The turkey was fed and sheltered for 1000 consecutive days, but this did not mean that the butcher loved him. --anon
The picture of the boy killed at the ballgame is just heartrending.
The picture of the boy killed at the ballgame is just heartrending.
Christopher Latham Sholes (1819 –1890) was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard (1873). James Densmore had suggested splitting up commonly used letter combinations in order to solve a jamming problem caused by the slow method of recovering from a keystroke: weights, not springs, returned all parts to the "rest" position. This concept was later refined by Sholes and the resulting QWERTY layout is still used today on both typewriters and English language computer keyboards, although the jamming problem no longer exists.
Precipitous: adjective:1. Resembling a precipice, a cliff with a nearly vertical overhanging face. 2. Extremely steep. 3. Abrupt, rapid, or hasty (applied to a worsening situation). The ety. is very interesting. From obsolete French précipiteux, from Latin praecipitare (to cast down headlong), from prae- (before) + caput (head). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kaput- (head), also the origin of head, captain, chef, chapter and cadet.
Nobunaga—son of a daimyo, or feudal lord—was a Japanese military commander and one of the three unifiers of premodern Japan, along with his general Toyotomi Hideyoshi and ally Tokugawa Ieyasu. One of the first Japanese generals to arm his foot soldiers with muskets, Nobunaga destroyed the armies of powerful Buddhist sects and greatly expanded his father's holdings.
One never thinks of "Buddhist armies."
Who is....Richard A Clarke?
It cannot be said too often: There cannot be too many socialist smashups. The best of these punish reckless creditors whose lending enables socialists to live, for a while, off of other people’s money. The world, which owes much to ancient Athens’ legacy, including the idea of democracy, is indebted to today’s Athens for the reminder that reality does not respect a democracy’s delusions.--Will
Sowell on Hillary: If the debacles and disasters of the Obama administration have still not demonstrated the irresponsibility of choosing a president on the basis of demographic characteristics, it is hard to imagine what could.
Megyn Kelly’s “The Kelly File” ranks as the second most-watched program in all of cable news behind only Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” and often outdraws other cable entertainment programming in the hour. Year to date, the 9 p.m. program averaged 2.2 million viewers, up 4% from the comparable period last year, and up 23% in the adults 25-54 demo (to an average of 414,000), according to Nielsen. Kelly’s hour easily draws more viewers than Anderson Cooper’s and Rachel Maddow’s programs -— the top-rated prime-time shows on CNN and MSNBC — combined.
I am still amazed at citizens showing up at at sports events in costume.
The World Health Organization recently gave guidance for naming new human infectious diseases. Lyme and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) were both named after a place — a practice that has recently been criticized. A tick-borne disease that first sickened children and adults in the 1970s appeared in Old Lyme, Conn. It became known as Lyme disease, although it has been found around the world. MERS is a viral respiratory illness that was first reported in Saudi Arabia, where more than 1,000 people have been infected since 2012 and about 450 have died. The World Health Organization became concerned about the inaccuracies and stigmas that the names cause, and officials there recently gave guidance for naming new human infectious diseases. They also frown on names referring to animals (mad cow), places (West Nile), people (Alzheimer’s) and groups (Legionnaires). So swine flu damages the reputation of pigs. These people must be very considerate.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew plans to put a woman on the $10 bill, demoting America’s first Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton. Writing in his Brookings Institution blog, the former Federal Reserve Chairman says he’s “appalled” by the decision, arguing: Hamilton was without doubt the best and most foresighted economic policymaker in U.S. history…as Treasury Secretary Hamilton put in place the institutional basis for the modern U.S. economy. Critically, he helped put U.S. government finances on a sound footing, consolidating the debts of the states and setting up a strong federal fiscal system.
Since retiring in 2014, former Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals running back Rashard Mendenhall, who made more than $13.8 million during his six-year career, joined the Writers Guild of America and worked as a writer on the first season of HBO's "Ballers."
The Clintons, the first couple of American liberalism, reported income of $139 million in their hardship years from 2007-2014. That’s a tad more than most of the “everyday Americans” whom Mrs. Clinton claims to speak for, which may explain why an accompanying press release stressed that she and Bill had given $14,959,450 to charity. Charity. Her charity of choice was her own family. The couple donated all but $200,000 of their gifts since 2007 to the Clinton Family Foundation which promotes the family’s political ambitions and public profile. It spends an outsized portion of its money, for instance, picking up the travel and other expenses for the whole family. And, AND, they deduct it. They deduct it!
Anne Lamont on writing. Or maybe living: Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"
Is Narnia a fantasy or a refined prediction of the Multiverse?
People all over the globe are coming to expect emotional and intellectual comfort as though it were a right. This is precisely what you would expect when you train a generation to believe that they have a right not to be offended. Eventually, they stop demanding freedom of speech and start demanding freedom from speech...Weak ideas always grasp for the censor in the face of sustained criticism—and feeble ideas made strong by politics are the most dangerous of all. Humanitarians with guillotines can be found from the French Revolution to present day..--Greg Lukianoff
AAAAAAaaaaannnnndddddd......a picture of the Andromeda galaxy:
Sowell on Hillary: If the debacles and disasters of the Obama administration have still not demonstrated the irresponsibility of choosing a president on the basis of demographic characteristics, it is hard to imagine what could.
Megyn Kelly’s “The Kelly File” ranks as the second most-watched program in all of cable news behind only Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” and often outdraws other cable entertainment programming in the hour. Year to date, the 9 p.m. program averaged 2.2 million viewers, up 4% from the comparable period last year, and up 23% in the adults 25-54 demo (to an average of 414,000), according to Nielsen. Kelly’s hour easily draws more viewers than Anderson Cooper’s and Rachel Maddow’s programs -— the top-rated prime-time shows on CNN and MSNBC — combined.
I am still amazed at citizens showing up at at sports events in costume.
The World Health Organization recently gave guidance for naming new human infectious diseases. Lyme and MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) were both named after a place — a practice that has recently been criticized. A tick-borne disease that first sickened children and adults in the 1970s appeared in Old Lyme, Conn. It became known as Lyme disease, although it has been found around the world. MERS is a viral respiratory illness that was first reported in Saudi Arabia, where more than 1,000 people have been infected since 2012 and about 450 have died. The World Health Organization became concerned about the inaccuracies and stigmas that the names cause, and officials there recently gave guidance for naming new human infectious diseases. They also frown on names referring to animals (mad cow), places (West Nile), people (Alzheimer’s) and groups (Legionnaires). So swine flu damages the reputation of pigs. These people must be very considerate.
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew plans to put a woman on the $10 bill, demoting America’s first Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton. Writing in his Brookings Institution blog, the former Federal Reserve Chairman says he’s “appalled” by the decision, arguing: Hamilton was without doubt the best and most foresighted economic policymaker in U.S. history…as Treasury Secretary Hamilton put in place the institutional basis for the modern U.S. economy. Critically, he helped put U.S. government finances on a sound footing, consolidating the debts of the states and setting up a strong federal fiscal system.
Interestingly, Bernanke is joining a chorus of others who think the woman chosen should go on the $20, knocking out Andrew Jackson who was, according to Bernanke, “a man of many unattractive qualities and a poor president.” But this will be tough. Jackson was a real egalitarian president and such a switch might be hard for the liberals to stomach--despite his Indian Wars history. If sampling the American population becomes the means for making decisions like this, we could become a peculiar looking culture.
Since retiring in 2014, former Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals running back Rashard Mendenhall, who made more than $13.8 million during his six-year career, joined the Writers Guild of America and worked as a writer on the first season of HBO's "Ballers."
The Clintons, the first couple of American liberalism, reported income of $139 million in their hardship years from 2007-2014. That’s a tad more than most of the “everyday Americans” whom Mrs. Clinton claims to speak for, which may explain why an accompanying press release stressed that she and Bill had given $14,959,450 to charity. Charity. Her charity of choice was her own family. The couple donated all but $200,000 of their gifts since 2007 to the Clinton Family Foundation which promotes the family’s political ambitions and public profile. It spends an outsized portion of its money, for instance, picking up the travel and other expenses for the whole family. And, AND, they deduct it. They deduct it!
Anne Lamont on writing. Or maybe living: Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"
Re-watched "Da Vinci Code." It is a fun story but it is amazingly offensive to any thinking person--certainly in the same pathological genre as Oliver Stone's "JFK"--and from a religious slant it is absolutely criminal.
The pivotal "feminine" St. John in the Last Supper was a common stylized way of handling young men at the time, from the Florentine school.
Richard A. Clarke was National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism for the United States. He served for Reagan, both Bushes, and Clinton. He wrote Against All Enemies about his work, then several fiction books, the best known Scorpion's Gate. He became famous for being critical of the second Bush. Recently he was interviewed and said the recent China hack was more important and dangerous than Snowden. He called it "criminal negligence."
Oscar Wilde's central character in The Portrait of Dorian Gray was named for John Gray, a twenty-five year-old post office employee and budding poet described by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the more abject of Wilde's disciples." He was spectacularly replaced by Lord Alfred Douglas, who would become Wilde's most famous and fatal attraction. Not only was Douglas younger, richer and better looking than Gray, but having been given Dorian Gray by a mutual friend, he had read it "fourteen times running." By June of 1891 he had contrived his first meeting with the author; by June of 1896 their relationship would have Wilde behind bars; by June of 1900 Wilde would be in the last months of disgrace, exile and life, deserted by even Douglas.
Speaking of homosexuality, Friedrich Wilhelm Steuben was a crucial part of the American Revolution. He is credited with being one of the fathers of the Continental Army, teaching them the essentials of military drills, tactics, and disciplines. He wrote the book that served as the standard drill manual for the U.S. until the War of 1812. He served as General Washington's Chief of Staff in the final years of the war.
Like many European military, he was looking for work. There had been allegations that he engaged in improper relationships while in the service of Prince Josef Friedrich Wilhelm of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. The allegations were never proven, but Von Steuben knew they would stymie his chances at an officer’s position in Europe. He met Franklin in Paris but the Americans were tired of European mercenaries with their demands for pay and elevated rank. He eventually found his way to Gen. Washington. Rumors followed him from Prussia to America, but there never was an investigation and he received a Congressional pension after the war.
Towards the end of his life, Steuben indicated that "an inconsiderate step and an implacable personal enemy" led to his leaving the army.
Is Narnia a fantasy or a refined prediction of the Multiverse?
People all over the globe are coming to expect emotional and intellectual comfort as though it were a right. This is precisely what you would expect when you train a generation to believe that they have a right not to be offended. Eventually, they stop demanding freedom of speech and start demanding freedom from speech...Weak ideas always grasp for the censor in the face of sustained criticism—and feeble ideas made strong by politics are the most dangerous of all. Humanitarians with guillotines can be found from the French Revolution to present day..--Greg Lukianoff
AAAAAAaaaaannnnndddddd......a picture of the Andromeda galaxy:
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