tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71359982011-04-21T20:58:04.963-07:00Stuff you probably don't already know, about things you've heard of. <P> Plain English is better than jargon. Telling you what you already know is a waste of time. It's hard to consistently be new and interesting, but my only tool is myself.still realizinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03787574348734805345noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7135998.post-1146061182631015492006-04-26T07:19:00.000-07:002006-09-13T17:23:45.666-07:00

The uproar about Iran brought up something interesting.  For the last decade or so, Iran has been easily able to supply Hamas and Hezbollah with chemical and biological weapons, and it has not done so.  So there may be hope yet for peace and reconciliation.Ahmadinejad, the former student radical, is growing older.  Maybe we should just wait until he morphs into a neocon.

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For 40 years, the US watched and spied on the Soviet Union, wanting to know absolutely everything about the Soviet nuclear program. Some of the things the US wanted to know is: Where are the warheads? How big are they? What are they made of? What sort of protection do they have?A little background. The idea behind CAT scans, tomography, was first implemented in 1972. High density

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Hamas leader Khaled Mashal visits Iran and gets some moral support. Financial support may follow. Maybe Mashal is arranging for a nuclear warhead. The Russians are not making headway in their attempt to negotiate nuclear issues with Iran. The French have come out and announced that they think Iran is working on a nuclear weapon. Both Iran and Hamas want to destroy Israel, sooner or later.

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Hamas is trying to figure out what to do next. So are the Israelis. If they both wait and see long enough, we might even have peace.Kadima and Likud will compete to show who's tougher (but also, who's smarter). Labor may join in. The other parties might also try. It will all be for show. Don't worry if they threaten this or that. Wait until after the elections to see what they do.Hamas is

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There's a pathological behavior that's sometimes called Suicide by Cop. This is the situation wherein a person attacks an armed police officer in such a way as to have no hope of surviving. I think the guys running Iran these days are expecting to be killed by Israelis or maybe by Americans. It will fulfull their paranoid expectations of global Zionist domination. Or something.They could be

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We've heard of man bites dog. This is a little more serious. Lions in Tanzania have developed a love of humanity. For dinner. Oh, the End Times must be near...

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According to mostly right-wing sources, the Italians have foiled a terrorist attack against the US. And the world media is apparently reporting it but the US media is boycotting the story! The right-wing explanation is that the story will prevent the impeachment of George W Bush on the NSA-wiretapping issue. Sounds very strange...According to Daniel Pipes article, the arrest was back in

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Somebody commented on an erroneous post so I'm loathe to delete this.

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I've been thinking about those purple Iraqi fingers and what it all means. Naomi Klein has nailed the cynical interpretation. Since the Iraqi's will "...have that vote completely ignored", it's all, what, a waste? Bring back Saddam? Naomi doesn't say.What's happening isn't that George W Bush is a great man, or that the Iraqis love him. The Iraqis see that this is one chance to get democracy.

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The word "Terrorism" is terrible. It's confusing. It refers to actions that don't scare people ("Terrorize" them) as much as make them angry. If emotion is your key, these people should be caused "Angrists", not "Terrorists".Different bureacracies have different definitions of terrorism. If I have one definition and you have another, then am I communicating when I used the word? Terrorism is a

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It seems too quick, but the preview button is back and the screen seems a lot easier to navigate. Yet very familiar too. Was it a screen change or pilot error?

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The Paris riots consist mostly of burning cars. This will lower the profitability of French auto-insurance companies. That is, if the French have auto insurance companies. Who knows? So, is there some rich Saudi, about to buy an auto-insurance company, who wants to lower the value temporarily so he can buy it more cheaply? Somebody has to ask. Did anybody short sell the stock of insurance

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Create a blog here on blogger.comMake a new postFill in the title and a little textGo up and hit "Create"It's gone.Your text is gone.It wouldn't have been that hard to issue a message.And if you do save it, you can't preview the text before posting.There's no preview button.But you can view posted articles. Well, I can just look at my blog for that!So there's no way to see if what your post looks

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Big quake in Pakistan. Right where Osama is hiding. Too bad, really. If he's buried we may never be able to prove it. I wonder how Waziristan is doing, in general.Do you think that the quake could have been caused by the same homosexuals who caused the flooding in New Orleans? I think the main sinner is Osama. Let's see those mullahs wiggle out of this one. Now that they've blamed the

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Iraq is not Vietnam. Saying "Iraq is the Arabic word for Vietnam" is like saying Ecuador is the Spanish word for Latvia.And the war in Iraq is different from the war in Vietnam. The only common factor is that the US is involved. The main difference in the wars is that in Vietnam the communists had infiltrated the South Vietnamese government at all levels. All levels. And the group of loyal

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I've been watching and reading the numerous 9/11 memorials and anniversary blogs and thinking about them for a week. I learned about the attacks from the web that day, and had to go find a working TV, mine was on the fritz. Eventually I saw the video re-run and was shocked. My first two thoughts on the building collapse was that this provides a wide-open door for the Russians to do whatever they

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Regarding the warrant against Israeli Maj.-Gen. Doron Almog, as described in this Guardian article. I'd simply like to say that thinking in that manner would make a war criminal of every Lancaster pilot. For that matter, it would make a war criminal any of Britains WWII generals that used artillery on the European mainland.The primary method of this sort of anti-Zionism is to deliberately confuse

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The bitter-enders: I'll bet some of those who just wouldn't leave were guarding large stashes of cocaine or other contraband. You just can't bring it to the Superdome, can you? The argument against this is that coke dealers aren't poor, they could have gotten out. But there's a tradition of riding it out in NO. So even though I'm sure some of the coke dealers did hightail it, some of the

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The coverage is threatening to last as long as his administration. How many times can you view the same flag-covered casket? Ronald Reagan was a controversial disputatious president, and pretending he was a widely loved grandfather is just, oh, revisionism. Firing the air traffic controllers was not a genial thing to do. It was hostile, dangerous and mean-spirited. Waging illegal war

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It's an evil place. I don't understand the scandal. Why put hoods on people you want to humiliate and show the faces of the guards? Anonymity lends dignity. You can always claim you weren't involved if your face is hidden. Here's a link to an article more about the US. Or make yourself sick with this this BBC slide show. We knew that the enemy was not following any Geneva Convention nor any

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God exists. Deal with it. So much of modern thought and belief is an attempt to avoid being a responsible adult. To just party hearty and let the future take care of itself. Not to put on a hair shirt, but somebody has to be an adult. And the adults aren't doing it very well. Life isn't supposed to be as miserable as we can make it. Circumstances make it hard enough. And God makes the

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There are a lot of people in jail in the US and the whole world for using heroin. This is interesting because heroin makes people drowsy, docile, harmless and inoffensive. The addictive nature of heroin is only a social problem when the drug is difficult to obtain. We are all totally dependent on oxygen and water but we don't need to commit crimes to get the air we breathe or the water we drink.

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If a bunch of nutcases, holding aloft sacred copies of Winnie the Pooh, had killed 3,000 New Yorkers one day in September, we would go to war against the Winnie-the-Pooh sect, and win. Some pointy-headed intellectual would point out that indeed the book Winnie the Pooh was Peaceful. So what! We aren't interested in the true meaning of their religion, or even whether it is really peaceful. We

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The sensible next step for the Imperial USA, would be to simply seize the oil fields of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Let the local Arabs and Persians return to their original state of harmless poverty. It's solution to Islamic Terrorism. Eventually, Osama will run out of money. No money, no bombs. After all, we are at war. It wouldn't be a very nice thing to do, of course. The radical

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Sharon says he wants to get the Jews out of Gaza and then just surround the place, so they can't import weapons. I guess that's a kind of peace. Could have fooled me. If getting out is such a great idea, why didn't he do it three years ago? Or why not just do it right away? On the other hand, if Jews really do need to live in Morag or Netzarim in Gaza, why not kick out the Palestinians to

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Work is what you do when you need something to change. Like your income. Or the state of your domicile. Or the world. It isn't something you do if you don't anticipate a result. Blogging is working, unless you just like to type. The sensuous feel of the keyboard under your fingers? Blogging could be a way to avoid doing other work, of course. Like washing dishes. But after a while

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Plain English is better than l33t jargon, made up words or puzzles. Insults never teach. Telling you what you already know is a waste of time. It's hard to consistently be new and interesting, but my only tool is myself.

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