I said grace at thanksgiving dinner. I hope Odin was pleased at the dedication
. 🙂
Is there any mistletoe around here?
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-24 11:27:00 UTC
I said grace at thanksgiving dinner. I hope Odin was pleased at the dedication
. 🙂
Is there any mistletoe around here?
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-24 11:27:00 UTC
Traveling from the ecotopian culture, through the breadbasket culture to the foundry culture it is painfully obvious that the only declining culture in north america is the foundry sub civilization that was built around the great lakes and Erie canal in order to supply goods for the western expansion and rapid immigration that was made possible and then necessary by the Louisiana purchase.
The civil war was fought over which economy and culture would profit from westward expansion. And the success if the propagandists to define the war as over slavery or unity is exceeded only by the propaganda that Germany started the first world war.
We should never have ceded from England nor stopped the south from doing so. The end of the west is not started by the French revolution as much as the american.
economics tells us the incentives and the incentives tell us the truth. Words are too often used as deception to mask a fraud.
In history the French are always wrong – reveling in their creativity at corruption , the English a but less so because of their empiricism, and the Germans right about everything because it fell to them to keep the east at bay, but demonized for their discipline and treated as rubes — a convenient propaganda measure to hide the dependence that France and England relied upon for their freedoms.
How is that for casual analysis? 😉
Everything is related to everything across a ling enough time span.
Our vanities have consequences. Because small things in large numbers have vast consequences.
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-24 11:13:00 UTC
I need to find a catholic or Anglican church ( I belong to both) for midnight mass in Ottawa. Is there a cathedral there?
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-24 10:45:00 UTC
Entering Chicago. Sunny and cold. Clear roads continue. Skyline is a paper cutout of blue grey against the sky.
Chicago always seems a dirty city to me.
That is, until I go to Europe, or god forbid Asia.
Different cultural property definitions have different consequences. Americans make fewer tragedies if the commons. Religious particularism expresses itself as order and cleanliness.
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-24 10:35:00 UTC
Out of Minnesota and crossing Wisconsin. Not much between Issaquah and Minneapolis. Not much at all. ;). It’s beautiful nothingness, but it’s nothingness.
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-23 17:45:00 UTC
16 hours of driving. 950 miles covered. 250 miles to Bismarck. Not drowsy yet. Clear weather. Clear roads.
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-23 03:25:00 UTC
Leaving billings Montana. Is that all oil refineries? Charles got Lots of attention at the gas station. Six hours to Bismarck. I don’t know if I can pull another six tonight.
Did you know that all of Europe will fit inside of the USA east of the mississippi? This country is big… And I’m taking the short northern route.
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-23 01:24:00 UTC
Leaving Bozeman Montana. Can I make north Dakota in one day of driving?
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-22 23:12:00 UTC
IN NEED OF A CONE OF SILENCE
Sitting in a restaurant having breakfast. Overhearing a conversation next to me. A woman is planning her divorce over the next two years; including how she will increase her expenses, quit her job, take all the cash, run up the credit cards, lie to her husband in the process so that he doesn’t suspect anything. She’s asking her friend for advice on how long she can probably prolong the situation to get the maximum return.
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-21 11:45:00 UTC
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/alarm-as-dutch-lab-creates-highly-contagious-killer-flu-6279474.html”WE DON’T HAVE TO WEAPONIZE IT. THE BIRDS ARE DOING THAT FOR US”
I had the nasty flu that killed so many people back in 1977, and my health has never fully recovered. I don’t know if the conspiracy nuts are right or wrong in suggesting that the Swine Flu escaped the lab. But either way it wasn’t very fun.
I also got the flu that killed a few hundred people in Europe in the winter of 1996-1997. (It made for an interesting vacation. I soldiered onward anyway. I lost 25 pounds because of it.)
H5N1 (the bird flu) only has an R0 (reproductive rate) of 1.14+. But it had a 60% mortality rate. (They call it ‘morbidity rate’ in the literature.) The relatively low rate of transmission was due to the fact that you had to be in pretty close contact to get it. I’ve seen a few other studies where the measured reproductive rate reached over 2.0 (although they were smaller samples.) The common flu we get every year seems to come in at around 2.
But these researchers have bred an aerosol variant (one that can be spread by sneezing for example). And sure, the really scary diseases have R0’s of 5 to 15. But let’s just say that that we go from 1.14 to 1.6, to something like 2.2 to 4.
I mean, Soderberg’s movie is scary enough as it is.
Source date (UTC): 2011-12-19 21:02:00 UTC