Three, mark that, three in a row.

1. ACA marking time.
2. Obama salary stunt described.
3. A brave man indeed.
4. Remember Obama’s speech in Egypt, talking about Islam and religious freedom? Hmm.
5. I too have the book, it has been recommended to me, but haven’t read it.
6. Whose the protagonist.
7. Jobs report.
8. Some remarks on the Obama budget, unserious as ever.
9. About that minimum productivity limit.

Two days in a row! Woo.

1. The East and icons.
2. Chopsticks and nukes.
3. More to come with Obamacare rising.
4. Mr Irons makes the same point I’ve made.
5. Spartacus! While Lance (used) to be a the big US cycling star, when Lance was riding I was a fan of Michele Bartoli and then Cancellara.
6. Alcohol … yah, prohibition worked so well.
7. So, Mr Obama flaunts his ignorance. One: “Surely there are well meaning Democrats who can tie their shoes. Two: “Fully automatic” … except, alas,  it wasn’t and we all know that (including the speaker). Three: “We waste money …” which is an excellent description of what you’re doing full time, however politicians are not usually so upfront about money wasting as their vocation.
8. So if Mr Bush had said that? What would be the reaction in the press?
9. Yes, you are constrained. This is a feature, not a bug. If you think otherwise, you’re unfit for office.
10. Oh please, get real. What percentage of Down under overseas travel is to the predominantly Muslim Malaysia? Probably most … hence the policy. It’s not “dhmittude” it’s about profit.
11. I don’t the reason for the continued shortage? I begin to suspect government intervention/regulation.
12. No dilemma … no reason to choose between them at all yet, these can not be the only criteria/description of the policies.
13. I guess Garmin and Tom-Tom will be funding the appeal, for the ruling basically says you can’t use a GPS while driving.
14. Heh.

Busy busy.

1. Woo. Nukes.
2. And guns. More guns?
3. LOL.
4. Debt.
5. And speaking of debt … someone around here was arguing that incentives to save have been on the rise. Whoops.
6. Art and emotion.
7. I hadn’t realized my younger daughter was so exceptional.
8. The Nile and denial.
9. Cypriot economics.
10. An amazing algorithm for the unbreakable password.
11. There’s two ways of looking at this alas. Anyone who centers their religion of any sort on Jesus of Nazareth belongs anthropologically speaking to a Christ cult, which in some circles are called Christian(s). However, Nicene confessing Christians commonly use the term Christian to mean Nicene confessing Christians, which a person who denies the Resurrection is not … and myself being a Nicene Christian agree, that failing to confess belief in the Nicene creed means … you’re out of the club.
12. Democrats like to point out they are better educated and pretend to smarter than the conservatives across the aisle. How they do that, is sometimes quite amazing. Wow, dumb like that has to be practiced for generations I imagine.
13. A ghost slum?
14. Just imagine how bad this would be in the absence of global warming, eh?
15. News from Syria.
16. Well, apparently nobody in the White House read Fault Lines.
17. That STEM education. It always amuses me when politicians tout how we “need more STEM” students and squawk about needing to promote STEM. Uhm, so .. Mr Politician … tell me, why didn’t you get a degree in a STEM field, hmmmm?

Good morning.

1. Markets of sorts.
2. Suspended?
3. Feminism moves backwards, removing a reality on account of a fiction.
4. Making your point.
5. Drones and a shift that is less than it appears.
6. And we just grouse because schoolteachers and priests aren’t fired.
7. Cyprus.
8. Cause and effect?
9. Where the press is less free than here.
10. A sunstone.

Good morning.

1. Early maths.
2. Consistency.
3. Terrify the Kremlin?
4. I’d never even heard of Nowruz. So know you know.
5. Just remember “real utopias” typically have a archipelago of gulags for the millions of kulaks who don’t see your utopia as utopian.
6. Two words, fullness and mystery.
7. Again, I think this is a symptom of an underlying disagreement, on which my homework is to write more tonight. I’d started a post on that topic and changed my mind halfway through. I need to work toward a conclusion again.
8. This is not unrelated.
9. Zooom.
10. Striking down some regulations. Wooo.
11. Babbage in action.
12. More grist for the drone conversation and the difference between killing as a soldier and murder.
13. So, privileges for gays … means you need tests to verify the category.
14. Mr Krugman, sloppy reader, noted in response here.
15. Yikes.

Good morning.

1. Woo Hoo. Mr Cheney back in the news, sort of. Well, actually … not.
2. Grist for the drone discussion.
3. Hmm, no hints at telling us how America will move to becoming an authoritarian state, but interesting nonetheless.
4. Cronyism, fraud? Is that a start? And it’s all about who you know.
5. Nuance.
6. Interesting post on the first day of Spring when it’s  13 degrees out (and global temperatures have been flat for almost 20 years).
7. For the Palin fans … the guy they fail to defend. Just remember, one heartbeat from the Oval office.
8. Simplicity itself. Heh.
9. Last week we had pictures of those bear sized grey wolves in Idaho … this we read from history.
10. All electric not there yet.
11. A budget comparison.
12. Failure to comprehend.
13. Abortion and consequences.
14. Uhm, Patrick was in the 5th century … the concept of “British” had no relation to the modern concept. You’d be better off calling him Roman.

Well, I seem to have lost a day to work and the 1st week of Lent.

1. I think by the term “Wisdom” he means “being sneaky”. Or at least that word substitution makes for an interesting hermeneutic.
2. Why does it help to multiply everything by ten all the time?
3. The other side of the aisle would call that synergy and a good thing. They’re wrong.
4. Mr Timber might recall the non-Democratic defense of the British commander by John Adams prior to the Revolution.
5. Hmm.
6. But bias? Is this bigotry, tribalism? No, not possible. Heh.
7. On fasting.
8. Philosophy meets maths.
9. Seriously? A taster? I’m appalled.
10. The missing articles in the paper about the recent gun debate look like this.
11. I’ve warned about this before, more and more it’s who you know that matters.
12. 20k and growing.
13. Returning to that master race science fiction epic.

Good day. White smoke, eh?

1. A conservative revolutionary.
2. Some background.
3. More.
4. From down under.

In other news

1. A review in the old style.
2. How many “G’s” in goggle? When the answer is … 2.
3. Well, when your combatants are comfortably at home, micro-managing is not impossible.
4. A category which describes almost all the 2nd generation wealthy individuals.
5. ’cause I don’t have principles, why would I suspect anyone else might?
6. Obama’s North African legacy.
7. This doesn’t quite ring true to me, but it’s close.
8. Suicide statistics, indicator of hope and happiness?
9. A natural consequence of a skewed press, progressives need to explain why this is a good thing.
10. Majorities of both parties watch.

Vibrating oobleck, interesting.

1. A meme. Co-ordinated? What’s the stock Dem answer?
2. Which means …. it isn’t. Pretty clearly in the Gospels the return will be when you don’t expect it. So if you do expect it, guess what logic dictates.
3. Very cool.
4. Applauding Hegel from across the aisle.
5. Well, any thoughts of an upcoming energy shortage just disappeared.
6. I didn’t get the first one, but the rest were funny.
7. Future crystal gazing.
8. Corollary to the Risky Business rule (don’t F with a man’s livelihood) … he gets testy about hobbies too, even if ultra-rich.
9. The man who siphoned about a billion from governments via climate has little leg to stand on. What still bugs me, is the liberal defenders who will jump quickly to “follow the money” never manage to do so with him.
10. So … the President’s recent suggestion. Is he stupid or evil? Do you think he knew or didn’t know that they were already illegal?
11. For the small screen.
12. Actually, the only time they wouldn’t pass on the costs is if they were hit by this cost increase but no other competitors were. This is not the case so … woops.

Good morning.

1. Sovereignty, and after you agree (or not) with the statement, consider the US Civil War.
2. Short answer to “is it racism” … if you are a conservative, yes, it not, then no.
3. Musing on the end.
4. Is this a straw argument is it one even being made?
5. A telling commentary on progressives and their spending, “To proclaim that spending is spending, waste notwithstanding, is remarkably destructive of the public’s trust. It suggests that governments are indeed profligate stewards of the public’s funds.” That bird has long since flown.
6. Proving the opposite point intended.
7. The film you’ll hear about in, or after, Church in the upcoming season.
8. One of the lessons history teaches. Few listen.
9. A stab at a short list.
10. An atheist passes on remarks on celibacy and the Roman church.
11. An election noted.
12. Hypocrisy, in the modern trivial sense, … if you don’t have it, you should.
13. One of the points on the side of faith for the Habermas/Ratzinger debate.
14. Something to read if you have the time.
15. Something our government is doing just as fast as it can. Why do they think that is good? Remember the story of that Biblical villain, Joseph and the Pharaoh (hint: the Patriarch after Israel is Judah, not Joseph)? What did he do, wiped out the independent farmers and centralized the economy. What occurred down the road. Slavery.  A road to serfdom we are on.
16. If the TSA isn’t doing this every week, something is wrong. If we know they are doing it every week, something else is wrong. If you’re serious about security, you have teams working to break in constantly probing for weak points. If it’s theater, then why bother.
17. Why gun control laws won’t/don’t matter one bit to the policy questions at hand. It’s more likely about #15 above … and the modern liberal elites visceral fear of firearms.
18. Have fun with tech.

Good, well, whatever.

1. Mr Stewart notes the filibuster.
2. So does Mr Barnett, in the context of Lochner.
3. A question not answered … but what we got
4. “took a month and a half and a root canal.”
5. Somebody doesn’t understand the phrase “no relation.” You could make a game of that. What relationships can you find. For starters, both are speeches, made of words, both in English, both by people in the Western hemisphere, … apparently “no” has no meaning anymore.
6. So, where would you pick?
7. Freshwater zooloogy.
8. Don’t worry your President has a non-disclosed fantasy (?) of a path to a non-nuclear world. If you believe that is real you believe in the tooth fairy … and are a Democrat. Funny how those go together, no?
9. Government sponsored trafficking. But hey, it’s all illegal, so why talk about it.
10. Little aloof, kinda like when she got a little pregnant.
11. Three books.
12. Poetry by google.
13. Hmm. Adoption by another name … perhaps because adoption and the regulatory burdens round that have priced stranger methods onto the landscape.
14. Of bugs and features.
15. Links abound, 2nd one of particular interest.

Good talk talk talk day, eh?

1. Apparently there is a filibuster going on … approval here.
2. Droney lawers discuss as well.
3. More grist for the drone conversations. Woops.
4. So, why do liberals trust Obama with the power to kill whomever for whatever reason. Trust. Why trust? Beats me. Ask a lib.
5. In a discussion on phone regulations … this was firmly denied. Alas, data seems to indicate otherwise.
6. A book to lead you back to the garden.
7. So, why oh, why did Obama cut what he did for the sequester? He cut aid to babies … and here’s why. His goal is government growth, nothing more, nothing less.
8. Wait wait, what day is it tomorrow? Oh, my.
9. Statistics and bunnies.
10. Talking Turkey, not turkey.
11. Think about this too hard out loud and you’ll be accused of racism.
12. The first word is the most important. Happy is good. Remember that.
13. Snort. Don’t click through with anything in your mouth. You were warned.
14. Grist for talking about evil, ethics, and such. Did Josef think he was acting unethically or not? Or did he follow an ethical code with which you happen to disagree strongly?

And so it goes, another world leader steps off the stage.

1. Not that way however. Yikes.
2. A climate question.
3. A book noted.
4. Liturgy.
5. If you don’t laugh, your having a really really bad week.
6. Someday we’ll find out what the Obamacare supporters were smoking when they supposed longer hours, more uncertainty, less pay would attract more the field.
7. They will, however, insist it wasn’t this.
8. A question is posed. Woops, that was a follow-up. Start here.
9. ‘merica.
10. Won’t be sold here.
11. Matrix and cellular automata have some challenges.
12. Thoughts on nuclear Iran. And … why you really really need to read that last linked post.
13. Our un-serious President. Alas. Don’t look at me, I didn’t vote for him.
14. And to finish off, what hard riding man puts on his shelf. Wow.

As I noted, I’m switching to evening links, ’cause I’ve got to hit the road before 5am every morning.

1. Job applications.
2. Applications with merit or not?
3. Doodles applied. Some hit, some miss.
4. Ah, history. If only Western Christians hadn’t put their stock in this guy instead of Augustine (they were contemporaries and left approx the same quantity of writings).
5. The strange fruits of googling oneself.
6. Sequester and our Presidents (most) recent attempts to re-write history.
7. Energy bar, paleo style.
8. Snerk. Jedi mind meld indeed.
9. So, packing for the archipelago yet?
10. Putting Genghis in context. Wow.
11. Holding doors.
12. Science fiction author looks ahead.
13. The tribal left. And yes, you’d likely be able to find evidence o the tribal right, that that’s the assumption isn’t it? That tribalism is all on one side of the aisle.
14. A million mile goober.
15. Still not a fan of cats.
16. We’re watching and waiting.
17. Duck and Cover.

Good morning.

1. So what are the Supremes up to?
2. Massachusetts lawmakers have no clue. If you can’t imagine how teenage kids might abuse that law … your ignorance is historic.
3. On the Pontiff’s retirement.
4. Heroism noted.
5. A critic of statistics not noticing that many of the new gun laws proposed also call out rifles so the statistics is apter than he pretends, cf “assault” rifle bans which don’t actually ban assault rifles which are already illegal but just ordinary semi-automatic rifles. Reminder to Mr Darrel, an actual assault rifle as defined is an automatic (not semi-automatic) carbine.
6. Playing with automatic translator fixed points.
7. Absolute legal immunity? Sounds like a recipe for abuse, kind of like giving free reign to young teenagers in showers and bathrooms.
8. History and the “Great White Fleet.”
9. More details on the kill list mechanics. Similarities to this are of course accidental.
   
10. Sequestration and the TSA … whose “cuts” amount to a 11% increase in budget. Wow. Radical deep horrible cuts. Not.
11. Remember the promises the President made about lobbying and money? One wonders about the silence of the lambs on the left?
12. Crises and Church considered.
13. A view from the sidelines on the GOP sequester thinking. I would add to #1 that “massively wasteful” is missing the point, it’s massive spending on things outside of what the government’s purview that is the problem. Healthcare for example, is not a thing the federal government has a call to address at all.