Discovering New Natural Law is like finding your first tautology embedded in the proof of a self-evident proposition.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Update and New Natural Law Jokes
I'm still working on the development of a "New Traditionalist" position. I've been encouraged by background reading and research, that this is on the right track. The first part is written, but then there are always byproducts:
So, how do you tell a New Natural Lawyer? He's the one who goes to a dialectical drinking party (a.k.a. a symposium) and only invites a liberal consequentialist.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
SEC, Fed Waived Capital Requirements in Lead Up to Massive Crisis
Oh, I mean the Nuclear Regulatory Agency ...uh, er ... didn't follow-up or something.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission failed to resolve known safety problems, leading to 14 'near-misses' in US nuclear power plants in 2009 and 2010, according to a new report from a nuclear watchdog group. - Christian Science Monitor
Too much "big government spending", no doubt.
Also in recent memory. Oil platform inspections. And, who can forget the air maintenance shenanigans that took place under Bush?
Space shuttle explosion
I mean, operating a treacherous, high-risk program with business objectives, instead of safety objectives.
Wall Street Journal explains.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Another Arab Country, Another Attack
We're so used to going to war now that President Obama can go off to Brazil and phone in the airstrikes, if any, I guess...
I predict 18 months until we hear the first, "When they stand up, we'll stand down."
Otherwise, if it is to be Egyptian ground forces in support, then thank god that there will be no civilian massacres or torture. (gulp)
If there are no ground troops, then WTF!?
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Of Gods and Men, on St. Patrick's Days
Why does the natural disaster in Japan seem worse than the man-made financial disaster in Ireland?
Loss of life, obviously, but otherwise, ...
"Gasland" scares me more than nuclear meltdown
Okay. Nukes are risky. Fossil fuels are risky too, just not as dramatically, in the short term.
I wonder why, when "Gasland" the movie came out that there was no 24/7 coverage of the fact that we are mindlessly polluting America, with the process already well along.
Oh, and Senate 1215, the minimalist attempt to do something, the "Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals (FRAC) Act"?
Totally failed.
So far as I know, it's still completely legal, since Bush-Cheney '05, to pollute at will, with known carcinogens and with impunity, in violation of the spirit of the Clean Water Act.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-1215
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-1215
QOTD
Question of the day: is promise of electrical line to slain nuke power plant disinformation?
Without knowing anything, one could guess that, if you are at the point where you are cooling the containment vessel externally by air water-drop, it would seem like any chance at using the regular-way cooling system would have melted away.
FOX "News" Commitment - Where's the beef?
So, does FOX have any staff journalists in Libya?
Their main story on Libya today is a rewrite of the AP.
The Pink Elephant: Our Revenue Problem
NORQUIST: THE MAN WITH ONLY ONE IDEA
most Republicans in Congress have signed says that they will “oppose any net reduction or elimination of deductions and credits, unless matched dollar for dollar by further reducing tax rates. -Ezra Klein
The Democrats have no similar pledge, do they?
Hillary Clinton once opined that Dems need the equivalent of a Grover Norquist. One understands the importance of a studious counterweight, but there are few things more dangerous than a man who has only one idea (and we're living the proof of that, right now).
Petraeus
Afghanistan is the longest part of The Long War.
The Taliban had "momentum" since 2005.
When the full, unclassified history is written, I suspect that Afghanistan will look like a bigger indictment of the Bush era than Iraq.
Money-culture Watch
The lingering knock-on effects of our politicians wishing that they could live the 'CEO lifestyle'?
Qien sabe?
Didn't know Ezra had it in him to write like this, though, the bye to Bayh.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Life is better than fiction
Laugh, cry - life has it all over fiction and I really don't know why people watch "reality shows".
Wisconsin Senator's wife joins recall petition and gives protesters coffee and donuts. Read why.
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