This World is Going to Hell in A Rocketship.
In case there is any doubt about whether we are engaged in a religious war, this reminder comes from Iraq where the Islamic Army has taken credit for an assault on a munitions depot. The Islamic Army? They couldn't make themselves any clearer.
Here's the clear word, from the Army chief of staff, Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, that the U.S. Army has plans that would keep the current level of troops in Iraq about 15 brigades through 2010, the top Army officer said Wednesday. This time frame accounts for the two years left in the Bush administration plus two years that a cut and run Commander-in-Chief might require.
In another part of the world, Allah's warriors have once again attacked in the Phillipines.
The Religion of Peace is also making the headlines as some Europeans are having second thoughts about the multi-culti mindset.
Across Europe, Worries on Islam Spread to CenterBy DAN BILEFSKY and IAN FISHER
Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: more people in the political mainstream are arguing that Islam cannot be reconciled with European values.
"You saw what happened with the pope," said Patrick Gonman, 43, the owner of Raga, a funky wine bar in downtown
Rationality is gone.
Mr. Gonman is hardly an extremist. In fact, he organized a protest last week in which 20 bars and restaurants closed on the night when a far-right party with an anti-Muslim message held a rally nearby.
This action by Turkey won't do much to ease the Euro fears:
ANKARA, Turkey (AP), Turkey called Monday on the European Union to oppose French legislation that would outlaw denials that World War I-era killings of Armenians amounted to genocide.
It's being reported that the Euros are going to give Putin hell over this week's murder of a journalist reporting on the Chechen wars.
The head of Germany's parliamentary human rights committee, Herta Daeubler-Gmelin, said Putin had to provide answers about the killing in the next two months or face "the consequences."Now they can question him about a "contract style" murder of a Russian banker.
Russia's financial community was shocked last month by the murder of deputy central bank chief Andrei Kozlov in a gangland-style assassination.We know what European consequences amount to. Putin, no doubt is quaking in his boots.
State-owned Vneshtorgbank is planning an initial public offering.
Over in jolly old England at the Independent, they're worried that a 300 million US population will spell the end of mankind.
While some excuse Kim Jong-Il's pursuit of a nuclear deterrent due to fear of George Bush, the Democrats and Republicans are blaming each other.
Bush has once again said that the US has no plans to attack North Korea and Iran's looney leader says he is being bullied while a real bully threatens 'War' over sanctions.
Appeasing the Evil Dictator
"The US - with five per cent of the world's population - uses 23 per cent of its energy, 15 per cent of its meat and 28 per cent of its paper."
ReplyDeleteLast time I checked, that 23% wasn't the world's energy, it was generated by American dams and nuke plants in America. That 15% wasn't the world's meat, it was fed by Iowa corn and raised in America. That 28% wasn't the world's paper, it came from American alder and was milled in America.
We lost the Mac the Fac?
ReplyDeleteSeemed like a hell of a guy.
Amen--someone ought to find a list of output per consumption.
ReplyDeletewhat is 14 trillion divided by 300 million?
ReplyDeleteInteresting about the 4 years. That's about the time frame the Israeli military says their missile defense systems will be fully operational.
ReplyDeleteWe get flacked over our energy use, but what we produce per unit of energy is very high. I can't find the article, but we are up there. Not piggishness, but efficiency and output. That's like whipping on a housebuilder for using more lumber than your hamster.
ReplyDeleteJPost: Israel unopposed to building of 5th Temple Mount minaret
ReplyDeleteThe other minarets include three near the Western Wall and one near the northern wall. The first minaret was constructed on the southwest corner of the Temple Mount in 1278. The second was built in 1297 by order of a Mameluke king, the third by a governor of Jerusalem in 1329, and the last in 1367.
Standing by the timeless principles--regardless of the atmospherics of the moment. That's why Israel is Israel.
ReplyDeletemac will be bac
ReplyDeleteBuddy,
ReplyDeleteI'd like the US to start producing a 200hp 1.8L engine for SUVs. In Europe a 1.8L engine is considered a big engine.
Honda is already producing a 197-hp, 2.0-Liter, DOHC i-VTEC® 4-Cylinder Engine. So we're not that far off.
ReplyDeleteThe stock Civic is already a popular rally car, they tell me.
ReplyDeleteThe running dog lackeys oppress the peoples of the world. They use resouces not of their own and in return pay slave labor.
ReplyDeleteTake the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own.
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
The contradictions between ourselves and the enemy are antagonistic contradictions. Within the ranks of the people, the contradictions among the working people are non-antagonistic, while those between the exploited and the exploiting classes have a non-antagonistic aspect in addition to an antagonistic aspect.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
What about Maynard G. Krebs? "WORK!"
ReplyDeleteThe International
ReplyDeleteArise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We'll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
Refrain:
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we'll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They'll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We'll shoot the generals on our own side.
No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E'er the thieves will out with their booty
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at the forge must do their duty
And we'll strike while the iron is hot
Just thought I'd throw in some Mao for the evenings session ...know your enemy type stuff.
ReplyDeleteAnd Rufus,
ReplyDeleteIt's a latex room brother!!
The power of a gun barrel, that always gives Mao away. One of his best truisms.
ReplyDeleteKid's 2.5 Subaru puts out well over 300 hp.
ReplyDelete...at least it did before he blew it up.
Now he has a bum knee to match his bum turbo!
Perhaps he'll learn!
I'm allergic to latex,
ReplyDeletewhat else does the bar stock?
Wouldn't want to irritate the old gun barrel.
ReplyDeletePart of the Communist Manifesto & closely allied to the Democratic Party Platform
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the state.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.
Doug,
ReplyDeleteEngineers got a 1000 hp out of the Ford Ecotec 4 banger at Bonneville..what a hand granade
There's about 50 quotable lines in that Phelps article. It's really great.
ReplyDeleteThe first engine ever to get one hp per lb of wt--the Wright-Cyclone R something or other, mounted in the Chance-Vought F4U Corsair.
ReplyDeleteEach according to their need:
ReplyDelete"If I am elected, there will be a 1000hp Ford Ecotec and a McClaren Mercedes in every garage."
How about some Nork Pie?
ReplyDeleteYou can bet most of them would be appreciative of the gifts we'd ply them with.
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A Big Mac!
What can I do for you, honey?
me, too, rufus--i've been everything but a Nazi Communist KKK. Give us time, we'll get there, Mr. Mao.
ReplyDeletebuddy, you'll just love the new thread at BC, it's right up your favorite President's rectum.
ReplyDeleteBuddy,
ReplyDeletePratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp
F4U Double Wasp Engine
A communist is just a liberal in a hurry.
ReplyDeleteWhile duece would appreciate the Westhawk post on Russian behaviour.
ReplyDeleteLet me guess--his deceitful NYT article?
ReplyDelete"Deceit" (n) the purposeful withholding of pertinent information.
Of course--Pratt & Whitney. My dumbass--the Wright-Cyclone was the other big radial.
ReplyDeleteYou'd get more Nork Nooki per bushel than any E-85 would get Miles per bushel!
ReplyDeleteMore than you'd might want.
ReplyDeleteI'd imagine the NorK ladies would smell a bit more sour then their southern sophisticated cousins, who were not all that sweet.
Farm women have rough surfaces, for sure.
ReplyDeleteHey, look at this neat graphic:
Tiger and Kim-chi Pie.
ReplyDeletethe last gal in the establishment is automatically beautiful
ReplyDeleteEthanol Dreams.
ReplyDeleteJust when you think Wacko Jacko hit bottom...
ReplyDelete"...his spokesman claimed it was a
simple mistake - Jackson was unable to read the Arabic sign saying 'Ladies'."
Ethyl had Fred Mertz dreams
ReplyDeleteBefore we got rid of our Nukes, we didn't talk about Nork Nooki, either.
ReplyDeleteBuddy,
ReplyDeleteThat is a neat graphic. If it were hung outside a North Beach bar in San Fransisco the place would be pack'in.
Rufus,
ReplyDeleteIf he's eat'n kim chee pie it ain't what we think it is...
Gimme another shot barkeep
ReplyDeletehabu, you axed for the truth over on BC and I gave it to ya.
ReplyDelete*Slides hot toddy down to habu*
ReplyDelete*erp*
ReplyDeleteBuddy
ReplyDeleteSay what ya mean an mean what ya say..ya done good
plus I was just stir'n up trouble
"PossumDeiter"--jeeziz kee-rist--
ReplyDeleteBuddy,
ReplyDeleteI've always been interested in engines F1, double over head cam fours ,but that graphic helped me understand the radial better than anything I've run across..neat
Buddy Larsen said...
ReplyDelete"PossumDeiter"--jeeziz kee-rist--
I thought it was funny, and creative...they say there's np greater flattery than imitation, but I guess that was morpo-prostitution
systembullshit initialisms SbI.......hey I like that
ReplyDeletethe graphic--yes, me too--I finally understood how those old flyboys would talk about flying home with "cylinders shot out" Seeing how the rods wobble made it all come clear.
ReplyDeletebobalharb..me too..but I like the sound of cascade effect and of course anything with assymmetric warfare sounds damned impressive
ReplyDeleteBuddy,
ReplyDeleteMy Dad was flying into MCAS Cherry Point in an F4U and when he turned it off one of the crew chiefs said"Major, that engine doesn't sound right"...they inspected and found that one of the exhaust manifolds had a hole in it that was hitting the gas tank, which was behind the engine and in front of the pilot..lucky day for Dad.
Asymmetric in understanding only.
ReplyDeleteCascading "staying" seems to say it all about US
congress is going to provider a plunger for Iraq
help us break it up and get things moving again
Dont Stop
Thinkin bout
Tomorrow
That CWO is certainly easier to wield that the civilization it attacks.
ReplyDeletebobalharb...the secret is when you're outtta words and thoughts just go to cutt'n and paste'n and soon the creative juices set in..either that or sleep
ReplyDeleteDR,
ReplyDeleteI'm with ya..can I bring a gun?
By the time it gets here, bobal, it's "today" again. "Tomorrow" never comes. Blows my mind.
ReplyDeleteemergent cascade do-da-do-da
ReplyDeleteCascade
anything better than renaming the clog
ReplyDeletedoug eats a hawaiian pizza with bad ham and renames the cresting overflow "sunshine"
Or you could bring fiber and try to dump that down the drain. Call that aid.
Or you could bring your gun, habu, sure. make a whole mess of porcelain and the bathroom wont ever be useable again.
metric paradigm
ReplyDeleteexploring emergence an essay at MIT
ReplyDeleteChaos-Wand-Operations or CWO.
ReplyDeleteSay how much latte can a fella get outa one o them thangs?
Cascade
ReplyDeleteCascade
ReplyDeletepersonal favorite
Dang ,Dr, you and Buddy are gonna get 1st place at the Cucamonga Science Fair.
ReplyDeletecascading emergent metric research generator
ReplyDeleteOnce a bunch of my drunk frat brothers created a cascade off the house balcony..does that count?
ReplyDeletesee paper
ReplyDelete"Our method is related to research into reliable technology, stochastic symmetries, and the deployment of the memory bus [2,17]. Sasaki and Sato suggested a scheme for investigating the exploration of the lookaside buffer, but did not fully realize the implications of introspective symmetries at the time. Instead of architecting metamorphic methodologies, we fix this question simply by simulating homogeneous technology. New encrypted information proposed by Wilson et al. fails to address several key issues that our system does overcome [13]. While we have nothing against the previous method by Noam Chomsky et al., we do not believe that method is applicable to theory."
ReplyDeleteHere in the east it's later than it was when it wasn't so far east so I'm go'in ta bed.
ReplyDeletehave a great night gentlemen, always enjoy the conversation. Thx
Dogfooding Sizar...damn near woke me up
ReplyDeleteOk..just keep it up and I'm go'in for Tom Swift
ReplyDeleteYep--sleepy--guess i'll go take off my boots and jacket. Sell ya later--
ReplyDelete"I'm good with a bow and arrow," said Tom, archly.
ReplyDeleteok...
ReplyDeleteSome clarification of the problem. The
dilation/compression factor, alpha, for a constant speed between source
and target is given by alpha = (1-beta)/(1+beta) where beta = V/c. In
Kelly's paper he derives an expression by basically using a Taylor
series for the round trip delay between the radar (source) and the
target. His expression is basically alpha' = alpha - A*t/c/(1+beta)^3.
Where A is the uniform acceleration as measured in the radar frame and
t is the duration of the radar signal or period of acceleration. If I
assume a period of acceleration of T then I would expect that the
alpha' should be equal to
(1-(beta+A*T/c))/(1+(beta+A*T/c)). However, these two expressions are
not equal. Kelly's derivation makes sense to me but the check for the
alpha factor at the end of the acceleration does not. I have tried to
expand the alpha expression using a Taylor series and do not get
Kelly's result. (Not that I would necessarily expect to but that would
have been nice.) I also tried integrating the derivative of alpha over
the T second interval. Since the alpha value is theoritically correct
and exact I would have thought that using a Taylor series expansion to
account for the acceleration would work. This seems like a simple
enough problem that should have a ready made answer. I guess I will
have to get serious and try the accelerated frame derivation using
standard STR.
America the Beautiful
ReplyDeleteAmerica the Beautiful
Words by Katharine Lee Bates,
Melody by Samuel Ward
MIDI sequencing provided by Melody Lane
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for halcyon skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the enameled plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till souls wax fair as earth and air
And music-hearted sea!
O beautiful for pilgrims feet,
Whose stem impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till paths be wrought through
wilds of thought
By pilgrim foot and knee!
O beautiful for glory-tale
Of liberating strife
When once and twice,
for man's avail
Men lavished precious life!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!
Check out Sen. Harry Reid's 1.1 million dollar land deal on MSNBC....broke a lot of Senate Rules and perhaps the law..this will be big
ReplyDeleteWhit, some years ago I read of a fake scientific paper that had won some sort of legitimate award. It was a set-up all the way, the perps were exposing the misuse of 'jargon'--and it worked. So, in trying to find the paper, I googled 'fake scientific paper', and there was the site you asked about.
ReplyDeleteSystemBS is onto something--besides morroccan hash that is. I think the message is "in life, we all need an editor".
Actually, SysBS, I read every word seven or eight times, and I think it has changed my life.
ReplyDeleteI really like the tiny cyrstalline dancing worlds. (watch that Oh-Pee-Um, tho)
ReplyDeletebuddy larsen,
ReplyDeleteA thesis always comes in handy, without attempting to stifle creativity.
There's a rat in the hen house.
ReplyDeleteSome devilish dog is using my moniker, not all that badly, but never the less....
Some blogger savy impersonator with a sense of humor.
That's a toughie--somebody was doing that to me, too, in WSJ Opinion Journal comments. A liberal, too, no less! I complained to James Taranto, who expunged the guy--he said he'd watch out for him, if he tried it again.
ReplyDeleteWhich of yours are bogus, rat?
ReplyDelete