“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."
Well, I gotta go spend some more of youse guys money. I dread going to the V.A. All I'm getting is a co-pay on some generic drugs; I'm not sure it's worth the time, and drive. I may get off youall's teat.
I heard on the radio whilst driving this morning that US federal and state debt is 94% of GDP. Greece is somthing like 124% and Spain 60% or so (speaking off of the top of my head) but I was rather stunned by the rather large proportion of US debt. I did a quick google and wiki had it at 87%. Still, that's baaddd folks.
How do you get out from under all that debt? Increase in taxes, growth, and slash spending seem to be the only hope. Population growth might help in the long term, but hey, who want immigrants anyway?
Once the bond markets finish with the PIIGS, and Britain it seems, they could come a huntin' the US. Turbulence ahead...
“…In April 2006 the cost for each F-22A is assessed by the Government Accountability Office to be $361 million per aircraft.
By the time all 183 jets have been purchased, around $28 billion will have been spent on research and development, with an additional $34 billion spent on actually procuring the aircraft. This will result in a cost of about $339 million per aircraft including program…”
Originally, the USAF sought 750 units, having an expertly projected per unit cost of about $107,000,000.00 per copy.
Unit cost has risen to approximately $373,000,000.00 per plane.
Had the original USAF order been procured, the cost would have been in the range of $279,000,000,000.00.
No nefarious Skull and Bones conspiracy is needed to explain the F-22's current plight: The country cannot afford it and interest on the national debt.
Another lesson may be taken from the F-22 program: Government projections are worth approximately 0.
"Program acquisition unit cost has doubled, from $149 million in $345 million in 2005."
F-22 Raptor Cost
"Do the arithmetic: $64.540/184 = $350.1. Total program unit price for one F-22, what approximates the "sticker price," is $350 million per copy."
What Does an F-22 Cost?
" Ergo, the total program unit cost is not $350 million each, it's $394 million, assuming Young is correct."
Real cost of an F-22?
Thu Apr 29, 08:40:00 AM EDT
To date five (5) reliable links have been provided. If necessary, at least six (6) corroborating GAO reports could be linked.
As to GAO, since its first published apprehension in 1988, GAO's rhetoric has escalated as the cost overruns of the F-22 have escalated. Note the passage of 22 years and four (4) presidents.
It's my Blessed Idaho Fish and Game Department and and the wolf reintroduction program all over again. The wolves have now crossed the Snake River and are into the Wallowas, and in Areas 8 and 10, here, the elk are at below reproduction levels. That's the good news. If they get up into the Selkirks, the few remaining Mountain Caribou are finished. Bless, bless the Idaho Fish and Game Department, and the environmental groups.
"Investors were unsettled by perceptions that European leaders have not yet shown they can contain the fallout from Greece’s problems, as well as the political resistance in Germany to using taxpayer money for a rescue...
"In an effort to show unity, European Union governments may hold a summit meeting May 10 to discuss releasing aid to Greece, according to an E.U. official who was knowledgeable about the ongoing talks on the matter, but who declined to be identified because the date was not yet confirmed..."
It's not incidental to note that Germany has elections set for May 9.
Those who feel that some type of agreement on the Greek debt issue would have been resolved by now if Merkel didn't have election worries may be right.
For any who still think there is any possibility that Iran won't eventually develop the bomb.
"It's incredible the administration is asking for exemptions, under the table and winking and nodding, before the legislation is signed into law," Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Republican and a conference committee member, said in an interview.
"A White House official confirmed Wednesday that the administration was pushing the conference committee to adopt the exemption of "cooperating countries" in the legislation.
"Mrs. Ros-Lehtinen, however, said the exemption "is aimed at China and Russia specifically."
"The administration wants to give a pass to countries for merely supporting a watered-down, almost do-nothing U.N. resolution," she said."
Belgium bans burqa-type dress in public (actully it still needs to be approved by their Senate)
'"Like elsewhere in Europe, Belgium struggles with anxieties that visible signs of Islam erode national identity and that women in traditional conservative Islamic dress, such as the burqa, the chador and the niqab, signal a refusal to assimilate in western society..."
Tomorrow, we start seeing pictures of that oil slick washing up onto Louisiana. Dying seabirds, talk about the oyters, and fisheries.
In a week, or two, we'll see the goo coming onto the pristine, white beaches of Pensacola, and the panhandle. The Flying Fecal Matter will hit the Harmonic, Rotating, Blade.
Thunderhorse, and Neptune are producing at about 50% of what was expected; Jack will probably never show a profit, and the Brazilians are "reevaluatng" Tupi. Meanwhile, we're stalled out (and, have been for 5 yrs.) in the 73 million barrel/day range.
China is upping consumption about a Million bpd/yr; and if you add in India, the rest of the Asian/Pacific, and the OPEC countries you're probably looking at 2 mbpd increase in demand, annually.
Meanwhile, DDCE, Poet, and Novozymes are continuing to insist they can turn switchgrass, and other cellulose into ethanol for about $2.00/gal.
They're doing it at "demonstration" scale, at Vonore, Tn, and Scotland SD. Also, Inbicon has 6 plants, I believe, operating "doing it" in Denmark.
In case you're wondering, Q, there's not nearly the worry over "scale up" in the fermentation/enzyme technology as there is in the "Gassification" technology. Scaling up gassification is very hard (and, expensive;) scaling up fermentation doesn't deal with the Great amounts of heat that are required in the Fischer Trop (sp) Thermo/chemical process.
Thus, A Demo plant in the enzyme/fermentation process (that's what Dupont, Poet, and Novozymes do) is much more likely to "scale" w/o nasty surprises than, say, Range's Gasifiction process.
After weeks of speculation surrounding one of the nation's most compelling political contests, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced today he will leave the Republican Party to pursue an independent campaign for Senate.
Democrats in Congress, trying to harness newfound energy from activists and Latino anger at a new Arizona immigration law, are working to advance an overhaul of immigration laws but treading carefully given complex politics ...
April 29 (Bloomberg) -- The worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may alter President Barack Obama’s five-year plan to open new areas to offshore oil and natural gas drilling, administration officials said today.
“Obviously, what’s occurring now will also be taken into consideration as the administration looks to how to advance that plan and what makes sense and what might need to be adjusted,” said Carol Browner, Obama’s adviser for energy and climate change. “We need to learn from the incident.”
Thanks, Deuce. Do you have a link to the video. I can't see it.
ReplyDeleteWell, there's your "Best and Brightest" at work, folks.
How did someone on this blog put it? "I just don't understand the work of my "Betters?"
for Rufus' eyes only
ReplyDeleteI used an anagram for a joke, but it did not read the way I intended, so I took it down.
ReplyDeleteOh, thanks, again. I got tears in my eyes. That's the guys I've known, and loved.
ReplyDeleteLife would not have been the same without time in the military, assuming you didn't get shot, killed or maimed.
ReplyDeleteWell, I gotta go spend some more of youse guys money. I dread going to the V.A. All I'm getting is a co-pay on some generic drugs; I'm not sure it's worth the time, and drive. I may get off youall's teat.
ReplyDelete"Operation R.U.F.U.S." - Perfect.
I heard on the radio whilst driving this morning that US federal and state debt is 94% of GDP. Greece is somthing like 124% and Spain 60% or so (speaking off of the top of my head) but I was rather stunned by the rather large proportion of US debt. I did a quick google and wiki had it at 87%. Still, that's baaddd folks.
ReplyDeleteHow do you get out from under all that debt? Increase in taxes, growth, and slash spending seem to be the only hope. Population growth might help in the long term, but hey, who want immigrants anyway?
Once the bond markets finish with the PIIGS, and Britain it seems, they could come a huntin' the US. Turbulence ahead...
“…In April 2006 the cost for each F-22A is assessed by the Government Accountability Office to be $361 million per aircraft.
ReplyDeleteBy the time all 183 jets have been purchased, around $28 billion will have been spent on research and development, with an additional $34 billion spent on actually procuring the aircraft. This will result in a cost of about $339 million per aircraft including program…”
Procurement and Sales via Electronic Aviation
allen said...
ReplyDeleteRe: F-22
Originally, the USAF sought 750 units, having an expertly projected per unit cost of about $107,000,000.00 per copy.
Unit cost has risen to approximately $373,000,000.00 per plane.
Had the original USAF order been procured, the cost would have been in the range of $279,000,000,000.00.
No nefarious Skull and Bones conspiracy is needed to explain the F-22's current plight: The country cannot afford it and interest on the national debt.
Another lesson may be taken from the F-22 program: Government projections are worth approximately 0.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgbBLKet14E&feature=related
Tue Apr 27, 11:27:00 PM EDT
allen said...
F-22 (non-Wiki)
"Program acquisition unit cost has doubled, from $149 million in $345 million in 2005."
F-22 Raptor Cost
"Do the arithmetic: $64.540/184 = $350.1. Total program unit price for one F-22, what approximates the "sticker price," is $350 million per copy."
What Does an F-22 Cost?
" Ergo, the total program unit cost is not $350 million each, it's $394 million, assuming Young is correct."
Real cost of an F-22?
Thu Apr 29, 08:40:00 AM EDT
To date five (5) reliable links have been provided. If necessary, at least six (6) corroborating GAO reports could be linked.
As to GAO, since its first published apprehension in 1988, GAO's rhetoric has escalated as the cost overruns of the F-22 have escalated. Note the passage of 22 years and four (4) presidents.
It's my Blessed Idaho Fish and Game Department and and the wolf reintroduction program all over again. The wolves have now crossed the Snake River and are into the Wallowas, and in Areas 8 and 10, here, the elk are at below reproduction levels. That's the good news. If they get up into the Selkirks, the few remaining Mountain Caribou are finished. Bless, bless the Idaho Fish and Game Department, and the environmental groups.
ReplyDeleteFrom the NYT;
ReplyDelete"Investors were unsettled by perceptions that European leaders have not yet shown they can contain the fallout from Greece’s problems, as well as the political resistance in Germany to using taxpayer money for a rescue...
"In an effort to show unity, European Union governments may hold a summit meeting May 10 to discuss releasing aid to Greece, according to an E.U. official who was knowledgeable about the ongoing talks on the matter, but who declined to be identified because the date was not yet confirmed..."
It's not incidental to note that Germany has elections set for May 9.
Those who feel that some type of agreement on the Greek debt issue would have been resolved by now if Merkel didn't have election worries may be right.
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It seems the pesky German public are not very keen on sending money to the Greeks...
ReplyDelete...but if the bailout package were not to happen...
...even if it does
yiiikes!
EXCLUSIVE: U.N. Elects Iran to Commission on Women's Rights
ReplyDeleteVirgin Girls Raped Before Execution in Iran [including a nine year-old]
...the law of nations...
For any who still think there is any possibility that Iran won't eventually develop the bomb.
ReplyDelete"It's incredible the administration is asking for exemptions, under the table and winking and nodding, before the legislation is signed into law," Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Republican and a conference committee member, said in an interview.
"A White House official confirmed Wednesday that the administration was pushing the conference committee to adopt the exemption of "cooperating countries" in the legislation.
"Mrs. Ros-Lehtinen, however, said the exemption "is aimed at China and Russia specifically."
"The administration wants to give a pass to countries for merely supporting a watered-down, almost do-nothing U.N. resolution," she said."
The Hypocrisy is Palpable
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European Debt_Possible Domino Scenario
ReplyDeleteInteractive. Keep pushing button to move dominoes.
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Belgium bans burqa-type dress in public (actully it still needs to be approved by their Senate)
ReplyDelete'"Like elsewhere in Europe, Belgium struggles with anxieties that visible signs of Islam erode national identity and that women in traditional conservative Islamic dress, such as the burqa, the chador and the niqab, signal a refusal to assimilate in western society..."
Differences Will Not Be Tolerated in the EU, PC Champion of Tolerance
Muslim culture runs into Europe's PC culture.
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Tomorrow, we start seeing pictures of that oil slick washing up onto Louisiana. Dying seabirds, talk about the oyters, and fisheries.
ReplyDeleteIn a week, or two, we'll see the goo coming onto the pristine, white beaches of Pensacola, and the panhandle. The Flying Fecal Matter will hit the Harmonic, Rotating, Blade.
Thunderhorse, and Neptune are producing at about 50% of what was expected; Jack will probably never show a profit, and the Brazilians are "reevaluatng" Tupi. Meanwhile, we're stalled out (and, have been for 5 yrs.) in the 73 million barrel/day range.
China is upping consumption about a Million bpd/yr; and if you add in India, the rest of the Asian/Pacific, and the OPEC countries you're probably looking at 2 mbpd increase in demand, annually.
Meanwhile, DDCE, Poet, and Novozymes are continuing to insist they can turn switchgrass, and other cellulose into ethanol for about $2.00/gal.
Good Grief! What does it take?
Perhaps seeing them do it.
ReplyDelete.
They're doing it at "demonstration" scale, at Vonore, Tn, and Scotland SD. Also, Inbicon has 6 plants, I believe, operating "doing it" in Denmark.
ReplyDeleteIn case you're wondering, Q, there's not nearly the worry over "scale up" in the fermentation/enzyme technology as there is in the "Gassification" technology. Scaling up gassification is very hard (and, expensive;) scaling up fermentation doesn't deal with the Great amounts of heat that are required in the Fischer Trop (sp) Thermo/chemical process.
Thus, A Demo plant in the enzyme/fermentation process (that's what Dupont, Poet, and Novozymes do) is much more likely to "scale" w/o nasty surprises than, say, Range's Gasifiction process.
Keep us informed. Let me know when they are doing it at a scale that is affecting me.
ReplyDeleteWe all want to save money.
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USA Today -
ReplyDeleteAfter weeks of speculation surrounding one of the nation's most compelling political contests, Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced today he will leave the Republican Party to pursue an independent campaign for Senate.
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ReplyDeleteFederal attorneys are examining legal options to prevent the strict new rules from taking effect this summer.
A team of top government lawyers has quietly begun studying legal ...
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ReplyDeleteDemocrats in Congress, trying to harness newfound energy from activists and Latino anger at a new Arizona immigration law, are working to advance an overhaul of immigration laws but treading carefully given complex politics ...
April 29 (Bloomberg) -- The worsening oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico may alter President Barack Obama’s five-year plan to open new areas to offshore oil and natural gas drilling, administration officials said today.
ReplyDelete“Obviously, what’s occurring now will also be taken into consideration as the administration looks to how to advance that plan and what makes sense and what might need to be adjusted,” said Carol Browner, Obama’s adviser for energy and climate change.
“We need to learn from the incident.”
2019.09.18八大行業大多主攻男性市場，不過最近知名酒店經紀梁曉尊，要打進女性消費圈，推出「酒店兼差一週」韓國歐巴來坐檯，號稱每一位都是韓國男模，由於中南部少有牛郎店，平時被男客消費的酒店小姐沒有地方紓壓，得知韓國歐巴要來，讓南部酒店小姐瞬間淪陷，台南市移民署第一服務站指出，目前已將進行政治部調查，查看是否違反移民法。據酒店經紀了解，業者號稱韓國歐巴都是男模級，在預約前可以看到個人自拍照以及身高、體重、陰莖(老二)尺度照片，但要找韓國歐爸坐檯消費可不便宜，除了坐檯費還要付包廂費與酒錢，包廂一共有5間，奢華級的包廂要價8000元，而韓國歐巴的檯費一個小時就要3000元，酒錢另算，但自從推出歐巴坐檯後，造成轟動，不少酒店妹要揪團包場，預約時間排滿滿。有消費者透露，做韓國歐巴的檯，可以將歐巴包出場，但一次就要包兩個牛郎，一次要3小時起跳，因為業者會擔心牛郎在外場的安全，另外也有提供俗稱「勾」舔盤的性服務，但至少要來消費兩次，才有機會可以嘗試陰部按摩費用1次5000元。
ReplyDelete2019.10.11 酒店上班類型多，酒店工作求職者尋職時不一定都能了解職務內容，台北知名酒店經紀公司為大學生、上班族酒店兼差就業通特別製作影片，邀請八大行業職場酒店小姐闡述工作甘苦並給予尋職建議，盼助酒店打工求職者找到適合工作。台灣社會有許多職業，許多求職者往往不瞭解酒店工作內容前往求職，才發現與想像中不同。知名酒店經紀梁小尊/梁曉尊指出，求職者常嚮往看似光鮮亮麗的工作，但其實這些工作背後，卻往往有著難以想像的辛苦。為了避免在學大學生以及上班族兩大族群渴望酒店兼職求職者對職務期待有所落差，八大行業酒店經紀公司特別規劃製作「框出陪睡(性交易)」職業介紹影片，透過拍攝各行各業職場酒店小姐一日的工作內容，讓對這些職業有興趣與志向的求職者及大學生新鮮人更了解八大行業酒店上班產業趨勢與職務工作內容，做好求職前的準備工作。
ReplyDelete2019.10.24酒店上班類型多，酒店工作求職者尋職時不一定都能了解職務接S(陪睡性交易)內容，台北知名酒店經紀公司為大學生、上班族酒店兼差就業特別製作應徵就業影片，邀請全國各地八大行業職場酒店小姐闡述工作甘苦並給予尋職建議，盼助酒店打工求職者找到適合工作。台灣有許多職業，許多求職者往往不瞭解酒店工作內容前往求職，才發現與想像中不同。知名酒店經紀梁曉尊/梁小尊指出:求職者常嚮往看似光鮮亮麗的酒店工作，但其實這些工作背後，卻往往有著難以想像的辛苦。為了避免在學大學生以及上班族兩大族群渴望酒店兼職求職者對職務期待有所落差，八大行業酒店經紀公司特別規劃製作「框出陪睡(性交易)」職業介紹影片，透過拍攝各行各業職場酒店小姐一日的工作內容，讓對這些職業有興趣與志向的求職者及大學生新鮮人更了解八大行業酒店上班產業趨勢與職務工作內容，做好求職前的準備工作。
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