Things Heard: e233v3
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012 at
8:56 am
Good morning.
- Our (non-) reality based state department.
- Yes, even granting the premise, the conclusion is not warranted. “Reduce civilian casualties” is not the goal of combat, or at least in the short term. Most of the operations that drones are used are COIN operations … there may be a place for drones in a good COIN campaign … but it’s not as obvious as you would suspect I deem. What reduces casualties the most is the end of conflict … which may or not be helped by drones vs not-drones.
- On getting started …
- On the other hand, some kids (one of mine for example) really do suffer from real mental illnesses, i.e., depression. When you have a fifth grade kid who won’t get out of bed or do anything because of malaise and no inducement of any sort will even pique here interest … something is wrong and it’s not merely spanking.
- The Olympics and other metrics for medal counting. Go Grenada!
- Pythagorean records? Huh? Never heard of it.
- Mr Rajan moving into the hot seat.
- An abortion doctor slips.
- Ms Althouse wonders how much you bench press, or something like that.
- Hand drawn!
- So, a Christian terrorist … but wouldn’t that need to involve Christianity in some actual manner for the adjective to apply?
- Remembrance of the Great War.
- So, “we have to do some soul searching” … what do you got for that? Does that make any sense to you?
- Nope. No voter fraud ever. At all. Nada. Got nothing.
- Bike tech on Mars.
- GM, our administration’s make-it-up-as-you-go-along bankruptcy plan and unintended consequences.
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It’s particularly telling that the voter fraud (#14) could not have been prevented by any of the current voter ID laws — the prisoners don’t lack for state-issued ID — but the author thinks that by depriving the aged, non-drivers, Baptists, veterans, blacks and browns the right to vote, something good will happen. If the author knew anything about statistics, he’d realize that voter ID laws will make the fraud he highlights even more forceful in elections.
Misplaced blame can lead to serious trouble. The causes of World War I, according to historians consensus, were nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and “entangling” agreements that required nations without a dog in the fight to go to war. The horrible treaty that “ended” the conflict but set up Germany and Austria to fail, was enabled by people trying to protect a dead old order of monarchies and offsetting military powers. But, Hitler said it was the Jews . . .
Why don’t you focus on fixing voter fraud, instead of trying to take away the votes of blacks and browns?