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This is a disequilibrium situation seeking correction. The pressure is palpable.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Expect Biden to fundraise on government shutdown in 3...2...
That was a tweet I read last night, something very close to that, and I thought in the moment, "Yeah, the bum."
But wait.
I bet tea party fundraises on it too. They would anyway, they would fundraise on everything. And so they have just now fundraised on this shutdown. And why wouldn't Biden? Come to think of it, why wouldn't any Democrat or any Republican? They will all say the same or similar thing.
I feel my nation played. Played like a ukulele.
And an accordion. And a drum kit. And a saxophone. A bagpipe.
The noisy instruments. For some odd reason this reminds me of a story I just now found on my laptop, Blinding of Truth by Falsehood.
He actually blinds him. The whole thing is odd because Truth is usually personified by Maat and this story diverges from the norm and makes Truth a male in conflict with his brother, in the end neither is vanquished, rather, the situation ends in balance, unsatisfactory, but very, oh well, Egyptian.
Falsehood wants to kill his brother Truth so he goes before the nine gods the so-called Ennead and told them a big fat lie about his brother stealing a blade, a ridiculously described blade that shows that the Ennead is none too familiar with the material world, a mountain forms the blade, a woods form the haft, the god's tombs form the scabbard and a herd forms the belt, the whole thing is epic, he claims Truth stole that blade and must be blinded for punishment, they do, he is blinded and the story develops about how Truth's son eventually has vengeance.
Blinding is just the first part, Falsehood tries to kill Truth and believes he is successful and that Truth is dead. But Truth lives and had a son.
At the critical point of discovery, the boy asks his mother who is his father because all the lads are making fun of him for not having one even though he excels in every way imaginable, a real stud this kid, masters all subjects and an excellent athlete, his mother says, "see that blind guy over there watching the door? That's your dad."
Here is were we lose something in the translation. This is not so clear.
Then he said to her, "You deserve the members of your family be gathered together and a crocodile be summoned."
What does that even mean? Chaos would be the hippopotamus, their crocodile is of two types, curved tail and straight tail, In hieroglyphics, the curved tail does mean gather. The straight tail is determinative for crocodile. The word for crocodile is m-s-h mesh, and s-b-k sobek is the word for crocodile god.
The text is in demotic badly smudged, rubrics unintelligibly faded, lacuna all over the place. Basically smeared wiggly lines. I'm amazed anyone can make sense of any of it.
Even in demotic, you'd think a crocodile will stick right out, that your eye can go straight to it, but no. Even with all three translations, demotic, hieroglyphic, English, one cannot match them up so easily. Even with rubrics, they do not match. As if they are not saying the same thing.
I discovered a copy in hieroglyphics yesterday on my computer and wondered why I would have such a thing on this little laptop. I did not download that but it is just the sort of thing I'd go for. There is no point in transcribing demotic into hieroglyphics, that would be silly, except for etude and I didn't sign up for a study group for this. I think it came as part of JSesh program library or addendum to a dictionary.
The crocodile is there in the text but disappointingly tiny. You can hardly see it at all. The font does that. Ordinarily it would be big and it would end a line or a register. [Just like 'baby' and "song" and "lullaby," in the Beatles Golden Slumber in asl you cannot slap a baby around like that so they must be changed when used together.]
Locating the crocodile, bringing the family together with its tail would stick out in pictures if painted on a wall, is what made me think of these two things together. These politicians do inform us of their Parliamentarian machinations and leave it to us to figure out which outrageous 12-sided dice-rolling Dungeons and Dragons playing geek is truth and which is falsehood, all the while all of them and their freshly minted opposition too fundraising on it. Over an dover.
The ancient story frankly sucks, it is disappointing. You're hoping for some ancient insight but there is none worthwhile. Truth is blinded by Falsehood, son of Truth blinds Falsehood in revenge. Now Truth and Falsehood both watch doors, blindly.
But wait.
I bet tea party fundraises on it too. They would anyway, they would fundraise on everything. And so they have just now fundraised on this shutdown. And why wouldn't Biden? Come to think of it, why wouldn't any Democrat or any Republican? They will all say the same or similar thing.
I feel my nation played. Played like a ukulele.
And an accordion. And a drum kit. And a saxophone. A bagpipe.
The noisy instruments. For some odd reason this reminds me of a story I just now found on my laptop, Blinding of Truth by Falsehood.
He actually blinds him. The whole thing is odd because Truth is usually personified by Maat and this story diverges from the norm and makes Truth a male in conflict with his brother, in the end neither is vanquished, rather, the situation ends in balance, unsatisfactory, but very, oh well, Egyptian.
Falsehood wants to kill his brother Truth so he goes before the nine gods the so-called Ennead and told them a big fat lie about his brother stealing a blade, a ridiculously described blade that shows that the Ennead is none too familiar with the material world, a mountain forms the blade, a woods form the haft, the god's tombs form the scabbard and a herd forms the belt, the whole thing is epic, he claims Truth stole that blade and must be blinded for punishment, they do, he is blinded and the story develops about how Truth's son eventually has vengeance.
Blinding is just the first part, Falsehood tries to kill Truth and believes he is successful and that Truth is dead. But Truth lives and had a son.
At the critical point of discovery, the boy asks his mother who is his father because all the lads are making fun of him for not having one even though he excels in every way imaginable, a real stud this kid, masters all subjects and an excellent athlete, his mother says, "see that blind guy over there watching the door? That's your dad."
Here is were we lose something in the translation. This is not so clear.
Then he said to her, "You deserve the members of your family be gathered together and a crocodile be summoned."
What does that even mean? Chaos would be the hippopotamus, their crocodile is of two types, curved tail and straight tail, In hieroglyphics, the curved tail does mean gather. The straight tail is determinative for crocodile. The word for crocodile is m-s-h mesh, and s-b-k sobek is the word for crocodile god.
The text is in demotic badly smudged, rubrics unintelligibly faded, lacuna all over the place. Basically smeared wiggly lines. I'm amazed anyone can make sense of any of it.
Even in demotic, you'd think a crocodile will stick right out, that your eye can go straight to it, but no. Even with all three translations, demotic, hieroglyphic, English, one cannot match them up so easily. Even with rubrics, they do not match. As if they are not saying the same thing.
I discovered a copy in hieroglyphics yesterday on my computer and wondered why I would have such a thing on this little laptop. I did not download that but it is just the sort of thing I'd go for. There is no point in transcribing demotic into hieroglyphics, that would be silly, except for etude and I didn't sign up for a study group for this. I think it came as part of JSesh program library or addendum to a dictionary.
The crocodile is there in the text but disappointingly tiny. You can hardly see it at all. The font does that. Ordinarily it would be big and it would end a line or a register. [Just like 'baby' and "song" and "lullaby," in the Beatles Golden Slumber in asl you cannot slap a baby around like that so they must be changed when used together.]
Locating the crocodile, bringing the family together with its tail would stick out in pictures if painted on a wall, is what made me think of these two things together. These politicians do inform us of their Parliamentarian machinations and leave it to us to figure out which outrageous 12-sided dice-rolling Dungeons and Dragons playing geek is truth and which is falsehood, all the while all of them and their freshly minted opposition too fundraising on it. Over an dover.
The ancient story frankly sucks, it is disappointing. You're hoping for some ancient insight but there is none worthwhile. Truth is blinded by Falsehood, son of Truth blinds Falsehood in revenge. Now Truth and Falsehood both watch doors, blindly.
Harvard v. MIT
Top MIT scientist: Newest UN climate report is ‘hilariously’ flawed
MIT has long been at odds with Harvard while the latter still furiously sounds alarms, as exemplified here.
I wonder if the faithful are waiting to proclaim "It Is Risen!"
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Added: Coming soon, roving bands of envirothugs.
'Catch the villain in the act'
"Computer algorithms combine crime statistics and criminal behaviour models to produce ‘predictive areas’ where burglars and muggers are likely to target."
Officers are then deployed to those areas, which cover a radius of no more than 250 yards, to act as a deterrent or even catch the villain in the act."
Analysis suggests the computer algorithms are ‘seven times more accurate than chance’. A pilot scheme saw ‘significant reductions’ in burglaries in Hackney, Wandsworth, Newham and Lewisham."
MailOnline
Officers are then deployed to those areas, which cover a radius of no more than 250 yards, to act as a deterrent or even catch the villain in the act."
Analysis suggests the computer algorithms are ‘seven times more accurate than chance’. A pilot scheme saw ‘significant reductions’ in burglaries in Hackney, Wandsworth, Newham and Lewisham."
MailOnline
"Carlos Danger Got Two Votes For New York City Mayor"
The official New York City Democratic mayoral primary vote count is in. And two people wrote in Anthony Weiner's alter-ego.
According to the New York City Board of Elections, two write-in votes for mayor went to "Carlos Danger," the online name that Anthony Weiner used for explicitly sexual conversations with a woman after he had resigned from Congress.
For some context: Bill Clinton also received two write-in votes for mayor. Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins received one vote. So did Noam Chomsky and former mayor and airport-namesake Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, who has been dead since 1947.
National Journal
According to the New York City Board of Elections, two write-in votes for mayor went to "Carlos Danger," the online name that Anthony Weiner used for explicitly sexual conversations with a woman after he had resigned from Congress.
For some context: Bill Clinton also received two write-in votes for mayor. Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins received one vote. So did Noam Chomsky and former mayor and airport-namesake Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, who has been dead since 1947.
National Journal
"People Occasionally Get A Little Confused"
Sir Patrick Stewart aka "Captain Jean Luc Picard" is so recognizable... Or is he?
What Happens when a fan would rather take a picture of your statue?
“I don’t think (Obama) wants to compromise”
"[S]aid Victor Davis Hanson of the conservative Hoover Institution. “In the past, he’s always done better when he can accuse somebody of some terrible thing and go campaign against them. I think he wants to say that Obamacare is working ... He’ll want this war to continue.”
Democratic strategist Jason Stanford said the latest offer is a sign of GOP weakness, “tacit-ly admitting that they’re not getting what they were going for.”
“The president has said he is not negotiating on this and the House continues to try to negotiate on this,” Stanford said. “I think the government’s going to get shut down and Republicans will initially say, ‘See, this is no big deal.’ The stock market will have another opinion. This will hurt the economy and people will feel it in their 401(k)s.”
The Boston Globe, Bloomberg video, via Intapundit
Democratic strategist Jason Stanford said the latest offer is a sign of GOP weakness, “tacit-ly admitting that they’re not getting what they were going for.”
“The president has said he is not negotiating on this and the House continues to try to negotiate on this,” Stanford said. “I think the government’s going to get shut down and Republicans will initially say, ‘See, this is no big deal.’ The stock market will have another opinion. This will hurt the economy and people will feel it in their 401(k)s.”
The Boston Globe, Bloomberg video, via Intapundit
"Glenn Greenwald working on new NSA revelations"
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- Two American journalists known for their investigations of the United States' government said Saturday they've teamed up to report on the National Security Agency's role in what one called a "U.S. assassination program."
The journalists provided no evidence of the purported U.S. program at the news conference, nor details of who it targeted.
Jeremy Scahill, a contributor to The Nation magazine and the New York Times best-selling author of "Dirty Wars," said he will be working with Glenn Greenwald, the Rio-based journalist who has written stories about U.S. surveillance programs based on documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
For more click here AP
Sunday, September 29, 2013
"Looks good on paper"
"DISGUISED as employees of a gas company, a team of policemen burst into a flat in Beijing on September 1st. Two suspects inside panicked and tossed a plastic bag full of money out of a 15th-floor window. Red hundred-yuan notes worth as much as $50,000 fluttered to the pavement below."
Money raining down on pedestrians was not as bizarre, however, as the racket behind it. China is known for its pirated DVDs and fake designer gear, but these criminals were producing something more intellectual: fake scholarly articles which they sold to academics, and counterfeit versions of existing medical journals in which they sold publication slots."
As China tries to take its seat at the top table of global academia, the criminal underworld has seized on a feature in its research system: the fact that research grants and promotions are awarded on the basis of the number of articles published, not on the quality of the original research. This has fostered an industry of plagiarism, invented research and fake journals that Wuhan University estimated in 2009 was worth $150m, a fivefold increase on just two years earlier."
Chinese scientists are still rewarded for doing good research, and the number of high-quality researchers is increasing. Scientists all round the world also commit fraud. But the Chinese evaluation system is particularly susceptible to it."
Read the rest of the Economist article here.
Ben Goldacre: Battling Bad Science at the jump.
Money raining down on pedestrians was not as bizarre, however, as the racket behind it. China is known for its pirated DVDs and fake designer gear, but these criminals were producing something more intellectual: fake scholarly articles which they sold to academics, and counterfeit versions of existing medical journals in which they sold publication slots."
As China tries to take its seat at the top table of global academia, the criminal underworld has seized on a feature in its research system: the fact that research grants and promotions are awarded on the basis of the number of articles published, not on the quality of the original research. This has fostered an industry of plagiarism, invented research and fake journals that Wuhan University estimated in 2009 was worth $150m, a fivefold increase on just two years earlier."
Chinese scientists are still rewarded for doing good research, and the number of high-quality researchers is increasing. Scientists all round the world also commit fraud. But the Chinese evaluation system is particularly susceptible to it."
Read the rest of the Economist article here.
***
Ben Goldacre: Battling Bad Science at the jump.
"... what's wrong with this picture?"
"The Cambridge University neuropsychiatrist Dr Valerie Voon has recently shown that men who describe themselves as addicted to porn (and who lost relationships because of it) develop changes in the same brain area – the reward centre – that changes in drug addicts. The study, not yet published, is featured next week in the Channel 4 TV show Porn on the Brain. Neurosceptics may argue that pictures of the brain lighting up in addicts tell us nothing new – we already know they are addicted. But they do help: knowing the reward centre is changed explains some porn paradoxes."
A romantic comedy, called Don Jon (2013) , now playing in theaters, is about the life of a young, middle class male who's addicted to pornography. The movie was written, directed and starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
A favorable review ...
Don Jon (2013) Trailer after the jump
In the mid-1990s I, and other psychiatrists, began to notice the following. An adult male, in a happy relationship, being seen for some non-romantic issue, might describe getting curious about porn on the burgeoning internet. Most sites bored him, but he soon noticed several that fascinated him to the point he was craving them. The more he used the porn, the more he wanted to.
Yet, though he craved it, he didn't like it (porn paradox 1). The cravings were so intense, he might feel them while thinking about his computer (paradox 2). The patient would also report that, far from getting more turned on by the idea of sex with his partner, he was less attracted to her (paradox 3). Through porn he acquired new sexual tastes.For the rest of the article click here.
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A romantic comedy, called Don Jon (2013) , now playing in theaters, is about the life of a young, middle class male who's addicted to pornography. The movie was written, directed and starred Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
A favorable review ...
If you can handle the porn, go see this movie, if for nothing else than to experience how very talented Joseph Gordon-Levitt truly is. September 28, 2013 Full Review Jeanne Kaplan, Kaplan vs. KaplanAn unfavorable review ...
Filled with frank conversation and gutter language, mysogynistic with misandry thrown in, it's probably not possible to make a tasteful movie about a subject as distasteful as masturbation, but this movie doesn't even try. September 28, 2013 Full Review Tony Medley Tolucan TimesIs this movie an introduction of porn into the mainstream? Or is the mainstream more porn than anything else?
Don Jon (2013) Trailer after the jump
“Their flag is out of context...”
CHESTER, Va. — Hundreds gathered Saturday in freshly cleared woods along Interstate 95 to celebrate the raising of a Confederate battle flag, an event that stirred strong opposition from those who view the flag as a symbol of division.
Those who attended the raising of the 15-by-15-foot flag from the Army of Northern Virginia said the ceremony was not intended to offend, but to honor the South’s war dead in the Civil War.
“The reason why we’re here is to honor the soldier,” said James Thompson, 50, a North Carolinian now living in Richmond. “We don’t see it as a slavery issue.”
Like many who attended, Thompson said his ancestors fought for the South. A Civil War re-enactor, he wore a slouch hat and a rough wool uniform and carried an Enfield rifle.
Washington Post
Those who attended the raising of the 15-by-15-foot flag from the Army of Northern Virginia said the ceremony was not intended to offend, but to honor the South’s war dead in the Civil War.
“The reason why we’re here is to honor the soldier,” said James Thompson, 50, a North Carolinian now living in Richmond. “We don’t see it as a slavery issue.”
Like many who attended, Thompson said his ancestors fought for the South. A Civil War re-enactor, he wore a slouch hat and a rough wool uniform and carried an Enfield rifle.
Washington Post
"What I teach is guys. Serious heterosexual guys..."
"Toronto literature professor and Giller prize-longlisted author David Gilmour has found himself at the eye of a literary storm after declaiming in an interview that he doesn't teach books written by women or Chinese authors, because he's only interested in "serious heterosexual guys".
the guardian, the globe and mail
Gilmour – not to be confused with his namesake Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour – shared his views with Shelf Esteem, a blog by Random House Canada, which offers "a weekly measure of the books on the shelves of writers, editors and other word lovers".
Eyeing the rows of books in his office, Gilmour said: "I'm not interested in teaching books by women. Virginia Woolf is the only writer that interests me as a woman writer, so I do teach one of her short stories. But once again, when I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women."
He went on: "What I teach is guys. Serious heterosexual guys. F Scott Fitzgerald, Chekhov, Tolstoy. Real guy-guys. Henry Miller. Philip Roth."
The comments set Twitter atwitter."A self proclaimed feminist student responds to the controversy.
I am a feminist, a writer, and, most importantly, a woman, who has voluntarily enrolled in David Gilmour’s 300-level course. I write this not as a staunch attack or defense of Professor Gilmour, but because the responses to his troubling interview have been troubling as well; this kind of dialogue, predicated on illogical, emotional responses to contentious issues, can easily snowball into a lynch-mob style reaction. And, from what I can tell, this is exactly what has happened.For more go here.
the guardian, the globe and mail
Walls, Wire, Bars and Souls
I was reminded of this book today and I suddenly thought, "Hey, a prison chaplain's memoir is the sort of thing a bunch of people at Lem's would probably like." So...
I haven't read it, but I've heard that it's very good.
Russian dancers
It's so full of glee I could explode.
The original is terrible. Trumpets. Oi the blaring. And other horns. Full on orchestra. And you think, man, these Russian soldiers sure can dance, I meant, these Russian dancers sure do look like soldiers. Thank you DMC for making this 10 X better.
The original is terrible. Trumpets. Oi the blaring. And other horns. Full on orchestra. And you think, man, these Russian soldiers sure can dance, I meant, these Russian dancers sure do look like soldiers. Thank you DMC for making this 10 X better.
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Fairies and Magical Creatures
By Matthew Reinhart and Robert Sabuda, the book is part of their Encyclopedia Mythologica series, three in the series, Dragons and Monsters, Gods and Heroes, they are all three very good, excellent, each of them $20.00 thereabouts presently, for some reason not sold together as their Prehistoria are, also excellent, especially for boys.
I didn't even know I had this. Mine is new, I must have flipped through it before at least once. I see it there and its title just flat does not interest me. I picked it up and and instantly wanted to rush out of the room and hand it the first little girl I encounter.
Here!
But then I noticed it gets a little dark. It's not all about fairies. The magical creatures get kind of creepy but I am blown away and I mean totally by the mastery demonstrated in this book.
Turn down the sound if you care to look, the music is awful.
I didn't even know I had this. Mine is new, I must have flipped through it before at least once. I see it there and its title just flat does not interest me. I picked it up and and instantly wanted to rush out of the room and hand it the first little girl I encounter.
Here!
But then I noticed it gets a little dark. It's not all about fairies. The magical creatures get kind of creepy but I am blown away and I mean totally by the mastery demonstrated in this book.
Turn down the sound if you care to look, the music is awful.
Wow. Just wow. Six main pop-up pages, 20 auxiliary pop-up pages, and they are all incredibly imaginative. I see so many books, I have so many, that are one mechanism repeated throughout, sometimes two mechanisms repeated, and there is nothing to them. But Reinhart and Sabuda are known for mind-blowingly complex mechanisms built one onto another. Usually but not always based on a "V" that crosses the central fold, or the central fold displaced, and built onto that, then once built additional "V" built onto the folds created by the additions.
They mix a lot of devices here. I see a cantilever device where two arms form a single appendage, one longer than the other and hinged so that when the card is opened the two arms shift and force the attachment to move, its movement controlled by the hinge. Five of those together in a row and the fingers of a hand open up to expose a tiny winged person held in the hand, a separate mechanism. Here, I'll draw the hinged cantilever.
Well, that's annoying. That mechanism is repeated throughout, more than you'd ordinarily see a thing like that.
There is also a very clever flip book. This is another standard pop-up device whereby turning one page results in five or six pages being flipped as they are attached to each other in increments so that built to flip directly to the last page all the pages between are flipped perforce, a good device for showing transformations, say, from attractive bird holding a piece of cake to a hag holding a plate of mud with sticks in it. Much like Barbara Mikulski offering free medical care to thirty million uninsured Americans. Like that.
Being extravagant freaks inclined to adding mechanism to mechanism, sometimes reversing so that they flip to fully open presenting a new platform upon which to build they are tempted to create some marvelous pieces of imaginative architecture or other, and because they are built up and away from the page they are built tilting back to offer the the structure at an angle. They are built backwards at an angle, and I do not like that.
I keep trying to fix them and of course they cannot be fixed, they're made that way. The person in the video does the same thing that I do, tries to adjust the building because it is leaning.
The very last page, the main pop-up is two sea-horses swing out toward the viewer. It is a spectacular arrangement, two people in the seashell carriage and two horses. I thought it was just my copy and it's driving me nuts, one of the seahorse's legs is printed upside down.
Hahahahahahahahaha
After all that.
I'd have to cut it it to fix it.
It's in the video too, at the very end. The seahorse in front of the woman, has a hopelessly mangled front leg because it's printed that way.
I fell like such a hog keeping this book to myself. It is outstanding. I'm buying one for the girl down the hall. It seems like a girl book.
Bagoh's Beautifull Day
What an absolutely beautiful day here in Playa del Rey. Mid 70's clear and sunny
with a nice breeze. Precisely perfect.
My computer and central hang out spot is at a counter in my kitchen right next to a big sliding door to the patio, and it's all windows. So on a day like this, I'm practically sitting outside with a great sunny view of nothing but open fields and trees to the ocean. The Pandora is MC-ing Texas swing and the Blues, and life is good. Eventually, someday we all end up on Celebrity Severed Heads Roadshow as someones attempt to strike it rich.
I pointed out my sliver of an ocean view. It's an ocean view if you're an eagle
with binoculars.
The only thing wrong with that is having no more days like this. Please after the show, mount my head facing west toward the Pacific.
Right now: 75 deg., no shirt, no shoes, and since I don't follow TOP any longer,
shorts. I could use a servant, or maybe a Danish maid to pick up a few things
around here. Strictly professional of course.
The Kiss Precise
The Kiss Precise by Frederick Soddy
For pairs of lips to kiss maybe
Involves no trigonometry.
'Tis not so when four circles kiss
Each one the other three.
To bring this off the four must be
As three in one or one in three.
If one in three, beyond a doubt
Each gets three kisses from without.
If three in one, then is that one
Thrice kissed internally.
Four circles to the kissing come.
The smaller are the benter.
The bend is just the inverse of
The distance from the center.
Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb
There's now no need for rule of thumb.
Since zero bend's a dead straight line
And concave bends have minus sign,
The sum of the squares of all four bends
Is half the square of their sum.
To spy out spherical affairs
An oscular surveyor
Might find the task laborious,
The sphere is much the gayer,
And now besides the pair of pairs
A fifth sphere in the kissing shares.
Yet, signs and zero as before,
For each to kiss the other four
The square of the sum of all five bends
Is thrice the sum of their squares.
Published in Nature, June 20, 1936
I'm Sensing A Blitz
For no particular reason, I sense an angry punch coming this fall from the Obama Administration and the Senate Democrats. Maybe it's the angry mood they are projecting at the moment. The timing is important because they sense growing opposition to their agenda -- gun control, media manipulation, immigration, full ACA implementation, IRS intimidation, and perhaps most importantly, wealth redistribution. They aim to squelch opposition. Negotiation is passé. The venues for reasoned discussion will close or diminish.
"Cyprus-style wealth confiscation is now moving forward all over the globe..."
Via Instapundit...
"Now that "bail-ins" have become accepted practice all over the planet, no bank account and no pension fund will ever be 100% safe again. In fact, Cyprus-style wealth confiscation is already starting to happen all around the world. As you will read about below, private pension funds were just raided by the government in Poland, and a "bail-in" is being organized for one of the largest banks in Italy. Unfortunately, this is just the beginning."
Zerohedge.com
"Now that "bail-ins" have become accepted practice all over the planet, no bank account and no pension fund will ever be 100% safe again. In fact, Cyprus-style wealth confiscation is already starting to happen all around the world. As you will read about below, private pension funds were just raided by the government in Poland, and a "bail-in" is being organized for one of the largest banks in Italy. Unfortunately, this is just the beginning."
The precedent that was set in Cyprus is being used as a template for establishing bail-in procedures in New Zealand, Canada and all over Europe. It is only a matter of time before we see this exact same type of thing happen in the United States as well.The article lists examples of "Cyprus-style wealth confiscation" from Poland, Iceland, Europe, Italy, New Zealand and Canada.
Zerohedge.com
"to ensure they were "not shady characters""
"A National Security Agency employee was able to secretly intercept the phone calls of nine foreign women for six years without ever being detected by his managers, the agency's internal watchdog has revealed."
The unauthorised abuse of the NSA's surveillance tools only came to light after one of the women, who happened to be a US government employee, told a colleague that she suspected the man – with whom she was having a sexual relationship – was listening to her calls.
The case is among 12 documented in a letter from the NSA's inspector general to a leading member of Congress, who asked for a breakdown of cases in which the agency's powerful surveillance apparatus was deliberately abused by staff.
The letter, from Dr George Ellard, only lists cases that were investigated and later "substantiated" by his office. But it raises the possibility that there are many more cases that go undetected.The Atlantic lists those twelve incidents.
Breaking Bad
For Deb.
This is a homeless man who is given a sandwich and does impressions of B.B. characters, after Arnold Schwarzenegger.
This is a homeless man who is given a sandwich and does impressions of B.B. characters, after Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Everyone does better Arnold than that.. I have no idea if he does well with the characters or not. So to compensate for that shortcoming of uncertainty, here's another.
But wait a minute first.
His beard is cleanly cut for a homeless guy. I talk to a lot of homeless people, he doesn't look like any of them. His eyebrows trimmed. Nice haircut. He seems too clean.
Ah. That was easy. [homeless impressionist fake] huffingtonpost exposes this chicanery, this folderol, this poppycock .
Must everything be LIES ALL LIES !? So, was the liar good?
Back to the uncertainty compensation video, Happy Toast did this. He is the guy who drew Batman punching the Penguin so hard poo flies out with the poo labeled such, xeroxed and used for a birthday card and passed to a 6 year old at his birthday dinner at a restaurant in London. Upon noticing the poo, the boy fell out laughing and could not stop. He gave it to his mother she rolled her eyes, his sister read it and laughed, then Father laughed, then that finally caused Mother to laugh and the whole table was cracking up because the boy could not' stop, he was having a fit, and the whole thing amused the nearby table who caught the infection of childish laughter at poo flying out of the penguin until the whole section of restaurant was laughing uncontrollably.
Oh, that was easy to find too. [batman punches penguin]
His cartoon legs are pegs, for ease of drawing feet, I suppose, and the premise here is Celebrity Breaking Bad.
Oh, that was easy to find too. [batman punches penguin]
His cartoon legs are pegs, for ease of drawing feet, I suppose, and the premise here is Celebrity Breaking Bad.
I haven't a clue what is going on there.
Friday, September 27, 2013
How to make an animated GIF in Photoshop
1) Open file in Photoshop
2) Open "Layers" from Photoshop menu.
3) In Layer subwindow, double click on original layer to unlock the layer to make it an ordinary fully workable layer
4) Duplicate the image. The duplicated image is automatically the active layer. Make adjustments to the new layer using photoshop tools. Everything little thing you do requires you to pick up a tool and tell the tool exactly what to do, what shape, size, pressure, fuzzy edges all that you must be very specific with each tool. And you must keep it nearby to go back and forth constantly picking up a new tool just as if you were making a pop-up card and have to constantly switch between scorer and blade and pencil and glue.
For the eye, I copied half for an eye lid, pasted into a new layer, flipped it so the leaf-lashes are downward, painted it white, then took chunks from the original for its dotted texture and discoloration. I could have cloned, I could have created a pattern stamp, Any number of things, but selecting a piece that I like and duplicating it and moving the new layer that contains the tiny patch to a new spot paste/move, paste/move, paste/move over and over until the area is filled up to 16 new patch layers, then compressed down to one layer, all for an eyelid, actually works for me faster than any of those other ways to do the same or similar thing.
The layers window can be closed at this point, so can tools, but I like to keep them opened because I often run something, back out to an earlier point and change it.
In my copy of Photoshop 7, I think, "timeline" is the word they use for the "windows" subwindow to replace "animation"
This is where Photoshop becomes a bit like a game with its Easter eggs and concealed treasures, you click on an unobtrusive corner you would take as mere corner-design and bang a another whole menu of wonderful splendid choices appears offering untold new possibilities. Surely you've discovered a secret room. Or perhaps Googled [photoshop animation]
The following shows what the windows look like when you find them. For a simple back and forth animation, the most boring dummkopfery kind. One I did today for another site, I thought, eh, what the heck, why not show it? If you care to continue, it's all screenshots of that.
2) Open "Layers" from Photoshop menu.
3) In Layer subwindow, double click on original layer to unlock the layer to make it an ordinary fully workable layer
4) Duplicate the image. The duplicated image is automatically the active layer. Make adjustments to the new layer using photoshop tools. Everything little thing you do requires you to pick up a tool and tell the tool exactly what to do, what shape, size, pressure, fuzzy edges all that you must be very specific with each tool. And you must keep it nearby to go back and forth constantly picking up a new tool just as if you were making a pop-up card and have to constantly switch between scorer and blade and pencil and glue.
For the eye, I copied half for an eye lid, pasted into a new layer, flipped it so the leaf-lashes are downward, painted it white, then took chunks from the original for its dotted texture and discoloration. I could have cloned, I could have created a pattern stamp, Any number of things, but selecting a piece that I like and duplicating it and moving the new layer that contains the tiny patch to a new spot paste/move, paste/move, paste/move over and over until the area is filled up to 16 new patch layers, then compressed down to one layer, all for an eyelid, actually works for me faster than any of those other ways to do the same or similar thing.
The layers window can be closed at this point, so can tools, but I like to keep them opened because I often run something, back out to an earlier point and change it.
In my copy of Photoshop 7, I think, "timeline" is the word they use for the "windows" subwindow to replace "animation"
This is where Photoshop becomes a bit like a game with its Easter eggs and concealed treasures, you click on an unobtrusive corner you would take as mere corner-design and bang a another whole menu of wonderful splendid choices appears offering untold new possibilities. Surely you've discovered a secret room. Or perhaps Googled [photoshop animation]
The following shows what the windows look like when you find them. For a simple back and forth animation, the most boring dummkopfery kind. One I did today for another site, I thought, eh, what the heck, why not show it? If you care to continue, it's all screenshots of that.
Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the "pathetic" American media
Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should 'fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can't control'
Pulitzer Prize, right off so there you have it, everything that follows is to be weighted with that singular weighty fact. Let's continue and try not to hold this weighty appeal to authority against him. But I wish the author hadn't done that.
Holds extreme ideas on how to fix journalism. Close news bureaus of NBC ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing, return to fundamentals of journalists, that is, being outsider.
I'm starting to like this guy, Seymour Hersh, but that does not sound so extreme.
Nemesis is of U.S. presidents, and there is a link if you care to.
Nemesis is an inescapable agent of one's downfall. They just said Hersh felled down presidents. That might be worth reading. They continue, Hersh was once described by Republican party (no name given) as "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist."
Now I'm really starting to like this guy Hersh.
Don't even get him started on the NYT which, he says, spends "so much more time carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would -- or the death of Osama bin Laden. "nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true," he says of the dramatic USNavy Seals raid in 2011.
He wrote a book about it. Wanna know what in it? Okay, goes like this, at length at theguardian.
He says Osama was not buried immediately at sea, he was already dead for two years, the raid was a sham and everybody there swears,to Allah presumably, they never saw Osama or anything remote to that at the Abottabad compound that was raided. Besides, it was Costellobad.
Pulitzer Prize, right off so there you have it, everything that follows is to be weighted with that singular weighty fact. Let's continue and try not to hold this weighty appeal to authority against him. But I wish the author hadn't done that.
Holds extreme ideas on how to fix journalism. Close news bureaus of NBC ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing, return to fundamentals of journalists, that is, being outsider.
I'm starting to like this guy, Seymour Hersh, but that does not sound so extreme.
Nemesis is of U.S. presidents, and there is a link if you care to.
Nemesis is an inescapable agent of one's downfall. They just said Hersh felled down presidents. That might be worth reading. They continue, Hersh was once described by Republican party (no name given) as "the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist."
Now I'm really starting to like this guy Hersh.
Don't even get him started on the NYT which, he says, spends "so much more time carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would -- or the death of Osama bin Laden. "nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true," he says of the dramatic USNavy Seals raid in 2011.
He wrote a book about it. Wanna know what in it? Okay, goes like this, at length at theguardian.
He says Osama was not buried immediately at sea, he was already dead for two years, the raid was a sham and everybody there swears,to Allah presumably, they never saw Osama or anything remote to that at the Abottabad compound that was raided. Besides, it was Costellobad.
With just so much civility
Barbara Mikulski answers a panel on MSNBC led by David Gregory regarding Ted Cruz long speech, this is where I tuned in, this is what caught my attention,
"This is by a small minority, these teabaggers..."
What?
That went right by, that is normal description within her longer answer. She's telling the panel that tea party is to be dismissed as hostile minority, unreasoned people who do not want to pay taxes.
(I'll be very happy to have this photo off my harddrive.)
She is quite cross with the obstruction of pragmatic people eager to get down to business without these senseless obstructions to the hard work of providing the good that flows from smoothly operating mature government, economic development, innovation, job growth, economic growth. Obama won the election, it is the law of the land, they need to get on with government, this is ping-pong politics, reduce debt, increase growth, 21 hours air time, now it's all about him and not about the important work that needs to be done, delay tactics, delaying essential government services, holding hostage over debtceiling,focusingonpragmaticsolutions,not nay sayers, thishsis jsjsuot obaja lml kenelns lskmofkniehrksdnllkshsls hjksolkm.
So there.
Fierce.
And the whole time I was thinking, "You dreadful cow." How I would like to challenge point by point but there are too many points crammed together, as you do, all premises, all wrong, a weird alternate reality there where every point is challengeable , and completely100% utterly hostile that describes itself as compromising, as having already compromised far too much to unreasonables.
Teabaggers is it? Okay. Senator, you cow, every word that came out your vile sinister Party mouth was heard a hundred times already.
Just previously to her I was following a Democrat senator (I was fascinated by his hair that appeared false) testify listening carefully and following sympathetically as he recalled events from his pov, "... and then at election the people spoke conclusively that they wanted the health care bill passed."
What?
And then Elijah Cummings. Sabotaging Darrell Issa's Benghazi information gathering visit. Cummings didn't want the hearings, didn't want the visit, then wanted Democrats to join the visit. Failing at fact blocking, finally, desperately broke the law and leaked the visit. Here is the obstructionist. (comments there are meanie-pants)
"I sure hope nothing happens to Darrel Issa on his secret visit to Benghazi, that's a dangerous place over there and we do have enemies, you know." That is not a precise quote. But Cummings leaked that.
And that, sir, is a despicable thing to do.
And the whole time I read about Elijah Cummings being a creep again, this after calling us racist after unnecessarily and provocatively charging in phalanx through a crowd of peaceful protestors with Pelosi weirdly wielding a cartoonishly oversized mallet, declaring righteous victory over visigoths one supposes, and later claimed they were spit upon repeatedly when they were not. And $10,000 says so. And no apology either.
The whole time I was reading that I had the best music running through my head without any headphones!
Man, that song is wrought, the other versions are.
Wikipedia, font of modern day received flexible wisdom, says Pelosi did not want Cummings to Chair the hearings, she felt him insufficiently fierce, insufficiently aggressive. And suddenly I go from thinking of Cummings as dith-pickable Party operative to cuddly inept Teddy bear dragged around and pushed around by overbearing Pelosi, suddenly I have sympathy and I think, "Oh dear, you are completely trapped." So that is what is meant by "made" in the Mafia. It means you're completely trapped.
"This is by a small minority, these teabaggers..."
What?
That went right by, that is normal description within her longer answer. She's telling the panel that tea party is to be dismissed as hostile minority, unreasoned people who do not want to pay taxes.
(I'll be very happy to have this photo off my harddrive.)
She is quite cross with the obstruction of pragmatic people eager to get down to business without these senseless obstructions to the hard work of providing the good that flows from smoothly operating mature government, economic development, innovation, job growth, economic growth. Obama won the election, it is the law of the land, they need to get on with government, this is ping-pong politics, reduce debt, increase growth, 21 hours air time, now it's all about him and not about the important work that needs to be done, delay tactics, delaying essential government services, holding hostage over debtceiling,focusingonpragmaticsolutions,not nay sayers, thishsis jsjsuot obaja lml kenelns lskmofkniehrksdnllkshsls hjksolkm.
So there.
Fierce.
And the whole time I was thinking, "You dreadful cow." How I would like to challenge point by point but there are too many points crammed together, as you do, all premises, all wrong, a weird alternate reality there where every point is challengeable , and completely100% utterly hostile that describes itself as compromising, as having already compromised far too much to unreasonables.
Teabaggers is it? Okay. Senator, you cow, every word that came out your vile sinister Party mouth was heard a hundred times already.
Just previously to her I was following a Democrat senator (I was fascinated by his hair that appeared false) testify listening carefully and following sympathetically as he recalled events from his pov, "... and then at election the people spoke conclusively that they wanted the health care bill passed."
What?
And then Elijah Cummings. Sabotaging Darrell Issa's Benghazi information gathering visit. Cummings didn't want the hearings, didn't want the visit, then wanted Democrats to join the visit. Failing at fact blocking, finally, desperately broke the law and leaked the visit. Here is the obstructionist. (comments there are meanie-pants)
"I sure hope nothing happens to Darrel Issa on his secret visit to Benghazi, that's a dangerous place over there and we do have enemies, you know." That is not a precise quote. But Cummings leaked that.
And that, sir, is a despicable thing to do.
And the whole time I read about Elijah Cummings being a creep again, this after calling us racist after unnecessarily and provocatively charging in phalanx through a crowd of peaceful protestors with Pelosi weirdly wielding a cartoonishly oversized mallet, declaring righteous victory over visigoths one supposes, and later claimed they were spit upon repeatedly when they were not. And $10,000 says so. And no apology either.
The whole time I was reading that I had the best music running through my head without any headphones!
Man, that song is wrought, the other versions are.
Wikipedia, font of modern day received flexible wisdom, says Pelosi did not want Cummings to Chair the hearings, she felt him insufficiently fierce, insufficiently aggressive. And suddenly I go from thinking of Cummings as dith-pickable Party operative to cuddly inept Teddy bear dragged around and pushed around by overbearing Pelosi, suddenly I have sympathy and I think, "Oh dear, you are completely trapped." So that is what is meant by "made" in the Mafia. It means you're completely trapped.
"That's the path forward"
"Send us a clean CR, clean debt ceiling. That's the path forward. There's no need for conversations. We've spoken loudly and clearly, and we have the support of the president of the United States, and that's pretty good," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday."
Here is what Reid really meant.
The things that we were sent here to discus, budgets, debt ceilings, fiscal bottom lines, we already have control over those. Why are the republicans wasting our time?
We've spoken louder than 21 hours and we have the support of the president... where is he? ... ah, he is right behind me, and that's pretty good.
Conversations are meant to be about those things we have yet to control. Not the boring lugubrious running of the government.
Pump Up the Volume
Tea party dance lesson.
Full screen, please for the full dance lesson effect, plus lyrics so you learn those too. What a great way to lean a dance and a language, don't you think? Look up every single word you don't know in the target language and stuff it in there until the whole song is fully stuffed and your new language thoughts flow with the song. That's the way to go, I say, that and movies. A lot more fun than lab.
So the tea party patriots support team says pumpupthevolume pumpupthevolume pumpupthevolume and this time for the first time I've seen they provide a list of names and numbers to assist in the pumping.
The message starts out angry Republican senators have turned off their phones and sent calls to voice mail and that they say patriots do not know what they're doing.
It is my pleasure to share their email with you, here.
Melted the phone lines = annoyed again
I like their attitude. I find it proper. Here I am at odd with fairly everyone I know, so many seek a larger more productive, more involved humanitarian type government, look to it for validation such as marriage, instead of looking at it as servant, and a poor one at that, one that must be constantly watched.
When you own too much you lose control. I was thinking about Canada's David Suzuki, CBC's David Suzuki it inflicts on the rest of Canada. Used to be scientist, now straight up activist. Does not know anything at all about climate yet pontificates endlessly. In hypocrisy similar to Gore in that he owns four houses but blathers constantly about conservation.
Conservation = conservative.
For Suzuki does not speaketh for himself but for the one who sent him.
CBC is part of Canada's government, Canada's house, the servant of the house is made master, one who does not follow his own pontifications, one who does not know what he is talking about and it shows.
I like that in no way is their self-worth attached to government, the opposite, they are prepared to shift gears and work hard to turn out poorly performing employees. They are not having any David Suzukis, house servants, telling them how their lives are to be lived. I admire that.
It is not that they object to paying taxes, it is that they object to owning so much that servants are masters. They must go.
"Let’s go back and basically replace the engine of a 1950s car"
Google on Thursday announced one of the biggest changes to its search engine, a rewriting of its algorithm to handle more complex queries that affects 90 percent of all searches.
New York Times
Google announced the new algorithm, called Hummingbird, at an event to celebrate the search engine’s 15th birthday. Google revealed few details about how the new algorithm works or what it changed.
Google originally matched keywords in a search query to the same words on Web pages. Hummingbird is the culmination of a shift to understanding the meaning of phrases in a query and displaying Web pages that more accurately match that meaning.
The algorithm also builds on work Google has done to understand conversational language, like interpreting what pronouns in a search query refer to.The Google home page has a birthday piñata game. It will probably be down by this time tomorrow. Check it out. My highest score was 147.
New York Times
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Breaking Bad Prediction Pans Out
It (NASA's Curiosity rover) discovered water in Martian soil. NASA scientists just published five papers in Science detailing the experiments that led to the discovery. That's right. There's water on Mars.
... the discovery comes with some caveats.
... it found water molecules bound to other minerals in Martian soil. There's kind of a lot of it, too. Researchers say that every cubic foot of Martian soil contains about two pints of liquid water. All things told, about two percent of the Martian soil is made of up water.
The discovery is important for a number of reasons, but especially exciting because of what this means for future missions to Mars. "We now know there should be abundant, easily accessible water on Mars," says Leshin. "When we send people, they could scoop up the soil anywhere on the surface, heat it just a bit, and obtain water."Gizmodo (Video after the jump)
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Trooper Is In Our Thoughts And Prayers
Dear All:
I've learned that our beloved Trooper York is in the hospital with congestive heart failure. He's alive and well but has been inde-fib A-fib in the ICU for the last 3 days. His last post on Trooper York let us know that he wasn't feeling well and things finally came to a head. Nick Spinelli got in touch with his wife and is keeping us updated.
Tomorrow is his birthday -- he'll be 57. If you'd like to send him a card, drop me an email and I'll help you get in touch. I'm considering posting his hospital contact info, but am withholding it for now.
All prayers are welcomed.
His heart may have failed him but it didn't fail us.
Stay positive!
I've learned that our beloved Trooper York is in the hospital with congestive heart failure. He's alive and well but has been in
Tomorrow is his birthday -- he'll be 57. If you'd like to send him a card, drop me an email and I'll help you get in touch. I'm considering posting his hospital contact info, but am withholding it for now.
All prayers are welcomed.
His heart may have failed him but it didn't fail us.
Stay positive!
"Lost "Monty Python" skit found"
Lileks Tweets, "Lost Monty Python skit found! Sort of."
Whenever someone says “lost,” they usually mean “laying around plain sight until someone pointed it out.” It’s more like early Python, which wasn’t Python at the time. They hadn’t quite gotten the rhythm down yet; it drags. But you cna see what’s they’re starting to assemble.
How To Irritate People - The Car Salesman
Eventually this morphed into the Dead Parrot sketch; details on that process here.Lileks , StarTribune
"You are a Jesus, but you look like Mother"
I don't know if this is real, but, I do relate to the story.
At his wedding we pleaded for our brother not to leave us, in the only way we knew how to say it; through the the medium of 80s music and video. We thought we'd done ok, but he left us anyway.
Robin & Helen: we wish you many many years of love and happiness! Xxxxxx
Do not forget. You are our brother!Via Reddit (video at the jump)
“This is a societal issue”
“The way to help people who have these issues is to give them information. At some point, it’s individual responsibility.”
TomorrowWorld’s decision hints at a broader debate in America: Is it best to urge abstention and take a hard line against drug users? Or is it better to accept drug use as an entrenched practice, treat addicts and teach others to imbibe intoxicants more safely?In a departure from a policy of zero tolerance towards drugs, TomorrowWorld concertgoers will somehow be given both messages.
... a nonprofit drug education group will be giving advice, not only on the dangers of drug abuse, but also on how those who choose to take party drugs can use them more safely.I wish I could say I was optimistic, that this will work.
Richard Barnes
Is shaking with anger. He's been hacked, you see. It's been a terrible regrettable mistake. One of those two things or both. Former London deputy mayor. He's 66 years old, so almost old enough to know better. He's fat. Pasty. *whispers* (ginger). Horribly mangled pixilated penis. All over the place. Don't look, I beg you, for the sake of the children, don't look.
I-phone. Automatic upload ap. Facebook got the pictures intended for... he was hacked.
I-phone. Automatic upload ap. Facebook got the pictures intended for... he was hacked.
raspberries
These containers were a dollar apiece. And I thought picking all those berries must be slave labor. It doesn't seem right. I picked berries before. The bushes are scraggly. The berries are plentiful, yes, but you still have to go digging around the scraggly bushes, walk into them, and go for the ripe ones, rejecting overripe ones, and avoiding underripe ones. That's a lot of picking. Unless they use a machine that shakes it. I can't imagine how they get so many.
I just made that batter up with stuff I like and it turned out great. Except I didn't make enough. It was totally overwhelmed with extreme raspberry tartness. Overkill.
Golden Slumbers
I kneaded pasta dough and put it under its bowl to rest and when I did in that moment a tune played in memory, "Hush little darling don't you cry, Daddy's gonna sing you a lullaby." So that's what I wrote when I posted the photos. But I wasn't sure of the words. It was a faint memory. Very faint. I wasn't sure at all. It sounds like rock. So I looked.
And I couldn't find it. All kind of stuff comes up. A rap song, a couple of those, I listened to those, actually, the 'buy you a mocking bird' and other extravagant bribes song, a lot of different things on YouTube, nothing close, and then finally at length after several searches about the 4th search, 4th page of Google results I saw the word Beatles and I knew it was them.
[beatles lullaby]
Man, what a song. I did not realize how fantastic this song is. Oh my goodness. I have been underestimating this group all along. Once I heard it and listened it blew me away. You probably think it's trite. I don't.
The lyrics are more excellent than I recalled. This is good stuff. And while I'm being blown away and crediting them for touching poetry I notice they ripped it off from Thomas Dekker 1572 - 1632
Quite a long time ago. Like Shakespeare.
So no wonder it's classy. They spoke like that then.
And the whole time I read it, I saw it too and thought, man, that's really beautiful. Touching and beautiful.
There are variations of the poem and the song. I chose "kiss your eyes" and "smiles await you," one of the versions I saw, not "fill your eyes," and "smiles awake you." Other variations in the song as well. This is what the poem looks like. Only the first part. I adore these words.
Golden slumber kiss your eyes
Smiles await you when you rise. Sleep pretty baby do not cry, and I will sing a lullaby
"Sing" is the same as "song" in this dictionary. I would draw a "V" up my throat and make a ligature with "song" to indicate I am vocalizing it. Also, "lullaby" is a ligature of "song + sleep" not "song + baby" as you might imagine, but if you did that you'd be understood. Sing is flappy so with "sing" and "lullaby" next to each other it looks a bit flap-happy. The dictionary wasn't assembled with this sentence in mind, so it looks choppy. He has a very big baby it seems, probably a rambunctious boy who needs a good tumble to get to sleep, he does an exaggerated "baby." My "cry" is one-handed tear trail and I shift my jaw back and forth like it's loose and broken, my "cry" is funny. "Rise" means "wake up" not raise something up, nor build, nor rise like the sun, nor pop-up, the opposite of disappear, so I just used "rise." And "eyes" is done with a "V" one motion, both eyes, not one finger pointing to each eye individually. The same as you would spell "pizza with a single two-fingers "z" not two separate single-finger "z's." This dictionary has "eye" so I photoshopped his arm to the other eye. Actually, you would put the "kiss" on the "eye, " Just show it. "Golden" is very close to "California." And "when" is the same as "about." After all that, still, isn't it beautiful?
Cares you know not
Therefore sleep,
While over you a watch I'll keep.
Sleep, Pretty darling, do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby.
And I couldn't find it. All kind of stuff comes up. A rap song, a couple of those, I listened to those, actually, the 'buy you a mocking bird' and other extravagant bribes song, a lot of different things on YouTube, nothing close, and then finally at length after several searches about the 4th search, 4th page of Google results I saw the word Beatles and I knew it was them.
[beatles lullaby]
Man, what a song. I did not realize how fantastic this song is. Oh my goodness. I have been underestimating this group all along. Once I heard it and listened it blew me away. You probably think it's trite. I don't.
The lyrics are more excellent than I recalled. This is good stuff. And while I'm being blown away and crediting them for touching poetry I notice they ripped it off from Thomas Dekker 1572 - 1632
Quite a long time ago. Like Shakespeare.
So no wonder it's classy. They spoke like that then.
And the whole time I read it, I saw it too and thought, man, that's really beautiful. Touching and beautiful.
There are variations of the poem and the song. I chose "kiss your eyes" and "smiles await you," one of the versions I saw, not "fill your eyes," and "smiles awake you." Other variations in the song as well. This is what the poem looks like. Only the first part. I adore these words.
Golden slumber kiss your eyes
Smiles await you when you rise. Sleep pretty baby do not cry, and I will sing a lullaby
"Sing" is the same as "song" in this dictionary. I would draw a "V" up my throat and make a ligature with "song" to indicate I am vocalizing it. Also, "lullaby" is a ligature of "song + sleep" not "song + baby" as you might imagine, but if you did that you'd be understood. Sing is flappy so with "sing" and "lullaby" next to each other it looks a bit flap-happy. The dictionary wasn't assembled with this sentence in mind, so it looks choppy. He has a very big baby it seems, probably a rambunctious boy who needs a good tumble to get to sleep, he does an exaggerated "baby." My "cry" is one-handed tear trail and I shift my jaw back and forth like it's loose and broken, my "cry" is funny. "Rise" means "wake up" not raise something up, nor build, nor rise like the sun, nor pop-up, the opposite of disappear, so I just used "rise." And "eyes" is done with a "V" one motion, both eyes, not one finger pointing to each eye individually. The same as you would spell "pizza with a single two-fingers "z" not two separate single-finger "z's." This dictionary has "eye" so I photoshopped his arm to the other eye. Actually, you would put the "kiss" on the "eye, " Just show it. "Golden" is very close to "California." And "when" is the same as "about." After all that, still, isn't it beautiful?
Cares you know not
Therefore sleep,
While over you a watch I'll keep.
Sleep, Pretty darling, do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby.
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Cruz is absolutely paralleling the 1930's
A retort, and a good one too.
That is to say, we now see how Churchill's "rants" warning of the rising danger from Nazi Germany was seen at the time he was making them. THIS is what standing alone, when all else is swayed by the prevailing wind looks like.Isn't that a great repost? The article is good, about Christ Mathews going off the deep end, comparing Ted Cruz to McCarthy, Stasi, and Hitler in rapid succession, the comments are excellent, and man, that perspicacity sure can be perspicacious sometimes.
Churchill's reputation could only come after his warnings were recognized by everybody else as prescient, sometime around May, 1940.
Cruz is keeping good company.
I.R.S. retraining center
A link on Insty set me off. A story about tea party looking for justice after Lois Lerner retirement. Talk about immunity for testimony. That's what did it. The link goes to Fox.
Ugh.
Maybe I had just avoid Insty for blood pressure control. But boy, this sure did go fast. I saw it instantly and it made itself just as fast. Fastest therapy ever, and I mean it.
Ugh.
Maybe I had just avoid Insty for blood pressure control. But boy, this sure did go fast. I saw it instantly and it made itself just as fast. Fastest therapy ever, and I mean it.
To make your own therapeutic I.R.S. Retraining Center you must go to office supply and ask for a ream of card stock. It is ordinary copy paper that is thicker than normal so not a full ream and it suits our needs nicely.
That was fast
"The United States, Russia, France, China and Britain have agreed on the core of a U.N Security Council resolution to rid Syria of its chemical weapons, two diplomats said on Wednesday."
The agreement came after the foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the council met U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon earlier in the day, the diplomats said on condition of anonymity."
They said a draft resolution could be presented to the full 15-nation council soon and the five permanent members would also meet on Friday to discuss a proposed Syria peace conference in Geneva."
Reuters
The agreement came after the foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the council met U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon earlier in the day, the diplomats said on condition of anonymity."
They said a draft resolution could be presented to the full 15-nation council soon and the five permanent members would also meet on Friday to discuss a proposed Syria peace conference in Geneva."
Reuters
This one is different
An email from Jenny Beth Martin, Co-Founder and National Coordinator Tea Party Patriots using Cruz long talk for fundraising.
Senator Ted Cruz reenergize the conservative movement last night as only he could. We whole heartedly salute and thank him for his courageous stand.
...
Tea Party activists all across the country are contacting their Senators around the clock, demanding that they end this national nightmare by any means necessary
They're flooding these Senators' Facebook and Twitter pages with messages. They're filing their email inboxes. They're melting the phone lines on Capitol Hill!
now's not the time to celebrate
make a contribution
can't let up
must keep heat on
until very minute critical vote is cast
contribute again
changing quickly in Washington
online contribution is immediate
must continue pushing against upcoming cloture vote
Its the only hope.
please give.
donate
Interesting. Hyperbolic. Didactic. Annoying. Celebratory. Style problems no way can it be copy/pasted, they alway go crazy with all those buttons up there in editor underlining, italic, yellow highlighting, bold, some all at once. This is the first pleasantly pleased sounding email that I recall.
Senator Ted Cruz reenergize the conservative movement last night as only he could. We whole heartedly salute and thank him for his courageous stand.
...
Tea Party activists all across the country are contacting their Senators around the clock, demanding that they end this national nightmare by any means necessary
They're flooding these Senators' Facebook and Twitter pages with messages. They're filing their email inboxes. They're melting the phone lines on Capitol Hill!
now's not the time to celebrate
make a contribution
can't let up
must keep heat on
until very minute critical vote is cast
contribute again
changing quickly in Washington
online contribution is immediate
must continue pushing against upcoming cloture vote
Its the only hope.
please give.
donate
Interesting. Hyperbolic. Didactic. Annoying. Celebratory. Style problems no way can it be copy/pasted, they alway go crazy with all those buttons up there in editor underlining, italic, yellow highlighting, bold, some all at once. This is the first pleasantly pleased sounding email that I recall.
Bringing It All Back Home
The "Made In America" movement is getting headlines again: 'Made In America' Revival Gathers Pace
Too little? Too late? or anti-globalist?
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And the original, written by Willie Dixon and performed by Sonny Boy Williamson II:
Too little? Too late? or anti-globalist?
_______________________________
And the original, written by Willie Dixon and performed by Sonny Boy Williamson II:
"Obama lies... about not having smoked in six years"
"President Barack Obama casually lied about his smoking today at the United Nations in a hot mic moment. The news quickly went viral, but few commentators have noted that Obama was flagrantly misstating his smoking history."
One of those commentators was Ann Althouse.
Daily Caller , Althouse
One of those commentators was Ann Althouse.
If you want to mock or criticize Obama here, I think the more sophisticated speculation not that he's revealed he's subservient and pusillanimous, but that this is misogyny or male chauvinism. Obama is using his wife — both as a stereotypical woman and as the caricature of her that we see in the media — to make points with another man. Michelle Obama is not there. It's a remark about her behind her back. She's not named, but called "my wife." And she's scary. He's not actually scared, just tapping an old sexist mindset...Back to the Daily Caller article.
The president said he hasn’t had a cigarette “probably six years,” but according to multiple well documented news reports he was still smoking as of at least late 2009 or early 2010."
Despite his claim to having had a cigarette in six years, Obama had one at least as recently as February 2010, according to Dr. Jeffrey Kuhlman, who performed a physical and who was quoted in the New York Times on February 28, 2010."
“I’ve said before that as a former smoker I constantly struggle with it. Have I fallen off the wagon sometimes? Yes. Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No,” he said at a press conference in 2009. “I don’t do it in front of my kids,” the president argued. “I don’t do it in front of my family. And, you know, I would say that I am 95 percent cured. But there are times where…There are times where I mess up.”
Daily Caller , Althouse
Dirty Old Town
I was originally going to post the Pogues' version of this song but this version from the songwriter presented instead. I wrongly had thought that the song was about Dublin but of course it's about Manchester, England.
I like the juxtaposition of optimistic love and grimy realism:
Cops: "Man Found Dead In Car Had Just Googled His Symptoms"
DETROIT (WWJ) A man was found dead in the parking lot of Grand Valley State University and police are searching Internet records to determine what killed him.
The body of the man, in his late 30s, was found inside a parked car. He wasn’t a student, but he had been inside the school shortly before he died.
The symptoms were pain and tightness of the chest and sweating.
“Maybe he thought he would just lay down for a minute and feel a little better, but unfortunately he passed away,” Merrill said.
Police believe the death was from natural causes.
CBS Detroit
The body of the man, in his late 30s, was found inside a parked car. He wasn’t a student, but he had been inside the school shortly before he died.
The symptoms were pain and tightness of the chest and sweating.
“Maybe he thought he would just lay down for a minute and feel a little better, but unfortunately he passed away,” Merrill said.
Police believe the death was from natural causes.
CBS Detroit
"An adult at 18? Not any more: Adolescence now ends at 25"
"Adolescence no longer ends when people hit 18, according to updated guidelines being given to child psychologists. The new directive is designed to extend the age range that child psychologists can work with from 18 years old up to 25."
There are now three stages of adolescence, according to the BBC report: early adolescence that ranges from 12 to 14 years, middle adolescence from 15 to 17 years and 18 and over is classed as late adolescence."
New scanning technology has made it possible for psychologists and other doctors to track how the brain changes and processes information."
MailOnline, BBC
There are now three stages of adolescence, according to the BBC report: early adolescence that ranges from 12 to 14 years, middle adolescence from 15 to 17 years and 18 and over is classed as late adolescence."
New scanning technology has made it possible for psychologists and other doctors to track how the brain changes and processes information."
MailOnline, BBC
Dublin canal
Becoming men. A man looks back on his youth, inner city Dublin hot summer days spent jumping in the canal.
friendly people
I do complain a lot about martinet types and their propensity for making rules. The secretary you know with the post-it note reminders to put the copier paper back in the tray and replace the toner just so, and the coffee machine rules of etiquette, filters, replacement and such. Those people all around. Given an inch, a mile taken. Fiefdoms everywhere here and there, building managers, park managers, all with a streak of control freak, and given real responsibilities, their dictator tendencies manifest. It's only natural.
By contrast all the people I meet face to face are perfectly lovely.
It's amazing. Today, a few errands, and I was so cheered by everyone I encountered. A word, a phrase, was all it took and every single person responded in a friendly and open and gracious way.
I am positioned equidistant between two King Soopers, a grocery store chain here in Colorado. Bean Soopers at 14th and Speer, and Queen Soopers at 9th and Corona, in the local jocular parlance. But don't mention I said that, it is probably not very nice. Parking is a mess at both places so I put off going. But what a delight when I finally do.
"Do you ever buy jumbo eggs?" Talk about random.
That's all it took. We're examining eggs and picking out the ones most probable to be double. A small group forms, we all agree double-yolk eggs are ace.
I'm blocking a woman and apologize, "I was rapt in the wonderful world of meats."
"Me too!"
"I told this guy I made a steak with blue cheese and he has them with blue cheese in it."
There was a big pile, we both bought some, delighted with the price, and the guy who works there goes, he actually goes, I never heard anything like this, "Thanks for buying my meats."
!
Then cheese. I particularly want Asiago and Gruyere and couldn't find them. It is a very long counter. The guy pointed so I went back, and right there he was, he walked around the entire length and back, so twice, four upon return, just to show me, then carefully explain their general placements. Exceedingly conversational.
"Your trolly is noisy."
"I know!"
See? I don't even have to be well behaved. The customer went on at length about how that would be a good job for somebody, keeping the wheels cleared.
And so on, to the vegetables and checkout. The most cheerful group of checkerouters I have ever encountered. Extraordinary teamwork. A person flew in to unload my cart, Another flew in to help the slow bagger. All four converged to make fast work of it, and exceedingly conversational besides, like a movie where the cartoons whistle while they work. Amazingly impressively cheerful like I live on Happy Planet.
Don't come here. You'll mess it up. Sorry. Its enchantment might not be transferrable.
I feel it important to acknowledge the impressively friendly people in this city. At the haircut place at paying I notice a group of people ready to do business with the receptionist all graciously move back and to the side to allow my passage as if choreographed by plain good manners. Bless all of them. When I talk to them directly about the things that upset me they agree. Although they are part of it. For instance, a woman filled out a form for me a very long one, and we got to the part about race and I said, "You know, that question, that whole line of questioning angers me. It's rude. And it is only government, City, Federal, that asks such rude questions. It's like AOL teenagers asking asl (age sex location) " And none of that changes year to year. And she agreed. When I talk about camera restrictions plus surveilance, they are appalled as I. So as much as I complain about having to provide the exact precise form the little retard needs because she cannot extrapolate from the information provided, no, she needs one exact form with the total even though it hasn't changed, I love them so, in reality, right down to it, they are all very sweet and nice and actually trying to do good in their way. This is a very friendly city.
By contrast all the people I meet face to face are perfectly lovely.
It's amazing. Today, a few errands, and I was so cheered by everyone I encountered. A word, a phrase, was all it took and every single person responded in a friendly and open and gracious way.
I am positioned equidistant between two King Soopers, a grocery store chain here in Colorado. Bean Soopers at 14th and Speer, and Queen Soopers at 9th and Corona, in the local jocular parlance. But don't mention I said that, it is probably not very nice. Parking is a mess at both places so I put off going. But what a delight when I finally do.
"Do you ever buy jumbo eggs?" Talk about random.
That's all it took. We're examining eggs and picking out the ones most probable to be double. A small group forms, we all agree double-yolk eggs are ace.
I'm blocking a woman and apologize, "I was rapt in the wonderful world of meats."
"Me too!"
"I told this guy I made a steak with blue cheese and he has them with blue cheese in it."
There was a big pile, we both bought some, delighted with the price, and the guy who works there goes, he actually goes, I never heard anything like this, "Thanks for buying my meats."
!
Then cheese. I particularly want Asiago and Gruyere and couldn't find them. It is a very long counter. The guy pointed so I went back, and right there he was, he walked around the entire length and back, so twice, four upon return, just to show me, then carefully explain their general placements. Exceedingly conversational.
"Your trolly is noisy."
"I know!"
See? I don't even have to be well behaved. The customer went on at length about how that would be a good job for somebody, keeping the wheels cleared.
And so on, to the vegetables and checkout. The most cheerful group of checkerouters I have ever encountered. Extraordinary teamwork. A person flew in to unload my cart, Another flew in to help the slow bagger. All four converged to make fast work of it, and exceedingly conversational besides, like a movie where the cartoons whistle while they work. Amazingly impressively cheerful like I live on Happy Planet.
Don't come here. You'll mess it up. Sorry. Its enchantment might not be transferrable.
I feel it important to acknowledge the impressively friendly people in this city. At the haircut place at paying I notice a group of people ready to do business with the receptionist all graciously move back and to the side to allow my passage as if choreographed by plain good manners. Bless all of them. When I talk to them directly about the things that upset me they agree. Although they are part of it. For instance, a woman filled out a form for me a very long one, and we got to the part about race and I said, "You know, that question, that whole line of questioning angers me. It's rude. And it is only government, City, Federal, that asks such rude questions. It's like AOL teenagers asking asl (age sex location) " And none of that changes year to year. And she agreed. When I talk about camera restrictions plus surveilance, they are appalled as I. So as much as I complain about having to provide the exact precise form the little retard needs because she cannot extrapolate from the information provided, no, she needs one exact form with the total even though it hasn't changed, I love them so, in reality, right down to it, they are all very sweet and nice and actually trying to do good in their way. This is a very friendly city.
Prof. Rahe,
so very heartening to have someone of your stature and influence speak up for us. As I watch this unfold, I'm more convinced that the GOP Establishment were well aware of the IRS targeting of Tea Party Groups was known and nothing was done because they thought Romney & Co. Would win and signal an end to Tea Party/Grass Roots tactics. Note that though this started in 2009, Congressional inquiries only started after Romney's loss ('need to throw the Rubes some red meat. Looks like we'll need them in2014'). If they force immigration on us in it's current, flawed form, that's it for me.Comment on ricochet
After Cruz Has Said His Piece...
In which Paul Rahe says among other observant things, .
...what Ted Cruz is doing -- is signaling to the discontented that there really is another way. They can vote Republican in 2014; and, if they do so big time, there will be a correction of course.
and
If they hate Ted Cruz -- if behind the scenes they are feeding the media attacks on him -- it is because he is threatening to throw a monkey wrench into the works. They hated the Tea Party. Initially, in 2009, they tried to dismiss it and get on with the process of surrendering to the Democrats on the healthcare question; and then, in August 2009, all hell broke loose in the town meetings, and Charles Grassley and the rest of them found that they had to back off.Another good contrary comment to that, I think:
Let's be clear about something. There is no such thing as "defunding" Obamacare. They only thing in Obamacare that requires "funding" is the subsidies. That also happens to be the only aspect of the law that is actually popular on a stand-alone basis.There are many very good comments over there, too many to nick, and you know what that is? That is a political science education right there. Better than the political science education I paid for at CU. This is better than that. Better, because that was taught by a little commie hippy chick,♪ hip,♪ hip,♪ hip, hip, hip, hip ♫hippy chick.
It seems to me that everyone who is supporting Cruz is doing so based on the belief that he will fail (which, I admit, is correct). If Cruz actually succeeded, somehow, almost all of Obamacare would continue in force - the taxes, the mandates, all the stuff that doesn't require "funding."
I think Cruz is throwing Obama a lifeline. If Obama had the brains God gave a gnat, he would recognize that Obamacare is going to be an epic fail, and would take this opportunity to accept a "defunding" deal that would permit him to blame Republicans for the failure. Meanwhile, Obamacare would continue to be the law, and Democrats would offer a stand-alone bill to provide subsidies to poor people, which would be overwhelmingly popular and would undo the so-called defunding.
If you oppose Obamacare, be grateful that Cruz has no hope here.
That was my first class at CU and I knew straight off it was poo. The very first clue was the professor, assistant, I suppose, was trying to promote class participation and attempting to get the class to think of things that would get people worked up politically. A student suggested, "the environment." She latched onto that for discussion and gave the class the phrase, "treat the Earth like a sink," but nobody actually said that. She did. So when resuming to list on the blackboard the classes' suggestion, up went the phrase she provided not anything a student said. "treat Earth like sink" instead of "environmental concerns."
The text began with Engles and Marx. So did Psychology. So did writing 101. So did Spanish 101. So did Econ 101. And I'm thinking, Jeeze, these lovely people are trying to impress my impressionable little mind. I'm like putty over here and they're messing with me. Putty with a funnel top. Just pour stuff in and squish it around, I'll sort it.
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