 for refusing to support Nazi ideas of racial superiority.
Golden oldie:
Golden oldie:
At 9:30 a.m. on a sunny weekday, the phones at Candelia, a purveyor of sleek office furniture in Lille, France, rang steadily with orders from customers across the country and from Switzerland and Germany. A photocopier clacked rhythmically while more than a dozen workers processed sales, dealt with suppliers and arranged for desks and chairs to be shipped. (Times)Candelia is one of a number of so-called “Potemkin” companies operating in France. Everything about these entities is imaginary from the customers, to the supply chain, to the banks, to the “wages” employees receive and while the idea used to be that the creation of a “parallel economic universe” would help to train the jobless and prepare them for real employment sometime in the future, these “occupations” are now serving simply as way for the out-of-work to suspend reality for eight hours a day. Here’s The Times again: These companies are all part of an elaborate training network that effectively operates as a parallel economic universe. For years, the aim was to train students and unemployed workers looking to make a transition to different industries. Now they are being used to combat the alarming rise in long-term unemployment, one of the most pressing problems to emerge from Europe’s long economic crisis.
So many fans visit King’s Cross station to take pictures of platforms 9 and 10 that the station management erected a sign that says “Platform 9 ¾” which, in the Harry Potter books, is invisible to Muggles but acts as a gateway for witches and wizards.
One study in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine found that emergency-room doctors spend 43% of their time entering electronic records information, 28% with patients. Another study found that family-practice physicians spend on average 48 minutes a day just entering clinical data.
When a troop of guenon monkeys gets a new leader, the new alpha-male will sometimes kill all babies who are still being suckled--an evolutionary behavior known as kin selection, where the male protects his own offspring by killing the offspring of other males. This is also known as the Ottoman Empire.
When a troop of guenon monkeys gets a new leader, the new alpha-male will sometimes kill all babies who are still being suckled--an evolutionary behavior known as kin selection, where the male protects his own offspring by killing the offspring of other males. This is also known as the Ottoman Empire.
"The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue." So writes Richard Horton in The Lancet. "Can bad scientific practices be fixed?" he continues. "Part of the problem is that no-one is incentivised to be right. Instead, scientists are incentivised to be productive and innovative."
Much of the popular debate in modern science has this unspoken background, the basic mistrust of modern scientific technique and motive. It colors all modern science and is the foundation of the global warming debate.
In Iran, 70% of population is under age 35, having been born after the Revolution. 60% of university graduates are women.
New Horizons launched on Jan. 19, 2006; it swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February 2007, and will conduct a five-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015. Pluto closest approach is scheduled for July 14, 2015. As part of an extended mission, the spacecraft is expected to head farther into the Kuiper Belt to examine one or two of the ancient, icy mini-worlds in that vast region, at least a billion miles beyond Neptune’s orbit.
On May 28, 1998, Diamondbacks manager Buck Showalter intentionally walked Barry Bonds with the bases loaded. Bonds came into the game with 13 homers and a fantastic 1.045 OPS. So when he came up with the bases loaded, two outs, and Arizona up by two runs, Showalter walked him. Pitcher Gregg Olson got the next batter, Brent Mayne, to line out to right on a full count. The strategy also worked the next time it was used: In 2008 Rays manager Joe Maddon called for a bases-loaded intentional walk to Josh Hamilton with two out and a four-run lead. Since the intentional walk was first recorded as a statistic in 1955, those are the only two instances of batters being handed an RBI along with their free pass. But researchers have discovered four prior instances, and each and every time, the team issuing the bases-loaded intentional walk has gone on to win the game.
Heart disease accounts for 40% of all U.S. deaths, more than all forms of cancer combined.
A report in The New York Times highlights another intriguing Clinton Foundation activity. According to the report, former President Bill Clinton turned down repeated offers to speak at Czech model Petra Nemcova's annual charity event benefitting Happy Hearts until she directly offered the Clinton family's foundation $500,000 of the proceeds for appearing. Happy Hearts is a charity that helps rebuild schools after natural disasters. It was created after Nemcova survived the 2004 tsunami that devastated Indonesia and parts of Thailand. Doug White, director of Columbia University's fundraising management program, told The Times that the arrangement was strange because Clinton's foundation is so much bigger. "This is primarily a small but telling example of the way the Clintons operate," White said. "The model has responsibility; she paid a high price for a feel-good moment with Bill Clinton. But he was riding the back of this small charity for what? A half-million bucks? I find it — what would be the word? — distasteful." The Times story, written by investigative reporter Deborah Sontag, described the charity-to-charity payment model as "extremely rare" for a fundraising event.
"Distasteful," huh? I suppose that depends on just what exactly "distasteful" means. How about "scandalous." "Outrageous." "Unethical." "Degrading." And "avaricious, grasping, greedy, mercenary, acquisitive, and rapacious," not to mention "border-line criminal."
Americans spend an astounding 60 billion dollars a year on weight loss programs and products.
Americans spend an astounding 60 billion dollars a year on weight loss programs and products.
"For Congress to guarantee a right to health care, or any other good or service, whether a person can afford it or not, it must diminish someone else’s rights, namely their rights to their earnings. The reason is that Congress has no resources of its very own. ...for government to give one American citizen a dollar, it must first, through intimidation, threats and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American. If one person has a right to something he did not earn, of necessity it requires that another person not have a right to something that he did earn.
To argue that people have a right that imposes obligations on another is an absurd concept. A better term for new-fangled rights to health care, decent housing and food is wishes. If we called them wishes, I would be in agreement with most other Americans for I, too, wish that everyone had adequate health care, decent housing and nutritious meals. However, if we called them human wishes, instead of human rights, there would be confusion and cognitive dissonance. The average American would cringe at the thought of government punishing one person because he refused to be pressed into making someone else’s wish come true.
None of my argument is to argue against charity. Reaching into one’s own pockets to assist his fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else’s pockets to do so is despicable and deserves condemnation."--Walter Williams
When Christopher Columbus landed on what he later named Hispaniola in 1492, the people greeted him with offerings, unaware that he was claiming their lands for Spain. By 1508, the Hispaniola’s native Arawak/Taíno population had fallen from about 400,000 to just 60,000 due to the devastating social, political, ecological, and immunological effects of Spain’s arrival. Ten years later, less than 3,000 Arawak/Taínos remained alive on Hispaniola.
The average American woman is 5'4" and weighs 140 pounds. The average model is 5'11" and weighs 117 pounds.
The world of unintended consequences: When Britain abolished slavery at home and in the British Empire, its example was soon followed by other European countries.But Britain encountered a fierce resistance from both Africans and Middle Eastern Muslims, who saw no reason to renounce a lucrative trade, not accepting the moral motives that had made European Christians give up this enormous source of profit. Britain had to engage in violent conflicts and wars in order to impose the abolition of slavery on African and Asian peoples and enforce it. The British navy would scour the seas and oceans of the world to intercept any ship carrying slaves and seize their human cargo. In this way other countries were obliged to stop their slave trade. The last country to abolish slavery in the Western Hemisphere was Brazil. When a Brazilian vessel saw a British ship, it quickly threw its slaves overboard in order not to be found out.
"What is uniquely Western is not slavery but the movement to abolish slavery". --Dinesh D'Souza
Sinecure: noun: A position in which one is paid for little or no work. ety: From Latin beneficium sine cura (a church position not involving caring for the souls of the parishioners), from sine (without) + cura (care). Earliest documented use: 1662.
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