June 2011 archive

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Obama the Republican

http://socialistworker.org/blo…

This is a good read about the current President of the good ol’ US of A.  The only question remaining is are we going to have a moderate Republican warmonger as President after 2012, or will we have a reactionary Republican warmonger as President?  The only one running who’s even close to decent is Ron Paul, and I don’t trust anybody who calls themselves a libertarian (think Capitalism with no restraints).  It’s sad that no Democrat from what is whistfully called the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party is willing to stand up and run against Obama.  At least then we’d have a possibility of someone who’s not concerned about lining their pockets as President.

Six In The Morning

Europe Stifles Drivers in Favor of Alternatives



By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL

Published: June 26, 2011


ZURICH – While American cities are synchronizing green lights to improve traffic flow and offering apps to help drivers find parking, many European cities are doing the opposite: creating environments openly hostile to cars. The methods vary, but the mission is clear – to make car use expensive and just plain miserable enough to tilt drivers toward more environmentally friendly modes of transportation.

Cities including Vienna to Munich and Copenhagen have closed vast swaths of streets to car traffic. Barcelona and Paris have had car lanes eroded by popular bike-sharing programs. Drivers in London and Stockholm pay hefty congestion charges just for entering the heart of the city. And over the past two years, dozens of German cities have joined a national network of “environmental zones” where only cars with low carbon dioxide emissions may enter.




Monday’s Headlines:

Philip Morris sues over Australian plans to ban logos from cigarette packets

Khmer Rouge trial begins despite ‘political pressure’

Libya: Fierce fighting south-west of Tripoli

Eternal triangle fuels Uganda tension

Women’s World Cup kicks off in Germany

Muse in the Morning

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Time for a break from poetry…in order to create some art.

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

–Jean M. Auel



Bang 4

Asshole experts: Matt Ridley/Ray Kurzweil edition.

Ray Kurzweil believes the “singularity,” his vision of man/machine cyborg, “the borg,” is imminent.  This douche-nozzle bases his predictions on recent evolution, the exponential increase in human knowledge since the age of oil.  You tell me what’s wrong with that argument.  To call him a “douchebag” insults douchebags.  

The same, the exact same, is true of Matt Ridley.  How I hate these douchebags.

I really hate them.

If I could choke them out, I would.  Stupid, lying-ass bastards, and dumb mother fuckers to boot, despite their degrees.

Please pardon my realism.  I would gladly choke them.

Late Night Karaoke

TSA Gropes My Commercial Pilot Friend

One of my best friends is a commercial pilot for United Airlines and regularly flies 747s from Chicago to Asia and Europe.  He lives in Memphis and commutes to Chicago via a connecting flight, usually arriving in Chicago several hours before his scheduled flight.  Today he missed his connecting flight from Memphis to Chicago after being detained and groped by the TSA.  Of course, he was not able to make his Chicago to London flight and lost his pay.

My friend and client is a no-nonsense guy who doesn’t put up with much.  He was politely waiting in line to go through the Memphis checkpoint when he noticed that only one line was available.  After hearing customers complaining, he decided to ask a TSA supervisor if another check line could be opened.  

After getting a hostile negative response, he decided to drop the matter as he was in a hurry to catch his flight.  Since he was going to be piloting a plane in several hours, he was wearing his United Airlines uniform.  Since he is a pilot he was not required to stand in line and had been immediately ushered through the normal x-ray checkpoint without problems or alarms going off.  

After passing through the checkpoint, he noticed a female TSA employee not going through the checkpoint and made a comment about the person not being checked.  That is when the shit hit the fan. She immediately required him to go through a punitive recheck.

 

Nine Months?

Do I have to be called a hate monger because I hate the gullibility of the sheeple populace of the country I was brought up in?  “They” captured Saddam Hussein nine months before the media “roll out”?  Yes this I do believe/ find far more credible that the original government fairy tale/s and even if you yourself can not extend your belief system far enough to accept any of it, well it’s still far better than anything on any of 900 channels of commerical lamestream.

Keith Hunter on project camelot.org

http://www.livestream.com/proj…

Pique the Geek 20110626: Sulfur

Sulfur is one of the few chemical elements found in its pure state in nature.  Consequently, it was known and used by the ancients.  Many of those uses are still employed to this day, so it is a good thing that sulfur is rather common, at least locally.  Historically, sulfur was mined near volcanic activity and thermal springs where it often occurs.  In a few third world countries that is still a source of income for a significant number of people.

As the use of sulfur (mostly as sulfuric acid) increased in the 19th century, mining sulfur near volcanic regions could not keep up with demand, so new sources had to be developed.  It was known that vast amounts of sulfur occur in association with salt domes in and near the Gulf of Mexico, but there was no way to mine it due to water and shifting sand.  Thus, in 1894 a brilliant process was devised by German-American engineer Herman Frasch to solve the problem.

“The Ten” great biological inventions

Nick Lane’s “The 10” great biological inventions:

life itself

dna

photosynthesis

eukaryotes

movement

sight,

warm-bloodedness

consciousness

sex

death

Wow.  That is one arbitrary list.   The gentleman/scholar missed clocks.  Biological fucking clocks.  What a poser.  What a hoser.  What a deadbeat dad.  What a holocaust.  

Maybe Brad and Angelina can compose a definitive list for us?

It just goes to show ya: Even “experts” have giant dicks draped across their membranes.

The fucking wench-bag wrote a book, too.

I’m sort of kidding.  Sort of not.  

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Sunday Train: Making a ‘national HSR plan’ into a National Network

Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence

Way back before the Super Bowl, the White House had a series of exciting announcements, covered at The Transport Politic under the heading The White House Stakes Its Political Capital on a Massive Intercity Rail Plan.

That article is accompanied by the map reproduced here ~ and I stress that the map if Yonah Freemark’s work, not a map presented by the White House ~ of what a HSR system that rises to the “80% of Americans” target would look like.

And one reaction to that map is the same as the reaction to the designated DoT HSR corridors: how is that a national network? Its just bits and pieces.

How to fix this image problem, while also providing a substantial upgrade to the program, below the fold.

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