In which a humble blogger attempts to address points made in the comments thread of Part 1, which itself followed on from the original post by AK Haart. The catalyst for this current post was: Epicurus might have asked you why God’s help is not unconditional, although he might not, because his likely aim was [...]
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Wish I had a pink jacket and could lean on the bar like that at the end, speaking of flutenschlumpf. Moving on:
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This article outlines the unusually harsh upbringing of Mario Capecchi who in 2007 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for this work on mouse genes. The story highlights a dilemma, when applied to funding organizations:
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One of the best stand-up comics going: 25. “The problem with London is the tourists. They cause the congestion. If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.” At the opening of City Hall in 2002. 28. “You must be out of your minds.” To Solomon Islanders, on being told that their [...]
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Ten majors with the highest median earnings per year: Petroleum engineering: $120,000 Pharmacy sciences and administration: $105,000 Mathematics and computer science: $98,000 Aerospace engineering: $87,000 Chemical engineering: $86,000 Electrical engineering: $85,000 Naval architecture and marine engineering: $82,000 Mechanical engineering: $80,000 Metallurgical engineering: $80,000 Mining and mineral engineering: $80,000 Ten majors with the lowest median earnings [...]
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Thought you might like this one last thing in the evening. AK Haart is running the Epicurean question: … that if G-d has both the power and the desire to stop evil, why does he not do so? This is to put the argument back to front, IMHO, the cart before the horse. Let’s presuppose [...]
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Click pic Now we just have to sort out parliament and the football.
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From the Sackerson files: I have been puzzling why anyone would lend vast amounts of money to the US Government when they would only get paid back in “worth-less” cash, if at all. Yes, you’d get some interest (coupons on T-bills) but how does that compare to the potential capital loss you risk? And then [...]
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Twilight: In the USA it’s Memorial Weekend. Memorial Day itself, the last Monday of May, is traditionally set aside for honouring American servicemembers. Originally known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. citizens who died while on military service. To all American servicemen and women – thinking of you. Just because we are over here does [...]
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From Small Dead Animals: And here is the blurb which goes with the book.
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Consider it, if you haven’t already – Referism. As Autonomous Mind writes: As if to underline their independence, I don’t always agree with everything that [they] write. But collectively, between us we reflect the views of our readers. If we did not, we would not have a readership. Now ask, from where does the BBC [...]
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Well, mainly the Telegraph. How effing ridiculous: Hamilton risks FI action after ‘Ali G’ outburst 1. Utter prat for suggesting the reason he doesn’t win is racism – I never even knew he was black before he told us all. I’d always thought he was a racing car driver. 2. Utter prats, whoever’s going to [...]
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Left field: His non-toxic techniques make current methods of treatment—blasting you with radiation until you die—look as antiquated as electric shock treatment or leeches. And, in official studies, his treatment has been 3,000 times more successful at curing cancer than chemo. However, he’s had an unusually tough time in bringing his discovery of “antineoplastons”—a gene [...]
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Aaaaaggghh, cover up, cover up! This turned out to be a really tough task. For example, Meryl Streep annoys the hell out of me – I just have an antipathy to her and yet she can certainly act, e.g. in The Manchurian Candidate. so, by “annoying”, we really have to include “overrated”, “thinks he/she’s so [...]
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Sheer joy [first two are basically just audio]: This next is one of my top ten all time favourites, country or otherwise:
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Just watched highlights: Wow. The touch, the control. The way they took the ball away in the tightest of situations. Fully deserved victory. This seemed fair: United are a decent but flawed team that have probably achieved as much as possibly could be expected this season. The big (and I would say only major) flaw is [...]
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Here you’ll find a summary of Jacksonianism and the concept of the state which was held by Jackson and his supporters. The tendency of Jacksonianism is to give: 1. Far stronger participation in the democratic process to the ordinary person; 2. Limitations to Congress [or in our case, the corrupt Westminster politicians]; 3. End to [...]
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Spanish girls I wasn’t going to post this. Yesterday, I put together a post based on a comment at the Independent on Cheryl Cole but realized it would alienate my English female readers. So I gutlessly deleted it. Today, Rossa, an absolute heartbreaker who lives over in the strange land of Yorkshire, pointed me to [...]
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[Click pic, h/t Microdave] “This is hell … Atheists? Over here please – you must be feeling a right bunch of nitwits. Christians? Oh yes, I’m sorry – I’m afraid the Jews were right.” Calling itself the Voice of Truth, one Jihadi site exhorts: The Almighty said, “Then fight in Allah’s cause – thou are [...]
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To be fair [* see comments thread for corrections], Rooney wasn’t too bad in patches but the top team in a second string competition – not third or fourth string – just couldn’t match an A League competition leader.
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The world will effectively cease to exist from 19:45 until about 22:00. I had a lot of fun today asking women, “Who do you think’s going to win then?” After having to explain seven times out of ten, about five would say, ‘Are you talking about football?!!” “Of course.” “I’m going to bed, I am.” [...]
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…well it was a quarter of a century ago!
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The oldest game [from Small Dead Animals] can be explained this way: The two-tiered socialist system is, actually, the most basic sociopolitical system on Earth. It’s essentially tribal, set up to ensure stability. To prevent the disruption of change it moves its authority into an essentially hereditary mode. You have the ‘Anointed’ (upper tier) . [...]
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