{"id":6231,"date":"2014-03-17T22:15:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T03:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6231"},"modified":"2014-03-17T22:15:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T03:15:27","slug":"things-heard-e294v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=6231","title":{"rendered":"Things Heard: e294v1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. &#8216;Nother week, &#8216;nother dollar<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mr Obama&#8217;s sanctions invoke replies, such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/watersblogged.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/russia-declines-to-give-obama-and-kerry.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/neoneocon.com\/2014\/03\/17\/russian-markets\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>. Few typically note that we are using Russia for supply lines to Afghanistan operations when they remark on the weakness of said sanctions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/decorabilia.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/a-story-template-for-literary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Purple-ness<\/a>\u00a0brings to mind\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulwer-lytton.com\/2013win.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Bulwer-Lytton contest<\/a>, which if I was more clever I&#8217;d know when the 2014 results were to be out &#8230; and if I was even more clever I&#8217;d enter.<\/li>\n<li>Gosh, lots\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/14\/03\/17\/2039250\/algorithm-reveals-objects-hidden-behind-other-things-in-camera-phone-images\" target=\"_blank\">of uses for this<\/a>, few of the licit or moral.<\/li>\n<li>Chicago and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twentytwowords.com\/remarkable-aerial-photos-of-the-chicago-river-just-as-it-is-being-dyed-green-for-st-patricks-day-6-pics\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Patrick&#8217;s Day<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Yah, if\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2014\/03\/140316203156.htm\" target=\"_blank\">you believe that<\/a>, we&#8217;ve got submarine pens in Arizona to sell you.<\/li>\n<li>This book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2014\/03\/17\/one-of-historys-first-detectives-and-a-murder-that-changed-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">looks interesting<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>That &#8220;more open&#8221; Presidency,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/story\/14\/03\/17\/1532249\/obama-administration-transparency-getting-worse\" target=\"_blank\">yet another promise not kept<\/a>, eh?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/borepatch.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/this-is-insanely-cool.html\" target=\"_blank\">Insanely cool<\/a>\u00a0&#8230; and he&#8217;s right.<\/li>\n<li>A modern analogy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/weekendfisher.blogspot.com\/2014\/03\/lent-anti-virus-report-2014.html\" target=\"_blank\">for Lent<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Solzhenitsyn\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ricochet.com\/solzhenitsyn-on-russia-america-and-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">and the Crimea<\/a>. Last night I had a chat with a Romanian friend. He put a large part of the onus on Yeltsin, for drunkenly allowing the &#8220;split up&#8221; to follow Stalin&#8217;s division of state boundaries and not suggesting regions work it out for themselves or to use more rational historical\/ethnic boundaries. The Crimea just an outworking of Stalin&#8217;s assigning the Crimea (vast majority Russian, some Tartar, and finally Ukrainians) to Ukraine. Errors along the southwest boarder with Moldavia, Ukraine and Romania were mentioned as well.<\/li>\n<li>Our liberal teaching establishment,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/14\/03\/17\/0127256\/the-poor-neglected-gifted-child\" target=\"_blank\">getting the hind end foremost<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The other side of being part of GM, i.e.,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/moot.typepad.com\/what_if\/2014\/03\/to-support-its-policies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Government Motors<\/a>. But the government won&#8217;t be to blame just as they skipped out on the BP disaster. It&#8217;s always the other guy&#8217;s fault, except when you are in a extremely regulated industry it&#8217;s the ultimately the watcher&#8217;s fault.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok. &#8216;Nother week, &#8216;nother dollar Mr Obama&#8217;s sanctions invoke replies, such as\u00a0this\u00a0and\u00a0this. Few typically note that we are using Russia for supply lines to Afghanistan operations when they remark on the weakness of said sanctions. Purple-ness\u00a0brings to mind\u00a0the Bulwer-Lytton contest, which if I was more clever I&#8217;d know when the 2014 results were to be [&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-6231","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\/6231","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=6231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}