Cold War, Long War, and Barbaric War

Today there are people putting forth that the fight against terrorism, as epitomized by the radical Islamic sort, is akin to the Cold War and needs similar response. Thus the old concept of investing heavily in National military means is seen as the front line against terrorism, save that this enemy is no Nation, has no regular order of battle, [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 13:27:14
Blog: Dumb Looks Still Free...

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Veterans Day and the Troops

Veterans Day and the Troops November 17, 2007 by Derek Staffanson Veterans Day (which I’m terribly late in acknowledging, I know) is an interesting holiday. In my youth, it was one of those batch of second-tier holidays that I could never keep straight in my mind (Labor Day? Memorial Day? Veterans Day? Which one is it in November?) [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 20:10:08
Blog: A Liberal Mormon...

AFTAH Responds to Wikisposure on Nelson Garcia: Putting Politics above their Mission of Protecting Children

 LaBarbera asks: why so many boy victims of pedophilia?  Nelson Garcia, "boy lover" and deceitful critic of AFTAH. The anti-pedophilia (yet pro-homosexuality) website Wikisposure redirected our link to their page exposing Garcia's past [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 19:32:42
Blog: Americans for Truth » ...

Christian By Choice, Gay By Birth

Conservative Christian Soldiers Onward March Off the Deep ENDA BBSNews 2007-11-10 -- When the US House of Representatives passed ENDA, ... choice that can be voluntarily changed." And no, someone cannot change who they are in terms [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 04:12:00
Blog: BBSNews - Conservative ...

A Malaysian banker’s ‘doubtful’ call

A Malaysian banker’s ‘doubtful’ call BOOMING MARKET FOR STRUCTURED INVESTMENT FUNDS by Matthias Chang MALAYSIAN BANKER IS EITHER AN IGNORANT A@#HOLE OR A SLEAZY CON MAN EITHER WAY HE SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED On Saturday, 10th November 2007, the StarBiz published the following story: [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 02:39:24
Blog: The “thirteen million ...

'Tis The Season For...

'Tis The Season For... ‘Tis the season for…Holiday Movies!! ... in terms of what we believe about faith and its role in our society. For some it’s just about shopping ... to make time to do movies with those we love, especially if sharing the common experience helps [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 19:20:23
Blog: Idol Chatter - Beliefne...

On The Backs Of Common Americans

On The Backs Of Common Americans user icon michael duby in News Feed of 11/10/2007 at 11:28 AM EST "Look at the economy in personal terms. Five million jobs have been lost overseas [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 16:37:11
Blog: Join the Campaign to Ch...

On The Backs Of Common Americans

On The Backs Of Common Americans user icon michael duby in News Feed of 11/09/2007 at 6:16 AM EST "Look at the economy in personal terms. Five million jobs have been lost overseas [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 12:59:11
Blog: Join the Campaign to Ch...

Increase in PRs and citizenships leading to social disharmony in Singapore

There had been a recent increase in the number of PRs and citizenships in Singapore and while this is good for nation renewal, the issue of assimilating them into the Singapore society has almost never been a non-issue, as far as I know. Most people who eventually apply for citizens have a mindset to settle down here and hence are usually more [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 01:54:03
Blog: Simply Jean ...

Another Climate Change Wake-Up Call from the IPCC

Posted by Cockney Robin (photo by Grant Neufeld) | And the human race needs a wake-up call in the worst way ... at or above the worst case scenarios in terms of emissions,” said Gernot Klepper, of the Kiel Institute for World Economy in Kiel, Germany. “In terms of emissions, we are moving past the most pessimistic [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 20:23:11
Blog: Buck Naked Politics...

Cognitive Dissidence

My mother-in-law, a fellow word-play lover, turned me on to the Eggcorn Database, ... of common expressions in English which, via a homonym or near-homonym substitute (in lame man’s terms [more...]

Date: 2007-11-08 22:45:27
Blog: Cosmic Variance...

Anonymity, Pseudo-Anonymity and Privacy

The Guardian Unlimited article, which i linked to in my previous blog entry, ... becomes common, the system fails...Communities infected with anonymity will either collapse, or shift [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 20:57:12
Blog: Placeholder...

Decadent Worker #91 - 18Nov87

“Kerry, do you believe someone can be subjected to mind control technology and yet retain their own identity?” “Yes I do, because of the definition of man. We define man in terms of his behavior. So a man ... not be bothered, just then, with the common sense implications of what I was saying in sanctioning mind [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 10:58:34
Blog: The Decadent Worker...

I Know Conservatives Are Nuts, BUT…

I'm taking a short break from Ragging On Amanduh™ to take note of an interesting post Steve H ... , but he's part of a very common breed. He's the rule, not the exception. Up to a point, I think [more...]

Date: 2007-11-08 21:42:06
Blog: Dennis The Peasant...

Links for 2007-11-10

Dell Computer Corporate Officers and Directors Email Addresses I suspect that many Dell employees will spend a lot of time on Monday managing email ... ) to Wikipedia Good to see that folks are becoming more open in terms of talking about charitable acts ... Engineers have in common? Some say… Unnecessary Overhead Don't folks understand that unnecessary [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 13:13:57
Blog: Enterprise Architecture...

What is This Supposed to Tell Us?

I must be missing something, becasue I don't get the point of this. This is Greg Mankiw: Inequality Everywhere You Look, by Greg Mankiw: ... track the U.S. distribution at other common break points, e.g. 90-10 and 99-1, rather than [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 19:25:00
Blog: Economist's View...

A Report to the Church From the Royal College of Psychiatrists

From Church Times: THE Royal College of Psychiatrists has challenged Anglican bishops to support gay clergy and laity as an example to parents struggling to come to terms with having gay or lesbian children. “The Church has a wonderful opportunity to lead rather than to be dragged along kicking and screaming. Christianity [more...]

Date: 2007-11-12 10:17:06
Blog: Father Jake Stops the W...

Saudi's are no better than Taliban!

Yes, it's true kids, the Saudi's are a bunch of mysogynistic, reactionary, extremist, stick your head in the sand assholes that are no better than the Taliban. I can say that based on what I have read and heard as well as a first hand account from my wife who spent 4 years in Saudi Arabia [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 16:00:00
Blog: Let's get things back i...

Permanent link to Berkhof on Covenant and Union

Berkhof on Covenant and Union November 18, 2007 at 5:11 am (Federal Vision) One of the major themes we find in Federal Vision theology is the supposition that, because there are non-elect reprobates who are baptized into the visible church and therefore into the Covenant of Grace, that these non-elect covenant members (NECMs) [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 10:12:11
Blog: Green Bagginses...

Public Participation Required for Vigorous Jail Debates: Before blogs, "citizen journalism" meant Letters to the Editor

give them a ticket and mail them a summons to report later? ... Sheriff Smith says he just wants a place to lock up murderers and rapists, this might help to provide that space. Otherwise, WE DON'T NEED A JAIL, WE NEED A FENCE!What a hoot! Meanwhile, I'd said Friday that "citizen journalists" [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 16:33:45
Blog: Grits for Breakfast...

Singapore Truly Unique but could be a bit more Muslim friendly!

I refer to the ongoing Visit Singapore Campaign being broadcasted every now and then on our television screens. No doubt today's Singapore is a far cry from what the island republic was when I was working there from 1980 to 1986 and I was totally lost when I was there recently [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 02:48:11
Blog: MAHAGURU58...

Alan Dershowitz Supports Torture

Alan Dershowitz has written a post that first attacks Larisa Alexandrovna for suggesting he's pro-torture, and then goes on to accuse the Huffington Post of censorship. Regarding Ms. Alexandrovan, he apparently feels it's "name-calling" - and worse - to state what appears to be obvious: Although Mr [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 21:35:50
Blog: Night Light...

What is really surprising is that this is obvious…

What is really surprising is that this is obvious… November 17, 2007 by ninglun One of the top posts on WordPress today is Let’s get this straight: America is not a Christian Nation. Read it. It really shouldn’t be news. The people who have a problem, who are flying in the face of the historical facts, [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 08:42:13
Blog: Lines from a Floating ...

Your Thoughts?

This one's double duty, with issues from the November 14th and the November 15th show ... like it's gone on forever... and there's still a year to go. This is why I hate set terms and election dates ... . Is there anyone who doesn't spin these days? Is it true that the common man isn't thinking [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 09:52:50
Blog: THE STROUMBOULOPOULI...

Web 2.0 – Is the world moving too fast for Web 2.0?

Good morning all Apologies for the radio silence. I have been travelling and hence a delay. Among other things, I was in Berlin speaking at the Web 2 ... the hypothetical question: what do the successful companies in the dot com era had in common? The unsuccessful ones made the news from terms like ‘cash burn’ .. but what about the ones who had [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 08:13:09
Blog: Open Gardens...

Almost Funny

From the Chronicle: Holden Caulfield used to hunt phonies a few blocks from here, but times have changed ... familiar, you may have the impostor syndrome. In psychological terms, that’s a cognitive distortion ... , we have an exemplar of academic fraud, perhaps the most common variety: If your research (even non [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 12:12:34
Blog: Right Wing Nation — An ...

Chris Mooney considers whether Sidr was as bad as hurricane Mitch in 1998. Mitch caused 11,000 fatalities. Sidr might cause as many ... that the impact of Mitch in relative terms was more comparable to the typhoons of '91 or '70 which [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 02:39:11
Blog: ScienceBlogs...

Bodily Resurrection

Your weekly dose of Spurgeon posted by Phil Johnson The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive ... in clear terms the grand truth that there should be a resurrection of the dead, both [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 07:03:07
Blog: Pyromaniacs...

A culture of mistrust in Eve-Online

Players in Eve-Online harbor a mistrust of strangers. A harsh Player-versus-Player (PvP) culture fueled by competitive (and asymmetric) play drives a culture of suspicion about the identity and purpose of characters. Throw into the mix "alts" (alternate characters) [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 19:55:45
Blog: Terra Nova...

1947 And All That

Both were created in 1947; though Israel didn’t actually declare independence until May, 1948, it was voted into existence by the UN in November, ... intermarriage between the two groups became relatively common). Both states have fought multiple [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 05:11:47
Blog: The American Scene...

The Modern Jacksonian - Chapter 8 - Of Ships and Nations

There is a long history between ships and nations. Ships to travel over water have been and still are the main and cheapest form of cargo hauling on the planet. With just a bit of wind a sailing vessel can slip over the waves and expend only time and guidance [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 14:14:12
Blog: The Jacksonian Party...

Chinese Economy Not As Big as Previously Thought

PPP makes little sense In previous articles, we here at The Virtuous Republic, have eschewed the PPP (purchase power parity) ... in GDP could be surpassing the U.S. anytime soon, well, unless it was in terms of pollution. It turns [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 01:24:08
Blog: The Virtuous Republic...

Retro-Journal: The Wall Falls, 1989

How could one not turn into a libertarian under the circumstances I faced in the second half of 1989? ... , individual-liberty ideas they were always meant to safeguard. Seeing a common theme in these works [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 04:54:56
Blog: ToddSeavey.com ...

Infrastructure Planning and Design

Infrastructure Planning and Design guides share a common structure, including: ... to the business in terms of cost, complexity, and other characteristics. Framing decisions in terms [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 15:46:26
Blog: ActiveWin.com - The Mos...

Hispanic Consciousness, Part I

Hispanics are loyal to race and homeland, not America.... Traditionally, when Americans thought of race, they thought of the often painful history of relations between blacks and whites. This view is out of date; the United States now has several racial fault lines rather than just one [more...]

Date: 2007-11-09 23:26:40
Blog: American Renaissance...

Blogworld Expo: Building Relationships with Bloggers

Building relationships with bloggers has been the hot topic of the last year, with an emphasis on the last couple of weeks - courtesy of Mr. Chris Anderson (btw, thank you Chris for sparking some of the most important and invigorating discussions to take place in PR in quite some time) [more...]

Date: 2007-11-11 18:17:13
Blog: PR 2.0 - Silicon Valley...

The world turned virtualized

The world turned virtualized November 16, 2007 06:59:36 EST Via Scoble, ... is like power infrastructure was a century ago. Back then, it was common to own your own power, just like it's common now to own your own server. It will take awhile to switch completely (see Carr's [more...]

Date: 2007-11-13 13:39:13
Blog: Smalltalk Tidbits, Indu...

How should I take care of my battery? - In Layman's terms, please.

Can someone put what argyledk posted about taking caring of the clix2 battery: Quote: ... : 'It is a common myth (and one that I believed until recently) that a battery will live longest [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 21:17:34
Blog: clixhere! ...

Book Review: Designing Design, by Kenya Hara

The opening sentence of Kenya Hara's recent book Designing Design states that "verbalizing design is another act of design." For those of us involved as much in design criticism as "design" itself, those are welcome words. They stand in stark contrast to another popular maxim, "Those who can't do, teach," so common [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 02:30:48
Blog: Core77 Design Blog...

Foreclosure Properties in Phoenix Retirement Real Estate

Every day we receive information requests for retirement real estate, whether it be Westbrook Village, ... appliances, smoke detectors, toilets, ceiling fans, outlet covers are some of the more common signs ... down payments and fixed terms. Again, there are some exceptions but for the most part those folks [more...]

Date: 2007-11-08 21:35:54
Blog: Phoenix Real Estate an...

Intel and Infineon working on high-density SIM cards Permanent Link

Intel and Infineon working on high-density SIM cards Posted on Sunday, November 18 2007 @ 02:26:34 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck Intel and Infineon announced they're working together on the development of high-density (HD) SIM cards with capacities from 4MB to 64MB. Under the terms [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 01:28:12
Blog: DarkVision Hardware - e...

How to Spell Fortune in the Internet - Spelling Errors to Benefit SEO

Most of the time, bad spelling is attributed to people with inadequate education and websites that weren't carefully planned, designed, and evaluated. Other times, bad spelling can be one of the major reasons why your business is doing great! Spelling Errors Generally Spell Disaster Generally speaking, yes, [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 09:45:11
Blog: Find and Discover Your ...

Process Modeling and Simulation

A Case for Simulation Companies practicing Lean Six Sigma without process modeling and simulation techniques need to consider what these practices can provide in terms of risk-analysis and decision-making (such as cost estimating, scheduling ... : The most common reasons companies restrict the use of process modeling and simulations involve cost [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 23:35:01
Blog: ERE Blog Network - ERE....

Happy 232nd Birthday Marines!

Atten-hut! Here is a big salute to my Marine Corps on their 232nd birthday. We have a long and proud history and are still making it today in Iraq and Afghanistan. Godaddy outdid themselves with their Marine Corps Birthday presentation this year: [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 18:09:13
Blog: Flopping Aces...

keep walking

When I was twenty I lost a friend within a week. It was shocking for many reasons, most important to me being that I had no indication previously, ... . Now and then I asked the two common friends we had: what was it all about? The woman said, reproachfully: think harder ... it could help me judge whether I was wrong on my terms, too, and help me decide to [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 01:41:22
Blog: cheezy cheeky...

RJ Eskow: Alan Dershowitz Supports Torture

Alan Dershowitz has written a post that first attacks Larisa Alexandrovna for suggesting he's pro-torture, and then goes on to accuse the Huffington Post of censorship. Regarding Ms. Alexandrovan, he apparently feels it's "name-calling" - and worse - to state what appears to be obvious: Although Mr [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 19:17:10
Blog: Breaking News and Opini...

Who’s On “The Next Billy Graham” This Season?

NOTE: I will not publish hateful, conspiratorial comments. You can critique, but be respectful ... s fairly common in evangelicalism. If you know my own working definition of evangelicalism- and post [more...]

Date: 2007-11-10 16:46:01
Blog: internetmonk.com ...

GCC states likely to abandon dollar peg

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayA...ction=business GCC states likely to abandon dollar peg BY JOSE FRANCO 18 November 2007 DUBAI — Economists are seeing that the UAE and other GCC states will move away from US dollar peg to a basket of currencies, although no "dramatic impact" is expected, [more...]

Date: 2007-11-18 03:19:19
Blog: Investor's Iraq - Iraqi...

Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo: Rie Yamanaka - “A paradigm shift in advertisement platforms: the move into a real Web 2.0 implementation phase”

The second talk at the Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo this morning was by Rie Yamanaka, a director with Yahoo!’s commercial search subsidiary Overture KK. ( ... are usually quite accurate in terms of targetting since they are shown and ranked based on a degree [more...]

Date: 2007-11-16 07:19:15
Blog: Cloudlands...

Advice for Aspiring Christian Artists

{I need to warn you at the outset that this blog is longer than usual because of the nature of the subject that is being unpacked. I encourage you to prayerfully read it through with a Bible handy to check the Scripture references listed} In different ways over the years, many people have approached us at Lampmode about “getting out there” [more...]

Date: 2007-11-17 23:34:14
Blog: Lamp Mode Recordings ...

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