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Saturday, July 27. 2013

Saturday morning links

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Imagine if Bush had numbers like that


IRS employee union: We don’t want Obamacare


Obamacare is for the little people


Affirmative action for academic journals?


Pentagon considering affirmative action in combat


Senate Sensibly Ties Student Loans To Markets


Death penalty for killing an unborn child?


Has the U.S. Treasury Already Exceeded the Debt Limit?


Krauthammer: Stein's Law


"What can't go on, won't"


Obamacare Will Raise Premiums…a Lot


Commandant wanted Marines 'crushed' for urination video


IRS slow-walking document release


Let's all slow-walk our taxes


Use of HPV anti-cancer vaccine stalled in 2012


How Entertainers Are Bullied Into Not Performing In Israel


How America's Top Tech Companies Created the Surveillance State - They’ve been helping the government spy on people for a very long time. The cozy relationships go back decades.


Ponnuru: Drop the Disastrous Plan to Defund Obamacare



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Re: Affirmative Action in Academic Journals

Of course there are not equal amounts of women in SEP, or any other journal that requires really rigorous intellectual work!

These gals can always force the straight, white males in their department to add their name to the man's original work. That is especially beneficial if the woman's last name begins with a letter that comes earlier in the alphabet than the "real author"!

This also goes to prove that during these last 20 or so years women in academia have not had to work as hard as the men !

Shall I go on and on and on??
#1 faculty wife on 2013-07-27 09:23 (Reply)
Yes!
#1.1 Sam L. on 2013-07-27 10:58 (Reply)
These gals can always force the straight, white males in their department to add their name to the man's original work. That is especially beneficial if the woman's last name begins with a letter that comes earlier in the alphabet than the "real author"!

This is not a practice confined to fems. I knew an engineering professor who had a very impressive resume of publications to his credit. I later found how that occurred. He headed up a lab. Anyone in that lab who published anything had to add the lab head's name to the publication- regardless of his involvement in the research,
#1.2 Gringo on 2013-07-27 15:30 (Reply)
"Let's all slow-walk our taxes "

That's, that attitude, is why the IRS has a SWAT team. That and guns are cool.
#2 JKB on 2013-07-27 11:39 (Reply)
America's Top Tech Companies Created the Surveillance State


Turns out, big, overweening government is only bad when you aren't getting paid to subvert the Rights of the People.


[quote] I'm a Leftist IT hero
I created the surveillance state
I'm a Leftist IT hero
Now for the People, it's to late.[quote]
#3 JKB on 2013-07-27 11:43 (Reply)
re Has the U.S. Treasury Already Exceeded the Debt Limit?

So what if we have? Who is going to enforce the law? Certainly not the dems in Congress and there are not enough repubs with a spine to do anything about it.

We have a government that increasingly does whatever it pleases. The checks on power are fewer and fewer.
#4 feeblemind on 2013-07-27 11:54 (Reply)
Ann Barnhardt's July 20 entry contains:


3. All of the FEDGOV pension money is totally being raided. I picked up on a Market-Ticker.org thread that the way the FEDGOV is keeping from "hitting the debt ceiling" is by raiding the TSP accounts, which stand for "Thrift Savings Accounts". Those are all of the retirement accounts of government employees, basically government 401ks. Yeah. The Obama regime raids the TSP accounts, leaves an I.O.U., and it washes out on the balance sheet since it is all "gubmint", and thus the "debt ceiling" is not breached.

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#4.1 buddy larsen on 2013-07-28 04:17 (Reply)
Sounds like Ponnuru forgets all politics are local. Many of the freshman Rs had campaign pledges to oppose Obamacare.

Obamacare's costs should set up some interesting fights over funding in the Blue coalition when the top of the ticket wants debt reduction.

And even City of Chicago retirees don't want Obamacare, even if it will save the city's budget.
#5 walt moffett on 2013-07-27 12:40 (Reply)
slow-walking the IRS: re-do your W4 so you just owe a little in April. File your 1040 handwritten. (you can do it on line, but don't file electronically.) Make sure your handwriting is barely legible. Cue Rachel Jantel jokes now. File on April 15 with check included. Send the $10 you save by not saving the IRS money inputting your 1040 to the Tea Party.
#6 fiona on 2013-07-27 13:59 (Reply)
Affirmative action for academic journals?

I call for a moratorium on publication by all white male (including Jews, White Hispanics, White Asians, etc). Only after fifty years of affirmative-action publication will the truth and beauty of diversity in science be clear.
#7 ErisGuy on 2013-07-27 15:42 (Reply)
Maybe nothing that extreme. Maybe we'll just require them to get pre-clearance from the DOJ.
#7.1 Texan99 on 2013-07-27 20:50 (Reply)
Gringo: Yes, I know the tradition you are speaking of--only that particular tradition is worse than you think. It's not just the research papers that are involved, it is any paper written as a Master's thesis--in any discipline. If a grad student wants to submit a paper for publication (this is a critical rung on the step ladder) then he must add his thesis advisor's name to the paper. I know one gal who teaches engineering with hundreds of papers to her credit. Because her last name starts with an A, her name comes up first and the poor student who did the work and wrote the paper just gets lost down the line. That is different than what I am talking about--I am talking about female faculty calling me at home and telling me that "you just have to get your husband to help me out with this one". "You know I am divorced, and I got kids, and I can't do all the head time necessary (to keep a job in academia)."
#8 faculty wife on 2013-07-27 19:12 (Reply)
--according to the pie chart at the 'slow walking' link, at the current rate, since congress made the document request on June 4, the last doc will change hands in only 8.33 years. "Slow walking" is a little cruel, i think --eight and a third years is not really all that long.
#9 buddy larsen on 2013-07-28 04:10 (Reply)
It doesn't surprise me that the Marine brass were offended and wanted to burn the guys who actually do the fighting. The farther away they are from the sharp edge, the more delicate their sensibilities become.
#10 jdgjtr on 2013-07-28 07:19 (Reply)
I'd sure like to hear from Col. Christmas and the other passle of Marine unit commanders who've been sacked lately.

http://misguidedchildren.com/tag/colonel-james-christmas

http://www.bing.com/search?q=Col.+James+Christmas&form=IE8SRC&src=IE-SearchBox

The same vague rationale given in every case: "...has lost the confidence of the chain of command" or some such. Christmas was a star performer --wrote the book on Marine doctrine for the terror war. Yes, that appears to be the case.

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On the HPV vaccine, Japan's health authority is the latest of some six or eight national health advisories to have decided ''no mas''.

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So there's two unrelated stories that the information revolution hasn't quite reached yet.
#10.1 buddy larsen on 2013-07-28 11:07 (Reply)

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