{"id":2932,"date":"2011-10-27T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T23:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/?p=2932"},"modified":"2011-10-27T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T23:22:08","slug":"a-very-mixed-bag-with-a-trip-to-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jerrypournelle.com\/chaosmanor\/a-very-mixed-bag-with-a-trip-to-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A very mixed bag, with a trip to the past…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mail 698 Thursday, October 27, 2011<\/p>\n

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Muller an AGW "skeptic"? Not so much.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/archives\/44855<\/a> has a great deal on this topic.<\/p>\n

The summary: Muller is only skeptical of the way in which Mann, Hansen, and the rest have approached the topic. He\u2019s never *not* felt that global warming was occurring or that it was at least partially anthropogenic. He has a lot of good ideas, and frankly I wish that *he* were the one arguing the pro-AGW case, because he\u2019s strongly in favor of things like nuclear power and space-based solar power. It\u2019s a lot easier to agree with someone who says \u201clet\u2019s all be rich enough to do things the clean, expensive way\u201d than someone who says \u201cvirtue means starving in the cold dirty darkness\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mike Powers<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Precisely. <\/p>\n

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For your amusement, links from Sue and Ed to ads you\u2019ll not be seeing nowadays. Take a trip down memory lane if you\u2019re old enough, or explore the strange world of your parents past for the younger readers\u2026<\/p>\n

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: http:\/\/www.elevateeverything.com\/ads-youll-never-see-again-1<\/a><\/p>\n

And another link with similar types of ads. You\u2019ll love the first one:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.puritanboard.com\/f52\/ads-youll-never-see-again-64973\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I loved them. Thanks.<\/p>\n

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Catholic University lawsuits<\/p>\n

Jerry,<\/p>\n

Catholic colleges and universities are fighting against new mandates that they provide medical coverage for activities that go against their teachings. But there other attacks going on, too —<\/p>\n

This law professor is really going after Catholic University. First it was about the school going back to same sex dorms, and now its about not providing Muslim students a place to pray without all those Catholic symbols around them…<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cuatower.com\/news\/2011\/09\/16\/breaking-news-sex-discrimination-law-suit-begins-proceedings\/<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cuatower.com\/news\/2011\/10\/20\/university-accused-of-discriminating-against-muslims\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Karl<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The demands of liberals to liberate people from being reminded that there are those who don\u2019t agree with them are unlimited. It\u2019s a sort of Iron Law at work.<\/p>\n

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Im sure you have already been bombarded already but here goes\u2026<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_2015266_conference-calls-using-skype.html<\/a><\/p>\n

David March<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have many references. I will look into it. Thanks, and I am glad to hear it.<\/p>\n

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We are the problem<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2011\/10\/25\/obama_we_have_lost_our_ambition_our_imagination.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t you get the feeling we are being scolded for making him look bad?<\/p>\n

Steve Chu<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s all the fault of the American people. It always was. Jimmy Carter redux.<\/p>\n

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Silly reg of the day<\/p>\n

I opened a checking account today at a regional bank where I have done business all my adult life. I was a director many years ago before it grew larger through buying smaller community banks. I gave the standard info for this corporate account, name, tax #, address, cert. of good standing, signed signature authorization, then was asked a question I have never heard before; "Will this account be used for any illegal gambling?" I commented to the branch manager that I had never been asked that question before when opening an account. She said it was a new govt. regulation and she was still waiting for the first "yes" answer. I nominate the genius who thought up that regulation to be laid off at the same time as the bunny inspectors, as he or she is certainly too stupid to make any contribution to society.<\/p>\n

Tom Hazlett<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We need to have a list of people we would be better off without in government.<\/p>\n

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Homeland Security Advisor leaking documents<\/p>\n

http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/blog\/breaking-homeland-security-adviser-allegedly-leaked-intel-to-attack-rick-perry\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Another case of letting our enemies inside to help us. I’ve always thought DHS was an awful idea.<\/p>\n

Phil<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

DHS and TSA were stupid responses, and cost more than 9\/11 did in money; but then the wars cost us more than the 9\/11 lives. We killed perhaps ten for one, but I do not think the Iraqis were the Burmans who who were guilty. But if you are to build a grave of a hundred heads, you must make it a public place and not look ashamed of yourself for having done it. If you are going to torture yourself in guilt, you shouldn\u2019t do it at all. But then I said all this at the time when I proposed monuments.<\/p>\n

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The tyranny continues to intensify:<\/p>\n

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The number of takedown orders received by Google from authorities based in the United States rose dramatically over the past year, with demands to remove information, including videos containing \u201cgovernment criticism,\u201d increasing by 70 per cent.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the US, Google received 757 takedown requests across its sites and services, up 70 per cent from the second half of last year,\u201d reports technology website V3.co.uk.<\/p>\n

\u201cUS authorities also called for the removal of 113 videos from YouTube, including several documenting alleged police brutality which Google refused to take down.\u201d<\/p>\n

The figures are revealed in Google\u2019s newly released transparency report, which also details how the number of \u201cuser data requests\u201d by US authorities increased by 29 per cent compared to the last reporting period.<\/p>\n

The reason listed for the removal of a You Tube video in one instance is \u201cgovernment criticism\u201d. The exact identity or content of the video is not divulged. The report states that the removal requests pertaining to \u201cpolice brutality\u201d were done on the grounds of \u201cdefamation\u201d and are included in that separate category, meaning the takedown order on the grounds of \u201cgovernment criticism\u201d was made by the \u201cexecutive,\u201d ie the federal government.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/feds-order-you-tube-to-remove-video-for-containing-government-criticism.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Most Respectfully,<\/p>\n

Joshua Jordan, KSC<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Let’s put some nails in this coffin:<\/p>\n

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The chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which oversees the TSA, has asserted that the release of a classified report on TSA security failures will renew calls for the replacement of the agency with private airport security personnel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe failure rate (for body scanning equipment) is classified but it would absolutely knock your socks off,\u201d Florida Republican, Rep. John L. Mica told reporters during a briefing Monday.<\/p>\n

Mica also asserted that recorded instances of pat downs failing to detect contraband are \u201coff the charts.\u201d This information is also currently still classified, but is due to be released within weeks as part of an upcoming committee report on the TSA\u2019s first decade.<\/p>\n

Mica suggested that the TSA\u2019s performance report would read \u201csort of like the record of the Marx Brothers\u201d.<\/p>\n

The TSA has withheld results of its official security tests, despite repeated requests to release the information under the Freedom of Information Act.<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security has classified the results of the most recent random, covert \u201cred team tests,\u201d where undercover agents try to see what they can get past airport security. The reason they have done so, according to MIca, is because the results have been so shockingly and consistently bad for the past nine years.<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/congressman-secret-report-on-tsa-pat-downs-body-scanner-failures-will-knock-your-socks-off\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Most Respectfully,<\/p>\n

Joshua Jordan, KSC<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Overpaid Employees<\/p>\n

Well, I would give her some credit.  She worked the system; she deserves the money.  However, is this the system we want?<\/p>\n

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Jean Keller earned $269,810 last year working as a nurse at a men\u2019s prison on California\u2019s central coast by tripling her regular pay with overtime hours.<\/p>\n

Keller got more overtime in 2010 than any other state employee. In all, California\u2019s public workers collected $1.7 billion of extra pay last year, more than half of it in overtime, state payroll data show. The rest was for unused vacation and union-negotiated benefits such as clothing allowances, physical-fitness incentives and special compensation in recognition of a \u201ccomplex work load.\u201d<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-10-26\/nurse-making-269-810-demonstrates-california-s-overtime-binge.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Most Respectfully,<\/p>\n

Joshua Jordan, KSC<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Is she part of the 99% or the 1%?<\/p>\n

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Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Rage On — and on, and on………’<\/p>\n

Hello Jerry,<\/p>\n

Dr. Hanson’s latest: http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/victordavishanson\/rage-on-and-on-and-on\/?singlepage=true<\/a><\/p>\n

is worth reading. As is a large number of letters from his readers,<\/p>\n

in particular "SG-1", "art chance", and "cfbleachers".<\/p>\n

Bob Ludwick<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hanson is generally worth reading. A professor of classics who understands the histories he teaches.<\/p>\n

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Chesley Bonestell’s Saturn<\/p>\n

Jerry,<\/p>\n

Another Bonestell composition from Cassini: the rings, Titan, Dione, Pandora, and Pan.<\/p>\n

<http:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap111026.html<\/a>><\/p>\n

Regards, Charles Adams, Bellevue, NE<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Beautiful<\/p>\n

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‘They turn out to be a detailed description of a ritual from a secret society that apparently had a fascination with eye surgery and ophthalmology.’<\/p>\n

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Roland Dobbins<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There appears to be a secret society for nearly anything.<\/p>\n

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Newt Gingrich<\/p>\n

One thing that I am struck by is your statement about Newt Gingrich, "His major political flaw is a tendency to say things that he doesn\u2019t mean and can\u2019t really defend, but which seemed like a good idea at the time. In many cases they are ideas he hasn\u2019t thought through." I’m currently reading Warlord by Carlo D’Este; the biography of Winston Churchill. D’Este makes the same or quite similar statements about Churchill several times in the course of the book. At least through p 364. And, I’m just to the point of reading about Narvik. So, I suspect that I will be reading it again. Considering the state of things today, that is a good person to be compared to for any politician. OTOH, I hope that after the next administration is out of office, we won’t see the decline of the American Era as rapidly as 1945 – 1946 saw the decline of the British Era.<\/p>\n

Pete Wityk<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Today’s dose of internet-inspired guilt<\/p>\n

Apparently our home galaxy doesn’t have as many neighbors as it’s supposed to — because it’s a murderer! I feel so guilty….<\/p>\n

–Mike Glyer<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/10\/111018092155.htm<\/a> \u201cHow the Milky Way killed off nearby galaxies.\u201d <\/p>\n

Two researchers from Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg have revealed for the first time the existence of a new signature of the birth of the first stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. More than 12 billion years ago, the intense ultraviolet light from these stars dispersed the gas of our Galaxy’s nearest companions, virtually putting a halt to their ability to form stars and consigning them to a dim future. Now Pierre Ocvirk and Dominique Aubert, members of the Light in the Dark Ages of the Universe (LIDAU) collaboration, have explained why some galaxies were killed off, while stars continued to form in more distant objects.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How awe inspiringly guilt inducing!<\/p>\n

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Looks like it may be a double dip in the UK <\/p>\n

See http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/financialcrisis\/8847034\/British-economy-may-already-be-contracting-warns-MPCs-Martin-Weale.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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"Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement." (SLClemens)<\/p>\n

Harry Erwin, PhD<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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UK universities <\/p>\n

Initial figures are a 9% decrease in UK undergraduate entries for next year, but that’s only the early decision applicants. Major crashes in part-time and masters-level programs.<\/p>\n

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Harry Erwin, PhD<\/p>\n

"If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning." (Catherine Aird)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Horse Soldiers | Secret Mission | Afghanistan | 9\/11 | The Daily Caller<\/p>\n

This is quite a story. Special operations in an unusual way.<\/p>\n

ONE FLAG, ONE LANGUAGE, ONE NATION UNDER GOD!!! <\/p>\n

In a message dated 10\/23\/2011 3:22:57 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jyacht@comcast.net writes:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2011\/10\/14\/secret-mission-the-horse-soldiers-of-911\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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