Incentives for breeding? “Babies Are Kew-el”
How about a 5GW campaign against birth control quality?
Personally, I am a bit hesitant around small children (they seem fragile and I don’t want them to break around me. Once they turn three-ish and can talk. Then they become interesting (amusing + programmable).
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Hot Air outtakes! Note to freaks: It does not included an extended version of her “Jump” vepisode.
“John Stamos is here, and he is pissed”
Any attempts to do-it-all-from-within are–I argue yet again–doomed to failure. A US Army expecting to have to go-it-alone on future COIN will never sustain itself, nor will it be sustained by the American public, which already–I believe–realize the illogic of both our military-centric and government-centric approach to nation-building in Iraq (a term that sucks, because in conjures images of militaries and government bureaucracies and never quite seems to extend–much like this paper–into economics beyond a sad, sort of mimimalist, dependencia form of market development, which–again–I argue just won’t do in this globalized economy in terms of pulling failed states into the Core over time).
John Robb is having problems with NetFlix
I have good experiences with Netflix, quick turnaround
I thought I would use it for the blockbuster movies I missed. They tuned out to be mostly bad though. Mostly I use it for smaller films and for entire seasons of TV shows like HBO-type ones I have never seen: Deadwood, The Wire, Oz, Odyssey, The Sorporanos.
I do occasionally increase my number at one time up and down. I am two right now, usually at three,and have been at four for awhile.
I go to movies far less then I used too. I rarely rent anymore.
“Mercifully Short”: John Robb notes a quality much overlooked in social science books
“Is Iran seeking a monopoly on global Islamic terrorism? According to the UK’s Daily Telegraph, the Iranian government has been quietly slithering into the upper echelons of Al Qaeda, and are actively trying to install “their guy” as Bin Laden’s successor.”
PNM Moment: Function Or Side-Effect? Mitigateable?
“As I’ve noted many times, the states most reliant on the exporting of one or two raw materials, especially energy, tend to be the most corrupt and the most authoritarian. Anything that easy to control gets over-controlled, even though that approach remains the slowest way to grow an economy. So getting out of the Gap is first and foremost a function of getting FDI that diversifies your economic base. But yeah, corruption scares that money off, which is why the Gap ain’t going away without some real effort.”
More Bad Times Ahead for Sudan
The rainy season has just ended in northwestern Sudan—now killing can recommence in earnest. Two months ago, we warned that inaction in Darfur was tantamount to a “countdown to genocide” with the impending termination at the end of September of the mandate for the relatively ineffectual peacekeepers of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS).
Dept of Peace? IS this the SysAdmin Department or the Lefty Academic Full Employment Act?
The Anchoress on American Culture…
Bugs took down every pretentious elitist by mocking them, he jeered at Hilter. Daffy Duck’s pretensions and greed made us look at ourselves with both critical understanding and shrugging self-forgiveness. Watching him grasp and splatter his way through life, we could be a little more generous with each other – we recognised a human condition.
American culture has always been – up until pretty recently – a culture that could laugh at itself, even as it took on heavy responsibilities. From the earliest revolutionaries – from Ben Franklin on – we’ve been able to look at the world and ourselves and dream big but with a wink to keep egos in check. Thus, the man who wrote: “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes,” was also the man who wrote: “Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy,” without fear of losing his face.
Nevertheless, the Americans idea of cultural identity is very different from the European version. Americans believe their cultural identity is derived from great ideas and not great cheese or great paintings.
This country was founded by those seeking escape and opportunity from those ‘cultured’ nations that oppressed them and denied them them the right to determine their own destiny. Class distinctions, feudal systems and other kinds of ‘cultured’ discrimination kept opportunity from millions. As America opened her arms in a warm welcome, the ‘wretched refuse,’ of European ‘cultured’ nations were finally free to make their dreams come true- and in the process, they
built the greatest nation on the face of the earth.
“That fact that their president is the actual intellectual heir of Adolf Hitler is irrelevant; the fact that Iran IS a actualy religious theocracy is of no matter. What is reality, after all, when compared to the fantasy universe of their feelings, where Bush=Hitler and the U.S. is imminently going to have a christian theocracy imposed upon it! What does it matter that a few gays are strung up and hung by the neck until dead, when we are dealing with such important “progressive” ideas that are hallmarks of Iranian justice system. It is even possible for such moral degenerates to convince themselves that there is more oppression of women, children and gays right here in the U.S.! The idea that these wonderful, advanced and civilized people, who rape women daring to go out without the proper clothing, are more socially progressive than we neanderthals in the West is a concept that only the left is stupid enough to embrace.”
and
“The term “useful idiot” is far too kind for these whackjobs. These people are dangerous morons whose cognitive thinking skills have been so impaired by the intellectual hogwash that passes for learning in our academic institutions these days, that they couldn’t think their way out of a paper bag. They live in a universe in which there is no objective reality; a universe where truth is relative and their feelings are all that matter. And even their feelings, by any objective standard, are completely dysfunctional.”
Current Events and The Excitation Theory of War:
“Iraq has revealed the enemy for what it truly is–a mindless, death-worshipping ideology that cannot be reasoned with; cannot be appeased; and cannot be ignored. We cannot walk–or run– away from it; we cannot make deals with it– not in Iraq; not in Iran; not in Lebanon; not in Gaza; and not anywhere this malignant anti-human, anti-life, anti-freedom ideology has taken root. Either we fight it now, no holds barred, knowing that we are all that stands between the forces of death and destruction and those of life– or we will be doomed to suffer even more of their barbarism in the near future.”
I wrote this on the Excitation Theory of War.
“This is a very important piece of evidence showing probable collusion between Hezbollah and the Lebanese Army,…”
“hese distortions were perpetrated by Western editors, sitting in comfortable offices, demonizing Israel and covering up evidence of Hizballah war crimes and collusion with the Lebanese Army….”
“The Lebanese government says Syria and Iran aim to overthrow the elected government in Beirut and reconquer the country. Whether they are actually trying to do this right now or not is unknown. There should be no doubt, though, that if they don’t have a plan to execute now it’s because they want to do it later instead. Meanwhile, a group that calls itself “Al Qaeda in Lebanon” appeared from Lord-only-knows-where and directly threatened to destroy the March 14 government. “Al Qaeda in Lebanon” may or may not exist as a wing of bin Laden’s Al Qaeda. If they do, they’re serious. If they don’t, they’re a Syrian proxy. Either way, it doesn’t look good. This is not a prank phone call.”
It just a matter of time. 
Bump Keys and LockSport
JROTC Dropped in San Francisco:
So what is the problem with JROTC? There isn’t one. The problem is with the anti military bigotry of the school board majority and the “peace” activists who lobbied against the program on the grounds that San Francisco’s schools should not be sullied by an association with the US armed forces.
“We don’t want the military ruining our civilian institutions,” said Sandra Schwartz of the American Friends Service Committee, a far-left pacifist organization that routinely condemns American foreign policy and opposes JROTC nationwide. “In a healthy democracy . . . you contain the military.” Board member Dan Kelly, who voted with the majority, called JROTC “basically a branding program or a recruiting program for the military.” In fact, it is nothing of the kind: The great majority of cadets do not end up serving in the military.
But then, facts tend not to matter to smug ideologues like Schwartz and Kelly, who are free to parade their contempt for the military because they live in a nation that affords such freedom even to idiots and ingrates. It never seems to occur to them that the liberties and security they take for granted would vanish in a heartbeat if it weren’t for the young men and women who do choose to wear the uniform, willingly risking life and limb in service to their country.
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