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Things Heard: e81v3

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 at 9:22 am 
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  1. Press releases “of the damned.”
  2. Reading the bill, and remaining unimpressed.
  3. A twist to the Obama/joker poster story.
  4. A new Miyazaki film noted.
  5. The scum beneath the tape.
  6. I’m interested … 92 mpg for 3k miles.
  7. Evil and modern political parlance.
  8. Pharma and price control.
  9. Against drones in Pakistan.
  10. One paramedic’s perspective.
  11. Adding and “R” to cash for clunkers.
  12. Specialization.
  13. Housing numbers.
  14. Byzantium (and Gondor) and why it matters, even if some of my commenters disagree.
  15. The liturgical gangstas.
  16. Under cover techies.
  17. Suu Kyi on sanctions.
  18. Into the valley of the mega-church.
  19. Jurisdiction and healthcare.

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Things Heard: e81v2

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 8:57 am 
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  1. A book noted, and in turn the other book mentioned (The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters) is available in English as well.
  2. Why the change? Why, with promises of the “most open administration ever” are we guessing?
  3. Becker/Posner on healthcare again, here and here.
  4. On the bio-geological.
  5. Asleep at the switch?
  6. On women and ministry.
  7. An interesting post on innovation.
  8. Misplaced assumptions. “Any reform is going to require lots of regulatory oversight …”, uhm, that would not be true if the reform is based on the removal of regulation. This is a reply as well to those assumptions.
  9. Healthcare and some back of the envelope cost estimates.
  10. Oops.
  11. Some thoughts on marriage.
  12. Pointing at an excellent essay on healthcare, which the Democratic rhetoric will ignore because they are not really engaging in debate here, because those who disagree with our benighted President are apparently “simply dishonest.”
  13. Thinking linking by Siris. My six word narrative. “Oops. My bad. Heroic rescue … thwarted.”
  14. A film.
  15. On the politics of climate change … and a problematic paper.
  16. Afghanistan and the helicopter.
  17. A pol with a backbone.

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Things Heard: e81v1

Monday, August 17th, 2009 at 9:02 am 
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  1. Crossing the state/entertainment wall of separation.
  2. The last remaining pro-life democrat passes and is mourned.
  3. Production numbers.
  4. The corner notes someone reading the bill.
  5. Whole foods and healthcare.
  6. The bear moves in the woods.
  7. Explaining why/how liberals find everyone else racist.
  8. And the public healthcare will give everyone a nice pony too, it’s all just moving deck chairs on the Titanic.
  9. A market for education.
  10. Logic or lack thereof and patching the economy.
  11. A Georgian narrative.
  12. A tea party noted.
  13. California water and policy.
  14. A better fridge.
  15. Knowing the enemy … or at least the left.
  16. Why small government is important.
  17. Mr Obama, getting the details wrong (and in a manner that matters).

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Things Heard: e80v4/5

Friday, August 14th, 2009 at 10:02 am 
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  1. An allegorical map.
  2. A discussion of differences between Orthodox and the Catholic churches.
  3. NASA resources, pointed out ostensibly for the homeschool crowd, but really useful for any family with kids (HT: Mark Shea).
  4. A prediction validated.
  5. A convert needing help.
  6. A mad woman in the kitchen.
  7. Family and Amsterdam.
  8. Change is “scary”, yes, and when the change moves in the wrong direction that’s even scarier.
  9. On obedience to spouse …  a convert’s perspective.
  10. Fact checking Mr Obama… oops.
  11. Well, I’m surprised … I’d have thought the figure closer to 95%, after all I think 40% was a low figure for useless documents in the preprint stream in academic physics.
  12. Best Syrian blogging contest … and a snag (besides the ineffective performance of google’s automatic translator from Arabic to English).
  13. Hmm, I think the tag-line/title overstates the case … after all they’re not talking about mothers-in-law/spouse or sibling rivalries.
  14. Beautiful women and cheap leeches.
  15. 10 subprime myths.
  16. A question on achievement and metrics.

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Things Heard: e80v3

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009 at 7:21 pm 
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  1. Plywood wheels!
  2. 5-stroke engine?
  3. If time permitted I’d fisk this. Suffice it to say claims that government spending are the proximate cause for the recover (when the majority of the stimulus remains to be spent) and oops pesky data contradicts the premise. Bleeding was thought to cure disease and often the patient recovered, too.
  4. Right leaning humor, heh.
  5. Obama/Pelosi Not in tune.
  6. Cash for clunkers … to purchase clunkers.
  7. Logic and global warming.
  8. Medvedev speaks to the Ukraine. and an a colourful interpretation from the Ukraine.
  9. Home schooling stats.
  10. A book suggested.
  11. Sudan.
  12. Watching Afghanistan.
  13. Off with her head … and that tag line is the main reason I linked that piece.
  14. Insane civilization … ours.
  15. Oh, Ninevah.

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Things Heard: e80v2

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 at 10:41 am 
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  1. Considering Dawkins and imposition of beliefs on the young. Two remarks from me, first I’d guess that this person has not personally yet raised any kids and second the assumption that religious beliefs are the sort in which you “should teach that there are alternatives” presupposes a tepid sort of belief. You would not teach your child that the universe really doesn’t exist (solipsism) is “a viable option” for basing ethics because you don’t believe it is reasonable.
  2. SSD cleaning.
  3. Judgement vs vetting.
  4. Matters the Democrats are dodging in the healthcare “debate”. Why the scare quotes.
  5. Birther and truther, a graph.
  6. Oddly enough the thing that struck me in this piece was his vision of “ideal” society, wifi, robust GDP, and universal healthcare. How tepid. And, in response to the main point, the problem is The Bottom Billion.
  7. Exercise won’t make you thin … tell that to the endurance athletes of the world, they’ll likely disagree just a bit.
  8. An Attack!!
  9. On Sodom and Gomorrah two short pieces, here and here (the second is a response to the first).
  10. Christian response to political oppression done right.
  11. Turning it around.
  12. A motive for Russian aggression against Georgia.
  13. Afghanistan and marketing.
  14. Plugging the City.

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Things Heard: e80v1

Monday, August 10th, 2009 at 10:02 am 
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  1. The freedom of letting go.
  2. Anti-semetic and philosemetic and some 19th century literature.
  3. There will be a second round. Jah, we knew that.
  4. Concerning a particularly useful invention.
  5. On SSM.
  6. Bitter-sweet customs.
  7. What is democracy … a global view.
  8. A ghastly city, perhaps that will put an end to romanticising the native American culture.
  9. An early road map.
  10. This sort of begs an important question. How do people think they can do climate prediction if solar output varys and we don’t understand how or why?
  11. He may “have a point”, just not the one you think he has. When you read, “The recent attacks by Republican leaders and their ideological fellow-travelers on the effort to reform the health-care system have been so misleading, so disingenuous, that they could only spring from a cynical effort to gain partisan political advantage. By poisoning the political well, they’ve given up any pretense of being the loyal opposition.” I think one could transplant objections and responses to objections over the Iraq war directly into this sentiment. Yet, I figure few on the left thought their objections were “cynical efforts to gain partisan political advantage”. There’s a lesson here.
  12. In that line of thought, an exercise for the left. Replace the words “Obama” with “Bush” in this article and what would be your response.
  13. If this idea becomes the norm, will publishing in a “reject” journal satisfy degree requirements?
  14. This notion on healthcare that everyone without insurance wants it that way is problematic.
  15. Where the left’s version of the birther inanity is showing up.
  16. Syriac study resources.
  17. Religion and Egypt.
  18. On Darwin and ideas.

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Things Heard: e79v5

Friday, August 7th, 2009 at 8:28 am 
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  1. New non-lethal military tech.
  2. Nazi accusations in the news. Pelosi and Rush.
  3. On disgruntlement in town hall meetings from TMV.
  4. Krugman and pesky facts.
  5. Neo-nomenklatura.
  6. For the transfiguration, words from St. Ephrem. A church too. One more.
  7. A book on ID noted.
  8. Mr Harris (on Collins) gets a good going over.
  9. Bully for her.
  10. Ghastly science fiction.
  11. The administration changes some words, here are two suggestions it’s a bad idea, here and here.
  12. Noting Mr Hughes passing.
  13. Putin viewed from St. Petersburg.
  14. Obama and Mr Stewart.
  15. Well that didn’t work out like planned.
  16. Cash for clunkers, one more way in which Mr Huxley proved prescient.
  17. In which I link a Bill Maher quote.
  18. Finally, go girl go.

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Things Heard: e79v4

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 at 9:11 am 
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  1. Well, that setup ain’t for racing, but one can certainly see the appeal, the other could probably climb a tree … and break your legs going downhill.
  2. 2nd quarter shows no support for stimulus benefits.
  3. The sun and climate change, oh my.
  4. Hey, it’s not a ponzi scheme if you’re soaking the taxpayers, just ask Tweed and Tammany.
  5. Some thoughts on income inequality.
  6. Accusations that that opposition to Obamacare is “an insurance company plot” is demonstration that this Administration remains out of touch with reality. So say the cricket races.
  7. Very cute.
  8. A modal argument for the existence of God.
  9. Well, I for one have little but good things to offer from my switch to Linux on my laptop.
  10. 800 died, did you notice? I hadn’t.
  11. The 100 + 1000 + 23 million Mr Clinton missed.
  12. Alexandr.
  13. Some unfunded government insurance liabilities … so says the liberal, “Please, sir may I have another?”
  14. 3 down, 62 to go.
  15. Memory and tribute.
  16. Memory eternal.
  17. I occurred to me while reading this, in the arguments discussed on “harm give birth” I wonder how those arguments transpose to the benefits to suicide? Larry?

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Things Heard: e79v3

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at 10:21 am 
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  1. Post tour flurry, and not even the traditional criterium circuits. Too much?
  2. Climate and flawed science?
  3. Somebody thinks that academia leans right? Hmm.
  4. An unelected official.
  5. Inflation and the debt.
  6. Roaches and riddance.
  7. The long wrong arm of the law.
  8. On Ms Robinson’s commendation and implications of how the White House views the world.
  9. All the news that’s fit to print, fits the agenda at least.
  10. More “for the children” arguments noted.
  11. Replying, it seems to me quite adequately, to Krugman.
  12. Where nature roams (and is written as Nature).
  13. Remember that “open” promise, fuhgetaboutit.
  14. Some quotes.
  15. Left and right, from my view (on the right) I have no clue as to what this is trying to say or imply or what it even means.
  16. Oh, it won’t happen here. Right.
  17. Right to healthcare. Right to jobs. Right to food. Someday someone will point to an exposition from the left what the heck they think rights are.
  18. Well, here’s the healthcare quote which the WH says is out of context but … refuses to provide the larger context to defend it.
  19. About that F-22.
  20. And on the oeuvre of Mr Kolakowski.

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Things Heard: e79v2

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009 at 9:27 am 
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  1. For a light-hearted start.
  2. A cyclist unimpressed by the cash-for-clunkers program.
  3. Mr Sensing parses some numbers related to the above program and is unimpressed.
  4. A little zooom.
  5. An example of some of the better climate discussions to be found. Oh, and some Arctic sea ice data.
  6. Some truth hidden in that satire.
  7. Yahoo bites it.
  8. Jefferson on national debt.
  9. Mr Obama disagrees with himself.
  10. A TV series recommended. Perhaps a good choice for winter basement riding?
  11. Dragons and witches, oh my!
  12. Birther stuff keeps coming up, examples here, here (heh), and here.
  13. Reflections on marriage.
  14. Doping control and the (dehydrated) cyclist.
  15. How about they pass a law and exile any politician who utters the phrase (and variations), “It’s for the children.”
  16. Of theology (specifically Calvin’s) and politics in the US.
  17. Well, that’s exactly what our robust economy needs, a new tax. Duh.

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Things Heard: e79v1

Monday, August 3rd, 2009 at 9:49 am 
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  1. A film noted.
  2. Obama … the first six months, inexperienced? Hmm.
  3. Russian-US relations and trying to parse what Obama means by “a reset”.
  4. Cash for clunkers.
  5. Of skill and games.
  6. Life and the administration.
  7. Consequences of Mr Obama’s Israeli rhetoric? Different airplane sales noise here.
  8. A race report.
  9. Gates, Sotomayor and race.
  10. I think the whole “solving things” is the main reason that Keynesian interventionist economic theory is predominant in politically connected circles.
  11. A death noted.
  12. Ms Pelosi makes it clear, whatever the Democrats rhetoric on private medical insurance … they want it dead.
  13. On death.
  14. Heh.
  15. An interesting question for the liberal comic book reader.

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Things Heard: e78v5

Friday, July 31st, 2009 at 10:38 am 
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  1. Well, if I had big bags of money lying around this would be very very tempting.
  2. Watching the tyrants … who try the delay gambit.
  3. Action and consequence, well admittedly consequence in this case is just a cricket race.
  4. 100 killed, good bad or indifferent?
  5. Training goes on in Iraq.
  6. What passes for hospitality.
  7. By that theory, Luke killed Paul.
  8. Canada where the liberals have sway … and what passes for judgement (HT: First Things).
  9. Life is not about ….
  10. Reflections on creation.
  11. On technology and church Mr Anderson asks, “Fundamentally, there is no reason why any local church should continue to listen to Pastor Bob drone on and on when they can get the video of John Piper instead.  What’s more, why simply have John Piper when you can alternate with Mark Driscoll?” Why not throw in Athanasius, Chrysostom, Augustine, et al.?
  12. Well, at least it isn’t on the right side of the aisle. The other side has a more complicated relationship with that notion.
  13. Tactics on the left.
  14. Very cool artwork.

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Things Heard: e78v4

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 at 10:42 am 
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  1. Nerfing life … a long time project of the progressives alas runs aground when incentive is considered, here’s another example.
  2. Is it climate or weather?
  3. Some responses noted in the SI reporter kerfuffle.
  4. Angels, pins, dancing, and why it matters.
  5. Via Cafe Hayek, a book review by Easterly of Rationality in Economics. And for that matter I didn’t know Mr Easterly had a blog … which is now in my RSS feed list.
  6. Consequences of heresy discussed.
  7. A search engine to bookmark, lyricrat.
  8. Power and congress.
  9. The rising price of oil … a book.
  10. Patriarch Kirill goes to the Ukraine.
  11. A debate on prostitution.
  12. An ethical RFC. RFCs (Request for Comment) are how most of the early Internet was documented and specified. How does FTP work? Answer: read the RFC.
  13. Graphing anti-abortion violence.
  14. End of life in Obamacareland.

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Things Heard: e78v3

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 at 10:15 am 
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  1. The Polymath project moves on.
  2. Climate hysteria.
  3. Some thoughts on women’s ministry.
  4. From the other side of the pond, a view of Obama.
  5. Remarking on the birther movement. Heh.
  6. The Gates kerfuffle as political smokescreen.
  7. Why Ms McArdle is against national health care.
  8. More reasons here.
  9. Who was St. Nicodemus?
  10. St. Athanasius on the Psalter.
  12. Heh.
  13. This will be discussed … ad nauseam.
  14. Against the ecumenical movement.
  15. What candidates need to say, said.
  16. e-Church.

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