Republics are created by ideals and preserved by process.--Aleric Phlogiston
According to the latest data from the DEA, death from prescription drugs (7.2 per 100,000) is twice as common as gun homicides. So, before we ban guns, let's ban pharmaceuticals.
At the time of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, slaves were 40 percent of the population of southern colonies. Apportionment in the House of Representatives and the number of electoral votes each state would have in presidential elections would be based on population. Southern colonies wanted slaves to be counted as one person. Northern delegates to the convention, and those opposed to slavery, wanted to count only free residents of each state for the purposes of apportionment in the House and the Electoral College. The compromise reached was that each slave would be counted as three-fifths of a person. If the convention delegates had not reached that compromise, the Constitution would have not been ratified and there would not have been a Union.--Walter Williams
Seahawks wide receiver Ricardo Lockette had surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas to stabilize ligament damage in his neck that he sustained during a collision in Sunday's game against the Cowboys. The hit looked legal and that is the real problem for football: The legal danger and violence is much of its appeal.
As reported in The Hill: Dave Walker, who headed the Government Accountability Office (GAO) under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, said when you add up all of the nation's unfunded liabilities, the national debt is more than three times the number generally advertised. "If you end up adding to that $18.5 trillion the unfunded civilian and military pensions and retiree healthcare, the additional underfunding for Social Security, the additional underfunding for Medicare, various commitments and contingencies that the federal government has, the real number is about $65 trillion rather than $18 trillion, and it's growing automatically absent reforms," Walker told host John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable" on New York's AM-970 in an interview airing Sunday. He said Americans have "lost touch with reality" when it comes to spending.
As Financial Times reports, "some of the European Central Bank's top decision-makers met banks and asset managers days before major policy decisions, and on one occasion just hours before, copies of their diaries reveal." Probably just talking soccer.
Who is...James Burnham?
News on Valeant: Warren Buffett's right hand man Charlie Munger in an interview with Bloomberg "tore anew into the besieged drug company, calling its practice of acquiring rights to treatments and boosting prices legal but "deeply immoral" and "similar to the worst abuses in for-profit education." And to prove just how much clout Munger does indeed have, moments ago the most important Wall Street bank, Goldman Sachs, downgraded Valeant to Neutral from Buy, cutting its share price target from $180 to $122. They probably shorted it first.
Since the nuclear deal was signed in July, Iran has tested a nuclear-capable ballistic missile, in violation of a UN Security Council resolution, freed high-ranking Al Qaeda prisoners (including the former interim head of the global terrorism network), arrested American-Iranian businessman Siamak Namazi, and convicted and sentenced the WashPo's Jason Rezaian in a secret court.
In what part of the world is the situation better for America than it was when Barack Obama became president and Hillary Clinton became secretary of state? If you want an easier question, in what part of the world is the situation worse?--Sowell
In 1859, the Pennsylvania-born Dr. James Curtis Hepburn went to Japan as a medical missionary. Hepburn had already spent five years as missionary in Singapore and China. He also tried a medical practice in New York City for several years, but ultimately lived in Japan for 25 years, where he established a clinic and a school in Yokohama. Aside from these achievements, Hepburn also created, in 1867, the first modern Japanese-English dictionary. The dictionary took him nearly eight years to complete, with the assistance of Japanese journalist and scholar Kishida Ginkō. It became the standard bilingual reference book, and Hepburn's name became attached to the system of romanization he pioneered in the dictionary. What linguists call the "Hepburn romanization" is still regarded as the best system for the transcription of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet.
Panglossian: adj: 1. characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity. Panglossian is derived from the name of a character in Voltaire's Candide, Dr. Pangloss, who believes that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds."
A newspaper recently wrote that 6 people a day were dying in Pennsylvania from drug overdose.
Over all, drug overdoses now cause more deaths than car crashes, with opioids like OxyContin and heroin killing 44 people a day nationally.
Golden oldie:
A mass extinction called the Hangenberg event, which took place some 359 million years ago, led to a reduction in vertebrate size for around 40 million years afterward. The research, published Thursday in Science, adds support to the so-called Lilliput Effect, which suggests that mass extinctions cause marked shrinkage in the animal population. Before the extinction, some fish had grown to be as big as school buses. But in the unstable ecosystem of a post-mass-extinction ocean, only small fish - ones that could reproduce quickly and survive on less food - could thrive.
Humorism, or humoralism, is a now discredited (but historically important) theory of the makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers, positing that an excess or deficiency of any of four distinct bodily fluids in a person directly influences their temperament and health. From Hippocrates onward, the humoral theory was adopted by Greek, Roman and Islamic physicians, and became the most commonly held view of the human body among European physicians until the advent of modern medical research in the nineteenth century.
The four humors of Hippocratic medicine are black bile (Gk. melan chole), yellow bile (Gk. chole), phlegm (Gk. phlegma), and blood (Gk. haima), and each corresponds to one of the traditional four temperaments.
Hillary Clinton first made the claim in 1994, that she once tried to join the Marines in 1975. Then-reporter Maureen Dowd, was highly skeptical and wrote this account:
"At the time, Hillary Rodham was an up-and-coming legal star involved with an up-and-coming political star."
"She had made a celebrated appearance in Life magazine as an anti-establishment commencement speaker at Wellesley College, where, as president of the student government, she had organized teach-ins on her opposition to the Vietnam War."
"She was a Yale law school graduate who had worked on the anti-war Presidential campaigns of Eugene J. McCarthy and George McGovern."
"Mrs. Clinton told friends that she had moved to Arkansas for only one reason: to be with Bill Clinton."
The Clintons married on Oct. 11, 1975, in Fayetteville.
A good line from Will: If you believe, as progressives do, that human nature is not fixed, and hence is not a basis for understanding natural rights. And if you believe, as progressives do, that human beings are soft wax who receive their shape from the society that government shapes. And if you believe, as progressives do, that people receive their rights from the shaping government. And if you believe, as progressives do, that people are the sum of the social promptings they experience. Then it will seem sensible for government, including a university's administration, to guarantee not freedom of speech but freedom from speech. From, that is, speech that might prompt its hearers to develop ideas inimical to progress, and that might violate the universal entitlement to perpetual serenity.
AAAAAaaaaaaannnnnnddddddddd.......... a chart of the four humors, their corresponding elements, seasons, sites of formation, and resulting temperaments alongside their modern equivalents:
Seahawks wide receiver Ricardo Lockette had surgery at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas to stabilize ligament damage in his neck that he sustained during a collision in Sunday's game against the Cowboys. The hit looked legal and that is the real problem for football: The legal danger and violence is much of its appeal.
As reported in The Hill: Dave Walker, who headed the Government Accountability Office (GAO) under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, said when you add up all of the nation's unfunded liabilities, the national debt is more than three times the number generally advertised. "If you end up adding to that $18.5 trillion the unfunded civilian and military pensions and retiree healthcare, the additional underfunding for Social Security, the additional underfunding for Medicare, various commitments and contingencies that the federal government has, the real number is about $65 trillion rather than $18 trillion, and it's growing automatically absent reforms," Walker told host John Catsimatidis on "The Cats Roundtable" on New York's AM-970 in an interview airing Sunday. He said Americans have "lost touch with reality" when it comes to spending.
As Financial Times reports, "some of the European Central Bank's top decision-makers met banks and asset managers days before major policy decisions, and on one occasion just hours before, copies of their diaries reveal." Probably just talking soccer.
Who is...James Burnham?
News on Valeant: Warren Buffett's right hand man Charlie Munger in an interview with Bloomberg "tore anew into the besieged drug company, calling its practice of acquiring rights to treatments and boosting prices legal but "deeply immoral" and "similar to the worst abuses in for-profit education." And to prove just how much clout Munger does indeed have, moments ago the most important Wall Street bank, Goldman Sachs, downgraded Valeant to Neutral from Buy, cutting its share price target from $180 to $122. They probably shorted it first.
Since the nuclear deal was signed in July, Iran has tested a nuclear-capable ballistic missile, in violation of a UN Security Council resolution, freed high-ranking Al Qaeda prisoners (including the former interim head of the global terrorism network), arrested American-Iranian businessman Siamak Namazi, and convicted and sentenced the WashPo's Jason Rezaian in a secret court.
In what part of the world is the situation better for America than it was when Barack Obama became president and Hillary Clinton became secretary of state? If you want an easier question, in what part of the world is the situation worse?--Sowell
In 1859, the Pennsylvania-born Dr. James Curtis Hepburn went to Japan as a medical missionary. Hepburn had already spent five years as missionary in Singapore and China. He also tried a medical practice in New York City for several years, but ultimately lived in Japan for 25 years, where he established a clinic and a school in Yokohama. Aside from these achievements, Hepburn also created, in 1867, the first modern Japanese-English dictionary. The dictionary took him nearly eight years to complete, with the assistance of Japanese journalist and scholar Kishida Ginkō. It became the standard bilingual reference book, and Hepburn's name became attached to the system of romanization he pioneered in the dictionary. What linguists call the "Hepburn romanization" is still regarded as the best system for the transcription of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet.
Panglossian: adj: 1. characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity. Panglossian is derived from the name of a character in Voltaire's Candide, Dr. Pangloss, who believes that "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds."
A newspaper recently wrote that 6 people a day were dying in Pennsylvania from drug overdose.
Over all, drug overdoses now cause more deaths than car crashes, with opioids like OxyContin and heroin killing 44 people a day nationally.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2012/07/single-point-on-long-line.html
In his 1964 "Suicide of the West" James Burnham predicted that the magnanimity of liberals, who subordinate the interests of their own people and nations to utopian and altruistic impulses, would bring about an end to Western civilization.
In his 1964 "Suicide of the West" James Burnham predicted that the magnanimity of liberals, who subordinate the interests of their own people and nations to utopian and altruistic impulses, would bring about an end to Western civilization.
A mass extinction called the Hangenberg event, which took place some 359 million years ago, led to a reduction in vertebrate size for around 40 million years afterward. The research, published Thursday in Science, adds support to the so-called Lilliput Effect, which suggests that mass extinctions cause marked shrinkage in the animal population. Before the extinction, some fish had grown to be as big as school buses. But in the unstable ecosystem of a post-mass-extinction ocean, only small fish - ones that could reproduce quickly and survive on less food - could thrive.
Humorism, or humoralism, is a now discredited (but historically important) theory of the makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Ancient Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers, positing that an excess or deficiency of any of four distinct bodily fluids in a person directly influences their temperament and health. From Hippocrates onward, the humoral theory was adopted by Greek, Roman and Islamic physicians, and became the most commonly held view of the human body among European physicians until the advent of modern medical research in the nineteenth century.
The four humors of Hippocratic medicine are black bile (Gk. melan chole), yellow bile (Gk. chole), phlegm (Gk. phlegma), and blood (Gk. haima), and each corresponds to one of the traditional four temperaments.
Hillary Clinton first made the claim in 1994, that she once tried to join the Marines in 1975. Then-reporter Maureen Dowd, was highly skeptical and wrote this account:
If words continued with their original meanings, doctors would only teach (from Latin docere: to teach), auditors would only hear (Latin audire: to hear), and janitors would only guard the entrances (Latin janus: doorway).
A good line from Will: If you believe, as progressives do, that human nature is not fixed, and hence is not a basis for understanding natural rights. And if you believe, as progressives do, that human beings are soft wax who receive their shape from the society that government shapes. And if you believe, as progressives do, that people receive their rights from the shaping government. And if you believe, as progressives do, that people are the sum of the social promptings they experience. Then it will seem sensible for government, including a university's administration, to guarantee not freedom of speech but freedom from speech. From, that is, speech that might prompt its hearers to develop ideas inimical to progress, and that might violate the universal entitlement to perpetual serenity.
AAAAAaaaaaaannnnnnddddddddd.......... a chart of the four humors, their corresponding elements, seasons, sites of formation, and resulting temperaments alongside their modern equivalents:
| Humour | Season | Element | Organ | Qualities | Ancient name | Modern | MBTI | Ancient characteristics |
| Blood | spring | air | liver | warm & moist | sanguine | artisan | SP | courageous, hopeful, amorous |
| Yellow bile | summer | fire | spleen | warm & dry | choleric | idealist | NF | easily angered, bad tempered |
| Black bile | autumn | earth | gall bladder | cold & dry | melancholic | guardian | SJ | despondent, sleepless, irritable |
| Phlegm | winter | water | brain/lungs | cold & moist | phlegmatic | rational | NT | calm, unemotional |
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