Yusmeiro Petit was nearly perfect last night.
I promise there will be no boots on the ground I will write a real post later.
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Yusmeiro Petit was nearly perfect last night.
I promise there will be no boots on the ground I will write a real post later.
The Crawdad Hole 
But, but, but, if they were consistent, they’d be called racists! Just ask Ed
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/syria-why-hollywoods-anti-war-623326
I was scared watching them last night. But then I remembered they are children, really. They haven’t been exposed to real life yet. nd looking for work. And paying rent, utilities, taxes other than on their bar tabs, and having to actually file taxes. Until then though, I’m gonna stay a little concerned.
Not to mention that they’re still on their parents heathcare policies, and will be until they’re 27. They’ll find out.
Actually, they lose that coverage on their 26th birthday…just sayin’
When you’ve lost Kos :
As Annie Savoy said: “Oh my.”
“The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.”
I give him points for his stand here….for once in a very, very, very, long before Obama, very, very, very long time. But of course, cynical me thinks he’s seeing this as an opportunity to win people he lost because of O-fuk-me.
Obama is a lame duck. Markos needs to find a new money pony to ride.
Yeah, he’ll change horses. Markos is about Markos.
Remember when Arianna Huffington was the old Markos?
Kos never abandoned George HW Bush.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/09/07/mainstream-media-honchos-related-towhite-house-officials
Geesh.
Don’t have any cat comments other than our cat, Lucy, and our dog, Izzy, have to come to grips with our new conure/parrot, Sunny, that recently flew into our lives (literally)…..needless to say, the household is in a bit of animal turmoil. My partner, Jinny, thinks she’s some kind of zookeeper!
Freaky-deaky. I know that part of Brooklyn, if they say it was aliens, it probably was … lol 😀
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/09/06/mystery-from-above-in-brooklyn-chunks-of-ice-fall-from-the-sky/
I wish it were space aliens. I sure wouldn’t put the ice in my freezer though since it probably came from an airplane bathroom or something equally disgusting. ICK!
The article said “latrine” ice is blue, but still, goodness knows what death particle cooties it passed through from 35k feet or something. FAA wants to analyze it, I’ll watch for that report.
Love this guy ….
Chuckling
Love that guy! My husband and I once drove straight through to
Disneyland (23 hours) with a six year old and a two year old. That was a bad idea. We were dead by the time we arrived and the kids were ready to go and needed exercise. Never again.
LOL, I hear ya. 😉
LMAO! That’s awesome.
I like how he refers to himself as the “donkey” — my dad refers to my mom & himself as “Greek boss and the donkey” (guess who is who!).
He sure knew my family well 😀 I grew up with the Italian yellers.
I just finished reading Cuckoo’s Calling, the mystery that JK Rowling wrote under a pen name. I liked it a lot – 4 stars. Thank god – I was worried after Casual Vacancy that I was going to hate all her post-Potter fiction. 😀
Glad to hear it, I was afraid to read it too. I think I’ll download it. I need a good read. My kids adult kids have been issuing crazy announcements about life choices which I can’t do anything about so I really really need a distraction. I just hate it when you can see your kids stupidly heading for disaster but the only thing you can do is pray.
It’s one of those hard-boiled detectives with a heart of gold type of noir mysteries. I thought the characters were well-done, and the 2 main ones were quite likable.
(((hugs))) and good luck with the kids. Hope it blows over, whatever it is.
My mom just sent me a lengthy email she received describing how Aspartame causes cancer, multiple sclerosis, male pattern baldness and droopy dingus. She was worried because I drink Diet Pepsi the way Willie Nelson smokes pot.
I introduced my mom to Snopes.com.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp
Though pretty much everything causes droopy dingus. Including driving to FL.
On the bright side, droopy is not as bad as leaky.
Ew!
So while some of my facebook peeps are hopeless Obamabots, I do have friends that are sincere socialists, and not assholes. I also have quite a few European facebook friends. One of them had posted something on his wall about being a proud Socialist, and it so happened that I’d just been conversing with *another* socialist friend, so I posted this in reply to him:
This whole idea of “not necessarily less govt, but more individualized, localized govt” is one that I keep coming back to. Of course, the founders with their Federalist ideas covered it in depth. But….I think rather than appeal to Jefferson (whom the young voters will roll their eyes at), we may need to take those ideas and translate them into today-speak.
In this conversation, got into game theory, computer programming, business models, and how systems/software/business plans that work on a more micro level tend to get bogged down/corrupt/bug-riddled on a macro level. So size itself may be a factor – the amassing of centralized power/corruption/inefficiency may be more of a risk the larger you go, no matter WHAT the ideology. Could we have the larger govt doing the tax-collecting and things that MUST be done more efficiently on a large scale, but leave much of the application and administration of programs in local hands, with very little interference/control from Washington? See, these were concepts (software development, more organic de-centralized business plans, etc) that this young socialist friend could relate to. I’d have lost him if I’d just spouted Jefferson as holy writ.
Anyhoo, just throwing all that out there for discussion. I by no means have this all figured out. But I like to see us, ALL of us, even the socialists, talk about it outside the party/ideology boxes.
I think I’m discovering that I am not anti-govt so much as anti-concentrated power in any form. That’s my nemesis, that I recoil from no matter what the political label.
The more centralized, the more it will be corrupted. All power and control in someone’s hands tends to make them want to keep that and expand that. Our whole constitution is based on limiting federal government. Partly by pitting states vs. feds, and partly by pitting individuals vs. feds. Limiting is the right concept. We’ve long since lost that with how centralized and big things are. But rather than saying kill the program, which we may still have to do if nothing better can be done, we might be able to break up programs and “distribute” them.
We are not going to tear it all down at this point. But we may be able to break it up and make it more locally responsive/agile. And I think that approaching the philosophy of governance that way might garner enough support from BOTH sides of the aisle to be do-able, not just a pipe dream. HOW we talk about this, what words and concepts we use, makes a difference. Local. Organic. Individual control of government, not getting rid of govt.
Distributed government.
Yep. Also, rather than harping on “free market”, talk about organic growth. Local ideas having room to experiment. Much the way the internet grew – no real central plan, just a basic structure with millions of people experimenting on the margins. You just can’t get that kind of innovation with a rigid rule-bound structure.
Great discussion. I like it. Rather than less vs. more, or more finely grained big gov. does x but not y, really it’s what parts of what functions can safely be centralized and what parts of what functions need to be closer to the individual. Where in the spectrum of central all the way to the individual functions go is the interesting discussion. And I imagine what we think of as many gov. services, will be best to break up into their limited central bits, their limited state bits, and their bigger village to individual bits. The mobile computing revolution (or in old fashion speak, client/server models) may have some interesting analogies along those lines.
Yeah, this guy “got it” when we started talking about the pitfalls of taking something that works well for a local network and trying to expand it to a huge network. It doesn’t always translate to the macro very well. The system breaks down, and then you patch it, and the patch causes even MORE problems, that you have to then patch, etc.
Yep. Same stuff happens in large software architecture efforts. Your original design didn’t remain nice for very long. Things change. The realities of how things work are never what you thought. So you take those things into account and redesign based on what you know. Then you carefully restructure, keeping everything working while you do. Quite a tricky operation. But it’s doable. When you’re done, things inevitably will change over time. Rinse and repeat. But every iteration you make better abstractions and organization and learn patterns. It gets easier at some point and you get better at it. You end up distributing work and control and decision making all over the place where it works best.
So…. the trick is to have a govt with enough rules to be stable, but not so many rules that it loses the ability to adapt, and quickly.
Because if there were “rules” in place that prevented you from making those adjustments when needed, or required all changes to be made at the highest level, not the downstream level, the whole system crashes. Central control means that errors (which WILL occur) affect the entire system – because all errors by design **must** be made at that level, since no tinkering is allowed downstream. Fixes and failsafes etc need to be distributed a) where they work best, and b) where their failure won’t threaten the whole shebang.
I know bupkus about software or network design, but this seems like an analogy one could run with. 🙂
I think the analogy works. Same with any large systems process design I would imagine.
BUT the DC government has power brokers firmly entrenched. They are not going to just give up their power. You will have to fight them to the death to take power back for citizens. Power seekers don’t care about the good of The People or The Whole.
Could we have the larger govt doing the tax-collecting and things that MUST be done more efficiently on a large scale, but leave much of the application and administration of programs in local hands, with very little interference/control from Washington?
I’m not convinced tax collecting even needs to be as centralized as it is now.On you larger point, I totally agree. More local control, less centralized control.
DC has turned into a malignant tumor on the body politic.
What ever type of government you go with it will be corrupted by those people who seek power for powers sake. So smaller government should be better because it gives more opportunity for citizen oversight. Seriously how do we on the west coast keep an eye on government in DC or media originating from NY? It’s not possible.
But also keeping government out of peoples lives is a way to limit government inefficiency and corruption. I know Liberals love programs for teaching, feeding, clothing… people they consider less fortunate but why do they have to be GOVERNMENT programs? Why aren’t Liberals setting up these programs independently? You see churches (particularly conservative religions) setting up programs to help the poor and educate children but Liberals seem to want to tax everyone and then have the government run the program with an extra bureaucracy to insure no religious ideas are being expressed when there are more efficient small ways to go.
just an update.
it is raining again in Hemet California. paying to have your windows washed is better than rain dances
The world needs more clown commercials.
Who wants to buy clowns?
No, no, you pay to make them go away.
a short rant
If I hear one more time we have to back backtrack to keep America’s credibility in the world I will scream long and loud.
What about the fact the American public has the wisdom NOT to follow a lying fool who has no love or respect for their country
Apparently, following through half-assed on one threat he already renounced will make up for the 1000 lies he’s already told.
http://suckersonparade.blogspot.com/
you will love this one
http://pjmedia.com/andrewklavan/
SUCKERS
We used to laugh at these people, but hey, I want one now 😉
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2414497/Most-luxurious-bunker–The-1970s-Cold-War-Era-Home-built-26-feet-underground.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Holiday—Celebration-Recipes/Super-Bowl-Recipes/Cooking-with-Beer-Recipes?keycode=ZFB0913HUB
why waste flat beer? use it to cook with
I never give beer a chance to go flat.
Obot response: {{fingers in ears}} I can’t hear you. La la la la la.
Judge Jeanine is great tonight. can not wait for the video
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/7/marine-corps-retreats-court-martial-charges-taliba/
charges suddenly dropped against marine charged with urinating on taliban
Maybe he was putting a fire out.
It was a draining experience.
New thread up.