How Bush can REALLY help Israel
In the last five and a half years Bush has shown an uncanny abiliby to weaken his allies and empower his opponents. Let's look. Allies Republican Party Tony Blair ex premier of Spain ex premier of...
View ArticleConservation of Catastrophe and the Global Economy
A few years ago, the historian William McNeill enunciated the law of Conservation of Catastrophe. The law states that solutions to one crisis lead the way for some equal or greater disaster in the...
View ArticleSome life will survive any surface condition
A Princeton-led research group has discovered an isolated community of bacteria nearly two miles underground that derives all of its energy from the decay of radioactive rocks rather than from...
View ArticleAn appeal - send $$ to Ron Paul
I have some dollars burning in my pocket, ready to be contributed -- where should I send them, where will I get the most bang for the buck?Hillary and Barak are overrun with cash, contributing to...
View ArticleThere Go the Fluorescent Bulb Savings
Several years ago, I replaced all my home’s commonly used incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents (CFL.) I saw a noticeable decrease in my electric use and bills.A few months ago, I got Verizon’s...
View ArticleThis Guy Needs a Hazmat Suit
In Townhall.com, David Limbaugh writes a post where he tells his fellow McCain supporters that they should ignore the ranting commentators( including his brother Rush ) and work on bringing the...
View ArticleMcMansion slums with granite countertops
If anything symbolizes the mortgage disaster, it is whole neighborhoods of McMansions littered with abandoned house, some stripped of copper, sometimes sheltering squatters.What will happen to these...
View ArticleSave Birth Control for Low-Income Women
Planned Parenthood has a plea for help.Because of a technical error Congress made in 2005, the cost of birth control in many clinics is rising almost 900 percent from what it was just months ago. Women...
View ArticleIn Defense of Intelligent Design Adherents
Whenever the subject of Intelligent Design (ID) arises on DailyKos, the snarks come out. ID adherents and defenders are looked on as uncultured rubes, Neanderthals, and unlettered hicks. This is a...
View ArticleWatch out for Inflation!
Last week made implicit what has long been implicit, we, as individuals, as a country, and as a society are going to have our standard of living cut. This will hurt. There will be less inequality,...
View ArticleShock Doctrine bites back
Naomi Klein in her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (The link contains links to 13 book reviews), documents how conservatives have used the shocks following crises to push...
View ArticleI stopped blocking ads
After three years of browsing with the Firefox advertising blocking extension, Adblock, I turned it off. This took some doing, as I enjoy the experience of browsing without annoying animated ads...
View ArticleTolerance for Dissent - Kos vs RedState
In The Moderate Voice, a blog I regularly read, Patrick Edaburn compares the tone and tolerance of two blogs, Kos on the left and Redstate on the right.I.. offer some critiques. Both sites have shown a...
View ArticleThank you, George W. Bush
We have discussed at infinitum the disaster that Bush is dumping into Obama's lap. What we have missed is the favors Bush has done for Obama.In foreign policy, after warning of disaster if Obama's...
View ArticleAuto bail-ins in the South
While Southern Senators are fuming against taxpayer subsidies to the big three, let's see what going on on their home turf.Good Jobs First has it down.As the U.S. automakers have downsized their...
View ArticleBuyer's remorse on Redstate
From a Redstate comment we have buyer's remorseKnow [now] that O is in the White House, I’m not sure I want the patriot act around anymore, since he’ll probably use it against Christians and other...
View ArticleRepublican collapse, hold the Schadenfreude
Everyone who hangs around DailyKos has immensely enjoyed the spectacle of the Republican party and the conservative movement imploding on itself. Who could not enjoy it, after eight years of numerous...
View ArticleIntelligent Design may be true
Most of us, when we are talking against placing intelligent design (ID) into the science curriculum are using the wrong argument.We say that is in not true and not proven. This no only frames it...
View ArticlePlanes, Trains, Autos and Buses ..
Among us progressives, supporting the enhancement and extension of passenger rail service, ranks with motherhood and apple pie as a given. I suggest that before we plunge in. We may have some problems...
View ArticleObama's style: fake-right, drive-left
"Fake-right, drive-left" in the Sports Illustrated article Audacity of Hoops describes not Obama's political style, but his basketball style.Obama's game as old-school schoolyard: reverse layups,...
View ArticleThe F-22 Raptor fighter -- a stimulus program
Among the other items Bush shoved onto Obama's overcrowded plate is the F22 Raptor fighter program. The Raptor is a fighter plane, designed in the 80's to fight the Soviet Union. To no one's...
View ArticleSolar storm can bring down the electric grid for months
The New Scientist has posted an article which starts thus:It is midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have...
View ArticleConservative delusion
In an posting in Redstate we seeObama has spent his professional and political life in a bubble. He has no experience handling criticism and from what we’ve seen he doesn’t handle it very well. In...
View ArticleThe Coming Clash Between Water and Energy
In spite of all the attention we give to peak oil, peak water may be closer and more serious. Without enough water, there will not be enough food. The issues become more complex when we realize that...
View Article$400M cable to save 5 ms for flash traders
"I just read an article in Popular Science that almost made me sick to the stomach. The headline says it all "Pricey Transatlantic Cable Could Save Milliseconds, Millions by Speeding Data to Stock...
View ArticleBeribboned Generals, Dying Empire
I am not the first person to note that the US is displaying more and more symptoms of a dying empire. To name a few; a broken political system, crony capitalism, a bloated military, use of...
View ArticleOccupy unsustainable, has class issues
The present overnight encampments are problematic both for the OWS movement and their host cities.The free-form leadership style is wonderful (even considering the comment by Oscar Wilde "The problem...
View ArticleThis is what peak oil looks like
Look around. It is already here. John Michael Greer on Energy Bulletin has written a must-read article on peak oil. We are at peak oil, the end of several centuries of easy (i.e. cheap) resources....
View ArticleBeribboned Generals, Dying Empiree
The sight of General Petraeus' overdecorated chest has started a discussion of military decorations being given out like kindergarden gold stars. See here for an example. I am reposting of an original...
View ArticleWhere the Republicans came from
Most of us are scratching our head, where did the culture powering the Republican Party come from anyway? Nowhere else in the world do we find this combination of religious fundamentals,...
View ArticleMeltdowns, Social and Nuclear
Lately there has been talks of a whole social/civilizational collapse, for example this NASA funded study. Gail Tverberg in her blog Our Finite World has been discussing this for years. Below I take...
View ArticleThe shale bubble is bursting
Oil and gas majors now cutting back in U.S. shale gas fieldsIn the last 10 days, British Petroleum, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell have all announced they will be spending less on oil and...
View ArticleFinancial Death Cycle of Fracking
Many of us have discussed the environmental costs of fracking, for example The Death-cycle of Fracking .There is a financial death cycle too Shale Drillers Feast on Junk Debt to Stay on...
View ArticleWhy the laser focus on the Palestinians?
Why this laser-like focus on Israel/Palestine here and by the rest of the world. Does anyone give a damn about the Chechens, who have and are suffering much more the the Palestinians. See this photo...
View ArticleDonald Trump frightens me
I do not think Trump is going anywhere, but if you listen to his rhetoric and substitute "jews" for "mexicans" it sounds like Europe in the 1920s.I realize that I am flirting with Goodwin's Law, but...
View ArticleThree entities trapped inside themselves.
What we have in this election are three entities trapped inside themselves.First Donald Trump.Whether he is mentally ill, or just with personal problems, it is obvious the he is either unwilling or...
View ArticleOptimistic Thoughts for 2017
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia became a democracy. I thought to myself that this will not last, Russia will revert to its tradition, Czarist authoritarianism. This pessimistic thought...
View ArticleMilitary Coup?
I never dreamed I would be worrying about this, but how reliable is our military? There are several optimistic points. About 30% of our military is non-white and they stand as a bulwark. Also this...
View ArticleCuster deserved what he got, bad motto.
Custer deserved what he gotI saw this on a sign at a (anti)Dakota pipeline rally. I told the holder that that was a bad sign. He recited the history behind it -- and there is a strong argument Custer...
View ArticleMilo-ism at a Christian High School
If you want to see something scary, not only to us, but to sane conservatives ( a vanishing breed) check this out. Milo has taken over among the students at a Christian high school. This is where...
View ArticleTrump-like Presidencies and their Successors
Stephen Skowronek in the Washington Post says that disrupters usually fail both substantially and politically. They are swept out of office and their successors make the changes. Jimmy Carter...
View ArticleWhere have all the insects gone?
Another rivet pops off the wing!Over that time the group, the Krefeld Entomological Society, has seen the yearly insect catches fluctuate, as expected. But in 2013 they spotted something alarming. When...
View ArticleProfiles in (non) Courage
Trump supporters, while minority of the general electorate, dominate those who vote in Republican primaries. Many Republican elected officials who would love to rid themselves of the Donald, either...
View ArticleIs a military coup possible?
I can't believe that I am asking this question.In short, the answer is very unlikely.As the country has become more racially and ethnically diverse, so has the U.S. military . Racial and ethnic...
View ArticlePay no attention to the man behind the curtain
Every day I open Kos and I see large numbers of stories on Trump tweets and policies. These consume uncountable electrons, and more importantly large amounts of our attention. We should cut this out,...
View ArticleWhy is this march different than other marches?
Why is this march different than other marches? On this march the marchers have power. They can return home and vote. Those who are under 18 can get their older brothers, sisters and get friends to...
View ArticleThe tragedy of self implicit racism
In 1994, Marc Elrich, then a 6th-grade teacher in Montgomery County MD, showed his class a film based on a Langston Hughes story about a young black boy who attempts to steal the purse of an elderly...
View ArticleCounterfactual if Hillary were president.
Due to spending some of my childhood in a rural working-class area, I saw how both parties had abandoned the white working-class culturally. To the horror of my Kossack friends, in 2016 I put a James...
View ArticleWall Street is shunning Trump
This in From CNN.President Trump is promising four more years of low taxes, light regulation and a laser-focus on the stock market. Yet professionals on Wall Street are shunning Trump and funneling...
View ArticleNot every Trump voter is racist or misled.
Not every Trump voter is racist or misled. There is an article in The Correspondent that we should pay attention to. Excerpts belowBut from a non-western perspective, one that also happens to be my...
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