Archive for October, 2007
News Brief, Happy Belated Power Bottom Appreciation Day Edition
Joshua Foust on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Economics, Foreign affairs, Glenn Greenwald's Carnival of Fisking, Military Matters
Cross-posted on The Conjecturer
Defense & The War
Infamous mercenary Tim Spicer, who runs the infamous paramilitary organization Aegis (née Sandline) might take over Blackwater’s contract. This is because all State Department convoys are being placed under DoD command, and Aegis runs the Regional Operations Centers that would handle this coordination. Given horrors like Spicer’s attempted coup […]
Lance on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
From boils to flatulence.
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Lance on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Economics, Lance's Page
Absolutely mind boggling:
Both the House bill, which was passed in July, and the Senate version, which could be voted on as early as this week, guarantee that the government will buy from American farmers an amount of sugar equivalent to 85 percent of domestic consumption — regardless of how much comes in from abroad. To […]
Lance on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Heh. Of course there is some evidence these tactics might work.
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Keith_Indy on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Culture, Domestic Politics, Education, Keith's Page
I found this post very apt to a situation we’ve highlighted here on this blog. I’ve noticed this time and time again, and have shut off even trying to change minds when I encounter this behavior. Best to point it out, and move on. You know, really move on, not moving on […]
Global Warming = California Wildfires
Keith_Indy on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Culture, Domestic Politics, Environment, Keith's Page
So says Harry Reid and other environmentalists, so it must be true. No doubt they have checked with everyone who agrees with them and they have a consensus about it.
So, what caused them way back when…
If there was a “worst fire season” in the last century or so, Berlant said, it would probably be […]
Lance on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Time can’t seem to check out stories which on their face are improbable. Here is more. You would think Franklin Foer’s troubles might make people double check possible, but highly unlikely stories.
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MichaelW on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Glenn Greenwald's Carnival of Fisking, Humor, MichaelW's Page
The hits just keep on rollin’. It seems that the Boi from Brazil (you know the one who wrote that outstanding bestseller “How Would A Patriot Act?” — apparently they move to another country) has noticed little ole us in his latest diatribe. Take it away Glenn!:
For those reasons [the ones detailed in […]
Reconciliation in Iraq - II
Keith_Indy on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Keith's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war
The surge was meant to reduce violence so that there was breathing space for reconciliation. Well, as most will admit now, the surge has reduced violence. Whether that is a short-term, or a long-term shift, remains to be seen. Many people have pointed out that if all we (supporters) are talking about […]
Definitional Racism — Generation Indoctrination
MichaelW on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: MichaelW's Page
Last week I noted some rather disturbing lessons being taught at Little Rock Central High School. My main point was that pitting kids against one another based on race is not only antithetical to the aims of the Civil Rights Movement, it is also counterproductive. But these sorts of educational problems didn’t begin […]
MichaelW on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Calculators and empirical evidence the only things safe from his penetrating mind rays.
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Joshua Foust on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Military Matters, Notes on the war
Cross-posted on The Conjecturer
Defense & the War
I am normally sympathetic to entries that are mocking Glenn Greenwald. However, I have to lend him at least some credence here—he is, after all, in the curious position of being the recipient of acrimonious emails (regardless their relative merit, or if emails sent from .mil domains can be […]
Lance on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lance's Page
Over at Bob From Brockley’s place I came across this:
Eric Lee of LabourStart writes:
As many of you will be aware, jailed Iranian labour activist Mansour Osanloo faced the loss of vision in one eye while the regime refused him medical treatment. A massive online campaign involving Amnesty International, the International Transport Workers Federation, and […]
Lance on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
To Buck Sargent.
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These Old Hands
Lance on Oct 31 2007 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Humor, Lance's Page
Many people suggest that we should listen to the wise council of the International Relations experts rather than ideologues who don’t understand how things work. I will not deny that is possibly usually true, but my own experience is that it is not necessarily true.
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Who Said It?
MichaelW on Oct 30 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Election 2008, MichaelW's Page
Can you guess who said the following? (answer after the jump):
“I am not interested in being the candidate of Wall Street but of Main Street,” he says. “CEOs get paid 500 times what the average worker does, but they are not necessarily 500 times smarter or harder-working, and that is wrong.”
A. Dennis Kucinich
B. […]
Ethics and Journalism
Keith_Indy on Oct 30 2007 | Filed under: Keith's Page, Media, Society
Now, don’t laugh, there are standards by which they are supposed to conduct themselves, at the least, professionally.
From the Society of Professional Journalists (based here in Indianapolis,) we have these standards:
Seek Truth and Report It
Journalists should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.
Minimize Harm
Ethical journalists treat sources, subjects and colleagues as […]
Milton Friedman and Phil Donahue
Lance on Oct 30 2007 | Filed under: Economics, Lance's Page, Libertarianism, Media
From the Liberty Papers:
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Lance on Oct 30 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
The Institute for Justice continues its work and breaks the taxi cab cartel in Minneapolis.
H/T: Doug Mataconis
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Reconciliation Happening in Iraq
Keith_Indy on Oct 30 2007 | Filed under: Military Matters, Notes on the war
Well, really, it’s been happening, just not on the front pages of the MSM.
I don’t know what people are expecting, a grand national conference where everyone agrees to put down all their difference, and then from that day forward they only work for the good of the nation as a whole, and not […]
Lance on Oct 30 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
Brian Doherty accepts the possibility of victory, however defined, and then goes on to argue that that still does not make the invasion a good idea. I have some quibbles, but for the most part he is right. While he makes some trenchant arguments against taking positive lessons from Iraq, his answer for how we […]
Murtha’s pork getting more and more scrutiny
Lance on Oct 30 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Lance's Page
In the pantheon of pork infused corruption we have seen iconic figures such as Don Young and Ted Stevens feel some heat recently, and now one of the kings of pork may find himself facing increased scrutiny, legal and otherwise, John Murtha. He is a man with an unmatched talent in recent years for gorging […]
Keith_Indy on Oct 30 2007 | Filed under: Culture, Glenn Greenwald's Carnival of Fisking, Keith's Page, Media, Military Matters
How can anyone read Glenn Greenwald prattling on about how picked on he feels by the VRWC?? And remain so slavishly loyal to him as to defend his own behavior.
If his point is the supposed politicization of the military, then he’s certainly getting off the track by making the issue about Boylan and his […]
I had to pull a post I was about to publish because the news has changed
Lance on Oct 29 2007 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lance's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war
Luckily it is good news! I am sure most of you read about the 11 tribal leaders kidnapped in Baghdad. Frankly, I figured they were toast. What is interesting is that they were kidnapped by Shiites and identified as Shiites by…Shiites!
Hadi al-Anbaki, a spokesman for the mostly Shiite council, said the attack was carried […]
Lance on Oct 29 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Krugman talking about Iran and 9/11.
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Keith_Indy on Oct 29 2007 | Filed under: Glenn Greenwald's Carnival of Fisking, Keith's Page, Media, Military Matters
Gleenwald sure is going to a lot of trouble to play the victim…
His latest update on the possibility that a member of the US Military is not treating him with all the respect due to a member of the professional press (aside: I thought bloggers were all a bunch of pajama’s wearing cretins?)
On a different […]
Lance on Oct 29 2007 | Filed under: Around the Web
Bob Owens addresses some of the silly arguments supporting The New Republic, though fisking Tim Rutten is almost unfair. Patterico is less than impressed as well.
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Lance on Oct 29 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Foreign affairs, Glenn Greenwald's Carnival of Fisking, Lance's Page, Military Matters, Notes on the war
I was over at Patterico’s this evening and what do I see?
I swear I’m not making this up:
If you are well-versed in analyzing IP addresses, email headers and the like, please email me ([email protected]).
If you don’t get the irony, you must not have read this.
Of course for those who chuckle over the paranoid conspiracy theorists […]
Lance on Oct 28 2007 | Filed under: Lance's Page
One of the irritating aspects of the debate over treatment of detainees has been the abuse, imprecision and what seems purposeful vagueness on the meaning of the word torture. I have been inclined to accept the notion that waterboarding is torture. I am questioning that. Given what I have seen of it I question if […]
Mukasey on trial
Lance on Oct 28 2007 | Filed under: Domestic Politics, Lance's Page, Notes on the war
Over waterboarding. The question he has not or will not answer is, “is it legal.” Captain Ed takes this question on:
And here is the core of the silliness in this standoff. Here we have Congress, as represented by the Judiciary Committee, demanding that an AG candidate declare a specific act illegal. They have it completely […]
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