Progressive Milestones in History (and delays in progress)

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Thursday August 26, 2010 · 1:06 PM PDT

2010/08/26 · 13:06

A retrospective on macroscale progressive events in history and delays imposed by resistance to progress.

Feel free to add your own historical progressive events in comments.

Here's the format:

Fire:

1.9 million B.C. - first evidence of fire-cooked food

298,000 B.C. - evidence of widespread acceptance and controlled use of fire

delay in progress - 1.602 million years

http://en.wikipedia.org/...

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Monday June 07, 2010 · 5:42 PM PDT

2010/06/07 · 17:42

When human beings are placed in positions of responsibility with life and death consequences of failures of omission or commission, there has been a clear demonstration of better outcomes when checklists are used. Checklists force attention to details. Due to human nature, such details can be overlooked because of the known tendency to become less alert in the absence of recent memory of harm. The more the potential for harm, the greater the value and need for a stepwise methodical reminder method for focusing attention on essential details.
For airline pilots, healthcare workers, nuclear power plant operators, divers, military specialists, astronauts, oilrig operators and many others, following a checklist is literally a lifesaver. I believe a checklist for political leaders is needed.

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Saturday November 07, 2009 · 10:27 AM PST

2009/11/07 · 10:27

http://www.youtube.com/...

Paul Ehrlich points out our ethical obligation to try to change our culture to improve life on earth for all concerned.

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Wednesday November 04, 2009 · 12:15 PM PST

2009/11/04 · 12:15

A high stakes game is in play in near-earth orbit with hundreds of players, all in high-speed motion.

http://www.reuters.com/...

minor pun alert

I know this is not a purely political topic, but I thought all of us needed a break from the frustrations of a dysfunctional Congress and the persistent efforts of wingnuts.

You can make a connection between this and politics if you like by thinking of the implications of a global satellite failure from a multi-collision event in space - partial to complete interruptions in satellite TV, cell phones, GPS, high-tech military functions, weather forecasts, crop condition sampling, etc. Perhaps even triggering a cold war doomsday device?

Shouldn't nations with satellites in space cooperate in the effort to avoid collisions as they do with air traffic control? A recent meeting in October addressed space traffic control:

http://www.space.com/...

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Tuesday November 03, 2009 · 12:42 AM PST

2009/11/03 · 00:42

David Plouffe has a new book...

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Wednesday September 09, 2009 · 11:31 PM PDT

2009/09/09 · 23:31

I organized and campaigned for Obama with all my heart - a blue marble in the red sea of eastern Oregon, but I'm with Ralph Nader on this one.

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Thursday August 20, 2009 · 10:01 AM PDT

2009/08/20 · 10:01

It may be time to consider changing election law to reflect local mercury contamination levels -- voters in states where the neurotoxin level exceeds EPA standards in water and fish will have to undergo lab tests for mercury poisoning. If you test over the limit, you can't vote. Similar to drunk driving laws.

http://www.reuters.com/...

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Wednesday July 22, 2009 · 9:05 PM PDT

2009/07/22 · 21:05

Health care reform options being finalized by Congress have been skewed to keep real reform off the table.

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Wednesday July 01, 2009 · 10:49 PM PDT

2009/07/01 · 22:49

See: Huffpost link

To the President, an open letter:

The post by Robert Scheer today is about the Madoff scandal and how it reflects one of many measures of the Obama presidency.

Your grades are listed below for the first and second quarters of your presidency.

Poll

112 votes Show Results

Are Progressives being too hard on Obama for failing to deliver promised Change?

112 votes Vote Now!

Are Progressives being too hard on Obama for failing to deliver promised Change?

Yes

62 votes

30 votes

Don't Know Yet

12 votes

We'll find out at the mid-term elections

8 votes

The Herndon phenomenon - a Naval Academy tradition and model for a presidential election

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 4:54 PM PDT

2008/10/29 · 16:54

At our U.S. Naval Academy there is a tall stone obelisk named for Captain Herndon, a Naval hero who elected to go down with his ship and the men left aboard in a storm in 1857 rather than save himself. This monument becomes the target of a massing of 4th class midshipmen each year with the goal of removing a cap from the pinnacle through united effort. Forming a human pyramid with linked arms, they scale the greased surface of the monument through unified combined selfless effort by many strong-willed individuals so that one of their number may succeed in tearing away the cap placed at the top, thus symbolizing the end of their struggles as plebes and graduation on to future endeavors. The plebe who removes the cap is awarded with a pair of Admiral's shoulder boards.

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Friday October 10, 2008 · 11:09 PM PDT

2008/10/10 · 23:09

It has been mentioned in recent articles and multiple comments by John McCain that due to recent events in Iraq that the 2008 troop Surge has worked and that history may show that Bush and company were right after all to invade Iraq in order to establish a U.S.-friendly democracy in the Middle East. These efforts at revisionist history sadly force me to speak up to remind all of us of a few facts that apparently some are trying to have quickly forgotten or to remember differently. The Surge was supposed to help create the breathing space for political unity to occur in Iraq. This has failed to happen and the peace that has been achieved has been bought with millions of U.S tax dollars which, while preferable to the death and dismemberment of our troops, is clearly not a permanent solution in the words of our own military commanders on the ground. By the administration's own definition of the goals of the Surge, it has not worked, regardless of how much John McCain and George Bush wish it had.

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Progressive Milestones in History (and delays in progress)

Checklists

Call for Cultural Evolution

Space debris collisions - orbital billiards

Reflections on a victorious campaign

Sorry to be a buzz kill

Mercury test requirement to vote.

Health care reform options nearing solidification - but wrong ingredients make a bad cake.

New Rant re Obama 2nd quarter grades

The Herndon phenomenon - a Naval Academy tradition and model for a presidential election

Bush / McCain legacy