thanks again, Paul Krugman

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Saturday April 16, 2011 · 10:56 AM PDT

2011/04/16 · 10:56

your April 14, 2011 opinion piece was dead on. as ever, WSJ opinion was predictably kneejerk squarely and fairly in the opinion arena, calling President Obama's Wednesday address toxic and partisan. ALSO as usual, with facts and their pesky liberal bias, commentary stating the President's thinking was "distorted" was flat wrong, especially considering the fuzzy $200 billion and more math errors in Ryan's so-called budget plan. the WSJ opinion requires a second opinion, like an incompetent doctor who only knows one diagnosis.

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Sunday October 19, 2008 · 8:39 PM PDT

2008/10/19 · 20:39

my battleground state that starts early voting tomorrow.

well, it happened. I am (happily) privately financed to work for Team Obama from now thru Nov 4th, whereas two weeks ago I could barely afford gas to get to the nearest Obama office. conveniently enough, last week a brand new Obama office opened up much closer to my home, that will make my funding go farther.

I have filled various volunteer political roles. in the 60s, I worked from my friend's garage to help elect his dad mayor; I protested the Viet Nam War as a college student.

(fast forward) more recently, I helped MoveOn and the Progressive Movement oust Tom DeLay, organizing media coverage of petition deliveries at the local congressional Republican's office, organizing Iraq War protest marches, Peace Vigils, street corner "Honk 4 Peace" gatherings, in my Red county of our Southeastern swing state.

evenings in 2006, I made GOTV calls from home after work, into Western states for MoveOn to turn Congressional seats from Red to Blue. (woot, woot!!!)

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when should an Obama volunteer give up?

69 votes Vote Now!

when should an Obama volunteer give up?

1) if you get yelled at

0 votes

2) if you are chased

1 vote

3) if you get dirty looks

0 votes

4) never give up, never give in

25 votes

5) take a friend, take a video, take action: report illegal harrassment

9 votes

6) 4 & 5 above

34 votes

Campaign like the energizer bunny; keep going and going and going

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Thursday October 09, 2008 · 9:24 PM PDT

2008/10/09 · 21:24

Prep tools:
Blender
Paring knife
Peeler is handy but not necessary; you can use paring knife
Cutting board or a couple of stacked paper plates to cut on

Sample shopping list (see footnotes*):
1 bag of frozen strawberries
1 zucchini
1 bag of prepackaged slaw blend*
mild-tasting extra virgin olive oil OR Barleans flax oil*
non-carb sweetener of choice*
green* banana OR green plantain
regular or decaf green tea, loose or bags*
non-denatured whey protein powder, approx 20 gm protein 5 gm carb

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Wednesday June 18, 2008 · 8:44 PM PDT

2008/06/18 · 20:44

humans, "Flyboys", Iwo Jima, dismemberment of Poland, the White Angel, Auschwitz/Belsen/Buchenwald death camps(Our Motto: Work Will Set You Free), unrestricted submarine warfare, the London Blitz, Warsaw Ghetto ...

Have I got your attention? A lot of healthy discussion is proceeding in the United States about the future appropriate use of our armed forces. After seven years of secretive unilateralism and military adventures, this is a welcome change. It will help the next president to govern, and to preserve protect and defend the Constitution- another idea whose time has come back.

I am an amateur historian. I like to think that I take the long view. When I survey the costs of war between 1933 and 1945, ongoing efforts to encourage the Japanese and Germans to deploy farther from home seem like tempting fate. The Japanese are debating the amendment of their constitution, which forbids -- for good historical reason -- armed foreign adventuring. The Germans, now united, are being encouraged to contribute soldiers to coalitions active in the NATO neighborhood and beyond.

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Saturday April 26, 2008 · 7:29 AM PDT

2008/04/26 · 07:29

I was struck by the article, below, and couldn't find a way to comment, or even write to the author, though I did learn he is listed by AP as being "news staff" in Topeka. At the end of this post, please find a link I think readers and writers here will appreciate.

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Saturday February 09, 2008 · 9:26 AM PST

2008/02/09 · 09:26

I was watching Kubrick’s "2001" last night and was struck by the way disaster resulted from:

Over-reliance on technology yoked to

A mania for secrecy, and

the coincidence that 2001 was the year we installed a President who exhibits both.

Those two flaws are of course compounded by a deliberate ignorance of the scientific method and misuse of peer review on experimental and research results. That secrecy fetish works directly against something you want your scientists to do: share information and build on each other’s work, while minimizing overlap in applied and pure research.

This witch’s brew is made worse by a moral climate that values loyalty to the hierarchy above all else- in all fairness, a well-developed phenomenon in the Clinton years.

When you throw in a willful anti-democratic approach to politics ("If you act like you have an electoral mandate, you have a mandate."), here we are. The topper-what does it mean for the future? is that this cavalier and ad hoc utilitarian approach to science will put us into the hole for years to come.

Will foreign-born hard sciences students come to the rescue?

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The best way forward, to lead in science and technology:

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The best way forward, to lead in science and technology:

relax restrictions on foreign students

0 votes

increase number of working visas for technology-related fields

1 vote

subsidize advanced education for Americans

19 votes

all of the above

11 votes

Let Them Eat "Insurgent" Payback; A Dangerous and Shameful Mess

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Tuesday September 04, 2007 · 6:22 AM PDT

2007/09/04 · 06:22

Refugee from Maryland Political Wars finds A$ylum at State Department

Ellen Sauerbrey is a failed politician from Maryland. As payback for running as a statewide office candidate there, against a rock-solid Democrat, she was placed in a sinecure as a political appointee at Foggy Bottom. She is the Refugee Boss for the United States Government, Assistant Cabinet Secretary in rank, and paid as an EX-04, which when based in Washington includes a Locality Pay supplement of 11%.

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thanks again, Paul Krugman

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“A fine mess you’ve gotten us into, Ollie!”

Let Them Eat "Insurgent" Payback; A Dangerous and Shameful Mess