{"id":5382,"date":"2012-08-08T08:56:22","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T13:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5382"},"modified":"2012-08-08T08:56:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T13:56:22","slug":"things-heard-e233v3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=5382","title":{"rendered":"Things Heard: e233v3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Our (non-)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thedignifiedrant.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/well-then-theyre-screwed.html\" target=\"_blank\">reality based state department<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, even granting the premise, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2012\/08\/08\/philosophy-drone-strikes-and-conditional-arguments\/\" target=\"_blank\">conclusion is not warranted<\/a>. &#8220;Reduce civilian casualties&#8221; is not the goal of combat, or at least in the short term. Most of the operations that drones are used are COIN operations &#8230; there may be a place for drones in a good COIN campaign &#8230; but it&#8217;s not as obvious as you would suspect I deem. What reduces casualties the most is the end of conflict &#8230; which may or not be helped by drones vs not-drones.<\/li>\n<li>On\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehandmaid.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/08\/call-on-the-name-of-the-lord\/\" target=\"_blank\">getting started<\/a> &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/voxday.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/spanking-is-child-abuse.html\" target=\"_blank\">On the other hand<\/a>, 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&#8217;t get out of bed or do anything because of malaise and no inducement of any sort will even pique here interest &#8230; something is wrong and it&#8217;s not merely spanking.<\/li>\n<li>The Olympics and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/olympic-medals-per-capita-gdp-team-size.html\" target=\"_blank\">other metrics for medal counting<\/a>. Go Grenada!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/quomodocumque.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/07\/lucky-wins-count\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pythagorean records<\/a>? Huh? Never heard of it.<\/li>\n<li>Mr Rajan moving\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/08\/raghu-rajan-update.html\" target=\"_blank\">into the hot seat<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>An\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christianresearchnetwork.org\/2012\/08\/07\/abortionist-talks-of-the-ugly-black-babies-he-aborts\/\" target=\"_blank\">abortion doctor slips<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ms Althouse wonders how much you bench press,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2012\/08\/liberals-hate-male-strength-liberals-do.html\" target=\"_blank\">or something like that<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Hand\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/2012\/08\/07\/15-cat-pictures-you-wont-believe-are-pencil-drawings\/\" target=\"_blank\">drawn<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li>So, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2012\/08\/07\/christian-terrorism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Christian terrorist<\/a> &#8230; but wouldn&#8217;t that need to involve Christianity in some actual manner for the adjective to apply?<\/li>\n<li>Remembrance\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chicagoboyz.net\/archives\/31513.html\" target=\"_blank\">of the Great War<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>So, &#8220;we have to do some soul searching&#8221; &#8230; what do\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ricochet.com\/main-feed\/The-Sikh-Massacre-Obama-Collectivizes-the-Guilt\" target=\"_blank\">you got for that<\/a>? Does that make any sense to you?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=42569\" target=\"_blank\">Nope<\/a>. No voter fraud ever. At all. Nada. Got nothing.<\/li>\n<li>Bike tech\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyclelicio.us\/2012\/curiosity-mars-rover-titanium-bicycle-frame\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Mars<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>GM, our administration&#8217;s make-it-up-as-you-go-along bankruptcy plan\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2012\/08\/07\/lawsuit-could-unravel-new-gm\/\" target=\"_blank\">and\u00a0unintended\u00a0consequences<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Our (non-)\u00a0reality based state department. Yes, even granting the premise, the\u00a0conclusion is not warranted. &#8220;Reduce civilian casualties&#8221; is not the goal of combat, or at least in the short term. Most of the operations that drones are used are COIN operations &#8230; there may be a place for drones in a good COIN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}