Observing Memorial Day
by tdaxp ~ May 26th, 2008
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- The Obama Economy (1)
- > Jeffrey James: “or the Obama White House claiming that it has the exclusive right to license public domain...
- Obama is destroying the foundations of the country and selling us to the Chinese (11)
- > vimothy: Hmm, it’s not really a Keynesian identity per se, but no worries. Sorry I went on that mad rant!
- > JD: Naw what makes ya think that? I’m not mad watching our country get handed over to international bankers &...
- > tdaxp: vimothy, OK, I thought you were making a prediction, instead of repeating an Keynesian accounting identity. My...
- > JD: Ok so what your saying Dan is if Obama is destroying the foundations of the country and selling us to the...
- > vimothy: Maybe we can simplify this. For the economy as a whole total income equals total spending (i.e. nominal GDP). If...
- > vimothy: Hmm. The macroeconomics of the situation is certainly counter-intuitive. The best way to think about these things...
- > tdaxp: Vimothy, By this logic, if the US government would borrow a billion from China, and shred it, there are now a...
- > vimothy: Government deficits allow non-government sector savings. That is, the liabilities of the American government are...
- > Michael: “The reason it is so awful is that the trick is for a school district or state to just write an easy test....
- > tdaxp: Michael, The story-behind-the-news is that there are two forms of school testing : fixed standard based on...
- > Michael: On point 6, “. . .and replace it with an index that would reward educators who prepare students for college...
- Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration (3)
- > Guy: That’s a pretty wild advert for a tutoring company!
- > biz: There was a girl from my high school involved with this. It’s an advertising campaign for a tutoring company.
- > Guy: Whilst one appreciates the cultural lodestone that 1776 is to Americans and the current political culture in the US...
- Google is Bigoted Against Christians and Supports Terrorism (33)
- Avatar: Metacontextual Edition (7)
- > Guy: All you really need is the Paddy Griffith book* to know about British WW1 tactics. By the Hundred Days offensive the...
- > tdaxp: I don’t know enough British infantry history to comment on Guy’s post, but Tuchman describes Stilwell...
- > Guy: Most WW1 commanders would have been embarrassed with Star Wars tactics. The British Army had light infantry 3GW down...
- > Purpleslog: Hollywood doesn’t understand 3GW or 4GW. They don’t like the military or military history (in...
- > Seerov: Did you guys ever notice that in “Star Wars” they have superior technology but they use 2GW tactics?...
- > Tim: Excellent!
- > Purpleslog: That link was fantastic!
- Corporate Free Speech is a Fundamental Human Right (39)
- > Tim: We’ve prohibited corporations from spending money in the electoral process since the days of Teddy Roosevelt...
- > tdaxp: Trivially true. So?
- > Tim: The Supreme Court reversed a century of its own precedent.
- > tdaxp: Tim, What’s your point. The subject of your post was not addressed by the comedian. Further, as you’re...
- > Tim: tdaxp, I’m pretty sure we share the same ancestors. And for the very reasons they “killed the...
- > tdaxp: Michael, Generally, the Congress has the powers to create laws that are laid out in Article I Section VIII of the...
- > Tim: That’s a good question Mike – maybe tdaxp can tell us. Goldman Sachs (and every other corporation) only...
- > Michael: “Rights are innate. Powers are contracted to the government, which imposes limitations on us. We don’t have...
- > tdaxp: Michael, Corporations don’t exist for their own sake either. They are created by shareholders (who can...
- > Michael: I didn’t know blogs and yard signs existed for their own sakes–are you an AI in disguise? *grin* To...
- The Dog that Did Not Bite (8)
- > tdaxp: Sadly, the Shadow-Puppet politics use to serve to distract everyone from a debate with real benefits...
- > Michael: Don’t suppose Obama’s trying to get a three-way together with Ma and Hu to cut down on the...
- > historyguy99: That fear being realized in this post from USNI http://blog.usni.org/2010/01/3 1/qdr-china-and-overseas-ba...
- > tdaxp: Perhaps a more likely response than selling arms to Cuba would be a Chinese base in Pakistan [1]… The CCP and...
- > historyguy99: Love the poster Dan, so true! Here is the link to the story Purpleslog referred too....
- Review of “Stilwell and the American Expeirence in China, 1911-1945,” by Barbara Tuchman and “The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China” by Jay Taylor (5)
- > tdaxp: True. While there are a number of books, including one of interviews with her done immediately before her arrest,...
- > historyguy99: That’s another book for someone to write!
- > tdaxp: Oo! The biography of Madame Chiang would fit everything very nicely — especially as her brother was...
- > historyguy99: Here is another facet in modern Chinese history that compliments the above noted books....
- Some Thoughts on Haiti (21)
- > tdaxp: I’m sure that all those who put human lives over the rights of their awful country do.
- > Purpleslog: Some Hatians want the US to take over: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/article/2010...
- > tdaxp: Purpleslog, A stopped clock is right twice a day. Perhaps we could pay someone to take the Haitians away, so that...
- > purpleslog: Interesting, the African Union is floating a proposal: http://www.reuters.com/article /idUSTRE60U0IV20100131...
- > purpleslog: TDAXP: On my Proposal, the people of Haiti would need to consent…it could not be forced on them.
- > Seerov: “Or anti-non-white, in the case of people who make a living whining about affirmative action.”...
- > Michael: “Anti-racism is a code word for anti-white.” Or anti-non-white, in the case of people who make a...
- Great news! (9)
- > tdaxp: Me too! I’m tingly with anticipation
- > Joseph Fouche: I was expecting my autographed copy by now.
- > tdaxp: It’s all because of contributors!
- > Stephen Pampinella: Editing/publishing win.
- > tdaxp: Me too! I’m tingly with anticipation
- Thoughts on the iPad (7)
- HOWTO: Batch Download a Book in PDF Pages from NetLibrary (9)
- > tdaxp: No idea. I haven’t needed this method in 2008. Off the top of my head, if you’re script is downloading...
- > Andrew: I tried this with an ebook I’m interested in, but the pages aren’t linked as individual files. Each...
- Open Thread XIX (47)
- > tdaxp: Russia certainly wants to hurt us and our allies — that is why they start aggressive wars with NATO...
- > purpleslog: Lucky for the USA, Russia is not the Soviet Union in power. The USA just needs to support and stand with those...
- > purpleslog: Sadly, Russia has decided that the US is an enemy again. Post-Soviet Union could have been friends, but that...
- > Brent Grace: Dan Here is a story which is incredible if true. Apparently Russia tried to torpedo the U.S. economy before...
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