Things Heard: e198v2
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 at
9:12 am
Good morning. Traveling West tonight, for the first of (hopefully) a two week startup straddling the Thanksgiving week.
- A suggested blog title found here which is sure to amuse Ms Minerva.
- Vroooom.
- Oddly, religion not specified. Was it or was it not relevant?
- Zippo in the persons per mile per gallon metric.
- Two rules for the pack attack.
- Just 10? Huh, that’s the tip of the iceberg.
- Da Vinci meets … American marketing genius.
- Normally that’s 2nd term stupidity … does Mr Obama feel like a one termer?
- So, immersed in the west should it be called the Advent fast? or not?
- I like batch.
- Likability?
- Some OWS supporters push the meme that the gatherings are very law abiding. Really?
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8. When you despise democrats then you will object to anything a democrat does, even if it is in your best interest. This is a case in point. Smallpox virus still exists, though supposedly in secure facilities, meaning that in theory it could still be used as a weapon. More importantly, the DNA sequence of smallpox-family viruses is known. Since genes can now be synthesized chemically and then spliced together, it is possible for someone with existing technology to replicate the smallpox virus without using any virulent material as a starting point. So you decide: should Obama avoid being accused of cronyism or protect the U.S. population against the possibility that existing technology will allow smallpox virus to be used as a bioweapon?
12. Most of the listings are not crimes, and the remaining charges cannot be used to paint a whole movement. The majority of the protestors simply want the same kind of opportunities that wealthy people have to use the marketplace to improve their lives. They object to largely conservative tax policy that favors the rich at the expense of the middle class and the poor. Is that objectionable? I’m curious how you reconcile the OWS movement, which is notably world-wide and thus presumably reflects widespread inequities of opportunity, with Christian teachings.
7) I love this ‘Last breakfast’ – it is very creative – thank you for sharing – I will pass it on.
Most of the listings are not crimes, and the remaining charges cannot be used to paint a whole movement.
My favorite response to this comes from Victor Davis Hanson.
I saw videos of youths burning things in Oakland, but was told that it “was a small minority” and atypical of the protest. Not long ago I saw no clips of anyone spitting at black congresspeople wading into the Tea-Party demonstration, but was told they did and that it was typical of tens of thousands of racialists on the Mall.
And just because they use “greed” in a sentence doesn’t mean you can attribute all of Christian principles to them. They are not protesting lack of opportunity. If they were, they wouldn’t care what the rich did or had as long as there was sufficient opportunity. They are protesting that there isn’t a better mechanism to get the money from the rich. The whole 99%/1% mantra is a covetous one that I covered here.