Park Geun-hye has no right to talk about the children of North Korea. The KCNA news agency carried what it said were comments by a private citizen criticizing Park’s offer last week to help the impoverished North’s women and children as “foul-smelling vituperation uttered by human[...]
Archive for April, 2014
April 5th, 2014 - 10:50 pm § in Hypocrisy
North Korea: Calls President of South Korea a “repulsive wench.”
April 5th, 2014 - 6:47 pm § in The Ave Scene
How Come we do not tax podment developers for transit?
A recent exchange of posts at the UW AAUP listserv illustrates the political castration of the University. To be honest, I intend to vote for prop one with a large clothespin applied to my nose. One participant, excited by something he read in the Seattle Times, posted his enthusiasm for proposition[...]
UKRAINE: The Crack In The Slavic Egg
John Lloyd: “Russia, with faltering growth, a demographic crisis and no modernization in sight, is a year or two away from the economic fever ward.” John Lloyd at Reuters writes about the threats of a Slav crash involving not only Ukraine but Russia, with more than 140 million peop[...]
April 4th, 2014 - 11:34 pm § in Misc.
A Response to the Oso Landslide
Personal Responsibility for Disasters Over at HorseAss, Carl Ballard writes, “One of the questions with the Oso disaster that people are asking now is why did we let it happen? We knew that the hill was in danger, and yet people were allowed to live below it. ” Bullshit. I see no reason [...]
April 4th, 2014 - 8:56 pm § in Misc.
To Hugh … In defence of the UW logo
My Brother Hugh Seems to REALLY Care About the Husky Logo So much love for the UW from a guy who went to a school that has no football team and a big eyed owl as its logo! This seemed extraordinary! Now my brother can get obsessive and Hugh’s concern was so great that he […][...]
April 4th, 2014 - 3:27 pm § in Misc.
How Federal Income Tax Works
This post expands on a comment I made to another post. The federal income tax is confusing to many people. Like everything else, it’s easier to grasp if you know the basic principles. The general idea is to tax income, but only once. First, you have to define “income,” then specify[...]
ISRAEL: Passing off the Zionist Heritage
Is It Jewish If It is Intermarried? Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks glowingly about his 23 year-old son Yair’s relationship with a 25 yea-old Norwegian girl. The relationship between Yair and Sandra Leikanger went viral. Pictures of the couple in Norway over the summer on Lei[...]
April 4th, 2014 - 12:48 pm § in China
CHINA: Are Chinese Marines Training to invade North Korea”
CHINA’s PLAN Jeffrey Lin and Dr. P.W. Singer write in Popular Science: The PLAN Marine Corps (PLANMC) are China’s most well trained and dedicated amphibious assault force. In February and March 2014, the PLANMC and their ZTD-05 amphibious assault vehicles undertook urban combat training i[...]
April 4th, 2014 - 10:44 am § in Misc., The Ave Scene
The New Microsoft GETS IT!!!
Windows Phone’s goal: Be the go-to OS for the budget-consciousBy eliminating licensing fees for the OS on devices with a screen smaller than 9 inches, Microsoft is placing a bet on rapid expansion over revenue. It appears that Nadella is a very smart fella .. taking lessons from Samsung and fr[...]
Clue To Lost Jet? Or Chinese BS?
Update: Yeah, “noise” is the right description Frankly, to a non-expert like me, the Chinese equipment doesn’t look like much more than a tin can on a string. And they had a spare pinger in their inflatable boat, which would start pinging if it got wet, and what doesn&[...]