November 06, 2013
Post Mortem
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November 05, 2013
Oh..Thank You For Putting This out There....TODAY
In a few minutes I'm going to go stand in line to vote for an old fashioned and inarticulate, but basically principled dork.
"Ewww...this sounds so much like politics...that it's actually politics."
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"Ewww...this sounds so much like politics...that it's actually politics."
Indeed...and it is our habit to place the actual political portion of the politics post below the fold.
But not on election day.
I'll be voting against a guy who wrote the book on selling access to the White House, who has been a serial liar....
...and has never held any office.
Now...entirely too late.... it comes out that the Libertarian candidate who will be the deciding factor in this election was financed by the Democrats.
Even Ron Paul, a former Libertarian Part Presidential Candidate who has been no friend of Cucinelli in the past on a lot of issues campainged for the 'Cooch' and against the libertarian in this election.
So all those of you who are filing a protest vote are actually voting this guy.
Oh well, I'm off to tilt at windmills again.
But not on election day.
I'll be voting against a guy who wrote the book on selling access to the White House, who has been a serial liar....
...and has never held any office.
Now...entirely too late.... it comes out that the Libertarian candidate who will be the deciding factor in this election was financed by the Democrats.
Even Ron Paul, a former Libertarian Part Presidential Candidate who has been no friend of Cucinelli in the past on a lot of issues campainged for the 'Cooch' and against the libertarian in this election.
So all those of you who are filing a protest vote are actually voting this guy.
Oh well, I'm off to tilt at windmills again.
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Oh My Yes!
Via NBF, it seems that Garrison, a Canadian high end menswear boutique has produced a bullet resistant business suit. Searching in vain for an imbed-able version of their video I noted that there is at least one other company that makes these. American Armor Attire of Fredricksburg Virginia also makes a similar product.
AAA doesn't list prices and the Canadian bespoke prices theirs at twenty grand, so its a bit out of my range with tuition looming, but damn...that's cool.
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November 03, 2013
Central Texas
Wow , Austin got clobbered.
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I Think I Nailed It
...unfortunately.
On October 21st, in an otherwise glowing review, I made a tentative prediction about Outbreak Company.
Shaw'nuff...
I may watch next weeks episode because there is actually a slight HINT of a notion that the writers understand the wrongness here.
Of course, this is probably wishful thinking caused by the previous four episodes having so much promise.
I don't recommend anyone else do it though.
On October 21st, in an otherwise glowing review, I made a tentative prediction about Outbreak Company.
Confidence is still not high...I expect this show to devolve into a moe-ocalyptic mess,
Shaw'nuff...
I may watch next weeks episode because there is actually a slight HINT of a notion that the writers understand the wrongness here.
Of course, this is probably wishful thinking caused by the previous four episodes having so much promise.
I don't recommend anyone else do it though.
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November 02, 2013
Well...You Have a Nice Weekend too China
Yesterday, China interupted America's hand-wringing over the Obamacare debacle with a bit of a nonsequiter.
It seems that they just, out of the blue, felt the need to remind us that their small fleet of ballistic missile submarines can wreak all sorts of nuclear devastation on US cities.
This is not news...so why bring it up?
China state media also included this fallout map which doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
Also: Why are they wasting a nuke on Rutland Vermont?
The Blaze suggests that this might be welcome news, indicating a loosening on secrecy and censorship, but this flies in the face of recent trends which have been even farther in the other direction.
We mentioned back in August that FAS had gotten wind of China doing a lot of nuclear attack simulations and had been putting together their own.
Hot on the heels of this helpful reminder...Today we had China announce that they intend to "silence" the Dali Lama. This is part of a larger internal crackdown fully in keeping with the disturbingly Maoist tendencies of Xi Jinpang.
Nuking the people who owe you money and buy your stuff is a poor business model (as wise people have pointed out) but if it looks like said people (the US) is never going to pay you back and are going completely broke it becomes less so...especially if the perceived deadbeat is the only thing standing in the way of regional hegemony.
Furthermore, if one thinks Mao was a swell guy and his attitude towards human life is laudable, then the huge population of China and the individual low yields of most of the warheads in the US arsenal might make it appear that China could "take the hit" of a US retaliatory strike.
In the long run...which is how China looks at things... they might even be right.
This still seems unlikely. No one "wins" a nuclear exchange.
However, stupider decisions have been made. The decisions that led to World War One all seemed like good ideas at the time. It's also important to remember that other societies and values systems can produce decisionary calculus with regard to acceptable trade offs is likely far different from ours.
On an equally upbeat and somewhat related note: There is an interesting report here on dealing with a low yield nuclear blast (about 1/2 a Fat Man) in a nuclear terrorist attack.
It seems that they just, out of the blue, felt the need to remind us that their small fleet of ballistic missile submarines can wreak all sorts of nuclear devastation on US cities.
This is not news...so why bring it up?
China state media also included this fallout map which doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
Also: Why are they wasting a nuke on Rutland Vermont?
The Blaze suggests that this might be welcome news, indicating a loosening on secrecy and censorship, but this flies in the face of recent trends which have been even farther in the other direction.
We mentioned back in August that FAS had gotten wind of China doing a lot of nuclear attack simulations and had been putting together their own.
Hot on the heels of this helpful reminder...Today we had China announce that they intend to "silence" the Dali Lama. This is part of a larger internal crackdown fully in keeping with the disturbingly Maoist tendencies of Xi Jinpang.
Nuking the people who owe you money and buy your stuff is a poor business model (as wise people have pointed out) but if it looks like said people (the US) is never going to pay you back and are going completely broke it becomes less so...especially if the perceived deadbeat is the only thing standing in the way of regional hegemony.
Furthermore, if one thinks Mao was a swell guy and his attitude towards human life is laudable, then the huge population of China and the individual low yields of most of the warheads in the US arsenal might make it appear that China could "take the hit" of a US retaliatory strike.
In the long run...which is how China looks at things... they might even be right.
This still seems unlikely. No one "wins" a nuclear exchange.
However, stupider decisions have been made. The decisions that led to World War One all seemed like good ideas at the time. It's also important to remember that other societies and values systems can produce decisionary calculus with regard to acceptable trade offs is likely far different from ours.
On an equally upbeat and somewhat related note: There is an interesting report here on dealing with a low yield nuclear blast (about 1/2 a Fat Man) in a nuclear terrorist attack.
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