Pirates! I can't get enough of them. Honestly, if they weren't doing it, I'd do it. Keeps the world interesting. Here by the way, are ten high tech ways to keep Captain Hook from taking your crap.
Strangely enough, there appear to be exactly 0 high tech ways to repel the stink bugs that have been plaguing my region.
Pirates = 0 Stink Bugs = 1
Clinton visits Kosovo. They really, really like us. A lot. Bill Clinton Boulevard a lot. Evidently we are the Kosovar BFF. Meanwhile over in Serbia..... Yeah, not so much.
That Serbian article compels me to ask something that as an American, I don't think I'll ever understand: "What the hell is it with soccer fans? What is it about watching a ball getting kicked around that makes these people foaming at the mouth berserk?" American football fans just don't do that.
Excellent op-ed over at the New York Times concerning the end of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and the pathetic presidential dithering related to it. Look.....just.....
GET RID OF IT!
Some 14,000 or more service members have been discharged under the law, including many hundreds if not thousands with critical skills in foreign languages, military intelligence, counterterrorism, weapons development and military medicine. Meanwhile, the military was having such trouble finding qualified recruits that it issued “moral waivers” to convicted felons and lowered
its educational and physical fitness requirements.
GET RID OF IT!
The original rationale for “don’t ask, don’t tell” was that it would enhance unit morale and cohesion — and thus military preparedness — by shielding heterosexual soldiers from any knowledge that some of their colleagues were gay. That rationale has not held up in the real world. The judge found that the military has routinely delayed investigations and discharges until suspected homosexuals completed their deployments on combat missions. Their service was deemed vital in the war zones, not detrimental.
Our military is composed of grown ups. Start treating them that way.
This sort of jumped out at me when I saw it because it doesn't make any economic sense. Home sale prices reached an all time high in Pittsburgh while the numbers of houses being sold plummeted. How does that work? The law of supply and demand should dictate that the price of homes would go down with demand. What we see here though, is something interesting. The sales price is an average. What's happening right now is that the only houses that are being sold, are being sold to more affluent people.
And I don't know that I really have a problem with that. One of the causes of the housing bubble was that people who could not afford to buy new homes, were being encouraged to do just that. I know the American dream dictates a house with 2.5 baths and a picket fence but sometimes, really it's just better to rent.
Reporting on the O'Donnell / Coons debate in Delaware last night. Didn't really feel like talking about this. Coons has it in the bag and O'Donnell is just too trivial for words as a candidate. However, this jumped out:
O'Donnell also struggled to answer Karibjanian's request that she name a recent Supreme Court decision she disagrees with.
"Oh, gosh," O'Donnell said. "Give me a specific one, I'm sorry."
"Actually, I can't," Karibjanian replied, "because I need you to tell me which ones you object to."
"I'm very sorry," O'Donnell said. "Right off the top of my head, I know that there are a lot, but I'll put it up on my Web site, I promise you."
Deja vu, much? I mean I understand that she's trying to present herself within the Palin brand but really.....All right. This has been a pretty long post. There's still more things I want to talk about but expect them in later installments.
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