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Wednesday, December 26. 2012

Wednesday morning links

Among the more irritating manifestations of political correctness, at least to this historian, is the attempt to replace the terms AD and BC with CE and BCE.


Tom Brewton's new book: The Liberal Jihad: The Hundred Year War Against The Constitution


How the Welfare State Traps the Poor in Dependency, the British Version


Time for Some Common-Sense Publishing Controls - What would Second Amendment bloviators say if we applied their logic to the First Amendment?


Prof. Richard Parncutt: Death Penalty for Global Warming Deniers?


Prince Harry in Taliban 'kill' mission


Driscoll: Two CNNs In One


I nominate Ann Althouse for the Light of Reason Award.


Douthat: Gun debate is emblematic of our dysfunctional politics


Glenn Reynolds is still awaiting answers from gun-control advocates Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg about the guns used by their security details in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre.


CHANGE: In 2012, Generation Y voted to impoverish themselves


With full implementation of Obamacare, the bureaucratic cost will rise to ≈50%.


Gun-Control Today; Fat-Control Tomorrow?


Merry Christmas: a (partial) list of Obamacare taxes, fees


The Leftist delusion of a world without danger


Fathers disappear from households across America-Big increase in single mothers


Tenth most popular request for kids' Christmas gift: a 'dad'

For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall


With Election Over, Americans Find They Were Duped By Democrats And Obama


Bill Whittle: The Obama Administration Is Deliberately Attempting to Destroy This Economy


Steyn: Tapper’s promotion to CNN a lesson for the ‘J-school zombies’ in the WH press corps

JFK Conspiracy Theorists Seek Inclusion in Ceremony


California’s Largest Corporation is Headed for the Exit


 


 


Timbuktu: When the Saints Go Marching In


Big Red One, Second Brigade to Africa


Nigeria: Muslims murder six Christians at Christmas service


The Waqf is continuing to destroy Jewish antiquities on the Temple Mount in a direct violation of a court ruling, new report finds.


Christmas in Indonesia: Savage Muslim mob pelts Christian worshippers with rotten eggs, bags of urine and dung


Christianity 'close to extinction' in Middle East


Postcard from Myanmar, the world Obama left behind after visit

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 06:30 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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bce and ce are extremely offensive, at least when compared to bc and ad.

The assumption of people using bce and ce is that there is only one calendar in use in the world, or at least only one that really matters: the Gregorian calendar in use in Europe, the US, and other western countries.

The fact that Orthodox Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Chinese each have their own calendar is simply ignored. This is cultural imperialism in the raw.

By the way, astronomers have their own calendar, confusing called "Julian" like the Orthodox calendar of the same name, but different. Some oceanographers and hydrologists, especially modelers also use the term Julian Date is an idiosyncratic and private way.
#1 bob sykes on 2012-12-26 06:56 (Reply)
This is cultural imperialism in the raw.

Excellent point
#1.1 DrTorch on 2012-12-26 08:11 (Reply)
BC and AD are culturally insensitive, but this will change when the Muslims take over--then they will be culturally insensitive. But they won't care.

Morrissey: "It’s time for all sides to start doing the heavy lifting, and to change the culture through thoughtful and purposeful individual participation, rather than look to government to change it for us." But one side likes the culture the way it is, and resists changing back.

About Bookworm's essay--I was suddenly struck by the realization that white guys don't shoot up black schools these days (KKK standing down), and we never hear of black guys shooting up black schools. Howze come?

The media lied to us? I am shocked, shocked to hear... Zachriel, tell me is isn't soooooo!

Waqf (never heard of them) continue to destroy--quel surprise!
#2 Sam L. on 2012-12-26 11:41 (Reply)
I propose Shire Reckoning to replace BC and AD.
#3 wirraway on 2012-12-26 11:55 (Reply)
QUOTE:
: Before ACA, the healthcare bureaucracy consumed 40% of all healthcare spending... With full implementation of Obamacare, the bureaucratic cost will rise to ≈50%.

Not sure where they got their statistics.

Woolhandler et al., Costs of Health Care Administration in the United States and Canada, New England Journal of Medicine 2003: "After exclusions, administration accounted for 31.0 percent of health care expenditures in the United States and 16.7 percent of health care expenditures in Canada. Canada's national health insurance program had overhead of 1.3 percent; the overhead among Canada's private insurers was higher than that in the United States (13.2 percent vs. 11.7 percent). Providers' administrative costs were far lower in Canada... A large sum might be saved in the United States if administrative costs could be trimmed by implementing a Canadian-style health care system."
#4 Zachriel on 2012-12-26 12:05 (Reply)
I always make my atheist friends explode by saying "oh, CE, Christ exists." Or "BCE, before Christ existed." They very quickly look for a different way to express centuries.
#5 KF on 2012-12-26 16:07 (Reply)
lovin it. will copy
#5.1 bob sykes on 2012-12-26 16:40 (Reply)

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