BOYCOTT CITGO NOW
Castro's shill, Chavez and Venezeula own Citgo. Venezuela delivers US lots of crude/day. They own the marketeer, Citgo. They need to sell Citgo before they really attempt to inconvenience the US and since Citgo handles the thick crude from Venezuela if we boycott, they are really awash in thick, read discounted, crude they need to market elsewhere....thereby increase their shipping $$. Chavez is on the march in Ecuador, Bolivia, Columbia, do you have a problem with that?
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Roid Rage
Prominent athletes enhancing performance through the use of drugs is nothing but another chapter in the successful evolution of the species. Drugs are one of many regimens used by athletes to overreach themselves in the grand tradition of species enhancement. The hue and cry against the genie now out of the bottle is a familiar song of the millenia. Imagine the neanderthal back from a hunt with the biggest pile of prey being named and shamed by less prominent hunters for using a sling. The Lunatic Fringe is a longtime supporter of what works. If you're counting RBI's then if roid use leads to more of them, then by all means let's disclose their role and move on.
It's still the early innings in the development of performance enhancing substances. For the early users the science of performance enhancers may be a net loser. Like early flight, many accidents appear incautious or tragic. But when disclosed and exposed to the light of day much progress can be anticipated. A greying population would do well encourage the use and improvement of performance enhancing substances as an alternative to being laid to waste by the aging process.
Prominent athletes enhancing performance through the use of drugs is nothing but another chapter in the successful evolution of the species. Drugs are one of many regimens used by athletes to overreach themselves in the grand tradition of species enhancement. The hue and cry against the genie now out of the bottle is a familiar song of the millenia. Imagine the neanderthal back from a hunt with the biggest pile of prey being named and shamed by less prominent hunters for using a sling. The Lunatic Fringe is a longtime supporter of what works. If you're counting RBI's then if roid use leads to more of them, then by all means let's disclose their role and move on.
It's still the early innings in the development of performance enhancing substances. For the early users the science of performance enhancers may be a net loser. Like early flight, many accidents appear incautious or tragic. But when disclosed and exposed to the light of day much progress can be anticipated. A greying population would do well encourage the use and improvement of performance enhancing substances as an alternative to being laid to waste by the aging process.
Saturday, March 12, 2005
LOVE THE TSUNAMI
Imagine the crocodile tears shed by the ruling classes of the nations hardest hit. Let's take Indonesia. It doesn't get any better than this. Instead of a couple millions per year to monitor the surrounding oceans, the gross negligence of government there will result in a windfall to the ruling elites. After losing ~ 230,000 subjects killed and missing in a cataclysm, the effects of which were largely avoidable just in case tidal monitors were deployed, the opportunities for baksheesh are mindboggling. So far pledges of $1,700,000,000 have been made for the first year. The Indonesian government has made assurances that this fortune will be monitored to prevent corruption. More likely any monitoring will have the goal of making sure the skim makes it back to the relevant players. A conservative baksheesh level of 15% yields a quarter of a billion in skim the first year! Indonesian corruption suggests that conservative levels of baksheesh will be breached. And yet this is only a headline number. The windfall has multiple facets, eg, kickbacks from resort developers who will construct concrete playgrounds on the beaches once littered with indigenious losers.
The fires still burn in Indonesia that result from escalating swidden farming of the interior. Remember the smog covering the whole of SE Asia in 1997?
There is no cost to the ruling elites for gross negligence. Instead of jail for failing in the first responsibility of government these folks will prosper like never before.
And how.
Imagine the crocodile tears shed by the ruling classes of the nations hardest hit. Let's take Indonesia. It doesn't get any better than this. Instead of a couple millions per year to monitor the surrounding oceans, the gross negligence of government there will result in a windfall to the ruling elites. After losing ~ 230,000 subjects killed and missing in a cataclysm, the effects of which were largely avoidable just in case tidal monitors were deployed, the opportunities for baksheesh are mindboggling. So far pledges of $1,700,000,000 have been made for the first year. The Indonesian government has made assurances that this fortune will be monitored to prevent corruption. More likely any monitoring will have the goal of making sure the skim makes it back to the relevant players. A conservative baksheesh level of 15% yields a quarter of a billion in skim the first year! Indonesian corruption suggests that conservative levels of baksheesh will be breached. And yet this is only a headline number. The windfall has multiple facets, eg, kickbacks from resort developers who will construct concrete playgrounds on the beaches once littered with indigenious losers.
The fires still burn in Indonesia that result from escalating swidden farming of the interior. Remember the smog covering the whole of SE Asia in 1997?
There is no cost to the ruling elites for gross negligence. Instead of jail for failing in the first responsibility of government these folks will prosper like never before.
And how.
Saturday, February 19, 2005
U.N. Nuclear Chief Offers to Go Personally
The U.N.'s chief nuclear inspector, Mohammed ElBaradei, called on North Korea's leader to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to return to his nation, offering in an interview released Saturday to go personally if it would help.
And why not. Similar calibre and understanding, Mr. Kim, MR. ElBaradei. Expect big things.
The U.N.'s chief nuclear inspector, Mohammed ElBaradei, called on North Korea's leader to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to return to his nation, offering in an interview released Saturday to go personally if it would help.
And why not. Similar calibre and understanding, Mr. Kim, MR. ElBaradei. Expect big things.
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Monday, December 20, 2004
At Powerline as Hindrocket told Time magazine, "The world is full of smart people who have information about every imaginable topic, and until the Internet came along, there wasn't any practical way to put it together."
The distributed nature of the blogsphere yields intelligence that is successful at rates that vanquish verticality in the Intelligence Services, viz. National Director of Intelligence. Give 100 groups 5 Million $ each for a year. Allow them to freely and securely communicate amongst themselves and see what they come up with. The 500Million cost is less than one tenth of one percent of the budget of Department of Defense when the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan are added in. A mere bagatelle. At the end of the year cull nonperforming groups and add those which seem, in light of the recent product of the distributed groups, promising.
It is the outcome of Rathergate, which took 24 hours to unmask in the distributed blogsphere, that is wanted and not a vertical system which couldn't respond to islamofacists who wanted to fly but not land.
The distributed nature of the blogsphere yields intelligence that is successful at rates that vanquish verticality in the Intelligence Services, viz. National Director of Intelligence. Give 100 groups 5 Million $ each for a year. Allow them to freely and securely communicate amongst themselves and see what they come up with. The 500Million cost is less than one tenth of one percent of the budget of Department of Defense when the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan are added in. A mere bagatelle. At the end of the year cull nonperforming groups and add those which seem, in light of the recent product of the distributed groups, promising.
It is the outcome of Rathergate, which took 24 hours to unmask in the distributed blogsphere, that is wanted and not a vertical system which couldn't respond to islamofacists who wanted to fly but not land.
Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Co-Optation for Peace
Maybe we could co opt the islamofacist agenda. Say we begin with 4$/gallon gas that contains an additional $1.5 in state and federal tax, tailored/incentivised to reduce deficits and fund entitlement programs Simultaneously, disarm the grand instigator, Israel, of her nukes. Remove, in a flash, the raison-d-etre of the mullah's and sheikh's need to go nuclear. Likely you'd see less gas consumption, more outsourcing, more globalization, morbetter air, morbetter information technologies. Ayman and Osama and their friends die miserable deaths in this example. Same treatment for that small percentage ofIsraelites who will never make peace, they must be exterminated because it is in the interest of peace...killing the israelofacists is just as necessary as killing the islamofacists. Tell that to cBS. Isn't it in the interest of peace to bring Israel to the UN along with Iran. certainly that approach seems to be less costly in terms of lives lost. As long as we don't see the need to bring Israel to heel in a nuclear free zone we will never constrain those wacky mullahs.
Maybe we could co opt the islamofacist agenda. Say we begin with 4$/gallon gas that contains an additional $1.5 in state and federal tax, tailored/incentivised to reduce deficits and fund entitlement programs Simultaneously, disarm the grand instigator, Israel, of her nukes. Remove, in a flash, the raison-d-etre of the mullah's and sheikh's need to go nuclear. Likely you'd see less gas consumption, more outsourcing, more globalization, morbetter air, morbetter information technologies. Ayman and Osama and their friends die miserable deaths in this example. Same treatment for that small percentage ofIsraelites who will never make peace, they must be exterminated because it is in the interest of peace...killing the israelofacists is just as necessary as killing the islamofacists. Tell that to cBS. Isn't it in the interest of peace to bring Israel to the UN along with Iran. certainly that approach seems to be less costly in terms of lives lost. As long as we don't see the need to bring Israel to heel in a nuclear free zone we will never constrain those wacky mullahs.
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