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Video: UPS saves 3 million gallons of fuel by avoiding left turns.
One final book for Arthur C. Clarke, in conjunction with Frederick Pohl.
I'm not much for "Unknown author fleshes out story idea by big name giant" books, but Pohl is a giant on his own, and seems to have retained more of his peak form than Clarke.
The most famous problem in mathematics, Fermat's Last Theorem was finally proven for all cases in 1994.
Gas under $4 per gallon in San Diego:
No "Name that Party" mystery here: Ted Stevens indicted, longest-serving GOP senator
By comparison, when William "Freezer Cash" Jefferson was indicted for much more serious crimes, the AP story waited until the 12th paragraph to identify him as a Democrat - once. In this instance, they identify the party right in the headline, and repeat it at least six times in the article, just to make certain you know he's Republican. Just a little bit of uneven treatment.
He is accused of lying on his annual Senate financial disclosure reports between 1999 and 2006 -- an indictment that caps a lengthy FBI investigation that has upended Alaska politics
I don't have any quarrel with the indictment. Stevens is a corruptocrat, much like John Murtha, and Washington would be a better place for their absence. But it would be nice to have equal treatment of the two parties, instead of blatant partisanship from the press.
Armies of Liberation reports that the Yemeni courts have refused to release Mr. al-Khaiwani but admitted:
Al-Khaiwani was sentenced to six years term in jail over "writing articles against the president and possessing CDs supporting al-Houthi's rebellion and threatening the country's interests".
There is a reason freedom of speech is necessary, and Yemen's corrupt excuse for a government is one of the prime exhibits.
Richard Fernandez quite effectively questioning some assertions that many have made regarding the war on islamic fundamentalism.
Top Ten Things The Creep Me Out About Obama
Last I knew, Victor Davis Hanson was a Democrat, but he's certainly sounding like a McCain supporter here.
Please, people, the truth about Barack Obama is more than sufficient unto the task. Don't over-exaggerate. You'll destroy the credibility of everyone saying anything vaguely similar - even though they are telling the exact truth.
Over at my other site, I've published the second in my series on the Neighborhoods of La Mesa. In this case, it covers La Mesa Village, also known as Downtown La Mesa.
Ex-Google engineers introduce a new search engine called 'Cuil'
For starters, Cuil's search index spans 120 billion Web pages.Patterson believes that's at least three times the size of Google's index, although there is no way to know for certain. Google stopped publicly quantifying its index's breadth nearly three years ago when the catalog spanned 8.2 billion Web pages.
It's not just how big the results are. Its how they rank them. Google certainly comes up with some counter-intuitive search results, because they consider the link somehow "authoritative". Ask is usually better, although it doesn't have the breadth.
Patterson enjoyed her time at Google, but became disenchanted with the company's approach to search. "Google has looked pretty much the same for 10 years now," she said, "and I can guarantee it will look the same a year from now."
That wouldn't be a problem if they didn't need to improve. But there's always room for improvement. If you won't keep improving, eventually your customers will go someplace that will.
Virgin Galactic shows off mothership aircraft
White Knight Two has a 140-foot wingspan, about the same as a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, the World War II long-range heavy bomber. White Knight Two is designed to cradle SpaceShipTwo under its wing and release it at 50,000 feet in the air. Once separated, SpaceShipTwo will fire its hybrid rocket and climb some 62 miles above Earth.
One thing engineers know: It's easier to design for doing fewer things very well than a lot of things in a kinda sorta fashion. Separating the functions means that they get to save weight, use wings as far as wings will take them, and that the rocket doesn't need to waste it's power system on the thickest part of the atmosphere.
Some real perspective on the Tennessee church shooting
An actual campaign commercial for Obama that looks a lot more like a parody to me.
Where did SEIU get $150 million for politics?
Now the SEIU suddenly has $150 million, from which they've already committeed at least $85 million specific to Democratic candidates. That money got squeezed out of the locals under duress, in obvious violation of the spirit and letter of federal law. The union knows how to protect itself and its interests, and the lockstep nature of their support for Democrats should awaken voters to the threat their policies comprise. This is nothing more than a closed-feedback loop for Democrats, and Card Check is the prize that will ensure its rapid growth. The Department of Justice needs to put an end to this shakedown racket immediately.
Jimma Hoffa and Richard Daley would be so proud.
One thing I am utterly disgusted about George Bush about:
White House sees record budget gap in 2009
We have a sudden need or desire to spend hundreds of billions of dollars fighting Islamic terrorism. Let's forget for a moment the fact that this need was just as present, and would have been far more effective, for at least ten years before 9/11. Let's just focus on post 9/11.
Anybody with a lick of sense would economize in every other area possible.
Not George W. Bush. Not any of the last four congresses either. Can't jeopardize the pork. Can't jeopardize the political payola. Wouldn't be prudent.
Ladies and gentlemen, the government checkbook comes out of our own pocketbooks. The game has always been to make certain the other guy pays the largest share possible, while you pay the lowest. This creates problems. Regularly, reliably, as certain as gravity.
I think we'd do better than we are now with a return to strictly per capita taxes, as was the case until the amendment permitting income tax in the early 20th century. When everything the federal government spends money on becomes a hit of so many dollars per person, and no dodging, people will get a lot more rational about what the government should and should not be spending money on.
And boy would the government shrink.
One more reason it'll never happen.
Prof whose 'last lecture' became a sensation dies
Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47.
His "Last lecture" video is here
Shameful
Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday
The bill suffers badly from "throwing money at a problem to see if it will do any good." However politically popular it may be, it won't.
It won't fix the problems that led to this mess.
It does nothing that will actually prevent a repeat of same.
All it does is cost millions of taxpayers who lived within their means billions of dollars in order to bail out (partially) those who didn't, but mostly wealthy lenders who acted irresponsibly despite the fact they should have known better, while living a profligate lifestyle. Why? Because they make campaign contributions. This isn't about helping the little guy who stretched slightly too far. This is about billing the taxpayer for reckless corporate behavior.
The plan gives the Treasury Department power to spend unlimited amounts to prop up Fannie and Freddie, should they need it, to calm investor fears about their financial stability at a time of rising foreclosures and falling home values. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson calls the authority a "backstop" which he has no intention of using.
That's funny. Why am I not laughing? I probably should. The alternative is worse. But somehow it's just not coming.
Worst over for drivers as pump prices slide: AAA
"We expect pump prices below $4 this weekend and we could see the price fall another 25 cents before Labor Day (September 1), if oil prices don't rebound," said AAA spokesman Geoff Sundtrom. "We think it is primarily in reaction to the drop in demand by American consumers."
That and the fact that President Bush repealed the executive ban on drilling and congressional Republicans are making all kinds of political hay on repealing the legislative ban. Maybe it doesn't make much of a difference to actual supply and demand, but it put the brakes on the boost from speculation as suddenly people aren't so certain that supplies are going to continue to constrict, and the panic locking in of supplies has slowed.
I just paid $4.07, down from $4.54 a couple days before President Bush repealed his father's order banning drilling.
Real Perspective on Europe and Obama: What they do when the rubber hits the road from National Review
If they want to vote in our elections, they should apply for statehood. When they have to live with all of the results (and pay the taxes), then they can vote.
I've been Mr. Mom since Tuesday morning. The hard part is that the girls daycare is in Mira Mesa (convenient to my wife), while my office is in Santee. I've been putting in 2.5 to 3 extra hours per day in traffic, and I'm exhausted. Today was the last day, though, and she's supposed to be back tomorrow afternoon. Yay!
Still, I may not have the time to get anything new done by Monday. I haven't given up, though. I'm hoping I'll get some time Sunday.
Over at my more local area site, I'm starting a series on the neighborhoods in the areas I work. The first is Neighborhoods of La Mesa: Rolando. I'll be following it with others, probably before the end of the weekend.
Althouse on John McCain vs Barack Obama on Iraq, and rips a partisan shill masquerading as neutral.
Senator McCain appears to be removing the kit gloves the press has been treating Senator Obama with.
HT: Instapundit
Willisms makes a point that can not be made too often about prosperity.
World According to Nick makes a good point about defense against terrorism. It doesn't help the victims any, but it does enable the vast majority of the population to live normal lives.
The best way to make certain that proportion that gets to live normal lives is as large as possible is very simple: Cut down on the number of terrorists.
Proof Positive that Mike Aguirre is too stupid to be allowed out without responsible adult supervision: San Diego sues Bank of America to halt foreclosures
San Diego's city attorney said on Wednesday he filed a lawsuit against Bank of America Corp and its Countrywide unit to prevent the mortgage lenders from foreclosing on homes in the city, which he aims to make a "foreclosure sanctuary."
OK, let's hypothesize that he gets what he wants. Lenders can't foreclose. What happens when the final resort of a lender to recover its money is taken away?
That's right, no new loans.
Price of housing crashes as nobody who can't pay 100% cash can buy property. Wealthy investors swoop in and buy properties that were formerly half a million dollars for maybe $30,000 each, tops. This lasts until the armed and violent uprising against city government, or the voters put in someone who may not be a great political panderer, but who does understand something of cause and effect. They then turn around and sell them for several hundred thousand with owner carrybacks (hey, I could get into earning 8% on $300,000 when I only have $20,000 in the property! It's a reasonable risk)
Meanwhile, when the problem is fixed and lenders start making loans, those properties then become worth current value plus economic appreciation in the meantime.
HT: Tigerhawk
Obama's character seems amazingly consistent
That's not a compliment in this case.
I didn't remember the name, but it's long past time we created a Dorwin Award. And Barack Obama is the obvious first recipient if we do.
Last week, the New York Times accepted an editorial from Barack Obama. I linked it so you could read directly, and tore it apart.
Today, they refused an editorial from John McCain on the same point. They made noises like it's an editorial change they're looking for; the truth is that it doesn't fit their narrative, which at this point is to bury the good stuff that's happening over there with all the minutiae and troubles of the returning troops. At roughly 150,000 troops per year, mostly young and all with normal human foibles, it would be a miracle if they couldn't find enough examples of trouble to distract the public.
The New York Times is entitled to control the contents of their editorial page, even more so than others, as an argument might be made that this is their official position. Nor do I want to bring back the "Fairness Doctrine" in any way shape or form. The only gripe I have with this situation is the the New York Times does everything they can to aid Barack Obama while pretending to be neutral, which they are not. I'm fine with them supporting Barack Obama. People have the right to support the presidential candidate of their choice. That's just a small (if critical) part of the First Amendment, and it protects you, me, and everyone else as well. What ticks me off is them pretending they are balanced, fair, neutral arbiters, when in point of fact they are the furthest thing from it.
You can read the editorial at The Drudge Report, but Senator McCain's critical points:
But I have also said that any draw-downs must be based on a realistic assessment of conditions on the ground, not on an artificial timetable crafted for domestic political reasons. This is the crux of my disagreement with Senator Obama.
and
I am also dismayed that he never talks about winning the war�only of ending it. But if we don�t win the war, our enemies will. A triumph for the terrorists would be a disaster for us. That is something I will not allow to happen as president.
I can give at least 4125 American reasons (and roughly 150,000 Iraqi ones) why Senator McCain is right and Senator Obama is wrong.
Hot Air has the text of the rejection from the Times. Obama's editorial didn't have several of the alleged requirements.
More people are catching on to this sort of double standard. Rasmussen: Belief Growing That Reporters are Trying to Help Obama Win
Ya think?
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey, taken just before the new controversy involving the Times erupted, found that 49% of voters believe most reporters will try to help the Democrat with their coverage, up from 44% a month ago.Just 14% believe most reporters will try to help McCain win, little changed from 13% a month ago. Just one voter in four (24%) believes that most reporters will try to offer unbiased coverage.
This should have been done a long time ago: Bush law chief seeks new Qaeda war declaration
Congress should explicitly declare war against al Qaeda to make clear the United States can detain suspected members as long as the conflict lasts, U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Monday.
The Democrats are saying they don't want to cooperate while Bush is still in office. Gee, you might think it was political or something.
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It's not news, it's Scrappleface: Sen. McCain Announces Late White House Bid
But like all good satire, there's quite an element of truth in it.
Faster, Washington! Drill, drill!
One option, we were told, was to make gas artificially expensive, forcing our ignorant, energy-gobbling neighbors to alter their destructive habits.Well, here we are. At $4 a gallon for gas, we already have a flailing economy. Isn't it glorious? And isn't it exactly what many environmentalists desired?
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Don't worry, though, congressional Democrats have a bold plan. Hold on for 10 or 15 years and they'll have a bounty of energy options. They promise. But no oil shale. No clean coal. No nuclear power. And definitely no more oil.
A consequence of illegal alien "sanctuaries"
Encouraged, Barlow subpoenaed a new search of the Arizona database. Among about 65,000 felons, there were 122 pairs that matched at nine of 13 loci. Twenty pairs matched at 10 loci. One matched at 11 and one at 12, though both later proved to belong to relatives.Barlow was stunned. At the time, such matches were almost unheard of.
That same year, Fred Bieber, a Harvard professor and expert in forensic DNA, testified in an unrelated criminal case that just once had he seen a pair of profiles matching at nine of 13 markers, and they belonged to brothers. He had heard of a 10-locus match between two men, but it was the result of incest -- a man whose father was also his older brother.
I just went into the email for the Consumer Focused Carnival of Real Estate. Everything submitted with had errors too big to ignore or was basically vapid spam, chumming for a link. Therefore, consumer focused Carnival of Real Estate will be delayed by two weeks, and henceforth is reduced to monthly.
Obama's latest ad: More of the same. Vague platitudes, overstatement of accomplishment, no taking of positions.
Classical Values makes several good points about the oil supply.
People Unclear on the Concept Department: Joseph Heller sued the District of Columbia over its handgun ban. He went all the way to the Supreme Court and won. His application for a handgun permit was denied.
President Bush can't catch a break.
President Bush kills the Executive Order prohibiting drilling. Oil prices recede 10% within three days. Part of it was a smallish supply windfall, but the largest part was some optimism on behalf of futures markets that the regulatory equation may be changing.
There's still the Congressional ban, of course, and Ms. Pelosi has said there will be no drilling so long as she is speaker, which is one more reason why rational Americans should vote for Republican candidates. Unlike most such issues, however, it's so easily understood that a good number of our less rational Americans may follow us. If she doesn't moderate her opposition, she could find her Democratic congressional cohorts pulling a "Gingrich" on her, and for far better reasons.
Israel makes arrests in alleged plot against Bush
Israel's Shin Bet counter-intelligence agency said one of the suspects had used his mobile phone to film helicopters at a sports stadium in Jerusalem that was used as a landing site for Bush's delegation.The suspect then posted queries on Web sites frequented by al Qaeda operatives, asking for guidance on how to shoot down the helicopters, the agency said in a statement.
Of course, to many on the political left, it's just performance art!
Finally got the dang tooth taken out on Wednesday, and feeling much better, even though my sleep cycle is completely messed up. Should be back to normal by the end of the weekend. I'm thinking I'll likely have mostly normal article schedule next week.
Professor Bainbridge has about the sanest response to Fannie and Freddie troubles I've seen.
A minor miracle has happened: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has filed genocide charges against Sudan's President. Not that it hasn't been obvious the government in Khartoum was behind the Janjaweed for at least five year - but that the ICC - dominated by accomodationist european nations - actually found the courage to file the charges. We'll see how far they go.
al-Bashir is unlikely to be sent to The Hague any time soon. Sudan rejects the court's jurisdiction, and senior Sudanese officials said the prosecutor was politically motivated to file the charges.
A dissenting view from Drina, a pseudonymous Sudani
Obama gives us his plan for Iraq, and ends up somehow showing himself even more naive than I thought he was. Al-Maliki's request for a timetable for withdrawal is not a request for complete withdrawal - he simply wants a timetable for full normalization and American troops to pull back to more or less permanent bases and American troop operations stop being a part of life in Iraq, as BBC reported. Al Maliki knows they're going to need us for a long time to come. If he really did request us to leave, and we honored that request, they'd immediately tell us they didn't mean it. But Obama can't be bothered to find out what Al-Maliki actually said, he writes as if Al Maliki said what Obama wants him to say. You'd think someone who's allegedly as smart as Obama's supposed to be could figure out that the head of foreign governments aren't likely to be his sock puppets.
Read Christopher Hitchens for more rebuttal, and Michael Yon for still more. Pay particular attention to the powerpoint presentation.
Yon says we do need to do something to turn Afghanistan around, though.
An eyewitness account of Zimbabwe's election
Hot Air's on a roll today, with this humorous piece on the new iphone from Will it Blend?
UPDATE: Still haven't had the tooth out. At this point, still hoping to schedule it for tomorrow (Tuesday). The interaction of painkiller and antibiotic is doing strange things. I was going along fine, then it's like I hit a wall. Expect things to continue to be strange until I'm past this.
Iran test-fires missiles in war games in Persian Gulf, says it can retaliate if attacked
"Our hands are always on the trigger and our missiles are ready for launch," the official IRNA news agency quoted Salami as saying Wednesday.
Do they have nuclear weapons yet to put on those missiles? Only Iran knows for sure, but the smart way to play it is "yes." Being unwilling to confront problems early has quite a steep price. A 1 ton conventional warhead is bad enough, but that's plenty of payload for a nuclear warhead.
Next day: Iran test-fires more missiles in Persian Gulf
via LGF, it appears that Iran photoshopped their missile launch
News rippled from tomorrow's headlines: Obama: Iran Needs to Know We Mean Talk
I wouldn't say that "no Bush" is a difference that makes no difference, though, because there is a difference. Exactly the opposite of the difference going from Carter to Reagan made.
Do Congressional Democrats fear free speech?
I'd say it has more the look of trying to censor the opposition. Majority (Democratic) messages get approval easily, minority (Republican) ones are censored by the majority. In other words, an incumbent party protection rule.
via Instapundit, more at ChicagoBoyz
One more reason China needs a new government
I am very sorry for the sparse output this week, especially after last week's vacation. I'm sitting here on Percocet and my jaw still feels like someone is stabbing it with an icepick. While this is an improvement, it's still very difficult to think, work, or drive. I do not think I'll be able to do anything more than reprints until we get clearance to extract that tooth. That moment cannot come too soon for me. I've already lost three full days of work over this, and the pain isn't any fun, either.
ACORN still up to its usual tricks (Not again. For it to be again they would have to have stopped at some point)
Obama's Flips and Flops (150+ and counting)
His "Hope and Change" is sounding more and more like "I hope nobody notices I change every time I talk to a different audience"
Record Setting Re-enlistment Ceremony. In Baghdad. On July 4, 2008.
You think the troops that are there might have a different perspective than the media's doom and gloom?
At he same site: Free and the Brave
US removes Saddam's Yellowcake from Iraq
If you're one of those who still believes Iraq had no ability or intention of acquiring WMD, I have some beachfront property with a bridge and an albino pachyderm I'd like to sell...
Post 9/11 dragnet turns up surprises: US Criminal records on Al-Qaeda terrorists.
The Sky is Falling! The Ice Caps are shrinking! or not.
Obama's real patriotism problem
Suppose it's not broken?
The two biggest causes of economic problems in this country are excessive regulation and a high effective tax rate, not only via direct taxation but cost of regulatory compliance and fees for "government services" that nobody wants, but are mandatory. Not supposition - fact. Obama wants to make both of these problems worse. Add that to him wanting to completely bury the notion of entitlement reform, and he would be an economic disaster of such a magnitude as to make Jimmy Carter look good. At least back then, we could better afford what he cost us. But with the meltdown of the entitlement system in plain sight now, there would be no time to recover from an Obama disaster.
Parade asked the presidential candidates, What is patriotism?
John McCain talks about Adams and Jefferson, and how they became friends again after their retirement from politics, and goes on to say:
I believe they would. Patriotism is deeper than its symbolic expressions, than sentiments about place and kinship that move us to hold our hands over our hearts during the national anthem. It is putting the country first, before party or personal ambition, before anything. It is the willing acceptance of Americans, both those whose roots here extend back over gener-ations and those who arrived only yesterday, to try to make a nation in which all people share in the promise and responsibilities of freedom.
Barack Obama has a good entry, also. But I don't think he gets it like John McCain does. I wouldn't go so far as to say it is country before anything, but I will say that I believe that patriotism is measured by what you're willing to give up for your fellow Americans. Making your own sacrifices.
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