I'm in Anchorage Alaska, just 61N, and this time of fall till about the end of January is the worst, a lot of dark and every day is 5 minutes 23 seconds shorter than the day before.
While the days start getting longer at the end of December, you don't really notice it till the end of January.
I just started to snow in the city this week, but the snow fall on the mountains has been creeping down for the last six week, it really brings a sense of dread to watch it get lower and lower.
You do know that the Fascist party was Italian and the National Socialist German Workers' Party were German right?
And the nations, while allied, had entirely different political systems.
Politically they were on the far Left, but made many alliances with the Right and far right.
They took leftist policies and threw in the far right German racial theories that had been forming over the 100 years before the rise of the National Socialists.
The first ten points are racial, then it's all left wing socialist
Nationalization of industry, nationalized standards of education, debt reduction, fair wages, profit sharing of industries, welfare expansion, laws against war profiteering, mandatory youth exercise programs, land reform and freedom of religion.
Then outside the 25 point program were expansions of Germany's park and forest lands, gun control, elimination of the stigma of out of wedlock birth, cradle to grave social security for Ethnic Germans.
Yes, controls on industry, usury, land reform and gun control are so right wing.
100% correct, the Nazi eugenics and ethnic cleansing programs were just extensions of the theories the American Left were pushing in the 20s and 30s.
Richard Rhodes book, Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust is a great source on the subject and not political like say, Goldberg's Liberal Fascism.
National Socialism was a leftist movement, a little right of the Communists, which is why they were such bitter enemies in Germany, but not at all a Right movement.
That feeling you are having right now. Thats what madness feels like.
The lawyer for California had 8 Justices questing the law and why video games. Hell if Justice Thomas asked questions the dude would have had all 9 on him.
Thats wrong up here. I was at a disability conference and the state election board had a Diebold machine and I talked to them.
Diebolds can take a write-in just fine, they have a keypad that records the input which is recorded and a receipt is printed out so you can confirm the machine got the input right. If there is a problem you can have the error scratched out and redo or if able to write, correct the write in on the receipt and have that be the vote of record.
Thats in Alaska, so your mileage may vary.
Write-in is a big issue up here because we have a Republican that lost in the primary running as a write-in.
No, in her mind, how she really thought the military was, is a body where everyone kills, there are no skilled trades, technical jobs, maintenance jobs, administration, research, technology, medical or support.
Just people with guns who wait for the chance to kill.
If you join the military and are a nurse or a doctor you won't be ordered to kill people, same with a Rabbi, Imam or Priest. Same with the majority of jobs in the military.
If you join the Air Force or Navy you are not trained "how to kill people efficiently", firearms training is rudimentary and there is no time spent on practical fighting, in those branches if you want to fight you volunteer for those jobs that'll get you there.
Marines and Army are for fighting and even those, the majority of personal aren't going to be put in a situation where they'll be ordered to kill.
They still patrol the supply routes with UAVs, manned aviation and ground patrols, so reducing the number of supply runs will allow them to make supply runs a little more random and give more time to spot IEDs and take them out.
I had a professor when I was and undergrad flat out tell the class she was lecturing that everyone who volunteered for the US military did so to kill and everyone in the military was a killer.
In her mind and world view if you are in a military you murder people.
While I understand Rush panders to the fringe right and the scared conservative moderates, I don't think he really is that fringy himself. He is acting and spinning people up as part of his job.
So yea, he'll hammer on the left about this, but really he is saying its an art like film, TV, writing and we can't censor it if we aren't going to go after the "untouchable" mediums. And it's extra hypocritical for California to do it when they are the center for sex and violence in film and TV in the US, at least in Limbaugh's mind.
I don't care for Rush Limbaugh but I agree with him on this stance.
A bunch of blah blah blah and then "...I'm glad to have you on our side, 'cause I agree with you. Leave your game alone. The people that put together these video games are artists in their own right. If you're gonna start saying that video games are raunchy, then how the hell do you leave cable television alone?"
Umm, all the current space tourism companies that are going to do the flight a day business model are in the US. Down the road we might see them operating out of the Sweden, the UAE, Russia and the EU.
Big Oil isn't going to like a USAF syngas plant in Montana, Environmental groups aren't either, so it's an easy stance for Waxman to take. Big Oil is a much more powerful lobby than Coal an emerging fuels are.
Like Chevrolet, Cadillac, Silverado, Escalade, Lariat, or a host of other American companies and brand names.
3 of the 4 Buick models are French words for example.
Its fun and easy to hit at the Americans for "only speaking English", but the United States has a ton of place and company names that aren't English or even European. At least 26 of the 50 states have American Indian/Alaska or Hawaiian native names.
LibreOffice just doesn't sound that good, they'd do well to brand it better if Oracle won't give up OpenOffice.
I read about the end of the Synth fuel program in 1985. Up to that point it had cost about 8 billion dollars in 1985 dollars and the price of oil was collapsing as the oil glut kicked in.
It's estimated that between 1943 and 1985 that less than 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent were produced for that $8 billion.
"We don't want new sources of energy that are going to make the greenhouse gas problem even worse," House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said in a recent interview.
When the USAF tried to get Congress to let them build a plant in Montana it has been blocked by Congress because it doesn't reduce CO2 emissions, however some processes can be near carbon neutral, Henry Waxman won't allow it unless it's carbon negative
Millions of people as slaves to a totalitarian monarchy and millions of men under arms destabilizing the entire region.
If there was an opening of the DPRK, following the refugee crisis and 10-20 years of economic hardship for the Republic of Korea to bring the north into Third World status, the United States, Japan, and RoK would all be able to back forces from the brink of war, downsize military spending and remove a nuclear threat from the region.
The US would be able to fold up an Army division, forward Marine base and most of an Air Force alone.
Furthermore it would be one less thing where the US and Japan oppose the Russian Federation and People's Republic of China.
This is correct. China doesn't want a conflict with the US or Japan because they know they will take huge military and economic loses. Trade is what made China strong for hundreds of years and military conflicts with the West made it weak.
However they made a pledge to stand by North Korea decades ago and they will not dishonor themselves by turning their back on North Korea now.
They don't know the DPRK to totally collapse because that would lead to a refuge crisis the likes of which the world hasn't seen since the Second World War ended.
I'm sure the "official" PRC spies from the "Interest Sections" in the PRC embassy have sat phones but unofficial PRC agents and paid informers use this ad hoc cell phone leak to get data out.
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They'll get a 24 hour day in the summer, you'll get as many 24 hour days of light as you have of dark.
I'm in Anchorage Alaska, just 61N, and this time of fall till about the end of January is the worst, a lot of dark and every day is 5 minutes 23 seconds shorter than the day before.
While the days start getting longer at the end of December, you don't really notice it till the end of January.
I just started to snow in the city this week, but the snow fall on the mountains has been creeping down for the last six week, it really brings a sense of dread to watch it get lower and lower.
You do know that the Fascist party was Italian and the National Socialist German Workers' Party were German right?
And the nations, while allied, had entirely different political systems.
Politically they were on the far Left, but made many alliances with the Right and far right.
They took leftist policies and threw in the far right German racial theories that had been forming over the 100 years before the rise of the National Socialists.
Look at their 25-point program - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Program#The_25-point_Program_of_the_NSDAP
The first ten points are racial, then it's all left wing socialist
Nationalization of industry, nationalized standards of education, debt reduction, fair wages, profit sharing of industries, welfare expansion, laws against war profiteering, mandatory youth exercise programs, land reform and freedom of religion.
Then outside the 25 point program were expansions of Germany's park and forest lands, gun control, elimination of the stigma of out of wedlock birth, cradle to grave social security for Ethnic Germans.
Yes, controls on industry, usury, land reform and gun control are so right wing.
100% correct, the Nazi eugenics and ethnic cleansing programs were just extensions of the theories the American Left were pushing in the 20s and 30s.
Richard Rhodes book, Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust is a great source on the subject and not political like say, Goldberg's Liberal Fascism.
National Socialism was a leftist movement, a little right of the Communists, which is why they were such bitter enemies in Germany, but not at all a Right movement.
Doesn't work well for Alaska, fingerless gloves from now till April aren't viable.
It'd get giant text and the siren on drudgereport.
JUSTICE THOMAS ASKS A QUESTION!1!
That feeling you are having right now. Thats what madness feels like.
The lawyer for California had 8 Justices questing the law and why video games. Hell if Justice Thomas asked questions the dude would have had all 9 on him.
Yea, that'd add to the fun for the Alaska Senate election. More lawyers and more court time.
Thats wrong up here. I was at a disability conference and the state election board had a Diebold machine and I talked to them.
Diebolds can take a write-in just fine, they have a keypad that records the input which is recorded and a receipt is printed out so you can confirm the machine got the input right. If there is a problem you can have the error scratched out and redo or if able to write, correct the write in on the receipt and have that be the vote of record.
Thats in Alaska, so your mileage may vary.
Write-in is a big issue up here because we have a Republican that lost in the primary running as a write-in.
No, in her mind, how she really thought the military was, is a body where everyone kills, there are no skilled trades, technical jobs, maintenance jobs, administration, research, technology, medical or support.
Just people with guns who wait for the chance to kill.
If you join the military and are a nurse or a doctor you won't be ordered to kill people, same with a Rabbi, Imam or Priest. Same with the majority of jobs in the military.
If you join the Air Force or Navy you are not trained "how to kill people efficiently", firearms training is rudimentary and there is no time spent on practical fighting, in those branches if you want to fight you volunteer for those jobs that'll get you there.
Marines and Army are for fighting and even those, the majority of personal aren't going to be put in a situation where they'll be ordered to kill.
Because the military is political. "War is a mere continuation of politics by other means."
They still patrol the supply routes with UAVs, manned aviation and ground patrols, so reducing the number of supply runs will allow them to make supply runs a little more random and give more time to spot IEDs and take them out.
I had a professor when I was and undergrad flat out tell the class she was lecturing that everyone who volunteered for the US military did so to kill and everyone in the military was a killer.
In her mind and world view if you are in a military you murder people.
While I understand Rush panders to the fringe right and the scared conservative moderates, I don't think he really is that fringy himself. He is acting and spinning people up as part of his job.
So yea, he'll hammer on the left about this, but really he is saying its an art like film, TV, writing and we can't censor it if we aren't going to go after the "untouchable" mediums. And it's extra hypocritical for California to do it when they are the center for sex and violence in film and TV in the US, at least in Limbaugh's mind.
I don't care for Rush Limbaugh but I agree with him on this stance.
A bunch of blah blah blah and then "...I'm glad to have you on our side, 'cause I agree with you. Leave your game alone. The people that put together these video games are artists in their own right. If you're gonna start saying that video games are raunchy, then how the hell do you leave cable television alone?"
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102910/content/01125113.guest.html
http://kotaku.com/5677274/rush-limbaugh-defends-video-games-free-speech-says-this-is-where-the-battle-is
Umm, all the current space tourism companies that are going to do the flight a day business model are in the US. Down the road we might see them operating out of the Sweden, the UAE, Russia and the EU.
They were corrupt under Reagan, Bush and Clinton too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobell_v._Kempthorne for one.
Because politics always turns into "who will pay for my reelection" and "what do I need to say to get votes for my reelection".
Hell Big Oil is drilling all over the LA Basin.
http://www.nileguide.com/destination/blog/los-angeles/2010/06/26/urban-oil-wells-in-los-angeles/
Big Oil isn't going to like a USAF syngas plant in Montana, Environmental groups aren't either, so it's an easy stance for Waxman to take. Big Oil is a much more powerful lobby than Coal an emerging fuels are.
Like Chevrolet, Cadillac, Silverado, Escalade, Lariat, or a host of other American companies and brand names.
3 of the 4 Buick models are French words for example.
Its fun and easy to hit at the Americans for "only speaking English", but the United States has a ton of place and company names that aren't English or even European. At least 26 of the 50 states have American Indian/Alaska or Hawaiian native names.
LibreOffice just doesn't sound that good, they'd do well to brand it better if Oracle won't give up OpenOffice.
I read about the end of the Synth fuel program in 1985. Up to that point it had cost about 8 billion dollars in 1985 dollars and the price of oil was collapsing as the oil glut kicked in.
It's estimated that between 1943 and 1985 that less than 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent were produced for that $8 billion.
Really? The Reagan administration is sitting on funding and permission for the United States Air Force to go ahead with a program in 2009 and 2010?
Mainly because of a bill passed in 2007 by the Democratic majority that came into Congress following the 2006 elections.
Zombie Reagan has more power than I thought.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/30/air-force-liquid-coal-fuel
http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0109/013009kp1.htm
"We don't want new sources of energy that are going to make the greenhouse gas problem even worse," House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said in a recent interview.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23811258/
When we are really low on oil we can move to liquid from coal, natural gas diesel, and or biofuels.
Commercial fusion is till a pipedream.
Yes, we can
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer–Tropsch_process
When the USAF tried to get Congress to let them build a plant in Montana it has been blocked by Congress because it doesn't reduce CO2 emissions, however some processes can be near carbon neutral, Henry Waxman won't allow it unless it's carbon negative
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/us-air-force-syntheticfuel-program-in-limbo
With the House going Republican, I bet the USAF project comes back to life in '11-13
I care.
Millions of people as slaves to a totalitarian monarchy and millions of men under arms destabilizing the entire region.
If there was an opening of the DPRK, following the refugee crisis and 10-20 years of economic hardship for the Republic of Korea to bring the north into Third World status, the United States, Japan, and RoK would all be able to back forces from the brink of war, downsize military spending and remove a nuclear threat from the region.
The US would be able to fold up an Army division, forward Marine base and most of an Air Force alone.
Furthermore it would be one less thing where the US and Japan oppose the Russian Federation and People's Republic of China.
This is correct. China doesn't want a conflict with the US or Japan because they know they will take huge military and economic loses. Trade is what made China strong for hundreds of years and military conflicts with the West made it weak.
However they made a pledge to stand by North Korea decades ago and they will not dishonor themselves by turning their back on North Korea now.
They don't know the DPRK to totally collapse because that would lead to a refuge crisis the likes of which the world hasn't seen since the Second World War ended.
I'm sure the "official" PRC spies from the "Interest Sections" in the PRC embassy have sat phones but unofficial PRC agents and paid informers use this ad hoc cell phone leak to get data out.