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Saturday, January 25. 2014

Saturday morning links

Wind Permits Allowing Eagle Deaths Face Blowback


Why We Should Subsidise Hipster Novelists' Housing.


The comments are amusing.


Marcus: The Making of a Black Conservative


Sultan's Totalitarians of New York:



Jaywalking is as much a part of New York as salty pretzels and the carriage horses of Central Park. While Bill de Blasio claimed to be inspired by Mayor La Guardia, the latter had an entirely different view of the relationship between the people and the city government.


“I prefer the happiness of our unorganized imperfection to the organized perfection of other countries,” La Guardia said after vetoing a jaywalking bill, and added, referencing the growing fascism in Germany that was then admired by many progressives, “Broadway is not Unter den Linden.”



Why Wendy Davis has no future in politics


Wendy Davis supporters laugh at disability


'Big chill' expected to stay until 2040 - Major cooling cycle could match 'Little Ice Age'


New York Finds High Taxes Send State's Wealthy Fleeing


Goldberg: So What Was The Point of Obamacare Again?


The U.S. Chamber of Commerce vs. America


Pentagon: U.S. Not Capable of Detecting Foreign Nuke Threats


Unions Tell Mom She Must Pay Dues to Care for Her Son


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Pentagon: U.S. Not Capable of Detecting Foreign Nuke Threats

Yeah, we pretty much got that when Obama and Kerry made their "deal" with Iran.
#1 JKB on 2014-01-25 08:29 (Reply)
It is so much worse then the article made it appear. Everyone remembers that day on 9/11 watching as one of the towers burned and then seeing the second tower hit by another plane. I watched mesmerized sitting on the couch after turning on the TV when I got up. I got angry and depressed and even angrier over what I saw. But seriously the 9/11 attack pales in comparison with a single nuclear weapon set of in some Western city. It is absolutely going to happen and given the state of technology in the world it will probaby be televised. Will it be Tel Aviv, Paris, London or New York City? Will it be Iran or some heretofore unknown terrorist group? Will we even know who did it. It is possible to make a nuke small enough to fit into a breifcase or backpack. Even a large nuke can be smuggled into a country stuck inside of machnery or alternatively in the hold of a cargo ship to be set off as it docks at a city near you. It is absolutely going to happen. While it may be the most significant thing ever for the hundreds of thousands who die and then many more hundreds of thousands who are injured the fact is it is the tip of the ice berg compared to what happens next. Can any nuclear capable country absorb such an attack without retaliating in kind? And who should be the target of such retaliation? The country that provided the nuclear technology? The country that spawned the terrorists? The country that allowed the terrorists to operate within their borders? All of them? Imagine a single nuke set off in Downtown London, Tel Aviv, NYCity or Paris. What would the citizens of those countries demand and what would the government do? It is absolutely going to happen. Once we allowed the proliferation of nuclear weapons we set that scenario in motion. Now our choice is to wait for it to happen or act to prevent it.
#1.1 GoneWithTheWind on 2014-01-25 11:31 (Reply)
Hate to say it. But I miss the USSR and the Cold War.

I wonder to what extent the spread of nuclear know-how from the exodus of Soviet nuclear scientists and technicians will be found to be responsible after the fact. After that device goes off.

How many people remember the attempt to supply money to the unemployed Soviet scientists? To keep them from leaving Russia for countries that wanted their knowledge. An effort that was choked off by Congress, "to save money for domestic programs".

God help us.
#1.1.1 John the River (Link) on 2014-01-25 13:02 (Reply)
Why We Should Subsidise Hipster Novelists' Housing.


How do we know we're subsidizing the correct writers? Many of the great writers didn't have connections in the 'art' community.
#2 JKB on 2014-01-25 14:37 (Reply)
'Tis a simple test. Who ever can produce an essay or short story purchased by Boys Life and Esquire is on their own, the rest become artist in residence in either the project or city park of the board's choice.
#2.1 walt moffett on 2014-01-25 15:12 (Reply)
“I prefer the happiness of our unorganized imperfection to the organized perfection of other countries,” La Guardia said after vetoing a jaywalking bill, and added, referencing the growing fascism in Germany that was then admired by many progressives, “Broadway is not Unter den Linden.”

Back in the day I got a jawyalking ticket in Oakland for walking across a red light at 2:30 in the morning. There were no vehicles in my sight. However, there was a motorcycle cop behind me who gave me a jaywalking ticket.

I later spent 36 hours in jail for non-reply to said ticket.
#3 Gringo on 2014-01-25 14:52 (Reply)
you spent 36 hours in jail for failure to appear, a separate crime. California Penal Code section 853. 7.

should have paid the ticket.
#3.1 wirraway on 2014-01-25 16:13 (Reply)
I would disagree, Wendy Davis does have a future in the Democratic Party. Resume embellishment matters not when she is pro-abortion, photogenic, overambitious and able to use donor pleasing buzz words. Won't surprise me to see her touted as a VP candidate.

Sultan has a point, regulation trumps public services for too many. Unlike say the sewer socialists of Milwaukee who though sewers mattered more.

And always amusing to see Greens fighting amongst themselves.
#4 walt moffett on 2014-01-25 15:30 (Reply)
I agree with you, Walt. I'm still trying to figure out what a lefty must do to lose the support of other lefties. I don't think there is anything. Of course, there aren't enough lefties to put her in office, but there are enough people who won't hear the whole story (because the press won't report it or if they do, they'll soft pedal it) to be turned off by it.

When Jesse Jackson ended up having an illegitimate child (quaint term, isn't it?) while he was still married, a friend laughed and said that would be the end of him. Well, he hasn't been quite as active since then (possibly because those who would have paid attention to him don't seem to be as discriminating in their choice of 'leaders' now that Al Sharpton is on the scene), but it surely didn't shut him up.
#4.1 mudbug on 2014-01-25 16:15 (Reply)
Nat Hentoff could say it was because he decided abortion was wrong. That seems to be the one bright must not cross line.
#4.1.1 walt moffett on 2014-01-25 19:55 (Reply)
Killing eagles is a mere spit in the bucket. Thinks about all the other birds, including hummers, that migrate through our lands to pollinate and control insect infestations. We still take many car trips and have found these wind fields not only ugly as sin (not a big of charm like the singular windmills of old Holland), but inoperable when there is no wind or the darn things have self-destructed from rust or other mechanical problems -- they just sit there like a giant field of grave markers. I believe Europe finally has hard figures on their decades-long experiments with such alternative energy sources and have decided them too unreliable given their cost to subsidize in the future.

These vast fields devoted to mechanics would be much better served by serious plantings of tree and natural grass lines to prevent wind and water erosion; i.e. get the Federal government out of the works. If the states want to experiment and bill their taxpayers for the benefits/losses, so be it. The bureaucracy is at least reduced.
#5 jma on 2014-01-25 17:13 (Reply)
As to the birds, I was kinda with them until the end...

"The American Wind Energy Association also hopes to keep animosity over the rule at bay by focusing on the bigger picture, environmentally speaking.

"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, environmental groups, and others all agree the biggest threat to wildlife is climate change," said Tom Vinson, AWEA vice president of federal regulatory affairs. "[And] wind energy is one of the key solutions available today to mitigate climate change.""

What a load of horse hockey, by the time "climate change" has a significant effect we and what is left of the birds will be frozen to death.
#6 XRay on 2014-01-25 17:50 (Reply)
"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, environmental groups, and others all agree the biggest threat to wildlife is climate change," said Tom Vinson, AWEA vice president of federal regulatory affairs. "[And] wind energy is one of the key solutions available today to mitigate climate change.""

NO!NO! May a million flies attack these climate change scammers!

I'm old enough and have heard sufficient memories at my great-grandparents' knees to know the members of the climate lobby are wallowing in their fees and political pay-offs. The chickadees, cardinals, and orioles in my well-below zero backyard have adapted quite well, thank you, as they will do when it hits 100 degrees in the summer. They have a harder time dodging man-made objects.
#6.1 jma on 2014-01-25 18:52 (Reply)
AGW is a scam. It gives politicians more money and power. It gives scientists and others grants, salaries and acclaim. It gives the greenies a hammer to hold over our heads and of course it gives special interests subsidies and other freebies. It is perfect. Too perfect to let little things like the truth stop it. It is already failing to prove itself more then a theory but it will live like Frankenstein because it mens so much to so many people. Until the money runs out or hell freezes over this will continue to have a life of it's own.
#7 GoneWithTheWind on 2014-01-26 00:45 (Reply)

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