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Stock cars are large, late model sedans that have been built especially for racing.
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Richard Petty has the most career wins of any racer with 200 wins. He is known as the "King" of stock -car racing.
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Carter Lake hotel with an indoor pool
Situated near the airport, in Carter Lake, this hotel is close to TD Ameritrade Park Omaha, CenturyLink Center Omaha Convention Center, and Heartland of America Park. Local attractions also include Creighton University and Holland Performing Arts Center.
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Recreational amenities at Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Omaha Airport include an indoor pool and a spa tub. Other amenities include a roundtrip airport shuttle and complimentary wireless Internet access.
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Televisions come with premium cable channels. Guestrooms also feature complimentary wireless Internet access, air conditioning, and video-game consoles.
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In addition to an indoor pool, Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Omaha Airport provides a spa tub and a fitness center. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. This hotel offers access to a 24-hour business center and a meeting/conference room. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Event facilities measure 225 square feet (20 square meters). This Carter Lake hotel also offers multilingual staff, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and laundry facilities. Complimentary parking is available on site.
Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Omaha Airport is a smoke-free property.
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- One meeting/conference room
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- Meeting facilities size (feet) - 225
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- Meeting facilities size (meters) - 20
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- Total number of rooms - 106
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Technology, leadership and life. Free and open source software. Wizard wannabe.
Put the simple file in "/usr/share/bash-completion" with the ones I use most.
Since I normally use a swedish keyboard layout, writing braces, parenthesis and brackets kind of sucks. I decided to remap them to leftbrace to AltGr+q rightbrace to AltGr+r leftbracket to AltGr+w rightbracket to AltGr+e leftparen to AltGr+a rightparent to AltGr+s
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Just noticed that there is only one version. aron@raziel ~ > equery l automake * Searching for automake ... [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/automake-1.11.1:1.11 Can't remember when it was like this, if ever before. Progress, I guess :)
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Is quite nice I have to say. Still have to figure out how to make drupal allow for something else but filtered html.
Edit: Almost too easy: http://drupal.org/node/202947
Upgrading to xorg-server with USE=-hal appeared to make things run a tad faster. However, some really strange behavior with keypress events started to occur. I tried several different variants for keyboard layout, setting special keys etc but I still got stuff like "right ctrl is return" or "arrow down inserts a space and line down". Adding to xorg.conf:
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For about a year now I have had a very annoying problem with my file server. One of the two Seagate drives simply disappeared from time to time. It was never the same one and I couldn't tell what pattern the disappearances followed. The system log looked something like:
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Just noticed that for two of my posts, drupal reports 1000+ reads; this one http://www.aron.nu/?q=node/20 and this one http://www.aron.nu/?q=node/14. I guess that gives an indication as to what's more interesting posts.
Sometime when I was updating drupal from 6.10 to 6.11 I thought I was going to be clever and update as soon at the core module was available upstream. Not to wait until it reached portage. I
The editor emacs continues to amaze me. For some time now I have been using emacs as a day-planner in the excellent org-mode. Once you get used to the commands it's a breeze to create documents with structured headlines, internal and external links, etc. It's also very versatile in that it can export the same document to different formats like html or ascii.
So I decided to spice up my Gentoo work station a little. I was having a little too much crud lying around like ldap and mysql support anyways. To get a more complete control over what was installed, I started moving away from using a list of use flags in make.conf by doing a
emerge -evp --columns world >> tmpfile
with that format it was easy to use an openoffice spreadsheet and insert from file with fixed width delimiters cut and then go through the file with emacs and do some search and replace to end up with
As I am nowadays using the keyworded gentoo-sources, I am already using the 2.6.29 kernel with promised updated ext4 stuff and some more goodies. However, after doing my normal upgrading routine with make oldconfig and sifting through all the new options, running my 'build kernel and drivers'-script, my system wouldn't boot =|. Unable to remount read-write dmesg said. A wee bit stumped, I went back to 2.6.28 for a few days but now I had a go again and took a look at my fstab. In the mount options, I had put "extents, barriers=0".
It's been a bit too long since I did a post so I thought I'd post some thoughts about the creation of software and cooperation in a small group with tools we're using like UML, design patterns etc. I'm assuming that a sufficiently thorough analysis has been made and that the group comprises about two to four developers. This would be the optimal course of action for my personal taste and knowledge level at this time.
Finally I made the leap. Used the stopwatch to get the boot time from BIOS POST to login screen: 1:02.4 Added sys-apps/openrc ~amd64 sys-apps/baselayout ~amd64 to /etc/portage/package.keywords Emerged them and followed the guide:http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
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No problemo. New boot time: 00:48.4 Sweet. Thx Roy!
First post after upgrade =) Just upgraded from 5.12 to 6.6 In short (NOTE! not a proper instruction just a debrief); * put in offline mode * backup database and htdocs * emerge new version * use 'updated' module to find the correct modules version for the new major version * uninstall as many contributed modules as possible * run webapp-config * copy back sites directory (.htaccess and robots.txt too if modified) * unpack the modules you want in the modules dir * run the www.yoursite.com/update.php * try to poke around as much as possible
What I experience when I grasp a subject or when I discover that I've achieved some level of mastery at something, that's how I percieve what happens. First contact with a software project or product is often daunting in my mind. There are so many details that your working memory rapidly becomes overloaded. After time, your brain manages to do what it does best; filtering the avalanche of data we're exposed to and effectively extracts only what's needed for the conscious part of the mind to make sense of the object of our interest.
When you grow up with Gentoo, you mostly only ever need to use the loadkeys command in the console. This led me to believe that there only existed one command to change the layout you're currently using. Now I know better (like five years or so after learning about loadkeys...): loadkeys are for console only. setxkbmap is what you use for switching in X. You'll see below what finally made this obvious to me, or rather what I was doing when I realized it.
When the computer geek in me grew up, I was excusively using Gentoo for all my needs. When I first started out learning about free software operating systems, I had used windows 98 for little more than playing Fallout and some other fun games.
In my early days (in like 2002, which is not very long ago I admit) as a GNU/Linux zealot I was installing from a minimal CD and going from stage-1 tarballs and working my way up. Wasn't very exciting watching glibc compile on a PII 400hz.
I finally gave up trying to keep my hordeinstallation alive. It's been alot of work installing and upgrading the package and every time I've failed to retain my data. I was recommended Zimbra by a friend. It turns out it's a complete suite with mta, imap, spam- and virusscanner. This meant that I'd have to give up my carefully configured mail services. After bracing myself for a number of days, I got to it.
For a very long while now, several years actually, I've been a bit annoyed by the behaviour of terminals under X when you doubleclick links. What the UI considers a word is selected. Selection 'starts' at the point that is doubleclicked and 'spreads' in each direction, stopping at a char it considers to be a word delimiter. A space is probably always considered a delimiter. Sometimes a '?' too, and often ',' as well.
A couple of years ago, I was sifting through the manpage for bash. I was at the time looking for something else, but my attention was caught by the section about command substitution, I. E. the art of letting a command be substituted by the output of it's execution. In shells, there are two ways in which this can be accomplished; backticks /backquotes or braces. When I read it, it said backticks were old style. I searched for a bit and found a reference that it was deprecated.
I just read tsunam's blogpost and it sparked a thought. He's calling for more ideas for improving user relationships and quite neatly describes the Gentoo community through parallels to George Orwell's 1984. Now, as the topic says, I've always regarded it as a Gentoopia.
Just got myself a "SyncMaster 245B". Samsung FTW! This beauty is capable of 1920x1200 wide screen resolution. While I was at it, I switched from VGA to DVI cable too. While configuring I made some interesting notes; When X starts with the VGA cable, I have to put
Option "UseEDID" "FALSE"
Option "UseEDIDFreqs" "FALSE"
Option "UseEDIDDpi" "FALSE"
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I just found myself asking me that question. Allright, I am a nerd and I'm fine with that. Allright, I'm very persistent about orderliness and I've come to accept that as a part of my personality. Now, when using the commandline and bash in particular and you've written a command that you decide that you don't want to execute, how do you go about clearing the cli row? Out of the possibilities I know I could choose CTRL+c which would be kinda natural and quite easy to type too. A perfectly fine alternative. But *no*. There's another way to go about it; CTRL+u.
Time goes by and sometimes gentoo hands you a new update to kde-base as happened today and it's compile-time again. When I first began using gentoo I sometimes watched the scrolling lines and kind of get stuck much like watching a burning fire. It would give a cosy feeling and time flew by. Nowadays I never do that for some reason, I just want to be done with it. Having invested in a Reserator, I thought I'd make good use of it and hence overclocked my CPU.
I have to say my impression is that the gentoo devs maintaining the kernel sources does a damn fine job. New versions appears in the three at a very nice rate and keeping up with the relentless pace of vanilla. At the time of this writing the latest stable kernel is 22.214.171.124 and portage just gave me 2.6.23-gentoo-r6. Good stuff. I've been compiling gentoo-sources for a few years now and it has never been smoother. A simple emerge -Nqa world * copy the old .config to the new source dir * swap the symlink make oldconfig
emerge -Nqa world
make oldconfig
Through the years I have met a number of colleagues with leadership tasks and managers. More often than not I've been left wondering how on earth they managed to trick their way into that position or fooled themselves that they are fit for the task for that matter. How is it possible to weed out the unfit-for-management individuals? In the following thext I'm trying to make a couple of valid remarks. First off, business is about making money. If you don't make any money off of it, it's not worth
Inspired by Brian Carper (programming in general) and Diego Penettó (C/C++), I started configuring a setup to do some programming on a private project. I decided I'd go for Eclipse, Subversion andTrac. First time I single handedly abandon my beloved Emacs. Eclipse has got a number of plugins
It was too obvious for me this time perhaps. I simply forgot to change grub's arguments from the disc to the RAID1 device. Now I can continue to expand my logical volume across both partitions and add the remaining root partition to the RAID as well.


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In 1962, Brian Jones formed the Rolling Stones with pianist Ian Stewart, singer Mick Jagger, and Jagger's friend and guitarist Keith Richards. During the Rolling Stones' early days, Jones served as leader, entertainer, and manager for the band,
but he became alienated by the band and became dependent on drugs and alcohol and drowned in his pool a month after being asked to leave the band. He died in England in 1969.
Early Years
Famed musician Brian Jones was born Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones on February 28, 1942, in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. Born during World War II to Welsh parents, Jones suffered from asthma as a child and throughout his life. His father and mother both played music, and by the time he was in high school, Brian had learned to play the piano, clarinet, saxophone and guitar. Though Jones was incredibly bright, he was a lazy student. He quit school and left home shortly after a scandal in which he fathered an illegitimate baby boy who was subsequently given up for adoption.
Career with the Rolling Stones
Jones soon moved to London to play blues guitar in local bars. In the spring of 1962, he formed the Rolling Stones with pianist Ian Stewart, singer Mick Jagger, and Jagger's childhood friend and guitarist Keith Richards. Bassist Bill Wyman and jazz-influenced drummer Charlie Watts soon joined the band.
During the Rolling Stones' early days, Jones served as leader, entertainer and manager for the band. As the most photogenic band member, his antics and fashion sense were quickly adopted by the swingers of 1960s London . In 1963, the band hired manager Andrew Loog Oldham, who helped them cultivate a rough, somewhat menacing persona. Oldham's arrival also marked the decline of Jones as ringleader. Jagger and Richard, who did much of the songwriting, soon moved into the spotlight.
Though he was chiefly known as a guitarist, especially for the guitar weaving he did with Richards, Jones played numerous instruments during his years with the Stones: sitar, tamboura, dulcimer, keyboards, recorder, harmonica, xylophone and marimba, among others. By the mid 1960s, Jones was feeling increasingly alienated by the band and became more and more dependent on drugs and alcohol. He was first arrested for drug use in May of 1967, and by May of 1968, he was recording his final substantial contributions with the Stones.
Final Years
On June 8, 1969, following the recording of Let it Bleed, Jones was asked to leave the band. A month later, on July 3, 1969, Brian Jones was found at the bottom of his swimming pool at his home in Hartfield, East Sussex, England. The death was ruled an accident. He was 27 years old.
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In 1962, one of the most successful and critically acclaimed rock bands of all time, the Rolling Stones was started in London. Named after the Muddy Waters song "Rollin' Stone," the original band included frontman Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman, drummer Charlie Watts and pianist Ian Stewart. Guitarist Ron Wood joined Jagger, Richards and Watts in 1975. The Stones, in their various incarnations, have rocked on for more than 50 years, selling more than 200 million albums worldwide. Here's a look at the musicians who critics and fans alike have dubbed the "World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band."
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The 1960s were a time of significant cultural and social change in London. The post-World War II era, coined "Swinging London," saw a youth-driven shift in culture, from old to new. Symbolized by famous faces like English supermodels Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy to "British Invasion" rock bands like the Beatles and Cream, the era created a fresh and modern approach to everything from fashion to music to cultural attitudes. Biography.com looks at the inspirational forces behind the "Swinging London" revolution.
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I am visiting the Medical CEO and his wife today. I say Medical CEO because I am the Son-of-a and I say "his wife" because I'm sexist.
Then the Steelers will lose to Jacksonville. Back tomorrah.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Off Day
Friday, January 04, 2008
The Obama Campaign Needs A Tissue
Upward not downward. Outward not inward. Onward not backward. Better not worser. Multi not mini. Hope not despair. Love not hate. Turkey not tofu. Faster not slower. Farther not nearer. Further not lesser. Richer not poorer. Living not dead. High not low. American not un-American. Reverent not penitent. Strong not weak. Smart not dumb. Foresight not blindness. Tasty not bland. Salty and sweet. Hoppy but not bitter. Tannic but fruity. Slender not fat. Flash and bang. Zip and zap. Hippity and dippity. Lo and behold. Ipso and facto. Proctor and Gamble. Lockheed and Martin. Dow and Jones. Teacher and student. Black and white. Woods and Daly. Not gay and straight. Super and duper. Butter not margarine. Life not death. Pleasure not pain. Oprah not Imus. New not old. Always not never. Somewhere not nowhere. Oh God I'm so close. Worked-out not wimpy. Are you experienced? Can I just make one more moondance with you, my love? Exordium and Terminus! Keep doing that! Love me leave me let me be lonely! One enchanted evening! What it's like to be loved by you! Wouldn't it be loverly! Break on through to the other side! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Fucking yessssssss!
Gayer than Laughter
It's a good thing I smoke so much fucking weed, because girlie, if I didn't, then the bitter pressure in the back of my throat would surely have gushed forth when my man Dennis P. drew my attention to this. I mean, I like eating ass as much as the next faggot, but their are certain depths that even my nose fails to plumb. You know whadumsayin?
Anyway. Ezra:
The other great leaders I've heard guide us towards a better politics, but Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves, to the place where America exists as a glittering ideal, and where we, its honored inhabitants, seem capable of achieving it, and thus of sharing in its meaning and transcendence.Is that is or is that ain't the purplest prose you ever done read? Our highest selves? A glittering ideal? Dude, you want to know where America exists as a glittering ideal. In yah imagination.
There is plenty to criticize about mainline American exceptionalism, but you know, there's at least something semi-rational about it. There is, at least, the conviction that the United States is a nation whose unique institutions create unique benefits, freedoms, and liberties for its citizens. There is, at minimum, a material idealism behind the notion that we need to export our supposed way of life, for in the estimation of the exceptionalist, that way of life is objectively preferable to any other. That may be crass Hegelianism; it may be end-of-historical bumpus; but, fuck me, at least it's an ethos.
Listen up. I may be wrong about everything. America may well be the last, best motherfucking hope for all the motherfucking world. It may yet be proven that late state capital in the late Republic of the latter-day States is the best system of human organization ever devised by happenstance and human intelligence. But even if all those things, unlikely though they are, turn out to be true, there is nothing in the least transcendent about it. The Queen of the Night hitting the high F is trascendent. El Greco's View of Toledo is transcendent. Hell, the breaded, pan-fried sweetbreads at Po are pretty damned transcendent. Obama is just a politician, and America is just a country.
Klein is the sort of wound-tight progressive who gets pissy because Maureen Dowd writes about his candidates' wardrobes, but we're supposed to raise our hands and sway because Barack Obama is the "triumph of word over flesh." I don't even know what that means, but I know what the residents of Chicago's South Side would say if they heard it: Nigga, please.
Foodie Friday, Reborn!
Goddamn it's cold. I want some onion soup.
I'm gonna need
3 or 4 chicken backs
several thick slices of salt pork
1 2'x2' chunk of prosciutto butt (the narrow, unused end of the prosciutto that can't be sliced and sold - avaialble cheap at most Italian markets)
several cloves of garlic
about 1.5" of ginger root, rough cut
1 carrot
6 medium-large yellow onions
coarse sea salt
black pepper
whole fennel seed
whole celery root
cane sugar
clarified butter
1 stale baguette (a good 2 days stale)
To make the broth melt some clarified butter in the bottom of a big stock pot. Soften 1 rough-chopped onion, then add the chicken backs to brown. Crush some garlic cloves and add them to the pot. Add the ginger. Throw in the salt pork and prosciutto. Add good, filtered water. Add a pinch of fennel seed, a pinch of celery root, several twists from the pepper grinder, and a generous portion of sea salt. Bring to a light boil, reduce immediately to a simmer, cover tightly, and simmer for 3-4 hours.
To caremalize your onions, slice the 5 remaining onions into paper-thin, translucent slices (halve the onions first; slice into half-moons). Using several thick-bottomed sauté pans, melt a little clarified butter into each over high heat, then add the onions in even batches to each pan. Over a medium-high heat, sauté until soft and clear. Then reduce the heat to very low and allow the onions to caremalize in the pan (don't stir!) for an hour, or until golden brown. Deglaze each pan with a splash of white wine, remove from heat and set aside.
You must now clarify the broth. Strain it once through a colander to remove the large solid bits. You will have a brown, fragrant broth. It will taste a little funny--a little too smokey, for one. This flavor will persist until you add the onions, so don't let it worry you. Now bring the broth to a rapid boil on the stovetop. Add the whites and shells of three eggs and stir rapidly for several minutes; then allow to boil for several more. A foamy scum will form on top of the broth. Remove it from the heat and strain again, this time through a colander lined with several layers of fine cheese-cloth or several layers of paper towels which have been wetted and then wrung out. Replace the dark, translucent, clarified broth on the heat and bring up to a low boil. Scrape in the onions. Boil together for a few minutes so that the sugars dissolve into the broth.
Place nice chunks of stale bread into large bowls and spoon over with soup. Garnish with fresh herbs if you like. You can finish this soup with the traditional cheese layer, broiled until bubbling, but I prefer it without, as the broth is more delicately flavored than the traditional beef stock. Serve it with a small green salad and poached egg.
The Palantir
Interesting that the two caucus-winners in Iowa are the Christ figures of their respective factions, promising deliverance. Of course, we know what happens to Christ in the end. Render unto Caesar, dudes. These results make me more certain than ever that it's gonna be Hillary and Mitt down the stretch with the lady pulling it out in the end by a fair margin. You read it here first.
The Clinton restoration should be interesting. I see her going the Thatcherian route. Tough-minded and strong-willed, par contre the lazy sop now sucking at the public teat and burning off the treasury. I would lay odds on an armed intervention somewhere in Africa, too, for good humanitarian measure. Iraq I expect to drag out for at least another eight years, until someone with a secret plan wins in 2016. Chels?
Thursday, January 03, 2008
In an effort to reward my friends and punish my enemies . . . no, actually, just because I like reading these dudes, I have added to my blawgroll:
The Guys from Area 51
Dave Trowbridge
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
American liberals like Ezra Klein are totally unable to understand why Ron Paul is always talking about taxes and monetary policy and the scope of government when, in their minds, the only thing he could possibly be saying that would attract attention and support is that he's going to end the occupation of Iraq. That's because American liberals understand the invasion and occupation as a terribly aberrant, uniquely un-American act foisted on a frightened country and unprepared world by the avatar of awfulness, notre dauphin, Gee-Dub Bush. Their liberalism is essentially personality-driven--ironically, given their loud disdain for the Bushite personality cult. It is the liberal-progressive conviction that the necessary component for good government is good people. People, you know, like them. Young progs like Klein are the worst in this regard because they've never had real jobs and have therefore missed out on the practical education that most of us get in the futility of good intentions and decent management against the systemic corruption of all large institutions. The young Democrats' faith in electoralism and disdain for any generalized critique of the American state is based on the faulty idea that if only the right people were running the policy apparatus, then the power of government would be used for good and we would only invade countries when, you know, it was really important. They are naturally immune to the idea that good managers cannot buck institutional imperatives, putting their trust, as they do, in people power and, lord help us, the "democratic process." They are interested in "good government," not "limited government," and the argument that all governments seek inevitably and inexorably to expand their own power is impossible for them to grasp, because, after all, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, QED.
People like Ron Paul confound them by insisting that horrors like the Iraq invasion and occupation are necessitated by the system itself. Foreign aggression is endemic to powerful nations and empires, and the United States is surely the former and--can anyone dispute this anymore?--surely the latter as well. And from such ideas comes the general libertarian critique of government: that if you empower the government to do something, it's going to do it. If you empower the government to collect information on its citizens, it isn't only going to collect the minimum necessary to pay a social security stipend. It is going to collect as much as possible. If you create and fund a vast military establishment, the state is going to employ it. Why do we have this magnificent army, Madeline Albright notoriously mused, if we're not going to use it? The libertarian says neither ask what you can do for your country nor what your country can do for you. He says instead: How can we most effectively circumscribe the power of government so as to prevent the very possibility of invading Iraq, of setting up a ubiquitous surveillance state, of deciding to use eminent domain to subsidize strip mall develoment, and so forth and so on. The libertarian doesn't believe that so long as you're careful and make sure that good people are strolling the Aaron Sorkinian halls of power, snapping dialogue here and there, then all will be well. He does not share the Progressive's Soviet confidence in the power of good management and planning.
But even the libertarian position has at its core the flawed idea that state power can be constitutionally constrained, that if we write it down and enforce it vigilantly, the state can be confined to a limited sphere of acceptable action that will secure life and liberty and property and a few other basic rights. Yet in order to achieve even these limited ends, the libertarian concedes that the state must at least be granted a minimal monopoly on the use of force, and in particular the use of deadly force, and in that exchange he gives up everything in return for nothing, for the moment he hands the gun to the policeman and says, "Protect me from thieves," he has handed the state the mechanism through which it will go on to invalidate all its bargains and charters with its citizens.
He Doesn't Hate Me; He Lurves Me
To be sure, anti-Americanism will never disappear. Nor will America's enemies go away. But strong anti-American currents will increasingly coexist with equally strong international demands for the United States to play a larger role in world affairs.The United States currently occupies at least two nations. We have military garrisons in almost every nation on earth. We have just suborned--through naïveté or malice; it has yet to be seen--the assassination of a major Pakistani politician and are desperately propping up its current strongman. We claim the right to go to war with China should it attempt to reassert control over a nominally democratic breakaway province, although, to be sure, we are also locked in a economic pas-de-deux with the mainland government, which holds gads of our currency in reserves, a delicately tenable situation for both nations. We are dictating, or attempting to dictate, to Iran what technologies and weapons it may or may not possess. We incessantly comment on Russia's "backtracking" from "democracy." We support paramilitaries throughout the Latin American world as part of a bogus effort to eradicate cocaine. We have secret prisons throughout the world. We give billions of dollars a year to Israel, and we claim that we will bring "peace" to Israel and Palestine. Africa is a vast, plagued sop to our national conscience.
-Moisés Naím in la WaPo
How much more fucking involved can we possibly get, huh?
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Colonial Dreams
Do they think people are too stupid to notice the double standard? Or so easily duped that they will swallow a stinking mess of White House banalities and tame media pundit prognostications on Fox News? Just because the bulk of the citizenry in the USA is too preoccupied with self-indulgence to pay attention to political matters doesn't mean that people in all other countries are the same, but this appears to be the basic misconception guiding American foreign policy.It's not what we do or don't think, it's that we don't care. All empires cultivate a glorious insularity, and America is no different. Fuck the "global community." There's no such thing. There are only Americans and barbarians.
-Ken L. at Road to Surfdom
Ken writes from the perspective of a powerful country, but one that is nevertheless constrained in its capacity to act by the wills and desires of other nations and other peoples. He belongs to a polity that recognizes its power as finite and its ability to dictate outcomes and terms to others as limited. But, dude, America is, like, the superpower. Ken says that Americans act like Pakistan is a colony. Right. Ken says Americans are sated and surrounded by their own domestic concerns and neither know nor care about the rest of the world, except occasionally when our armies are smashing some part of it up. Right. He says that Americans value an American life more highly than the lives of the coolies. Right again. Ever thus, man.
Ken has the idea that America has some sort of vestigial committment to liberty and freedom and Whatever. That's the flaw in his analysis. "We are an empire now. We make our own reality." America doesn't need the consternation of the global fucking village, friends. America needs Visigoths at its gates.
The Times Editorial Board Inner Monologue
Let's face it. Poor people are stupid. We mean, if they were smart, they wouldn't be poor. And by poor we mean black. And, uh, Hispanic, just to throw something else in there. Because they are poor, by which we mean stupid, by which we mean black, they are always doing things that we, by which I mean you and us, by which I mean white people who get the Times instead of their local paper, which you probably get at the office like us anyway--we mean, who pays to get some recycled Knight Ridder crap delivered to the house, where the neighbors can see--anyway, um. Yes. Doing things that we would never do. Like playing the lottery. Ever gone into a gas station and had to stand behind some fucking nigger impoverished African-American woman as she spends twenty fucking minutes picking out scratch-off games and reading her fucking "numbers" off a McDonald's napkin when all you want to do is buy a bottle of fucking water spends her limited funds on insidiously marketed lottery games that she can ill afford? Clearly such people cannot be trusted to make their own economic decisions. If they could, they wouldn't be poor, would they? Therefore we must outlaw any choices that they might make which we know to be bad for them. If they're still poor after that, they'll have no excuse, will they?
Monday, December 31, 2007
Turn That Frown Upside Down
Oh, great. The TSA has turned to witchcraft.
My own reaction to anything in an airport other than a snappy "right this way sir" with an arm extended toward a jetway is a look of pure, vicious contempt, so this is sure to slow my travel time. The government's assertion that "microfacial expressions . . . are the same across many cultures" is funny not only because there is no such thing as a "microfacial expression," but also because the very same official goes on to note the importance of "a cultural awareness component" since people in other cultures . . . don't use the same facial expressions. Anyone who's ever tried wearing a Vanna White smile on a crowded street in France knows this to be true. "Why are those Japanese women covering their mouths when they laugh? Arrest them!"
Tip o' the toboggan to my man James at the Mahatma X Files.
Restoration Comedy
Bloomberg makes the usual suspects nervous. Good for him! Digby's unastonishing snit concludes:
Bloomberg's candidacy, if it happens, is designed to deny the Democrats a victory in a year when the Republicans are so wounded and tired they probably can't win it for themselves, even if they cheat.To deny! You'd think it was the Mandate of Heaven. You'd think he was Oliver Cromwell and John Edwards a fey Charlie Deux.
Between this and the Donk's unhealthy obsession with proving that Ron Paul is the second coming of Lester Maddox, I think we can hear the engine firing in the cold as the Progressosphere coughs up another year of sad Thanksralphery. Should be fun.
A candidate who actually appealed to people would of course have nothing to fear from the vanity candidacy of a nebbish, peeping-Tom, billionaire, cosmopolitan Jew with a nasal voice and the dismissive, s'ils n'ont pas de pain, qu'ils mangent de la brioche ! manner of most chief executives, but the Democrats have no such candidate, instead substituting a questionable dynast, a boyish lawyer who's lately come to believe himself the new Huey Long, and a messianic evangelist who doesn't quite understand what "audacity" means.
Your basic internet Donkle really does believe that she is owed a president in oh-eight, that some cosmic balance has been upset and must be restored, that the basic principles of karma dictate that some lackluster Democratic half-ass be given the opportunity to muck about in the middle east and cobble together some vague semblance of a health-care plan. Otherwise it wouldn't be fair.
"The Elusive Embrace"
You know, I'm fan of the free exchange of goods, services, and labor. Money? Sure, it's cool. Probably easier than barter, anyway. But I keep reading these stories about "identity theft," and I've got to say that there is something deeply, fundamentally, essentially wrong with a civilization that considers bank account information and credit balances and government-issued identification numbers a person's identity. I mean, I like to believe that if I were ever really the victim of identity theft, the world would have gained an additional Conrad-quoting, chicken-roasting, butt-fucking anarchist.
It appears that La Surge has fulfilled its function, which was always to self-necessitate (how's that for a coinage?) the ongoing and unending occupation of Iraq. The fractal logic is really quite beautiful if you back away from the sharp edges and look at the whole flower: In the absence of an escalation, the conditions of diminished violence that would make political reconciliation possible could not have been achieved; therefore the surge was necessary; and, although the presence of such conditions did not in fact lead to political reconciliation, it will nevertheless be necessary to maintain commensurate conditions through commensurable troop levels in order that political reconciliation might at some point obtain; ergo proctor dalmation res invictus, the test of any candidate's committment to ending the war and occupation is her committment to extending them. There are clear intellectual antecedents to such thinking. It is Samuel Beckett filtered through Yogi Berra. When you come to a fork in the road, take it!
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Accuse me thus, that I have scanted all,
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day,
That I have frequent been with unknown minds,
And given to time your own dear-purchased right,
That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
Which should transport me farthest from your sight.
Book both my wilfulness and errors down,
And on just proof surmise, accumulate,
Bring me within the level of your frown,
But shoot not at me in your wakened hate:
Since my appeal says I did strive to prove
The constancy and virtue of your love.
And I Say Unto Thee Verily, It's All Cool, Man
I have an aunt and uncle--good liberals, a college professor and technical writer who drive very fuel-efficient automobiles--who are working for the Obama campaign. I thought of them as I read Reza Aslan's funny-because-it's-true article in today's Post, "He Could Care Less about Obama's Story," for at the end of the day, it is your standard Progressive's conviction that "the world" shares his superficial obsessions and self-reflecting vanities, which drew him to his own personal Obama in the first place. Earlier this year I visited my relatives and tried to understand why it was exactly that they evinced such perfervid devotion to a guy who is, after all and at the end of the day, just a politician. These are intelligent, educated, perceptive, widely travelled, generally charming people. My uncle is a great scholar of Conrad, of all things. Yet in the end their rationales and reasons reduced to a singular love for his soaring transformational hokum, and after a day in the fridge the reduction crystallized into the predictable fatty mush. In the end, it flatters them to be the sort of people who would vote for a young black guy with a funny name. This is the pervasive ailment among Obama's educated liberal supporters, and they project it onto a world of peoples that have "turned against America" under the dastardly reign of the dauphin, George W. Bush. Let's not deal in pure caricature. Obama's supporters, with the possible exception of Andrew Sullivan, who is notorious for his fleeting, dangerous enthusiasms, do not expect that their candidate's mere ascension will efface eight years of imperializing, let alone the hundred that preceded them that liberals see generally fit to ignore. Nonetheless, they do seem to imagine that some kind of international good will will necessarily accrue to the United States because brown people elsewhere will be so damnably pleased to see one of their own at the wheels of the world's most pimped-out nation-state. This sort of transnational racialism, in which the world's duskier and yellower and paler and browner hues form a spiritual extension of what we laughably call "minorities," is odd but nearly universal among America's not-so-leftists, who sincerely seem to believe that "historic wrongs," as they blithely euphemize slavery and apartheid here in the US of A, can be rectified through some mildly redistributive "programs" run by some executive agency or other of the Federal government. Likwise, they have come somehow to blieve that the pure havoc we have brought to so many other countries can be soothed by an "increased concern in human rights" and a "new face in Washington" and "cooperation."
Indeed there is an entire catalogue of sentiments that liberals expect the next president to publicly express, but contrition is conspicuously absent. Part of the problem is that they genuinely believe that other peoples perceive America as they do, which is as a fundamentally new, "reinvented" nation with the turning of each presidential election. The people afflicted by America "policies," do not view us in this way, of course; they perceive the continuity of American actions, and as Aslan notes, the fabled young middle-eastern man probably cannot name an American president beyond the most recent two. The notion that we will correct carpet bombing with ecumenical paeans to the values we all share, whatever those may be and whoever exactly "we" are, has got to be one of the most vicious self-delusions I've ever encountered.


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Lowe's shares rise as housing market rebounds
The home-improvement retailer seems to emerging from Home Depot's shadow.
Shares of Lowe's (LOW) closed up more than 6% Monday as the second-largest home improvement retailer posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings. This provides further evidence as to how the rebounding housing market is stimulating the economy. But the Mooresville, N.C., company, which has long lagged rival Home Depot (HD), hasn't turned the corner quite yet.
Net income at Lowe's surged 76% to $396 million, or 35 cents a share, versus $225 million, or 18 cents, a year ago, according to the company's earnings press release. Sales rose 1.9% to $12.1 billion. Excluding one-time items, profit was 40 cents, beating Wall Street's consensus forecasts by a nickel. The sales results exceed the $11.91 billion analysts' had expected. Comparable sales, a key retail metric measuring activity at stores opened at least a year, rose 1.8%.
Under CEO Robert Niblock, Lowe's has cut jobs, reduced store openings and streamlined its supply chain to compete more effectively against Home Depot, which has posted better comparable sales than it for 14 straight quarters, according to Reuters. The company's efforts are starting to pay off. Lowe's reported that gross margins rose to $4.14 billion, while selling, general and administrative expenses fell to $3.02 billion.
The gap between Lowe's and Home Depot is starting to narrow, though the smaller company's results are expected to be lackluster for some time to come. Lowe's, however, raised its full-year earnings forecast. Sales are expected to be flat during the current fiscal year, matching expectations. Earnings are expected to be $1.64, lagging forecasts that called for $1.66.
Though I argued recently that "the rewards associated with Lowe's outweigh the risks," today's price action has caused me to change my mind. Lowe's is expensive now, trading at a price-to-earnings ratio of 21.18, a five-year high. Home Depot isn't cheap either, with a multiple of about 22. Lowe's also is trading above its average 52-week price target of $33. Analysts expect Home Depot to hit $67.68, about 7% above where it currently trades.
The good news seems to be factored into both stocks, which should be avoided until there is a significant pullback. Given a choice, I would buy Lowe's since it probably has more upside potential than Home Depot, which many investors consider to be the better managed of the two.
Looking for an alternative retail play? Consider Wal-Mart (WMT). The world's largest retailer is cheaper than either Lowe's or Home Depot, trading at a multiple of 13, near a historic low. Wall Street expects the Bentonville, Ark., company to jumpstart its sluggish growth and to address allegations of bribery in some of its overseas businesses. Wal-Mart shares are expected to hit $80 in the next 52 weeks, about 17% above where they currently trade. The company also pays a dividend that yields 2.3%, beating the 2% paid by Lowe's and the 1.9% paid by Home Depot.
Jonathan Berr does not own shares of the listed stocks. Follow him on Twitter@jdberr.
You`ll never hear all the progress in the economy fron the far right.We were losing 800,000
jobs a month in Bush`s administration and now we`ve had 32 straight months of job
growth.With the market up 56% with Obama this should be mentioed daily.This is the most
unloved bull market in history.My family is enjoying the bull market ride to Dow 20,000.
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I'd seen an article about these. They developed a super-sweet table grape that's supposed to taste like cotton candy! My wife found them in a store yesterday and bought a bunch.
And guess what? They really do! The first bite makes you go "Wow, that actually tastes like cotton candy!" You still get that spun-sugar flavor with the second grape, but by about the third grape you don't taste it so much, and they just taste like very sweet grapes. Wait about 15 minutes, then try it again!
They cost a little more than regular grapes, but they're a fun novelty. My daughter and her friends just about finished this bag before Lisa stopped them and saved some for me.


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Bend, OR, is one of the top 10 places to ride a bike.
Cycle Pub combines beer and biking in tour of Bend.
Bend, OR, is a top 10 death defying city.
Bend, OR, has a top 10 film festival.
Bend, OR, is a top 10 city for hiking trails.
Located in the eastern foothills of central Oregon's Cascade Mountains, Bend, OR, is known for its exciting outdoor activities including hiking at Pilot Butte State Park, rock climbing, rafting and kayaking, making it one of Livability.com's Top 10 Death Defying Cities. Residents also enjoy quality schools, an affordable housing market and a strong workforce with a thriving aerospace sector.