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Sunday, July 31, 2011
BBC News - Q&A: East Africa hunger crisis
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14249733
11 April 2011: World military spending reached $1.6 trillion in 2010, biggest increase in South America, fall in Europe according to new SIPRI data — www.sipri.org
'The USA has increased its military spending by 81 per cent since 2001, and now accounts for 43 per cent of the global total, six times its nearest rival China. At 4.8 per cent of GDP, US military spending in 2010 represents the largest economic burden outside the Middle East', states Dr Sam Perlo-Freeman, Head of the SIPRI Military Expenditure Project.
CRS: Permanently Extending Bush Tax Cuts to Cost $5 Trillion | OMB Watch
August, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that extending the Bush tax cuts would cost roughly $3.312 trillion over ten years. This is the figure most politicians and pundits cite when discussing extension of the tax cuts. However, those figures – while including the cost of debt servicing – do not include indexing the AMT to inflation. Indeed, when taking indexing into consideration, CBO comes up with a figure close to CRS's: $4.840 trillion
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Saturday, July 30, 2011
Scientific Mindfulness: Skinner on Religion
But the claimed power to intervene in supernatural rewards and punishments is the kind of power that corrupts, and it is no accident that religion today is so often associated with terrorism and repression. Even in relatively peaceful America, religious organizations are trying to suppress knowledge in our schools, encourage the birth of unwanted children, impose their beliefs upon others through political action, and in many other ways interfere in peaceful, informed living.
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Dem: US would have lost WWII if 'cut, cap and balance' had been in effect - The Hill's Floor Action
You would be speaking German, Japanese or Russian if this balanced-budget amendment was in effect during World War II and during the Cold War," Braley said. He said U.S. debt reached 120 percent of U.S. gross domestic product in order to finance the war, and argued that this would have been more difficult under the House bill.
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Friday, July 29, 2011
Writin tips
http://administration.berkeley.edu/commguide/50_tipsPoynter.pdf
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Microsoft Word - debt_collectors.doc
http://www.kennethkuhn.com/writings/articles/debt_collectors.pdf
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Excerpt
Adrenaline Alley—forty miles of monstrous white water roaring a mile deep in the earth's crust. These forty miles of First Granite Gorge are the reason why some of us cannot stop coming back here. They are also the reason why some never return. At this point we had successfully navigated its first twenty miles. unfortunately, what lay ahead was far worse.
Waves below the horizon of Crystal Rapid exploded like claymore mines. What worried me most was the hidden gauntlet of three killer holes into which the Colorado River funneled immediately ahead. The one good thing about these dangers being hidden from me—and from the other four people in my boat counting on me to get them through all of this safely—was that the holes ahead cannot hurt you until you can see them. The bad thing was that we were heading right toward them.
This sudden transformation of the Colorado from a moving pond to a liquid predator here at Crystal Rapid automatically triggered a release of adrenaline. I felt my heart pound faster and the back of my neck tingle. My perception of time warped and the seconds dragged. Crystal is the drug of choice for adrenaline junkies. Even so, it made little sense for me to be here now. No, I was still in good health; I could handle the oars as well as ever. I was not here because money was a problem. Nor were things bad at home. In short, I did not have to be here leading this trip. Indeed, I knew I could lose everything important to me by continuing to court this monster of a river. The simple reality was that I could not stay away.
Abruptly, the entire huge mass of the Colorado River accelerated downward. My stomach rose as if descending in an elevator whose cable has snapped. I had no time to contemplate this. For two miles the river had been as smooth as glass, dammed to stillness and anticipation by the spew of boulders that made up Crystal Rapid. That had been the time to think. Now I was dropping over that dam into the last seconds of sanity in the transition zone of the rapid's tongue—the long, V-shaped slick funneling into the deepest part of the rapid. Now was the time to row, the time for inspired action. I aimed the stern of my boat downstream toward the right. With the demon of failure whispering in the back of my mind, I pulled on my oars as fast and hard as I could to escape. This used to be fun, but it was not fun now. Not since 1983.
---Sent from Steve's iPad...Quoted: The Washington Post on Mick Jagger, 1965 - The Reliable Source - The Washington Post
"The Stones are morbid and pathetic and very close to being ugly."
—Paul Richard in The Washington Post's 1965 review of the Rolling Stones in concert
---Sent from Steve's iPad...Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico By Ellsworth Leonardson Kolb, Emery Clifford Kolb
With our run the next day the inner gorge continued to deepen, the walls drew closer together, so that we now had a narrow gorge hemming us in with 3000-foot walls from which there was no escape. They were about a fourth of a mile apart at the top. A boat at the foot of one of these walls was merely an atom. The total depth of the canyon was close to 4500 feet. There is nothing on earth to which this gorge can be compared. Storm-clouds lowered into the chasm in the early morning. The sky was overcast and threatening. We were travelling directly west again, and no sunlight entered here, even when the sun shone. The walls had lost their brighter reds, and what colour they had was dark and sombre, a dirty brown and dark green predominating. The mythology of the ancients, with their Inferno and their River Styx, could hardly conjure anything more supernatural or impressive than this gloomy gorge.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by E. L. Kolb - Full Text Free Book (Part 4/5)
Here in the river was a cataract, called Lava Falls, so filled with
jagged pieces of the black rock that a portage was advisable.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Article: I Love You Christopher Hitchens, You Irritating Bastard
I Love You Christopher Hitchens, You Irritating Bastard
http://www.theawl.com/2011/07/i-love-you-christopher-hitchens-you-irritating-bastard
(Sent from Flipboard)
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Citizens
Just learned that the liar robber baron Rupert Murdoch and his whore/mistress/wife are naturalized US citizens. Let's not worry about illegal immigrants who come to this country to work--rather, let's keep scum like these out.
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Michele Bachmann's migraines
Sorry michele, "migraine" is too "science-y" a term for your ilk to use:
Let's just say the pain is your god's way of saying your an idiot.
Let's just say the pain is your god's way of saying your an idiot.
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Check out: 'How Not To Write a Book Review' on Slate
How Not To Write a Book Review
By Robert Pinsky
http://www.slate.com/id/2299346?wpisrc=sl_ipad
By Robert Pinsky
http://www.slate.com/id/2299346?wpisrc=sl_ipad
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Friday, July 15, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Saturday, July 09, 2011
Tavern Grille
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Nietzsche and the Objectivity of Morals
http://www.uab.edu/philosophy/faculty/arnold/6-nietzsche-ethics.htm
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Monday, July 04, 2011
Davis: Why America is not a Christian nation
Hey, check this out from CNN:
Davis: Why America is not a Christian nation
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/04/davis.jefferson.other.words/index.html
Davis: Why America is not a Christian nation
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/04/davis.jefferson.other.words/index.html
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Friday, July 01, 2011
Hot Type: Poems for Summer - NYTimes.com
Heat increases and flows across boundaries. It is ancient, fluctuating, vibrational, like these summer days that are so combustible and these nights when stars enlighten the skies.
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Web Extra - Selected Poems by Kay Ryan - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/books/17poet-extra.html
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Have Me | Best Poems
HAVE me in the blue and the sun.
Have me on the open sea and the mountains.
When I go into the grass of the sea floor, I will go alone.
This is where I came from—the chlorine and the salt are blood and bones.
It is here the nostrils rush the air to the lungs. It is here oxygen clamors to be let in.
And here in the root grass of the sea floor I will go alone.
Love goes far. Here love ends.
Have me in the blue and the sun.
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