"As the saying goes, if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Community organizers like Huerta don't teach anyone how to fish: they teach activists how to steal their neighbors' fish. This is what Huerta and her ilk call social justice." --Matthew Vadum
A different slant on the terrorist death cult: Essential to our modernity and prosperity is our open and competitive global commerce. It's easy to imagine how very poor you and your family would be if you traded only with people who live in your immediate neighborhood. You'd also be much poorer if you traded only with your co-religionists, or only with people whose native language is English, or only with other Americans.
A different slant on the terrorist death cult: Essential to our modernity and prosperity is our open and competitive global commerce. It's easy to imagine how very poor you and your family would be if you traded only with people who live in your immediate neighborhood. You'd also be much poorer if you traded only with your co-religionists, or only with people whose native language is English, or only with other Americans.
This reality is no small matter. Being poorer doesn't mean only that you take less-pricey vacations, that you dine at restaurants less often, and that you buy one or two fewer new shirts or pairs of earrings each year. Being poorer means also that you have less leisure time to enjoy with family and friends.
In short, being materially poorer would not only narrow our access to material things; it would also impoverish us culturally and spiritually.--Bourdeaux
Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth, only 11 million light-years distant. Spanning over 60,000 light-years, the elliptical galaxy is also known as NGC 5128. Forged in a collision of two otherwise normal galaxies, Centaurus A is a jumble of young blue star clusters, pinkish star forming regions, and imposing dark dust lanes. Near the galaxy's center, left over cosmic debris is steadily being consumed by a central black hole with a billion times the mass of the Sun. A billion times the mass of the Sun!
When the terrorists stormed the Paris venue where Eagles of Death Metal were performing, the song the band was playing was "Kiss the Devil". The lyrics?
Who'll love the Devil? Who'll song his song?Who will love the Devil and his song?
I'll love the Devil, I'll sing his song, I will love the Devil and his song
Who'll love the Devil? Who'll kiss his tongue?Who will kiss the Devil on his tongue?
I'll love the Devil, I'll kiss his tongue I will kiss the Devil on his tongue
Who'll love the Devil? Who'll sing his song? I will love the Devil and his song
Who'll love the Devil? Who'll kiss his tongue?I will kiss the Devil on his tongue
Who'll love the Devil? Who'll sing his song? I will love the Devil and sing his song
.....Maybe not the song to placate a fundamentalist Muslim.
Early Roman women were forbidden to drink wine, and a husband who found his wife drinking was at liberty to kill her. Divorce on the same grounds was last recorded in Rome in 194 B.C.
Some a-words form a close-knit group: abed, abreast, aflame, asleep; afresh, anew, and so forth. They are made up of the prefix a (the remainder of the prepositions on or of), followed, as a general rule, by an easily recognizable noun or adjective. None of them can be used attributively: the man is asleep is fine, while an asleep man is impossible. However, not all a-words are equally transparent. Afraid is the past participle of the verb affray; agog is probably an adaptation of Old French en gogues “in (the state of) merriment”; the evidently foreign source of askance, as The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology informs us “has been much disputed [and] remains unknown”; akimbo may be a continuation of a Scandinavian three-word phrase meaning “bent in a curve”; abaft is also the sum of three words (for -baft is b- + -aft, whose modern reflexes are by and aft[er]); aback, originally a nautical term, like abaft, acquired its figurative meaning, unconnected with the sails of a ship being laid back against the mast by a headwind, only in the 19th century (to take someone aback), and ajar is obscure despite the existence of its alleged source on char, that is, “(on the) turn open.” Abroad is a- + broad, but one wonders why it means “in foreign lands” if it traces back to the unattested phrase on brede (brede “breadth”).--From Anatoly Liberman
In October 2008, Congress raised the debt limit to $11.3 trillion. Then presidential candidate Barack Obama denounced the action as “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic.” He just says these things.
Interesting proposal by Obama, ostensibly to raise the pay of workers who work overtime. Although some of the public commentary on this proposal asserts that it will raise the annual incomes of the affected workers, the proposal itself argues that the principal effect of forcing workers to charge 1.5X overtime will not be to increase these workers’ incomes but, instead, to incite these workers’ employers to hire other workers to perform the tasks that were previously performed by the affected workers when they worked more than 40 hours weekly. Quoting page 14 of the proposal: “The first [objective of the proposal] is to spread employment by incentivizing employers to hire more employees rather than requiring existing employees to work longer hours, thereby reducing involuntary unemployment.” So how does this translate to minimum wage thinking? And what is the government doing setting any wage or any price?
Who is.....Daguerre?
U.S. archaeologists in Greece have uncovered the skeleton of an ancient warrior that has lain undisturbed for more than 3,500 years along with a huge hoard of treasure, the Greek culture ministry announced. The treasure is "the most important to have been discovered in 65 years" in continental Greece, the ministry said. The wooden coffin of the unknown soldier -- evidently a person of some importance -- was found on the site of the Mycenaean-era Palace of Nestor on Greece's Peloponnese peninsula. It was built between 1300 and 1200 BC; the palace's ruins were discovered in 1939.
When he turned 50, Einstein granted an interview in which he was asked point-blank, do you believe in God? “I am not an atheist,” he began. “The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds."
Our Nig is a novel, an autobiographical slave narrative of an indentured mulatto servant girl in Pre-Civil War New England. It is a tragic tale of racism in her employers and her neighbors. It was written to awaken the public to racism in the northern States before the War. The author was originally thought to be white. From the cover: This 1859 Book "Is Considered The First Novel Published By An African-American Woman On The North American Continent." " The Author, Harriet Wilson (1825-1900, Is Considered The First Female African-American Novelist To Publish A Novel." "This Novel Was Published Anonymously In Boston In 1859 And Was Not Widely Known."
Golden oldie:
Some 96 foreign hostages were taken and held during the Lebanon hostage crisis between 1982 and 1992. The victims were mostly from Western countries, and mostly journalists, diplomats or teachers.Twenty-five of them were Americans. At least 10 hostages died in captivity. Some were murdered and others died from lack of adequate medical attention to illnesses.
The hostages were originally taken to serve as insurance against retaliation against Hezbollah, which was thought to be responsible for the killing of over 300 Americans in the Marine barracks and embassy bombings in Beirut. It was widely believed that Iran and Syria also played a role in the kidnappings.
Tesla spoke eight languages: Serbian, English, Czech, German, French, Hungarian, Italian and Latin.
Ireland plans to decriminalize small amounts of heroin, cocaine and marijuana. An officially sanctioned "shooting gallery" is also coming to Dublin by early 2016, said Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, the chief of National Drugs Strategy on Monday, according to the Independent. Subsequent “supervised injecting rooms” will follow in Cork, Galway and Limerick. In a speech on Monday, Ó Ríordáin said that drug treatment needed to move away from shame and criminalization. While taking drugs won’t be seen as criminal, profiting from their sale or distribution will remain punishable by law. So we will judge no behavior--but we will judge profit from it.
The City of Angels Camp held the first modern frog jump in 1928. It became part of the annual Fair in the 1930's. The Top 50 frogs qualify for the International Frog Jump Grand Finals, which are held every Sunday afternoon of the Jubilee. The current world's record was set in 1986 by Rosie the Ribeter. Rosie jumped 21' 53/4". The cash prize for breaking the world's record is $5,000. Professional Frog Teams travel from all over the state to compete. The Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee is held the 3rd weekend every May. The Jubilee starts with a children's parade in downtown Angels Camp and ends with a Destruction Derby on Sunday evening.
Mark Twain lived in a cabin south of Angels Camp. Legend has it that Twain overheard a story in a local tavern that insprired his first published work, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".
Daguerre was a French inventor who devised one of the first practical photographic processes—the daguerreotype. He, in collaboration with Nicéphore Niépce, found that a permanent image could be formed on a silver iodide-coated copper plate if it was exposed to light, then fumed with mercury vapor and fixed by a solution of common salt. His daguerreotype process was announced in 1839 at the Academy of Sciences. As the imprint required long exposure, the technique was used mostly for portraits. (This also led to a rather startling side effect: If you did a portrait of a person in normal surroundings, anything that moved was missed so, for example, street scenes showed the subject on an empty street.)
AAAaaaaaaannnnnndddddddd........a composite of image data from space- and ground-based telescopes of Centaurus A:
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