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<\/a><\/p>\nTomorrow before dawn Niven and I get on a Delta airplane for a long and grueling trip to Chattanooga. It will take all day and we will get there well after dinner time. I don\u2019t expect to log in along the way, and I may well be too tired to do more than glance at my mail after I arrive. I have no idea what kind of Internet connection I will have.<\/p>\n
We will be at Libertycon in Chattanooga until Monday, and we will be all day Monday getting back home, so if you don\u2019t hear much from me for the next few days, it is nothing to be concerned about. <\/p>\n
I have this from a reader:<\/p>\n "US geoengineers to spray sun-reflecting chemicals from balloon"<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/environment\/2012\/jul\/17\/us-geoengineers-spray-sun-balloon<\/a><\/p>\n I guess we will find out in a year or so if it works. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The story is more than interesting. Of course we have for years heard conspiracy theories about contrails. Few of them get beyond the Art Bell show, but now we have this.<\/p>\n I would think there is considerable to discuss before we do environmental engineering experiments \u2013 including real science about temperature trends, and a real debate about what is the \u2018best\u2019 climate for Earth.<\/p>\n Before spraying stuff into trhe atmosphere would it now make more sense simply to paint roofs white? Assuming we really want cooling.<\/p>\n It is generally agreed that the one thing in US Education that is done fairly well is high tech higher education. When I used to lecture at Cal Tech there were generally no girls in the classes. At one dormitory hall where I was invited to have dinner there was one and only one woman student, and she wasn\u2019t in a particularly technical program, although I make no doubt she could have been had she wanted to. That situation has changed now, and there are women in nearly every Cal Tech class, but there are far more men in high tech classes than women.<\/p>\n ‘Since a college cannot force a woman to go into math or science, the only way for a college to satisfy a gender quota will be to cut the number of male math and science students, by turning male students away from their favorite subject.’<\/p>\n <http:\/\/www.openmarket.org\/2012\/07\/10\/quotas-limiting-male-science-enrollment-the-new-liberal-war-on-science\/<\/a>><\/p>\n —-<\/p>\n Roland Dobbins<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I suppose I should not be surprised.<\/p>\n And Fast and Furious won\u2019t go away, although both candidates seem to wish it would:<\/p>\n ‘Precisely because this is such a jaw-dropping accusation — criminality at the highest level of government to score a political point — Republicans refuse to make it.’<\/p>\n <http:\/\/www.anncoulter.com\/columns\/2012-07-11.html<\/a>><\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Roland Dobbins<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Congress is the Grand Inquest of the Nation, Constitutionally and by tradition; but everything seems to have become political now. I am seldom in favor of special prosecutors, but I would think a situation involving the Attorney General would be the case in which one might be appropriate.<\/p>\n If that weren\u2019t enough, we have<\/p>\n Jerry,<\/p>\n Did YOU know that we’re in a state of national emergency?<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2012\/07\/do_obamas_executive_orders_reveal_a_pattern.html<\/a><\/p>\n <snip> <\/p>\n In EO 13617, entitled "Blocking Property of the Government of the Russian Federation Relating to the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted From Nuclear Weapons," Obama says (among other things)that"the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation continues to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.\u201d<\/p>\n Obama, by signing this EO, actually declared a national emergency. I guess that President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous saying, "Speak softly and carry a big stick," can’t apply in this case because we don’t want to offend the Russians by having them honor treaties they signed (the "HEU" Agreement). But what’s more important is that Obama can now "justify" any action he wants to take by citing EO 13617 since it declares a national emergency.<snip><\/p>\n Read more: http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2012\/07\/do_obamas_executive_orders_reveal_a_pattern.html#ixzz20to19bIx<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I suspect we have not heard the end of this, either. Certainly Axelrod understands the implications. It is probably time to revise the War Powers Act as well as the Patriot Act.<\/p>\n Just remember, if you\u2019ve got a business, you didn\u2019t build that.<\/p>\n View 733 Wednesday, July 18, 2012 You didn\u2019t get that on your own. You didn\u2019t do that. This is the essence of the President Obama\u2019s campaign. Of course his handlers are now insisting that President Obama didn\u2019t mean it that way. It was taken out of context. He was talking \u2026 Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n\n
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