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China's blistering attacks on U.S. tech firms is more than quid pro quo over cyberspying charges. It's a signal of China's growing confidence in its own technology capabilities.
China makes its own computer chips, has the world's fastest supercomputer, and is on target to surpass the U.S. in R&D spending. It has built its own social media empire for its 600 million Internet users, keeping Facebook and Twitter on the fringes.
Lenovo, a company that claims dual headquarters in North Carolina and China, is today the largest PC maker in the world.
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But China is now engaged in something of a war of words against U.S. tech firms, as it counters American criticism and more of it's activities, which include the recent indictment of five people from China on cyberspying charges.
In response, China's government is taking aim at hardware vendors and information providers such as Google. Its state run media ran a story Wednesday saying "Foreign tech firms pose threat on Internet." It'srattling Microsoft with TV spots that threaten to ban Windows 8. Chinese server maker Inspur is running an "IBM to Inspur" initiative, which according to reports, might seem like a spin from an old Sun vs. IBM server battle.
But this isn't just about cyberspying. China is picking and choosing its targets carefully.
Here are five reasons China is acting the way it is now.
1. China is asserting itself
China President Xi Jinping, a chemical engineer by training, is clearly wielding power. He took office last year.
Six months after taking office, Jinping approved an air defense identification zone in the East China Sea, requiring aircraft to report flight plans, and provide other information. It is also exercising territorial rights for drilling in the South China Sea, antagonizing Vietnam in particular.
China's military capabilities are rising. It now has an aircraft carrier, and gave Chuck Hagel, the U.S. defense chief, a tour of it in April. China is working on stealth aircraft, and made that clear in a slide presented at a conference showing how its high performance computing (HPC) systems are used in its military aircraft development operations.
Andrew Bartels, an analyst at Forrester, sees China's recent posture on U.S. tech companies as part of its overall approach. China "Has become more assertive of its position in foreign policy," he said.
2. China's innovation policy pushes U.S. tech to the side
China wants to wean itself from as much foreign tech as possible. Its plan is to reduce its dependency on foreign technology from about 50% today to 30% by 2020, according to a report released last last year by the Congressional Research Service.
There's much hostility about China's indigenous innovation program in Washington because of how it operates.
Foreign firms are under pressure to transfer technology in exchange for access to China's market. U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) called the process a "shakedown" at a hearing in May.
China, in its attacks, is not targeting databases or other business systems.
It's going after hardware and information services, because that's where it is making the most progress.
3. China's hardware capability is increasing
China's most obvious display of tech innovation is in its development of HPC systems. It is now building systems made entirely of indigenously developed products, including chips and interconnects.
It builds big systems, and it took the world's number computer performance ranking one year ago this month, with a nearly 34 petaflop system. It's still on top of the list.
As China's hardware confidence rises, the resistance to U.S. vendors may increase. Forrester's Bartels said that for U.S. hardware makers, "there are now increased barriers to sales to China that are higher than they were a year ago or two year ago." That may put hardware revenue at risk, he said.
Crawford Del Prete, an analyst at IDC, said the strategies used to sell in China and other emerging markets will have to get more sophisticated.
"This is an awakening moment," said Del Prete. He expects to see vendors respond by doing more to cater to the market, "and demonstrating to the Chinese government, as well as Chinese consumers, that their products are best in class when they are, and need to be made available to Chinese customers."
4. China's attacks are limited for a reason
A huge amount of China's software is pirated. Analysts say piracy has worked against the country by undercutting incentives to build homegrown systems. "China's capabilities in software are so basic they really don't have an option," said Bartels.
That's why China isn't railing about business software, and is keeping its focus on hardware and information services.
5. There's no downside for China right now
Even if it becomes increasingly difficult to sell in China, the government knows its consumer market is so vast, U.S. tech firms will only work harder.
China's IT spending increased more than 8% last year, nearly double the U.S., according to IDC, and has been forecast to do much better this year. China's IT spending, overall, is less than a third of the U.S., but it surpassed Japan last year to become the world's second largest IT market.
China's attacks on U.S. firms, and its belief that it can reduce its reliance on U.S. technology, is backed by money.
John Holdren, who heads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, recently warned that China's R&D investments would surpass the U.S. "in a matter of years."
This story, "5 Reasons Why China is Attacking U.S. Tech" was originally published by Computerworld.
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Mention "fiberglass" and "Chevy" in the same sentence, and most people immediately think "Corvette." It's a natural reaction, since fans of Chevy's sports car have been wrapping their, uh, persons in fiberglass for more than 50 years. On the other hand, Vettes certainly aren't the only Chevys running around with fiberglass body panels. Thanks to the aftermarket, thousands of other Bow Tie models run the streets--and the strip--wrapped in this lightweight composite material. All these 'glass hoods, fenders, bumpers, and front clips are at least as prone to battle damage as their metal kin, so we decided to look at what it takes to smooth over a fiberglass crackup.
The first item on the agenda, however, is deciding whether or not a panel should in fact be repaired. In most cases, this isn't an issue of whether or not the panel is repairable--it'll usually be pretty apparent if a panel has been damaged too badly for repairs. As with many things, to repair or not to repair comes down to the bottom line. Fiberglass is simply strands--or fibers--of glass that have been formed into mats, which are then bonded into structures. The structures favored by gearheads are lightweight and inexpensive, and therefore popular. The low cost of many 'glass panels makes repairing and repainting them a bad investment.
"You have to decide if repairing the part is cost effective," declared John Morrow, bodywork honcho at Johns Customz & Performance in Torrance, California. For instance, a typical fiberglass cowl-induction hood may cost $300-400, with bumpers and fenders running even less. A new part would cost less than the repairs, and there's still paint to pay for. On the other hand, a front clip can cost $800, and a "fancy" hood can approach this amount. At this point, repair becomes cost effective. Our guinea pig, an '84 Corvette, fell into this range. This Vette had an unfortunate encounter with the rearend of a Buick, leaving a hole in the hood. A used clamshell hood for a C4 Corvette can cost $900 (and quality may be iffy), while a new lid runs well over a grand. The cost of this repair, $400-500, made fixing the old a better investment than replacement.
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Speaking of fiberglass' sponge-like quality, the mix of resin and hardener used to bond in new fiberglass mat is critical. "The rate of hardening can varies according to the mix," Morrow told us. "But add too much hardener, and the material will crystallize, making it brittle and breakable." Be safe, we say, and follow the manufacturer's instructions until you've gained some experience working with these materials. Experience, of course, can make a job look easy, so we knew we were in good hands when Morrow turned us over to his top-notch 'glass man, Adrian Herrera. Herrera has been working with fiberglass since he was a child, building models and even a bicycle out of glass mat and resin. One of his specialties is creating custom body panels, so the prospect of repairing our Vette's broken nose didn't intimidate him in the least.
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The challenge playing out across the broader Middle East is more than a military conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of our time. On one side are those who believe in freedom and moderation. On the other side are extremists who kill the innocent, and have declared their intention to destroy our way of life. In the long run, the most realistic way to protect the American people is to provide a hopeful alternative to the hateful ideology of the enemy – by advancing liberty across a troubled region. It is in the interests of the United States to stand with the brave men and women who are risking their lives to claim their freedom – and help them as they work to raise up just and hopeful societies across the Middle East.Were you satisfied?
January 10, 2007
"The consequences of failure are clear: Radical Islamic extremists would grow in strength and gain new recruits."
82 comments:
- Sloanasaurus said...
I liked the plan and the new general in charge.
The Democrats responded with cut and run.
- tom faranda said...
Unfortunately the Prez is correct. We are in for a long, low level struggle, because the only thing that will moderate the violent element of Islam is democracy.
And that will take decades.
We can only hope it's a low level struggle!
There's a fine, old word that sprang to mind as I listened to President Bush:
- vnjagvet said...
Speeches no longer matter. Only results do. Congress will not stop this plan. If it does not work, the Democrats will nominate the next President and will have clear sailing for the next ten years.
If it does work, however, McCain will be sitting pretty. Despite my antipathy towards some of his personal characteristics, I have to give him credit for the courage of his convictions in influencing the Administration's change of direction.
- Josef Novak said...
No. But I was pleasantly surprised by the conciliatory and diplomatic tone of the speech. That was rather unexpected and perhaps will, for once, not draw the wrath of our allies and enemies alike.
- Sloanasaurus said...
I thought it was pretty humorous that Dick Durbin cited General Abizaid as the General opposed to the new plan. How stupid is that. General Abizaid was the General responsible for the previous plan that was not working.
I suppose Durbin assumes that the public is too dumb to figure that out or maybe Durbin is just dumb.
- NSC said...
I am satisfied that he is trying something - anything - when the Dems only offer retreat and disgrace.
I suppose Durbin assumes that the public is too dumb to figure that out or maybe Durbin is just dumb.
Or maybe Durbin hanging out with the koskidz is have a negative impact on his intelligence.
- Dylan said...
I thought the initial tone was good... Totally different from the general bravado the President displays when talking about such issues.
But I thought adding Iran into the equation was a mistake, I also think that it will be difficult for most Americans to walk the fine line of, "Yes... mistakes have been made, so we're adding more troops and hoping for the best," with the President.
wasn't satisfied. But I wasn't dissatisfied either. I guess it was about what I expected--which these days isn't much. I made a few notes while listening, and judging from the quotes that I put down, I think he needs new speechwriters. He knew the Democrats in Congress would oppose his new plan whatever it was. So he should have concentrated his efforts on firing up the American people. And he didn't. And he should have tried to look a little more interested in the subject matter. He looked like he had just taken a Valium. He didn't come across as a strong leader. But since he spoke from the library, maybe that was the point--though I can't for the life of me think of why.
In a nutshell: I wan't my twenty minutes back.
- Ruth Anne Adams said...
I cheered when he talked about changing the rules of engagement. If we can finally fight this war without tying our dominant hands, we've got a strong chance of turning it around.
Also: holding the areas we secure is a key. Geraldo was complaining about that loudly 3 months ago on Fox after his most recent trip.
- goesh said...
Petraeus has his work cut out for him. If he fails, not only will the Democrats cut and run, they will gut the defense budget and justify it by offering therapy to the jihadists.
- Unknown said...
The consequences of failure are, indeed, grave. That's why the president shouldn't have gotten us into this position. He should have thought about that before he failed.
Just acting tough won't save us or Iraq at this point. Steely resolve is about the only thing the president has mastered.
- paul a'barge said...
Is the President willing to let the killing of our enemies begin? If so, I'm happy.
I await proof.
The challenge playing out across the broader United States is more than a political conflict. It is the decisive ideological struggle of our time. On one side are those who believe in freedom and moderation. On the other side are extremists who kill the innocent, and have declared their intention to destroy our way of life. In the long run, the most realistic way to protect the American people is to provide a hopeful alternative to the hateful ideology of the President, his cynical corruption, and his criminal ineptitude – by advancing liberty across a troubled region. It is in the interests of the United States and the world to remember what our brave men and women gave their lives for to claim our freedom – and help us all as we work to raise up just and hopeful societies across the World.
There, fixed that for you.
- Unknown said...
I was in my car by myself in rush hour freeway traffic and listening. When he said that the troops would have freedom to attack, intimating that the ROE are loosening, I cheered out loud. If the troops have to go through a lawyer to get permission to shoot, more troops won't make a difference. They will have freedom to enter neighborhoods and subdue them. IOW, Mookie, look out.
So in the sense that he seems to understand the failures and has a plan for the problems of the militias and the need to hold an area after the troops clear it, yes, I'm hopeful. It's not a military problem so much as a political one, and the Shia extremists have to give in just like all the others.
Nice speech.
Now we wait for results.
- The Exalted said...
president bush is right:
if we withdraw there will be catastrophic consequences for american prestige, security and national interests. first, our friendly and liberty spreading government will fall to the enemy. then, the enemy's insidious ideology will spread to cambodia, laos, thailand, until all of south east asia has gone communist -- wait, what? oh, wrong clusterf*ck war.
- Unknown said...
"The consequences of failure are clear: Radical Islamic extremists would grow in strength and gain new recruits."
That's right.
And despite that fact, the Dems offer nothing. Well, to be fair, more than nothing, as the Iraqi government knows the Democrats in Congress can't wait to sacrifice them to the terrorists and ethnic genocide sure to follow if we surrender in Iraq. So the Iraqis have yet another reason to get their act together before the Dems abandon them to certain death. In this regard, the Democrat's ever-so-reliable wish for defeat helps us win our war.
So yeah, I'm satisfied.
- Revenant said...
I'm glad to see Bush promoting this message again. I wish he'd done it more often over the past four years; he hasn't done nearly enough to communicate our goals to the American people.
I'm hoping that McCain or Giuliani or whomever winds up winning the presidency in 2008 does a better job of pushing that goal than Bush has done.
Some attempt to acknowledge past failures, some attempt to justify escalation - not very convincing when measured against record. More pandering to fear, though toned down a bit. Another attempt to link non-support of Bush policy with non-support of troops. Still a pretty high BS factor when measured against such damaged credibility.
- alphie said...
The Iraq stuff...same old crap.
Threatening Iran...time for impeachment.
- Cycle Cyril said...
If the result of the "surge" is to continue the same procedures or rules of engagement as before then it will be a failure.
But there are small clues that things may be different. If the rules of engagement are changed such that the militias of all stripes are disarmed and their leaders killed and the ordinary terrorists held and not released this would be the first step toward success.
But the most important step would be to avoid the static engagement of Iraq alone. The defeat of Islamofascism and the reformation of Islam from a medieval religion to a tolerant, modern religion can only be accomplished with the expansion of the conflict.
This would first be militarily into Iran and Syria and then economically and ideologically, aspects that has not been developed to any degree at all, into the heart of Islamofascism - Saudi Arabia.
- dklittl said...
More of the same wishful thinking by those not steeped in the reality of the situation. Iraq is a huge mess that charges of cut-and-run won't solve. Most experts have expressed serious doubts about the effectiveness of this escalation strategy, but hell better to gut our military readiness and sacrifice some more lives than admit that you were wrong and figure out a better way to deal with the War on Terror.
- hdhouse said...
I, as I am sure many are, am looking for new synonyms for the delusional.
I'm sure the neo-con kennel dogs bayed at the paper moon Mr. Bush hung over his cardboard sea. However, instead of lauding the village idiot for showing up, some fools should take the following from the speech:
1. Its a 15% change in troop strength and not up the previous levels THAT DIDN'T WORK.
2. He stated plainly that Syria and Iran, as contributors to the instability in Iraq, were fair game - that means a BROADER WAR.
3. The chances of us being out of Iraq during his term ARE NIL. As usual, he broke it and now someone else will be left with fixing it.
He is an utter oaf and impeachment is probably now the only clear option for victory.
- Christy said...
I liked it. Way past time to bring Iran into the equation.
- Sloanasaurus said...
The change in generals is a good sign that the change in strategy is real.
Lincoln hired and fired five generals to lead the Army of the Potomac before he finally found Grant.
I am surprised that the democrats were so negative about the plan. It's kind of sickening.
How's that Freerepublican vote in '04 looking now bird brains?
- MnMark said...
In the long run, the most realistic way to protect the American people is to provide a hopeful alternative to the hateful ideology of the enemy
In other words, we have to change them before we can be safe. Nonsense.
In the long run, the most realistic way to protect the American people is to isolate and contain Islam in the Middle East and to separate ourselves from it a la Lawrence Auster's suggestion. We can't change them, we can't (or shouldn't) kill them all, we can't assimilate them. That leaves separation. Sooner or later we will come to recognize that. The only question is how bad things will have to get first.
- MnMark said...
He is an utter oaf and impeachment is probably now the only clear option for victory.
Um, how is getting rid of Bush going to lead to victory in Iraq? Would you care to be the first Democrat to actually suggest something in the way of an actual plan for victory, instead of doing what your kind has done for 5 years, which is incessantly beat the drum of outrage and defeatism?
Clearly, in my mind, the issue is the inability of Sunni and Shia and Kurd to get along peacefully. That's not Bush's fault, and impeaching Bush wouldn't change it. So how is impeachment the "clear option for victory", Bush hater?
- Seven Machos said...
Does anyone on the left understand what impeachment actually is?
- Pat said...
The fancy schmancy army counterinsurgency plan would call for over 120,000 COMBAT TROOPS in Baghdad alone (we have about 70,000 in the entire country).
General Keane, one the "masterminds" of the strategy said not weeks ago that the "surge" needed to add over 30,000 troops for over 18 months. The President is adding 20,000.
The people who moan about "cutting and running" need to produce a plan that has a ghost of a chance of working. Otherwise, you are simply advocating a perpetual wastage of blood and money for no reason other than the US will look bad.
The US will look even worse when this surge doesn't work.
I just saw the replay.
Someone said to George W., "Message: Be Sober." He took it and ran with it.
I found myself feeling angry and hopeful at the same time. He's screwed up, but he's the president, and he seems to know what he's done wrong -- finally -- and has moved in the right direction. Really, the only direction, if you're the one in charge.
Not just the Democrats are irrelevant -- Congress is irrelevant now. They're in the cheap seats, and they seem to sort of know it.
- Elliott said...
Ann, doesn't it cause you the slightest problem that your most vocal supporters are people who revel in the blood of others. The most common cheer among the people who liked this speech is that the rules of engagement will be loosened as if we haven't caused enough senseless death and destruction in Iraq. What war have these people been observing that they think that US troops don't use enough bullets, bombs, and shells?
Mark, above, has nailed the essence of George Bush's humbug.
To succeed, he wishes for what never was and what cannot be. As in Vietnam, the basic premise of our policy is an illusion.
God help us all.
- Ernie Fazio said...
The idea that Abizaid, the only general who speaks Arabic, somehow was the architect of the fiasco that is our expedition in Iraq, is ludicrous. The idea that "untying the hands of our troops" will do anything other than enrage more Iraqis is more ludicrous. The idea that the majority of the people commenting on this thread are positive about the delusional president suggests that l'Adlhouse's embrace of the right has succeeded. I just don't know what I and hdhouse are doing here.
I don't agree.
It is true that there are Islamic extremists in the world and we should continue to fight them because they will continue to fight us.
That said, what we see in Iraq is primarily a civil war. The local extension of the U.S. vs. al-Qaeda conflict is superimposed over this broader conflict, with al-Qaeda siding with the Sunnis while we have been propping up the Shi'ite government. But most of the violence you see in Iraq today is neither the product of al-Qaeda nor of America-- it is Sunni Iraqis killing Shi'ite Iraqis, or the reverse.
Adding more American troops into this lethal soup will only result in more coffins. It's not like it's even a level that is unprecedented-- we had 160,000 troops in Iraq in February 2005, and that is the same level as the President is now proposing (with fewer international troops than there were then.) It was inadequate then and it is inadequate now. Inevitably, we will have to seek a negotiated, political solution in Iraq.
My own view is that the President is unwilling to face that day himself, so at whatever price in American blood, he is trying to buy time for the next two years until he can hand it over to someone else. If anything, this was a pathetically self-serving speech by a failed President, who has shown that he would rather lose more American boys and girls than own up to the ghastly price the nation will have to pay for his arrogance, overconfidence and incompetence of four years ago.
Sooner or later there will be a three state solution in Iraq. Suggesting that we will be any better at holding a multi-national empire together than was Slobodon Milosevic, is absurd. The smart thing to do would be to recognize that fact and then work diplomatically towards smoothing the transition.
- Unknown said...
You know what's interesting?
What's interesting is that bush himself admitted tonight something which none of his most fervent loyalists have ever been able to admit:
"The situtation in Iraq is unacceptable to the American people.... and it is unacceptable to me."
Don't you conservatives feel undercut by this kind of honesty? You've carried water for Bush for years, denying that there are any problems, blaming it on perceptions created by the liberal MSM, etc.
And now Bush outs you as either (a) dishonest water carriers, or (b) dupes and fools.
It sucks. It really sucks to be you.
- michael a litscher said...
Naked Lunch: How's that Freerepublican vote in '04 looking now bird brains?
Far better than ignoring that terrorists and terror sponsoring states have been at war with us since the 70's, handling the bombing of the world trade center as a law enforcement issue rather than an act of war (thus revealing that Osama's satellite phone was tapped in open court, which he then stopped using), ignoring the bombing of barracks, embassies, and war ships, cutting and running from Somolia, getting a blow job, and only then firing off a couple of cruise missiles into an aspirin factory (Monica's dress is proof of his poor aim) on the day his fellator was scheduled to testify. And let's not forget that one of the world's most prolific terrorists (Arafat) was one of the most frequent visitors to the White House during this time.
We tried ignoring terrorists and states which harbor, train, and finance them with the net result being 9/11. Doing little to nothing is an option that has already been tried, and already been proven to be a failure.
On 9/11, many of us woke the hell up and decided it was time to drain the swamp, rather than continually wrestle with alligators. And quite obviously, many of us are still hitting that snooze button, firmly committed to the delusion that our previous state of war was really peace.
I got to bed early instead of watching, for reasons I stated here.
So, yes, I found it very satisfying. I think that I made a good choice.
Reading the details this morning, I am a bit satisfied with what was in there, but then I knew I would be. What I was not satisfied with was his banter with Congressional leaders, where he said it would work "Because it has to."
- KCFleming said...
Re: "That leaves separation."
I agree. But it will mark a significant change in international relations and travel, to say the least. And given drugsters like Naked Lunch braying at every attempt to curb the militants, I'd say things will have to get much much worse before people wake up.
Sept. 11th, amazingly, was not sufficient warning for some people. For a few years now I couldn't accept that, but it's true. I guess some people need multiple whacks upside the head before they catch on that the harm is intentional, and that the miscreants mean to win.
A few years back the historian Michael Beschloss reviewed Lyndon Johnson's secret White House recordings, I think, from 1963 to 1965, and excerpts were released on cassette tape.
One of the most startling conversations (aside from the ones between LBJ and Marilyn Monroe sound-a-like Jackie Kennedy) was the one between LBJ and Sen. Majority Leader (?) Richard Russell (D-Ga.).
LBJ asked Russell, who'd just returned from Vietnam, what he thought US policy should be. Russell's reply was something like, "I don't know, Mr. President. What do you think?"
LBJ's reply was, "Well, I'll be darned if I know either, so we'll just keep doing the same thing."
That's pretty much where we are now, except that one hopes we have less to fear from Iran than from China or the USSR.
- Unknown said...
I thought this was interesting: Bob Wright of Bloggingheads.TV says that Ann Althouse is running away from the term "conservative" because it is becoming unfashionable and a liability.
I remember when conservativism was the new vogue, with people like PJ O'Rourke and Bill O'Reilly rechristening themselves as hard-core conservatives for the job security and fan base it would earn them. The money, in other words.
- The Exalted said...
Clearly, in my mind, the issue is the inability of Sunni and Shia and Kurd to get along peacefully. That's not Bush's fault, and impeaching Bush wouldn't change it.
its his fault that this is our problem
- NSC said...
Ann, doesn't it cause you the slightest problem that your most vocal supporters are people who revel in the blood of others.
"I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." ~ Arlo Guthrie in Alice's Restaurant.
- The Exalted said...
12% of Americans support escalation. Congratulations Althouse readers, for all your silly talk about "leftists," YOU are in the fringe 12% percent!
- monkeyboy said...
Oh yes, Althouse is all about the money.
- MadisonMan said...
I appreciated the President's tone. He says he Accepts Responsibility for the errors -- but I'm not sure there's evidence that the steps to address those errors will help. In other words, are the bunglers who got us into this mess still the ones with the President's ear? I will wait and see.
I also realized that when a Politician says that they Accept Responsibility for something, it's essentially meaningless.
- Richard Fagin said...
The continued recitation that somehow we "failed" in Iraq is astonishing. What confrontation between the jihadists and American troops resulted in our withdrawal or retreat? What government offices in Iraq are controlled by the jihadists? What public facilities are controlled by the jihadists? What territory do they occupy and control? With all the help from Syria and Iran, the best the towel-wrapped throatcutters can accomplish is a few kidnappings and a few roadside bombs. This is American failure? We're over there behaving for all intents and purposes as a police force, not an army, and a determined enemy can't even budge us militarily, because the're incredibly weak and ineffective.
The only failures here are of the media to fairly report the situation both politically and militarily, and of the President to communicate just how ridiculously the media are behaving and worrying about what The New York Times thinks about how the war is being run.
The jihadists have dome a masterful job of playing to the prejudices and emotional weakness of Americans, and particularly those of the mainstream media. The MSM oppose the war. There is no possible way to fight the war that will satisfy the MSM. Trying to do that itself will lead to givign up in frustration.
- Unknown said...
monkeyboy said... Oh yes, Althouse is all about the money.
I didn't mean to suggest Ann was in it for the money. I apologize for leaving that impression. I do not think Ann is in it for the money; I think she is in it for the ideas. She likes them, likes immersing herself in them, and (I think) likes to wrangle over them with other people. Probably true of all us Comments Dwellers.
I was simply recalling when conservatism was a rising phenomenon, and there was a sudden cultural shift with people "signing up for" conservatism. I do believe O'Reilly and O'Rourke fit that description. There are others, but it's been 15 years, so they don't leap to mind right away.
- Leland said...
First, I had no issues with General Abizaid's plan. His plan, as well as General Franks' before his, were roundly criticized by the service chiefs for various reasons. The fact is the plans were highly successful.
I see the failure in diplomacy. I think Bush deserves the blame there. We are asking military troops to do what the Department of State should be doing. If we are not going to attempt diplomacy, then we need more troops.
The speech last night is one Bush should have been making yearly, if not a little more often than that, to bolster resolve in the American people and to show his interest, in that of the US, in activities occurring in Iraq. He was right not to tinker with the military's plan like LBJ, but he could still make himself and the resources of his entire administration available to assist.
Democrats still see more interested in manuevering for the own benefit rather than the country. Until they are done with the bait and switch political strategies, it will be difficult to take their ideas for Iraq seriously. It has been over 100 hours, and have they done anything besides change the rules?
- Freder Frederson said...
I was especially heartened that the President said that the commitment is not open ended and the Iraqi government has to step up or it will lose the support of the American and Iraqi people . . .
Except, he didn't say how long the Iraqi government has to step up (I guess that will be up to future presidents). And he apparently doesn't realize that the Iraqi government has certainly already lost the support of the American people and I doubt has precious little support from the Iraqi people.
- Sloanasaurus said...
We can't change them, we can't (or shouldn't) kill them all, we can't assimilate them. That leaves separation.
Good luck with your planned separation. Do you have a plan for that?
If you have not noticed, countries being led by dictators and tyrants do not leave other people alone.
- Bruce Hayden said...
No, it is not a civil war. It isn't heading that way, and it most likely isn't going to get there. Calling it such is just parotting MSM and DNC propoganda.
What is going on right now is the Sunni Arabs still trying to reassert control over the rest of the population (80% under Saddam, 85% now, possibly 90% by the end of the year) through use of mass murder of innocents. The Shiites sat on their hands at the insistance of their clergy for several years, trusting in democracy. But partly with Iranian support and pushing, about six months ago, they really started hitting back.
What is happening right now is that the Shiites are pushing the Sunni Arabs into well protected havens, or, preferably out of the country. And, it is working - as noted above, it has been estimated that by the end of 2007, the Sunni Arab population of Iraq will possibly have dropped to 1/2 of its Saddam era levels. That means that 1/2 of the Sunni Arabs in Iraq will have fled, with a large percentage of the rest having moved into Sunni Arab only areas. (I should also note that esp. last summer and fall, there was a lot of revenge killing of those connected to Saddam, al Qaeda, or other killers of innocents, and their families. A lot of scores were being settled).
This is not a civil war. Absent external Sunni Arab intervention (i.e. Saudi Arabia), the Sunni Arabs don't have enough people or guns to challenge the 85% majority, esp. now that the army, police, etc. have been purged of their Sunni Arab leadership (remember that deBaathification that everyone on the left was screaming about? - its primary long term effect was to remove this lever of power from the Sunni Arabs).
No, what is going on right now is ethnic cleansing, made necessary by the (now) 15% Sunni Arabs refusing to accept their fair share of power. It isn't pretty, but until the Iraqi Sunni Arabs either accept their minority status gracefully, or leave, this isn't going to stop.
But time is on the side of the 85% majority there. That is because they have the numbers and the momentum. The Iraqi Sunni Arabs are on the run now, often right out of the country. And if repackaging our efforts there give the majority the time to fix their ethnic problems, then fine with me.
It was a botched, ill conceived, careless operation to begin with. It is no longer a matter of win or lose.....it is a matter of cutting our losses.
- Sloanasaurus said...
A major part of the plan is to move in and then hold the troubled areas in Baghdad that are now prowled by sectarian gangs. Prior to this there was no holding.
Another part of the plan was to surge offensive capabilites in Anabar to fight Al Qaeda.
The democrat talking point out there now espoused by nearly all Democrats is to withdraw, which will in turn, put pressure on the Iraqis to step up and defend themselves. That is the democrat plan - withdrawl.
This is a reasonable theory, but trying it at this point is too risky, especially if our Generals do not believe the Iraqis are ready to defend themselves. Iraq also has to contend with Iran, not jsut sectarian violence in their own country. If we believed that the Iraqis are ready, then the Democrat plan would make sense.
We completely abandoned was Vietnam, and that plan of abandonment failed. The South Vietnamese were overrun less than two years later by the Communists (after Senator Kennedy refused to provide them with bullets). In contrast we stayed permanently in Korea and Western Europe in the face of enemies. Those plans were successful.
If Bush's plan fails, then we can try the Democrat plan or another plan. However, if the Democrat plan fails, there is no second chance and Iraq becomes Al Qaeda in Iraq - which means bus bombs in America.
- Bruce Hayden said...
I agree with Richard Fagin. The refrain that we have failed in Iraq is propoganda of the worst sort, having only enough ties to reality to be plausible. But, despite any realities on the ground there, it has become common accepted wisdom. And that is tragic and criminal on the part of the MSM and politicians pushing this, from my point of view. They want the Bush to fail so badly that they are convincing the American people that he has, regardless of any facts to the contrary and the best interest of our country.
The facts that count in the long run are running in our favor:
- the Sunni Arabs in Iraq are on the run, often right out of the country.
- a military and police controlled by the 20% minority have been replaced by ones controlled and staffed by the (now) 85% majority.
- the Iraqi security forces continue to take over more and more of the responsibility for security.
- much of the country is now quite safe - safer than some U.S. cities.
- almost 3/4 of the Sunni tribes in Anbar provence have moved from supporting Sunni Arab violence to supporting the government and combatting this violence.
I cannot reemphasize the first point enough. The Sunni Arabs in Iraq effectively gave the rest of the Iraqis the choice of either submitting, or throwing them out, fully expecting the former, based on hundreds of years of dominence through violent suppression. But they got the later.
- David said...
It is arguable that if the anti-American/anti/military forces in the U.S. had expended as much effort on supporting the democratization of the Middle East as they did actively subverting it, we would be in a stronger position today.
History will record that the American left, from Viet Nam until OIF are responsible and complicit in the deaths of more people, American and non-American, than the enemies that have sworn to destroy our way of life.
Osama bin Laden and the Saudi Wahhabists will be added to the rogues gallery of genocidal psychotics that have stained humanity and civilization during the last 80 years: Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Kim Il Sung, Idi Amin, Manuel Noriega, Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor, Saddam Hussein, and others of a lessor murderous bent but equally psychotic i.e. Che Guevarra and his line of chic apparel.
What do they all have in common? At one time or another they have all enjoyed the sympathy, if not outright support, of the American left and the socialist/communist dreamers who worship at the feet of big governement, the nanny state, and ultimately, tyranny.
Meanwhile, in Boston, the latest mosque is being built with a libray replete with anti-western hate books and media financed by the Saudis. In Michigan, politicians can take the oath of office on the Koran. CAIR supports Imams who public show their contempt for their host country's laws on an airplane while the ACLU defends their "rights" to force Americans to assimilate Islam instead of requiring the Mullahs to assimilate into the U.S.
Meanwhile, Marine Corporal Jason Dunham is awarded the Medal Of Honor for his heroic actions in Iraq. Ask yourself why this amazing American received no MSM coverage to mark his passing.
I just want to express my enthusiastic agreement with "leland" when he says this:
The speech last night is one Bush should have been making yearly, if not a little more often than that, to bolster resolve in the American people and to show his interest, in that of the US, in activities occurring in Iraq. He was right not to tinker with the military's plan like LBJ, but he could still make himself and the resources of his entire administration available to assist.
Yes! Yes! Yes! And Bush's reluctance to do this is the explanation for the confusion over what's going on in Iraq, as noted eloquently by richard fagin:
The continued recitation that somehow we "failed" in Iraq is astonishing. What confrontation between the jihadists and American troops resulted in our withdrawal or retreat? What government offices in Iraq are controlled by the jihadists? What public facilities are controlled by the jihadists? What territory do they occupy and control?
Some people blame the media for the public's belief that we're losing. I don't. The media has been good and bad, depending, but the "good" category certainly has to include the NY Times, the quintessence of the MSM.
As Bush said, the jihad war is the work of our generation, but he has peculiarly passive about leading this effort from the bully pulpit. He has been Karl Rove's man, in touch with the faithful, and screw everybody else. I sense that last night's speech was a sign that Pres. Bush is under new management, which understands that the president needs to persuade those he has disdained, not just rely on the die-hards to keep him afloat. This is a good, though belated, development.
- MadisonMan said...
Bruce, your description to me reads like a Civil War. Sunnis are killing Shiites, and vice versa. But because some (most?) Sunnis are fleeing, and they face long odds, it's not a Civil War, but "only" ethnic cleansing?
At some point in the future, if Iraq because mostly Shiite, like Iran, there will eventually be considerable friction between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iraq/Iran. Ugh.
- Bruce Hayden said...
There are several problems with cutting and running. The obvious one is that OBL has admitted that one of the justifications for 9/11 was that he viewed us a a paper tiger, having run when our nose was bloodied, starting with Vietnam, and continuing non-stop until his minions took down the WTC buildings. And running right now, regardless of what it is called, would just reemphasize this.
But as importantly, if we leave Iraq right now, there will be a blood bath. There will be nothing keeping the Shiites (and possibly the Kurds) from running the Sunni Arabs right out of most of Iraq.
Nothing except intervention by the militaries of other neighboring Sunni states, notably Saudi Arabia. But that would almost assuredly guarantee that Iraq's Shiite neighbor would also intervene militarily. (And, of course, this sectarian war would almost assuredly spill over into Lebannon).
Why is Iran so adamant about getting nuclear weapons. Sure, part of the reason is because of fear of the U.S. and Israel. But probably more importantly, they quickly realized that the Pakistani "Moslem" nuclear weapons were in truth, "Sunni" nuclear weapons, bought and pair for by the Saudis. If they found themselves in a bloody fight with the Sunni Arabs, they figured that they would soon face the Pakistani nuclear weapons too.
- The Exalted said...
Osama bin Laden and the Saudi Wahhabists will be added to the rogues gallery of genocidal psychotics that have stained humanity and civilization during the last 80 years: Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Kim Il Sung, Idi Amin, Manuel Noriega, Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor, Saddam Hussein, and others of a lessor murderous bent but equally psychotic i.e. Che Guevarra and his line of chic apparel.
What do they all have in common? At one time or another they have all enjoyed the sympathy, if not outright support, of the American left and the socialist/communist dreamers who worship at the feet of big governement, the nanny state, and ultimately, tyranny.
the stupidity burns. most of your bogeymen were on the far right and enjoyed the support of our own conservatives. hitler? um --- i seem to remember it was the right that didn't want to go to war in wwII. you should just shoot yourself.
- NSC said...
It was a botched, ill conceived, careless operation to begin with. It is no longer a matter of win or lose.....it is a matter of cutting our losses.
"Run away, run away." ~ Dems, err, I mean Monty Python
*** I'm sorry, Professor, this is so easy.
- Unknown said...
Yes, all you doubters and moralistic poseurs, Iraq is a "huge mess." What war wasn't a big mess, until it was won?
If only Lincoln had not fought that huge mess of the Civil War, think of all the blood that could have been saved. After all, the Confederate States were entitled to their own culture, weren't they? All cultures have equal value, and the slaves were actually better off on the plantation than in the huge mess of the Reconstruction! And WWII, oh my, an atomic bomb, and thousands of GIs dying because of insufficient body armor and ammunition and botched battle plans.
Finally, our favorite lost war, Vietnam: if the Communists had not destroyed their own economies, they would have taken over more territory. Just because we won much of the Cold War doesn't mean it never existed.
- David said...
History is not your strong suit!
- Wade Garrett said...
He might have hesitated to invade if he thought about these possibilities before launching the war. But then when you take advice from God and not from, you know, your advisors, you run the risk that the other side might pray harder than you for a different result.
Isn't that how it works?
- The Exalted said...
David said...
History is not your strong suit!
10:23 AM, January 11, 2007
what part of my post was inaccurate? oh wait, no part was. thanks for playing hack.
- hdhouse said...
This is all very opinionated and mildly interesting. Tell me, though, how does this pertain to anything Mr. Bush read to us last night?
- Mark R. said...
I am surprised no one has yet commented on President's mention of "Iran is providing material support for attacks on American troops." That's a direct acknowledgement of Iran committing an act of war against US, isn't it?
With the second aircraft carrier group in the region, and the recent news of Patriot missile batteries being brought over is Iran going to get the message? Can we stabilize Iraq without addressing Iran's support for the insurgency and sectarian violence?
- David said...
I'll play along for a bit! America was isolationist after the war to end all wars. The appeasers (Chamberlain) was given his chance to use diplomacy to appease Hitler. Non-aggression pacts were signed and promptly ignored. Vichy France failed miserably and the Maginot line, ill-conceived from the beginning was out-flanked.
The American people were convinced that lend lease was appropriate to help an ally by Roosevelt and Churchill. We helped the Russians defend themselves against the ill-conceived second front that Hitler foisted on his Generals.
It took Pearl Harbor and the Japanese to wake up the "Sleeping Giant" America and get us committed to fighting against the axis. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Truman, and Kennedy were the last true democrats and had the guts and savvy to convince Americans of the necessity to confront evil.
9/11 was our Pearl Harbor. Where is the outrage from the left? Blaming America for bringing the fight to our shores is suicidal and encourages the terrorists. When the Nicaraguans were given the chance to vote by Ortega, they chose democracy through Chamorro and replaced the Sandinistas. The fact that Reagan was pilloried by the left in this country for aiding the contras in their fight against the Marxist Sandinos backed by the USSR is telling.
I stand by my assertion that the left in this country is anti-American and anti-American military. Their goal is a weakened and failed American state that needs to be "taught" another lesson akin to our miitary win in Viet Nam which was turned into a political loss by the left.
Bruce Hayden:
Is that why the Pentagon recently said that Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia has now eclipsed al-Qaeda as the most dangerous accelerant of violence in the region?
- hdhouse said...
Eli - Bruce Hayden is obviously a sophomore in high school using Little Journeys through History as his source book. Surely it is time for beddie-by Bruce.
He said: "I stand by my assertion that the left in this country is anti-American and anti-American military. Their goal is a weakened and failed American state that needs to be "taught" another lesson akin to our miitary win in Viet Nam which was turned into a political loss by the left."
i NOMINIATE these two sences as the epitome of what is stunningly wrong with the rightwing in the country and second, as perhaps the most blatantly supid remarks found on the Althouse blog.
- David said...
Al Qaeda is now a franchise. Osama, if he is still alive, can do little else other than have Zawahiri put out the occasional manifesto in the hopes of inspiring a few wackos who think they are going to win 72 brown eyed virgins on a dichondra lawn next to Allah in paradise.
He is shiite and receives arms, money and advice from the radical mullahs in Iran. There will be an attempt to disarm his militia in the coming months.
- michael a litscher said...
Naked Lunch: How's that Freerepublican vote in '04 looking now bird brains?
I forgot to add earlier, far better than letting the Iranian mulahs butt fsck us for 444 days. Yes, you read that right, FOUR HUNDRED and FOURTY FOUR days. Had I not witnessed it, I wouldn't have believed it possible for an American President to be so ball-less.
Again, doing little to nothing is an option that has already been tried, and already been proven to be a failure.
- Bruce Hayden said...
I am distinguishing between a civil war and what is going on right now in Iraq based on a number of factors:
- the level of death is not nearly that of most "civil wars".
- for the most part, it does not involve formalized armies fighting each other. Rather, much of the violence is at a much lower level. For example, much of the Sunni Arab on Shiite violence involves suicide bombings and IEDs.
- indeed, much, if not most of the violence on both sides is aimed at innocent civilians (though there is a lot of revenge killings on the part of the Shiites).
- neither side has the bulk of their people behind them. Rather, they are mostly outliers.
- the Sunni Arabs, absent extensive external support (in the form of combat troops), don't really have a chance at prevailing.
- A significant amount of the violence is being undertaken by foreigners, with little internal support. Notably here is al Qaeda, but also, to a lesser degree, Iran.
In other words, the situation in Iraq right now has few of the classic indicia of a civil war. Rather, I think that it is better to view it as an insurgency from the Sunni Arab side, and ethnic cleansing from the Shiite side.
The reason that I think that the distinction here is important is that the nature of what is going on greatly influences what will work and what won't work. For example, a poster in another thread suggested a negotiated peace. But that is not really viable when that would require that the 85% majority of the population in a (mostly) democracy grant the other 15% significantly more than their fair share of the power based on their percentage of the Iraqi population (which is what this is all about in the first place).
- Bruce Hayden said...
At some point in the future, if Iraq because mostly Shiite, like Iran, there will eventually be considerable friction between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shiite Iraq/Iran. Ugh.
Already happening. Indeed, has been happening almost from the day we overthrew Saddam Hussein. Most of the funding and a lot of the soldiers of al Qaeda in Iraq have come from Saudi Arabia. Not the government there, as we continue to twist their arms to stay out. But privately. And, of course, Iran has been supplying arms, money, and now fighters too.
Much of what has gone on for the last 25+ years in the middle east revolves around a fight for supremacy in and the heart of the Moslem world between Shiite Iran and Wahhabi Sunni Saudi Arabia, and, in particular, the Saudis' attempts to encircle the Iranians.
But a couple things need to be kept in perspective here. First, a country run by a 20% minority through increasing levels of brutality is not a stable situation. And that is what we had in Iraq before Saddam Hussein was overthrown. In the long run, a democratic Iraq is going to be a lot more stable.
Secondly, a lot has been made of the Iranian influence in Iraq. But much of that is as a counterweight to the Saudi influence there. It is likely that Iraq is going to have a much greater affect on Iran, than visa versa.
First, most Shiite Iraqis do not buy into the clerical power thing in Iran. Traditionally, Shia Islam pretty much separated mosque and state (as opposed to Sunni Islam, where they often were not). This may be partly because through most of their history, many Shiites were ruled by Sunnis.
In any case, the type of Shia Islam practiced my the ruling mullahs in Iran is not traditional Shia Islam. Rather, it was developed primarily by Ayatollah Khomeini and his adherants, in opposition to the more traditional form championed by Ayatollah Khoi, and his disciple, Ayatollah Sistani.
The interesting thing is that with the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, and the resumption of pilgrimages to Iraqi holy sites by Iranian Shiites, Ayatollah Sistani has apparently gained far more Iranian adhearants than have the Iranian mullahs gained Iraqi adherants.
Secondly, part of what Iran is facing right now internally is a call for democracy by many of its people - primarily because of the Iraqi example. The Iranian rulers are ever more embattled as they continue to increase the level of oppression in order to retain control.
But back to the previous point - clerical political power in Iran is based on and justified by what is already a minority view of Shia Islam there.
- Unknown said...
It's worth a shot. I mean if it doesn't work, it's only a few thousand American lives, and that is really a rounding error if you look at all the Americans who have died in previous wars.
I don't understand what the big deal is.
- hdhouse said...
downtown....when you say something like you just did (including..rounding error/big deal)..and you mean it sarcastically you might do well to give a clue to your sarcasm just so others know for sure you were not serious in your comment.
and bruce--poor poor bruce. honest to god you need to read the stuff you write aloud looking at yourself in the mirror. if you can do that without laughing at the sheer folly of your observations then hit the publish key...if not and you are like the rest of us, rolling our eyes and shuddering over the waste of a dan quayle sized brain...then please delete.
- David said...
You are correct in your analysis. Facts to people like hdhouse is like a cross to a vampire!
They resort to arguments from intimidation and finish with ad hominem attacks.
Stick with the facts and studied analysis when dealing with these people. There reactions are predictable.
- Unknown said...
"- the level of death is not nearly that of most 'civil wars'."
You're right, I think, Bruce, and here's an article comparing the violence rate in Iraq versus some US cities.
- Unknown said...
Who said I was being sarcastic?
- The Exalted said...
ha patca, that is a good find! even if its accurate, and its obviously not, then you are cheerleading that the entire country of iraq has a similar death rate to compton. been to compton lately? think thats a shining success story?
anyhow, i must have misplaced my newsweek where all of the mass kidnappings, mass executions, and mass car bombings are documented taking place in american cities.
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Communities Ask Public to Recycle Christmas Trees
Different communities are asking residents to recycle their Christmas trees instead of throwing them out.
The Champaign County Forest Preserve has set up tree drop off points at three of its forest preserves in Mahomet, Penfield, and Homer. Trees can be dropped off through Jan. 20.
The forest preserve's Director of Natural Resources, Daniel Olson said some of the donated trees are put underwater in lakes and rivers, so that fish can have a place to hide. Meanwhile, he said other donated trees are used to provide nutrients to existing vegetation.
"We chip a lot of it into mulch, and then we do put it around our tree that helps with the health of the tree," Olson said. "It helps with the longevity of how long that tree will be around."
Olson said tree giving appears to be down this year, but he said he expects it to pick up soon.
Urbana is also reminding people to recycle their Christmas trees this season. Each year, the city collects around 1,600 Christmas trees for its annual recycling program.
Urbana Environmental Sustainability Manager Bart Hagston said during the first couple of weeks of January, residents should leave their trees out on the curb before 6 a.m. on days when their recycling is picked up.
"Well, to preserve landfill space, we like to keep these trees out of the waste stream and they also help to provide material which can be used for landscaping projects and that's why we like to send them out to the landscaping recycling center where they'll be grounded up," Hagston said.
People who do not live in Urbana can still recycle their Christmas trees through the city by dropping them off at the Urbana Recycling Center at 1210 E University Ave.
The city of Champaign has a similar recycling program in place from Jan. 2 through Jan. 13. Residents can leave their trees within four feet of the curb by 6:00 a.m. on their scheduled collection date.
Danville city officials will also be collecting Christmas trees from curbs from Jan. 3 through Jan. 13. The trees will be collected and processed through the city's yard waste recycling program. Questions may be directed to Danville Public Works - Solid Waste Division at 431-2288.
People interested in recycling their trees in any of these communities are reminded not to include any extra debris, like tree stands or ornaments.


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text: One of Gustave Courbet's most significant canvases, Good Day, Monsieur Courbet depicts a chance meeting of the painter, his patron Alfred Bruyas and Bruyas's servant Calas, on a road outside Montpellier. The painting teases the often fraught relationship of painter and private patron. Bruyas had trained as a painter, but poor health kept him from the practice. It is possible that Bruyas-the-patron represented a surrogate Bruyas-the-painter. In courting the country's most astute and critically-engaged contemporary painter, Bruyas made claims to the progress of contemporary painting. The painting thus marks in the most compelling way the ambition of the collector, keen to insert his own name, taste and generosity into the history of painting. Courbet was acutely aware of this relationship. Note the way in which only Courbet stands on the earth; neither the deferential Bruyas nor Calas cast a shadow, as if only the painter, as labourer, is of this earth.


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Baltimore County was formed by 1659. At that time it included parts of (or the whole of)
todays: Harford Co., Cecil Co., Frederick Co. & Carroll Co. The original County Seat was
at Spesutia Island , it was next located in Joppa Town. As a result of a popular
referendum in 1768 (there is a large list of residents signing the petitions,
which seems to be about the most complete list of men in the County at
the time), the county seat was moved to Baltimore Town. When Baltimore
was incorporated as a city, the county seat was moved to its present location
in Towson.
What Is New On This Web Site?
It has been a quiet summer for genealogy. The most significant new update is the addition of records and burials at St Vincent's de Paul's Catholic CemeteryTranscripts of Orphans Court Notices (Probate of Wills and Estates mostly) and Divorce Notices (and a few breach of promise marriage suites) from the Baltimore County Democrat, Baltimore County Union, Baltimore County Advocate, and Maryland Journal published from 1850s to the early 1900s are being updated ocassionally. This has grown into a fairly large file - over 800 kilobytes of data
The death notices and obituary collection was updated in Jan 2008 This collection now contains over 19,500 records Also recently updated is the listing of marriages and marriage licenses issued from Newspapers . A recent addition is the beginning of a collection of death certificate transcripts provided to the web site
Added in 2006, A transcript of a few Baltimore County Marriage licenses between 1897 and 1915 sorted by Groom and by Bride
Also added transcription of the 1869 Collection Book, 5th Col Dist of Baltimore county. This volume is apparently originally recorded the tax assessment for 1869 of the 5th district of Baltimore County. The page with surnames beginning with S is missing and part of the page with names beginning with M had been cutout.
Maps showing the approximate boundaries of Baltimore county from its formation circa 1659 to 1918 .
From the 1906 Atlas, here is a map of the southern 3/4 of Baltimore county. This file is slightly larger than 1 Megabyte, so it will be a slow download, unless you have a fast internet connection.
How To Find Genealogical Information in Baltimore County:
There is a significant amount of material, such as church, county, and state records that have been abstracted and family genealogies, for Baltimore County. Here is a Bibliography of material for Baltimore County Genealogical Research. As an aid to researchers here is a listing of dealers/bookstores that sell books on Baltimore County Genealogy topics. Most of these enterprises have websites where you can check titles.
I have included a short sumary of my experience on available information for various time periods in researching. We are fortunate, that many early Baltimore Couny Records are existent. Finding information on marriages is easier in MD than some states such as PA and NY, since MD institued marraige licenses about 1777, but MD did not require marriage bonds like VA.
Also there is local history and genealogical information available at the Baltimore County Public Libraries and the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore. The Enoch Pratt library website now has a page for genealogy research, Enoch Pratt will look up, for a modest fee, obituaries nd marriage announcements in Baltimore Papers that where printed during at least the last 150 years. Information on contacting them for obiturary and marraige lookups is available on-line along with some othe research hints
Genealogical/Historical Repositories and Societies
There are several Genealogical and Historic Societies which have information of interest to Baltimore County genealogy researchers and you may be interested in joining.
There are several repositories for information on Baltimore County.
The Maryland State Archives is making information available on the web, current offerings include a search engine for the supplemental listings of Maryland Settlers recently published by Dr. Carson Gibb and alphabetically indexed HTML pages of marriages that have been inferred from records. Also available for viewing is a listing of the Baltimore County Records held at MSA. Check out their research offerings at http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/homepage/html/refserv.html . A new feature from the Maryland State Archives is on-line death indexes for Baltimore City and Maryland Counties. This site provides instructions for order copies of vital records from the MSA and department of vital records. The county records are listed by surname in various year groupings.
Sometimes records for Baltimore county families have been found in court and other records at the Baltimore city archives.
Another source of some information including a description of Maryland immigration, early immigration rules and Maryland History is Available from the Univeristy of Maryland On-Line Library
Genealogical Research Aids from Rootsweb and the USGenWeb/MdGenWeb Project
We have an on-line fourm for posting, reviewing and searching QUERIES about persons in Baltimore County
Rootsweb sponsors a web-wide database to identify researchers of a given surname. Lookup others researching the same surnames you are and/or add the surnames you are researching to this database
As part of the USGenWeb/MdGenWeb Project we are building a collection of files with genealogical information for Baltimore Co. If you have a file to contribute and share (such as extracts of old records you have compiled, family histories) and have archived on our system please contact the Baltimore County Page coordinator
The MdGenWeb Project is sponsoring a collection of tombstone inscriptions at https://sites.rootsweb.com/~cemetery/maryland/maryland.html in additon to the cemetery inscriptions you will find on this website.
The MdGenWeb project has a collection of archived files of various types available at http://usgwarchives.org/md/mdfiles.htm
On-Line Data Available from this Site and Linked Sites
To help genealogy researchers in Baltimore County, we have begun a researcher-surname registry for Baltimore County. Please provide the surnames you are researching for the registry or view who else might be researching lines you are interest in.
Visit the USGenWeb Archives for Baltimore County
The First Families of Anne Arundel and Baltimore Countiesis a collection of linked family group sheets of early settlers of Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties (for now we are working on families who were in the area by 1720) and links to other sites with linage data Contributions of GEDCOMS or text files are welcomed to add to these pages.
Wills of Baltimore County from the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries over 300 transcriptions of early wills. How to obtain Wills for Baltimore County that are not on our site.
Obituaries from Baltimore Newspapers starting in the 1840s. Over 17,700 records are on-line to date. Another extracts from newspapers which so far only contains a few entries are Orphans Court Proceedings which provided notice of the probate and administration of estates and Divorce Notices Published in Baltimore area newspapers
19th and 20th Century Marriage Notices from Baltimore Newspapers.
Transcription of Baltimore County Marriage Licenses from MSA Microfilms, an ongoing project with entries from Januray 1800 through January 1817 available.
Baltimore Co. Marriage Licenses from 15 to 26 February 1834
A recent addition to the project is a collection of Family Bible Records
We are attempting to obtain Transcripts of Tombstones and other cemetery informantion to place on-line to help researchers. Also to aid researchers here is a page of cemeteries in the Baltimore area with phone numbers or addresses and also links to on-line cemetery records on other sites.
War of 1812 Pensions to Indigent Soldiers and Widows of Soldiers. Acts of the Maryland Legislature of 1868 and 1870.
Extracts from newspaper of historical events and biographics. The premier data are extracts from the Baltimore American and Baltimore Sun about the explosion of the steamship Medora on 14 April 1848 and resulting loss of life.
Transcript and images of the Shaver (St. Abrahams) Lutheran Church register from 1805 to 1860s. This is a newly discovered portion of the Church's register listing births, baptisms, a few deaths, communicants, and confirments starting in 1805 for the Shaver (Now called St Abrahams Church) in Beckleysville.
There was an website for Cemeteries of Northern Baltimore County created by Mr. Paul Ely. This is not a project affiliated with USGenWeb, but was a valuable source for researchers. However it no longer available appears to be available.
On-line Transcripts of other old documents , such as deeds, grants, court orders are also being collected to help researchers.
The New Orleans USGenWeb site has provided a list of Persons from Baltimore who died in New Orleans in 1850.
Pam the "list lady" has prepared a listing from the 1895 Atlas of the localities in Maryland. So to find locations of places in Maryland check her index of Maryland localities.
An on-line listing of the addresses and phone number for Maryland cemeteries is being maintained by Lynn Smith
There are some mid 19th century maps of Baltimore county available on line (from the Library of Congress) and others that can be purchased showing original land grants. These maps show the names of landowners.
We are adding a page of useful links for helping you find information in Baltimore County. Also a page of various links to general interest, historical, and biographical web information involving Baltimore
ROOTSWEB has added the latest available SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX (SSDI). Now you can search the most recent version of the SSDI at sites.rootsweb.com.
We Need Your Help
We welcome contributions of material to add to this sites collection. This ranges from GEDCOMS, lists of descendants, transcripts of wills, deeds, Family Bible Records and other documents, or if you have a site with substanial information on Baltimore County Genealogy (such as linages) or History we would like to provide a link to your site. Please Contact the Coordinator for this Page at balt-genes @ verizon.net If you would like to contribute.
Internet Resources and Mailing Lists
There is a mail list for Baltimore County Genealogical Research. To Subscribe to the Baltimore Genealogy mailing List:send a E-mail to email@example.com. In the text of the message just say Subscribe,& please disable your signature. To subscribe in a digest mode send the request to email@example.com To post messages to this list send your E-mail to the Baltimore Genealogy list at firstname.lastname@example.com
There is also a statewide Genealogy mailing list. To Subscribe to the Maryland Genealogy mailing List: send a E-mail to email@example.com. In the text of the message just say Subscribe, please disable your signature. To subscribe in a digest mode send the request to email@example.com To post a message on the Maryland mailing list send your E-mail to the Maryland Genealogy list at firstname.lastname@example.com
There are many surname mailing lists for researchers, some of those of interest for Baltimore County Check for surname mailing lists at Rootsweb
A list also has been established for the Baltimore County Genealogical Society. To subscribe to the BCGS list send an E mail to: email@example.com and as above place the word "SUBSCRIBE" as the only part of the text. There is also a digest mode available at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Another list of interest is a Maryland Cemetries Mailing List on information and preservation of cemteries. To subscribe to this list send a subscription request to either: email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com for the digest form.
Lost Photos: A lady, who has been cleaning out her grandmother's house came across some pictures of previous owners of the house. This house is located on Maryland Ave in Baltimore. The "previous owners" are ADAMS and BERG families. If you are related to these families please contact: Carol Askey
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|Safe Haskell
This module exports GCD and coprimality test using the binary gcd algorithm and GCD with the extended Euclidean algorithm.
Efficiently counting the number of trailing zeros, the binary gcd algorithm
can perform considerably faster than the Euclidean algorithm on average.
Int, GHC has a rewrite rule to use GMP's fast gcd, depending on
hardware and/or GMP version, that can be faster or slower than the binary
algorithm (on my 32-bit box, binary is faster, on my 64-bit box, GMP).
Word and the sized
IntN/WordN types, there is no rewrite rule (yet)
in GHC, and the binary algorithm performs consistently (so far as my tests go)
much better (if this module's rewrite rules fire).
When using this module, always compile with optimisations turned on to benefit from GHC's primops and the rewrite rules.
binaryGCD :: (Integral a, Bits a) => a -> a -> aSource
Calculate the greatest common divisor using the binary gcd algorithm.
Depending on type and hardware, that can be considerably faster than
but it may also be significantly slower.
There are specialised functions for
and rewrite rules
for those and
IntN and
N <= 32, to use the
specialised variants. These types are worth benchmarking, others probably not.
It is very slow for
Integer (and probably every type except the abovementioned),
I recommend not using it for those.
Relies on twos complement or sign and magnitude representaion for signed types.
extendedGCD :: Integral a => a -> a -> (a, a, a)Source
Calculate the greatest common divisor of two numbers and coefficients for the linear combination.
case extendedGCD a b of (d, u, v) -> u*a + v*b == d d == gcd a b
and, for signed types,
abs u < abs b || abs b <= 1 abs v < abs a || abs a <= 1
(except if one of
a and
b is
minBound of a signed type).
coprime :: (Integral a, Bits a) => a -> a -> BoolSource
Test whether two numbers are coprime using an abbreviated binary gcd algorithm.
A little bit faster than checking
binaryGCD a b == 1 if one of the arguments
is even, much faster if both are even.
The remarks about performance at
binaryGCD apply here too, use this function
only at the types with rewrite rules.
Relies on twos complement or sign and magnitude representaion for signed types.


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