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The Iowa Department for the Blind will hold its annual legislative open house on the morning of Tuesday, March 18 from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. in the Legislative Dining Room at the State Capitol building. Staff, clients, special guests, and supporters of the department will receive legislators and share information about the department's services and successes. A light breakfast will be prepared and served by students in IDB's Orientation Center. Among the special guests will be vocational rehabilitation client Robert McKernan of Dubuque. Rob lost his vision and livelihood due to a stroke in 2009. His compelling story of starting a successful photo booth rental business with the department's assistance is a great testament to the benefits of IDB's services. Attendees can have a complimentary photo taken in his booth while having the opportunity to meet and visit with Rob and other special guests. We invite supporters and friends of the department to attend the open house.
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God commanded humans and animals leaving Noah's Ark to reproduce and multiply and fill the earth. According to the Bible, humans disobeyed God's command and settled at Babel. In contrast, if biblical geologists are right about which rocks were formed after the Flood,1 animals quickly spread over the earth as God had commanded.
Dotted around the world, sitting on top of rocks we think date from the end of the Flood, are piles of sediment thousands of feet thick. We deduce, then, that these are post-Flood sediments, leaving a record of conditions on the earth for the centuries immediately following the Flood.
The nature and thickness of the sediment suggests that centuries of catastrophes continued to occur while the unstable earth was recovering from the violence of the Flood. Some of these catastrophes, such as supervolcanoes, created excellent conditions for preserving fossils. These fossils show animals appearing on each continent—and being buried in local catastrophes—long before humans are found on that same continent.
Most mammal "kinds," such as horses and dogs, left the Ark by family. Biology research suggests that each kind diversified into scores of species and varieties before humans ever left Babel. Most of the diversity of animals died out quickly, leaving fossils of many extinct species but just a few species surviving in the present. (By Abraham's day, it appears that sheep, oxen, camels, and donkeys were already similar to the ones we see today; see Genesis 12:16).
Before humans left Babel, it appears that apes had already spread over much of the world, diversified, and died out quickly.
Apes follow this same pattern. Before humans left Babel, it appears that apes had already spread over much of the Old World and had diversified into a large array of species. "Lucy" is one of the more famous specimens of one of these ape species—Australopithecus afarensis.
The leg and arm designs that God placed into apes allowed them to move comfortably in trees. These designs make ape fossils easily distinguishable from human fossils.
Paleontologists are still discovering species of post-Flood apes. If we are correct about post-Flood rocks, apes were at their highest point of diversity and were buried in local catastrophes just before humans spread out from Babel.
Their fossils show that God placed a fascinating variety of designs in the original apes at creation and these designs were later expressed in post-Flood apes. Some were designed exclusively as knuckle-walkers, like the modern apes. Others, such as the australopithecines (for example, Lucy), were provided with a more upright stature, probably so that they could split their time between the trees and the ground.
Even more fossil diversity is likely to be found in the future. The few survivors in the present give us only a small picture of the variation God placed into apes at their creation.
While the animals were diversifying and spreading out from the Ark, the Bible tells us that humans rebelled against God and stayed in one place, desiring to give themselves a name above that of God. When God forced them to obey His command by creating distinct languages, they dispersed from Babel in small family groups.
In these small populations, built-in human variety revealed itself in large regional differences in brain size and body form, with no discernible difference in intelligence, cultural prowess, or spiritual sensitivity. For example, in Europe are found Neanderthals (neanderthalensis) with larger brains than modern humans, and in Indonesia are found "hobbits" (floresiensis) with smaller bodies and brains than any modern human.2
Preserved in post-Flood sediments older than any Neanderthals and Hobbits are Homo erectus fossils.3 Aside from the skull, Homo erectus skeletons are virtually indistinguishable from modern humans, so the evidence indicates they are human. And, since humans did not disperse across the world until after Babel, the distribution of Homo erectus across the Old World (Java, China, Africa) suggests they not only date from after the Flood, they also date from after Babel. Homo erectus is thus not only the oldest human fossil we have following Babel but the only human fossil for some time after Babel. From this we infer that the Homo erectus form is probably what humans looked like at the time of Babel.
As humans spread across the world, they found the continents already filled with a diverse array of animals and plants, including the full diversity of apes. Many of these apes had already died and been fossilized before humans even arrived.
Although humans were forced to obey God's command to fill the earth, evidence suggests that they continued to rebel against God in other ways. A vast number of mammals disappear in the upper portions of the fossil record at about the same time that human fossils were first found. Although this mass extinction occurred during a change in climate, climate alone can't account for the extinctions because the same mammals flourished and diversified during an even more radical cooling and drying climate decades before Babel. This suggests that humans may have contributed to, or even been responsible for, the mass extinction of mammals. If so, humans spreading out from Babel were abusing the creation rather than caring for it.
Another suspicious event in the fossil record is the sudden disappearance of large differences in human forms (for example, the disappearance of neanderthalensis and floresiensis). Humans today vary in appearance far less than we used to. It also appears that modern humans vary less in their DNA than they used to. We suspect this because mitochondrial DNA in Neanderthal fossils suggests that they did not leave any descendants among modern humans (see Four Women, a Boat, and Lots of Kids). Also, humans show much less variety in their DNA than most animal species that are spread worldwide.
The narrow differences among modern humans, in turn, suggest that whole people groups were wiped out after Babel, narrowing the variation within the human population. Was this extinction entirely due to the challenges of survival in an earth still recovering from the Flood? Or could it be that human violence is responsible for some of this extinction? Could greed, national wars, or even overt racism be responsible? At this point no one knows. But at the very least, we can say that neighboring people groups made no apparent effort to aid their fellow man when threatened with extinction.
Such cruelty would not be surprising. Scripture tells us that humans at Babel were rebellious against God. They were forced to fill the earth. Rather than caring for God's animals and their human brothers, human families spreading out from Babel may have even hunted many of them down and driven them to extinction.
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- S. A. Austin et al., "Catastrophic Plate Tectonics: A Global Flood Model of Earth History," in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Creationism, ed. R. E. Walsh (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Creation Science Fellowship, 1994), p. 645. Back
- Kurt P. Wise, "The Flores Skeleton and Human Baraminology," Occasional Papers of the BSG 6:1–13, http://www.bryancore.org/bsg/opbsg/006.html, 2005. For the modernness of their brains see D. Falk et al., "The Brain of LB1 Homo floresiensis," Science 308 (5719): 242. Back
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What's Wrong with Republican Foreign Policy?
Dan Drezner has written a lengthy and widely-linked piece for Foreign Affairs on what's wrong with Republican foreign policy. There are a great many things wrong with Republican foreign policy, so this ought to be verdant territory for smart criticism. But Drezner's piece seems designed to congratulate readers who think the right sucks generally without offering any particular solutions of note, and it engages in some particularly twisted logic at points.
Drezner's problem is that Republican foreign policy has largely become bipartisan, so the critique is one that is more of tone than policy details: the grandstanding of the Romney campaign, its single-minded endorsement of unrestricted Pentagon spending, and the simplicity of its bullet point approach to issues. But these are critiques of a campaign and a candidate who wished to contrast without offending in every policy arena, not simply the foreign policy space – it's unfair to assign this as due to an entire party's approach to foreign policy.
Most winning presidential candidates are governors, and therefore not experienced in foreign policy – their background is in state and federal politics, not foreign – and most voters care little about foreign policy beyond the issue of security. This means foreign policy issues on the campaign trail are necessarily simplified to the point of uselessness, and using them as the basis for a sweeping critique strikes me as unfair. I personally doubt Mitt Romney's foreign policy would've been all that different from Obama's – a bit more defense spending, a tad tougher stance on China, a few less big speeches overseas, that's about it. This is a sign of the victory of mainstream Republican approaches in both parties, not their diminishment.
I just don't think Drezner has a clear idea what he's advocating for. He is correct that there's a steady decline in experienced leaders on the right with strong foreign policy resumes. But this is in part the natural outcome of being out of power. And is the Democratic advantage in this space really that great when the long-in-the-tooth John Kerry, Chuck Hagel, and Partition Joe are your potential leading policy figures in the second Obama term?
Drezner criticizes Republicans for too quickly favoring military solutions to global challenges, but then praises the last Republican president for his non-military foreign policy solutions. Did I miss the point where Republicans turned against PEPFAR? Drezner longs for the halcyon days of Bush 41 – but did George H.W.'s approach, which involved far different challenges, tilt all that much more toward non-military solutions than either of the last two presidents? What exactly has President Obama accomplished thus far which represents a non-military foreign policy success? Wasn't the absence of a sufficient military presence in Libya in part the cause of Benghazi?
The need to seem like a cuddly and helpful superpower has to be balanced against the need to protect our people – whether at consulates and embassies or through drone-based terrorist-killing – and Obama's approach in both arenas seems highly questionable. Drezner seems to believe that voters trust Obama on foreign policy because he's got more Vulcans – this seems a silly assumption in an election where foreign policy barely registered, thanks not to Vulcans, but to the death of Osama bin Laden and more significant domestic concerns.
Drezner also critiques the push for democracy in the Middle East, a longer-term strategy which has been part of Republican policy priorities now for a longer period. I share many of his concerns in this arena. But you can't simply disagree with democracy promotion without offering an alternative. Drezner undermines his argument by not just coming out and saying that he thinks the Republican Party ought to return to a doctrine of "keep the Saddams and Mubaraks in place, because Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya are worse now than they were before", the upshot of his approach. The problem is that this may no longer be an applicable strategy in an era of internet technology and rapid coordination among opposition groups. In such a new arena, where dictators are less stable and must engage in greater crackdowns on their citizenry in order to rule, it seems wiser for the United States to promote people from within, an approach which demands a great deal of care and is not the sort of thing to be discussed seriously in the context of a political campaign.
One last nit to pick: someone please explain to Drezner what the word "tactical" means. As far as I can tell, every instance he cites as a "tactical" decision is in reality an operational one.
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Not from where we sit.
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I still don't understand what a "strong foreign policy resume" could be. Other countries give your country what it wants because they fear or envy your country. It's nothing you do or say, nothing you can put on a resume. It's what your country has achieved, and not just this week - other countries assess your country's historical capacities, which had better include a well-established and unsurprising capacity for violence. Their assessment may be romantic, or steely, or a little of both, but however foolish it is, it won't get so foolish that they'd be swayed by you. Your charm, your bluster - these will be invisible to any foreigner whose IQ is higher than Joe Biden's. And that's a lot of foreigners.
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The Left does promote an alternative to democracy promotion: nothing. There are convinced that any action on the part of the US in the Middle East is futile. The people there don't want democracy, but want be led by the rings in their noses. They are comfortable with the oppression that is Islam. Once the Left has convinced the American people of that - and they are well on their way - Israel will become all but cannon fodder along with any Christians left in the region. More Christians have been martyred in the 20th century than all centuries combined, and Muslims are the ones primarily responsible for the slaughter. Denial of freedom of religion is a denial of human rights. The Republican support for Israel and freedom of religion in the Middle East and North Africa must be unequivocal. What's wrong with the Republican foreign policy is that we don't acknowledge what truly is at stake if we withdraw from the world, particularly from the Middle East: the sustainment of western civilization.
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The idiocy of Republican and now Democrat foreign policy over the past few decades has been the utterly asinine insistence on democratic elections in majority Muslim countries. It's simple math; when the majority of a culture has totalitarian impulses, it will vote accordingly when given democracy. That is why our insistence should be more strictly focused on liberty rather than democracy, which is no more than a means. The dictatorship of the Shah contained far more liberty in it than any freely elected government in Libya or Egypt today. And this would realistically translate into completely cutting off relations with any government that is going the Sharia route.
Another very popular policy position the Republicans would be wise to court right now is the cutting of ALL foreign aid. It is a disgrace that we send money to Egypt and Pakistan, and frankly silly that we give money to both tin pot dictatorships and first world countries. Why do we as Republicans oppose welfare at home but encourage dependency abroad in the form of global welfare?
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Karen: More Christians have been martyred in the 20th century than all centuries combined, and Muslims are the ones primarily responsible for the slaughter. |
Quite a statement in the face of the facts, re: Armenian Genocide was the worst Muslim action against Christians , but the Nazi Holocaust killed 4 million Christians, Soviet Genocides over the years-30 million, mostly Orthodox peasants. The Muslims can't hold a candle to that, thankfully.
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Flownover- your only referring to the 20th century stats. Muslims have been persecuting and murdering Christians since Islam began.
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Okay, finally got to the computer and found the article I was thinking of. According to the study it cites, "from AD 30-2000, 70 million Christians died as martyrs... 45 million in the 2oth century... (the stats) exclude those killed for national, ethnic or political reasons who just happened to be Christian..." Of the total 70 million, nearly 32 million were killed by atheists, 56 million by the state ruling power (obvious overlap with atheists), and 9 million by Muslims. I suppose you could slice and dice the data, and your numbers might not jibe with theirs. I'll concede that state-run persecution has dominated, but Muslims out-pace the murder of Christians more than any other religious group and remain the biggest threat to Christians all over the world. Christianity is at risk of going extinct in the Middle East. At the current rate, about 100,000 Christians a year are martyred. I'd call that cause for concern.
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of course, you're right, i just grabbed the 20th century thing you used.
collectivism wasn't brutish enough to last as long as islam.
in their dreams-------
they'll lose in the end. you can't be mean to somebody else's mom or sister for long.
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Ben, it's a very important question you ask in the title of your posting.
Republican foreign policy is certainly in disarray strategically, tactically, and on ideological grounds. Probably this is due to the fact the Republican party has, in many ways, lost its sense of identity, if ever it really had one. Not a fair observation, I suppose, since the Republican party is based upon an organizing principle, not an ideological one.
Clearly, Mitt Romney's foreign policy speech at VMI last October hurt as well as helped his election chances--making it a wash politically. It was a speech that could have been written by John Bolton, and one that might as well have been posted at the Project for a New American Century.
Drezner longs for the halcyon days of Bush 41 – but did George H.W.'s approach, which involved far different challenges, tilt all that much more toward non-military solutions than either of the last two presidents?
I strongly disagree, at least on the broadest strategic levels, which after all is what an American President must focus upon.
First of all, HW's signature foreign policy issue was the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
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Yet, it was HW's multilateral approach, his attempt to make the US into a cuddly and helpful superpower which allowed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait to take the US and the World (minus the Middle East) by surprise.
Rather than get directly involved in the deteriorating Iraq-Kuwait crisis, HW deliberately left it to the Arab League to resolve Saddam's disputes.
After all, HW had already helped to create Saddam's crises. Through cooperation with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, oil prices had fallen to the lowest levels since 1974. This occurred at the end of the Iran-Iraq War when Saddam had enormous war debt and the Iraqi economy was shattered and nearly in ruins. Saddam knew that Iraq would collapse about his head if he didn't do something fast.
Mubarak, a good American puppet, led the council, stood firm against Saddam with support of the other members, but became so incensed by Saddam during the negotiations, he walked out of a critical council meeting and refused to participate further. Saudi Arabia stepped up to the plate and offered to pay off $9 billion of Saddam's $10 billion debt to Kuwait.
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The thing is, cancellation of 90% of his debt with Kuwait wasn't the issue. Saddam needed oil revenues. The Iraqi delegation would not accept the Saudi offer. Baghdad wanted OPEC to sanction Kuwait for undercutting oil prices and to pull back their production quotas even further. He needed $50 barrels.
After that, the only man in the Arab League Council who still had a line of communication to Saddam was Yasser Arafat, of all people. Arafat made efforts to continue negotiations with Saddam on the Council's behalf, but it's obvious he'd sided with Saddam all along.
This is pretty much what happens when the US takes the multilateral approach: it ends up with a Yasser Arafat being your only hope at a peaceful solution.
War was imminent. But even Saddam wasn't crazy enough to launch an invasion without first consulting the First Estate. He summoned US attache April Glaspie to his palace and put the question to her--was Washington going to give him a green light or a red light?
She told him that Washington was remaining neutral on his dispute with Kuwait. It was an Arab problem, and the Arabs must solve it.
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Sound familiar?
Well, you know what happened next. The invasion of Kuwait, and the American led UN coalition ousted Saddam from Kuwait. Then the UN, again led by the US, leveled the most severe and effective sanctions ever levied against a nation. Iraq's GDP overnight was reduced to 1/5 what it had been on the eve of the Kuwaiti Invasion.
The sanctions would remain in place for 11 years. Clinton gladly succeeded HW as leader of the sanctions, and used Iraq as an illustration of how tough he could be when necessary.
The UN put out a report in 1995 claiming as many as 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of 5 had died as a result of the sanctions.
In 1996 Iran began fighting back against the sanctions by having its Saudi branch of Hizbullah bomb the barracks which housed US Air Force personnel enforcing the "No-Fly Zones" in Iraq.
A few months later a Saudi millionaire and jihad benefactor declared war against the US on behalf of Iraq.
World public opinion polls showing a dropping support/approval for the US began at that juncture--not after OIF.
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So, in reality, HW wasn't confronted with "far different challenges." Certainly, in many ways, history was repeating itself during the Arab uprisings during the early part of Obama's Administration--but instead of invasions, the world was faced with the instability of chaotic insurrections and revolution.
Democrats, in general, favor multilateralism. As you point out, and as I've specifically pointed out, Republicans, at least since HW, have also favored multilateralism.
Multilateralism doesn't work to the favor of the interests of the United States. Unilateralism has it's own big drawbacks.
And that's the real point.
You shouldn't campaign on what your specific foreign policies will be. For one thing, you're merely broadcasting to your enemies what to expect should you win, giving them ample opportunity to plan around it.
What the American people should be looking for is someone they know will always negotiate with the intent that America will come out the winner.
Unilaterally when necessary. Multilaterally when appropriate. But with pragmatism the guiding principle.
And Americans will expect an American President of the United States to understand he/she is ALWAYS negotiating from a position of strength. We are the First Estate.
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Neo, do you believe the Obama admin supports multilateralism? I think he'd prefer disengagement all together with regard to the Middle East. An ambassador's death was acceptable to Obama and to the voters that re-elected him. I think that isolationists, the pacifist /anti-war Left and those who support an end to Isreal have formed an alliance to leave the ME to its own devices. If the GOP supports action of any sort, what does it look like? Do we continue to support despots and puppet regimes? The Arab Awakening makes choosing and trusting allies even more complicated. Promoting democracy was a bit of a flop. Commit more military resources when we are spread so thin and public opinion is resistant to US use of force? And any GOP-led support of influence in the region is seen as economic opportunism by the Left. The GOP strategy should co-opt the Left's language of justice, specifically human rights. I can't understand how the Left sold the "healthcare is a human right" meme, but the GOP can't sell the actual defense of human rights. We don't need more foreign policy people, we need better PR guys.
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Right, and on a whole range of other issues, too. Mitt strongly endorsed free trade and stood ready to push a number of FTAs; his foreign policy transition lead was to be Bob Zoellick, ex- US Trade Representative. US support for religious liberty abroad, US taxpayer funded abortions abroad, and similar issues where Obama stands opposed to American decency were to be fixed.
Support for Eastern Europe against Russia, closer cooperation with Japan, building pipelines into Canada.... there's an enormous range of issues on which there were sharp divides. Around half of the campaign site "issues" pages were on foreign policy, along with much of his book and a good number of keynote speeches.
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Neo, do you believe the Obama admin supports multilateralism?
I believe it does, yes. It is the core of Democrat foreign policy. Even the Jurassic Zbigniew Brzezinksi has become a strict doctrinaire multilateralist--and, after all, it was his unilateral decision which triggered the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. Now multilateralism is the universal doctrine of every Democrat.
This is especially easy to see since commencement of OIF; the ubiquitous criticism was "unilateralism."
I think he'd prefer disengagement all together with regard to the Middle East. An ambassador's death was acceptable to Obama and to the voters that re-elected him. I think that isolationists, the pacifist /anti-war Left and those who support an end to Isreal have formed an alliance to leave the ME to its own devices.
Sure, I agree with your assessment on certain levels. But the fact of the matter is, Democrats are even more enthusiastic about economic sanctions than the Republicans--and the Republicans lean pretty far in that direction to begin with.
Sanctions are economic warfare. The wizards of smart believe that sanctions are an intelligent alternative to war, but post Cold War history definitively shows just the opposite is true.
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If the GOP supports action of any sort, what does it look like? Do we continue to support despots and puppet regimes?
Interesting question, of course. I think the Dubya's legacy pretty much buried that approach for the foreseeable future.
Personally, I've never accepted his enemies' definition of the so-called "Bush Doctrine." They would have us believe it was: "Yer either fur us, or again' us." However, I think it pretty plain the Bush Doctrine was actually "We Must Make the World Safe for Democracy."
It was his administration's efforts which changed and revolutionized the Mubarak regime. Under constant pressure from the US, Mubarak surprised the world by allowing multi-candidate elections in 2005. This same year, Israel shocked the world by unilaterally withdrawing from Gaza. By 2008, Mubarak had even given up on his longterm plan of having his son Gamal succeed him as President-for-Life of Egypt. Had the new US administration followed through...well, "if only" is for children.
The actual Bush Doctrine (the invisible but out-there-in-plain-sight Bush Doctrine), showed the grand possibilities of Making the World Safe for Democracy. The lingering legacy might well preclude supporting dictatorships.
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The Arab Awakening makes choosing and trusting allies even more complicated. Promoting democracy was a bit of a flop.
For now.
The only insurrection the US should have supported was the Green Revolution in Iran.
Iran, after all, is the key to everything else in the Middle East. Pahlavi proved this by showing us what DIDN'T happen in the ME as long as he held power in Tehran.
When Supreme Leader Khamenei dies, then the whole order will change again. Khamenei was reportedly dying of cancer in 2009-2010 when the Green Revolution burst upon the stage. He evidently got better, and the Green Revolution was quelled, but even an Ayatollah succumbs eventually.
He represented a sea change from Khomeini, who, for instance, had ruled out nuclear weapons as being non-Islamic. As soon as Khamenei succeeded him in 1989, that all changed...as we all know too well.
Supporting democratic regimes may not prove a flop in the long run.
A democratic government requires a civil society to be successful. The construction of a civil society takes time.
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I can't understand how the Left sold the "healthcare is a human right" meme, but the GOP can't sell the actual defense of human rights.
Selling healthcare as a human right was the easiest thing in the world. I guarantee that every devout Christian and Jew, not just in the US, but the entire world would agree healthcare is a human right. If Yeshua didn't teach anything else, he taught that.
If you'd like, I could quote chapter and verse endlessly, from Mosche (Moses) to Yochanan (John) on the subject. We are to protect everyone, but especially the widows and orphans.
No civilized group of human beings in a life boat would argue against throwing out a floatation device to someone floundering in the water, would they?
But there are logical and acceptable safeguards we can adhere to in order to prevent drowning people from swamping our boat.
The GOP's problem is the demagoguery, of course. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
As for selling defense of human rights as foreign policy, I think we hit the brick wall as soon as we deploy our military under that guise.
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I mentioned in an earlier post about the slightly confusing nomenclature of local squirrels and that some of the "gray" squirrels are black. Here's one and if I understand correctly, because he's black and living in the west we can safely assume he's an Eastern Gray Squirrel.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
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- JoJo said...
Wow! I've never seen a black squirrel!
- February 21, 2010 at 10:08 AM
- Dean Lewis said...
It's been cool overnight here. This morning I saw a squirrel scraping frost off his nuts.
- February 22, 2010 at 12:12 AM
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Very cute! Nice focus and I loved the texture of the tree-stem.
- February 22, 2010 at 10:37 PM
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He's a lovely specimen and reminds me of squirrels I saw in Calgary running around my daughter's city yard and suburban streets. They were also black.
One good location for 'wild' animal photography is at the U Vic campus. There are rabbits running all around there and some are quite tame. Of course students love them while the administration tries to get rid of them. At least that was the case when I was there 2 years ago. - February 23, 2010 at 6:18 AM
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Investigation of a deadly refinery blast reveals inefficient industry-wide safety standards
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), Washington, D.C., states in a published draft report that high-temperature-hydrogen-attack (HTHA) damage to a heat exchanger caused the April 2010 explosion and fire at the Tesoro refinery, Anacortes, Wash., that killed seven workers. The report also notes the company failed to apply inherently safer technology and install damage-resistant materials.
"Seven lives were tragically lost at the Tesoro refinery in 2010," says Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso, CSB chairperson. "I believe the draft report does an outstanding job of tracing this complex accident to its roots: a deficient refinery safety culture, weak industry standards for safeguarding equipment, and a regulatory system that too often emphasizes activities rather than outcomes. The report is a clarion call for refinery safety reform."
Using sophisticated computer models, the investigation found the industry-wide method used to predict the risk of HTHA damage to be inaccurate, with equipment failures occurring under conditions deemed to be safe from HTHA. It cited deficiencies in the company's safety culture that led to a "complacent" attitude toward flammable leaks and occasional fires. Investigators determined that during the unit startup, Tesoro did not correct the history of hazardous conditions or limit the number of people involved in the non-routine startup of the heat exchangers. Instead, because reoccurring leaks and the need to manually open a series of long-winded valves requiring more than 100 turns by hand to fully open, a supervisor requested five additional workers to help. All seven lost their lives as a result of the blast.
Moure-Eraso adds, "The accident at Tesoro could have been prevented had the company applied inherent safety principles and used HTHA-resistant construction materials to prevent the heat exchanger cracking. This accident is very similar to the one that occurred at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. in August 2012, where corrosion of piping went undetected for decades until it ruptured, endangering the lives of 19 workers caught in a vapor cloud and sending 15,000 community members to the hospital. Companies must do a better job of preventing refinery accidents, which occur all too frequently."
The draft report notes that recommended practices of the American Petroleum Institute (API) are written "permissively" with no minimum requirements to prevent HTHA failures. For example, API Recommended Practice 941 — Steels for Hydrogen Service at Elevated Temperatures and Pressures… — uses the term "should" 27 times and "shall" only once. It also doesn't require users to verify actual operating conditions in establishing operation limits of the equipment, or to confirm that the materials of construction will prevent the damage. An inspection strategy that relied on design operating conditions rather than verifying actual operating parameters contributed to the accident.
The investigation found Tesoro, like others in the industry, used published data from the API called Nelson curves, to predict the susceptibility of the heat exchangers to HTHA damage. The CSB found these curves unreliable because they use historical data concerning HTHA that may not sufficiently reflect actual operating conditions. For example, a CSB computer reconstruction of the process conditions in the exchangers determined that the portion of the carbon steel exchanger that failed likely operated below the applicable Nelson curve — indicating it was "safe."
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The draft report — subject to a future vote by the CSB — makes numerous safety recommendations to Washington's legislature and governor, to its regulatory agency, Tesoro, and the API. These include recommending the state establish a more-rigorous regulatory model, possibly based on the safety case regime; revise the state's process safety management regulations to ensure prevention of catastrophic releases; and perform a safety verification audit at all refineries in the state.
The CSB also released a computer animation that recreates the explosion and fire at the refinery. The five-minute animation illustrates the process of HTHA and can be seen here: http://goo.gl/FzLISG.
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I was reading an article in the Aug 2 Newsweek by Jonathan Alter. The gist of it is that hate-mongering among the Democrats can backfire. He suggests their best strategy is just list why people should not vote for Bush. I've read his columns before, and have never noticed any political bias. I still don't. Has anybody thought of him as "left" or "right" before? The reason I quote the article is that some of what he says is just what I've been amplifying.
"--- but the man who vowed to 'change the tone' in Washington and pursue a 'humble' foreign policy proceeded to govern as if he had carried 49 states. Without a mandate, he rammed through huge tax cuts for the rich and forced right-wing judges onto the bench. He sold out consumers to the pharmaceutical, insurance, and energy industries. The period following 9/11 was even worse. Bush squandered a rare moment of national unity by failing to ask for any shared sacrifice to confront the crisis, then exploited homeland security and Iraq to skewer Democrats in the 2002 midterm elections. Going to war in Iraq under false pretenses and botching the occupation were only the latest sources of outrage."
At the end, Alter says rather than name-calling,
"Better to calmly explain how Bush & Co. may look like grown-ups but have made one incompetent decision after another, even as they dodge accountability, kowtow to extremists in their party and (especially relevant for undecided business people) harm Brand U.S.A. throughout the world."
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That high is about on par with the low for CBS, which isn't good since most of CBS' programming for the week was repeats, some of which still beat out NBC's new shows. And this isn't an anomaly. Without the extra juice of
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That's longer than most shows take off in between seasons. Dropping your top scripted show in favor of weak mid-season programming seems obviously foolish, especially since the network's top cash cow,
The Voice
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, and while not a huge hit, it does surprisingly well on Friday nights. Letting it vanish for four months can only hurt its momentum. NBC needs to find a way to normalize the winter season so it doesn't feel like the Peacock is hibernating.
Don't Remake Failures
Do No Harm
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My Own Worst Enemy
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Less Comedy, More Drama
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. That's more than any other network. And it's a big mistake.
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My family, friends and co-workers have been known to secretly (or not so secretly) groan when I've pulled out the traditional decorations and "The First Thanksgiving" story -- and encouraged each of us to read a stanza while passing around the pilgrim hat to wear. One can never get too much of Miles Standish, Priscilla Alden and Squanto!
I've always taken it in stride, though. It's like charades -- everybody rolls their eyes when it's mentioned, yet they really get into it once the clues are being given -- and people start acting out their parts. Hidden talents and pockets of creativity come out that you never knew were there. Right, Book Club?
Rather than focusing on one day a year for giving thanks, which often gets blended with football and naps, I've started to reframe the holiday as ThanksLiving. It's really a way of life, rather than an observance of a single day.
Now this time frame holds even more significance for me. This year it will mark the one-year anniversary of my mother's passing -- the "November to Remember," as my family calls it. We all practically lived together as our mother (and grandmother) hung on from a heart attack suffered on Nov. 4, followed by kidney complications, a hospital stay and Hubbard Hospice House residency -- till Nov. 20, when she made her transition.
Now that the calendar has rolled around again, I've found myself with flashbacks of that flurry of activity and the months of reflection that followed. I so appreciated the cathartic experience of writing about this in my column last year.
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Population Council scientists and members of its International Committee for Contraception Research staff evaluate the emergency contraceptive potential of contraceptive products under development. The Nestorone®/ethinyl estradiol (EE) ring is being evaluated to determine at what point in the menstrual cycle insertion of this ring may affect follicular maturation, the goal being to determine whether insertion late in the menstrual cycle can inhibit ovulation.
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