Related Link » Serena Williams hit with record fine, probation for tirade
“A profanity-laced tirade at last summer's U.S. Open has earned tennis star Serena Williams a record $82,500 US fine and two years of probation.”
— ‘CBS Sports’
Related Link » Adaptive-Wave Alternative for the Black-Scholes Option Pricing ModelWorks for me.
“A nonlinear wave alternative for the standard Black-Scholes option-pricing model is presented. [...] Adjustable 'weights' of the adaptive market-heat potential are estimated using either unsupervised Hebbian learning, or supervised Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. In the case of stochastic volatility, it is itself represented by the wave function, so we come to the so-called Manakov system of two coupled NLS equations (that admits closed-form solutions), with the common adaptive market potential, which defines a bidirectional spatio-temporal associative memory.”
— ‘Vladimir G. Ivancevic, (Submitted on 10 Nov 2009)’
Related Link » Climate Change Scientists Admit Dumping Data
“Scientists at the University of East Anglia have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. [...] The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals — stored on paper and magnetic tape — were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building. [...] In a statement on its website, the CRU [Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia] said: "We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenized) data." The CRU is the world’s leading center for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible.” [emphasis added]
— ‘Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor, The Sunday Times [of London]’
h/t Secular ApostateRelated Link » Change We Can Believe In
“So, fellow critics of Obama, what would we do instead? It is easy to harp, as Obama did in 2007-8, but hard to govern, as Obama learned in 2009. So for all the criticism, let us put up some sample proposals of our own.
[...]
Transfer the UN headquarters to an African or South American capital closer to the problems of hunger, disease, and poverty. I suggest either Lagos or Lima. Global elites could not walk from five-star hotels to the CBS studios to grandstand about US pathologies. But delegates could match their solidarity rhetoric by concretely living with the other. We would get away from the “U.S. did it”. UN forces could ring UN headquarters when a nearby Chavez or Mugabe was rumored to be saber-rattling and crossing borders. When the Kofi Annans of the world got upset stomachs from their luncheon salads, perhaps they could address world sanitation and government corruption rather than Israel.
[...]”
— ‘Victor Davis Hanson, November 29, 2009’
Related Link » The normblog profile 232: TheBigHenrySince I last considered the "UN Question", I have thought of a few alternatives to my recommendation of February 2008:
“[...]
What would you do with the UN? > Move it to Baghdad.
[...]”
— ‘TheBigHenry, February 29, 2008’
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire. Some of his arias, such as "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi, "Che gelida manina" from La bohème, and "Nessun dorma" from Turandot, have become part of popular culture.
Related Link » O Presidency Shark JumpedHaving already exceeded expectations for His audacity, it boggles the mind what The Obama can conjure up to jump the great white. Will The O'Fonzie exceed Madoff's ponzi? Will His Obamitude introduce $quadrillion into the vernacular? Will he require that all US Army war games be conducted with tinker toys? Will one-party rule become law? Will he appoint Michelle, Holder, and Biden to replace the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Will he jump a great white shark with a running start on water?
“I’m afraid the Obama administration is in serious danger of jumping the shark before the first year’s out. Between racking up a historic deficit on pork, dragging out a critical war decision for purposes of minor tinkering, insulting and alarming key allies, playing foot-in-mouth with street cops, watching major agenda items bog down despite one-party rule … how can he hope to top that season without resorting to cheap, obvious gimmicks?” [emphasis added]
— ‘Jules Crittenden’
Related Link » Riding the Back of the TigerHopey-dopey, dude, and pass the ammunition. And pray like hell for a return to some semblance of sanity and honor.
“The survival of Israel now depends on its pilots and missiles, not on any guarantees from the US. In today’s currency, what we guarantee is worth about as much as US treasury bills, or promises of missile defense for Eastern Europe. [...] The problem with all this pessimistic view of human nature is that our elite and anointed smirk at it. They seem to say, ‘Tsk, tsk, we are 21st century Ivy-Leaguers in the postmodern age. [...] But does anyone think human nature has changed (since the Greeks) due to improved diet, or that brain chemistry has altered with video games? Obama inherited, he did not make the rules — whether he thinks he can hope-and-change them away or not. He can read all of Paul Krugman’s essays all he wants, [...] but that does not make a soon-to-be $20-trillion debt go away. Such fantasy does not mean interest rates won’t climb to 5-6% and more, and does not mean that we soon will not be paying a $1-trillion-a-year interest to pay back what we owe. The President can Van-Jones the energy question all he wants, in soaring tones bellowing out ‘solar, wind, and millions of new green jobs!’ But that does not mean that, when the global recovery begins, oil won’t go back to $100 plus per barrel. [...] And, yes, again, [His Oneness] can give a 100 Cairo speeches, back flip even, apologize to the world for being mean to blacks, Indians, Hispanics, Europeans, Japanese, women, birds, plants, butterflies, whatever. And still an Ahmadinejad, a Chavez or a Putin will not be impressed.”
— ‘Victor Davis Hanson, November 25th, 2009’
h/t TheoRelated Link » Side issueContinuing in Norm's vein, how, you might really wonder, can the President of the United States strive to befriend the likes of Chávez and I'madinnerjacket, sworn enemies of the United States, and self-proclaimed scum of the earth? How be bowing and scraping before two-bit potentates, while universally acknowledged as the leader of the free world? How can He continue to push for every piece of ill-advised legislation that can only lead to the ruination of the only nation standing between a potential heaven-on-earth and seventh-century-style hell?
“How, you might wonder, can [Hugo Chávez] be a friend to the likes of [Carlos the Jackal, Idi Amin, and Robert Mugabe], rather than to Women of Zimbabwe Arise? How be on the side of ... Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, rather than on the side of those fighting for democratic reform in Iran? In fact, that's less of a mystery than why Hugo Chávez should have become the hero of Camden.” [emphasis added]
— ‘Norman Geras, November 26, 2009’
h/t S.ApostateRelated Link » Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World StageWhat did "the public" expect — results? Just who are these so-called "public"? Kool-Aid is popular in Jonestown and the San Francisco Bay Area, but half of America knew hopey-dopey was horseshit. We just couldn't convince the other half that free lunch was a fig leaf of the unimaginative.
“Barack Obama looked tired on Thursday, as he stood in the Blue House in Seoul, the official residence of the South Korean president. He also seemed irritable and even slightly forlorn. The CNN cameras had already been set up. But then Obama decided not to play along, and not to answer the question he had already been asked several times on his trip: what did he plan to take home with him? Instead, he simply said ‘thank you, guys’, and disappeared. David Axelrod, senior advisor to the president, fielded the journalists' questions in the hallway of the Blue House instead, telling them that the public's expectations had been ‘too high’.”
— ‘By Gabor Steingart, 11/23/2009 (SPIEGEL ONLINE)’
Related Link » Too many JewsBlimey, 0.0057 Juice should be quite adequate for any undertaking in Britain (corresponds to fraction of Brits who are Juice). Similar logic would apply in PC America.
“One is bound to conclude that, for [Oliver] Miles, balance in this matter relates not only to the views of members of the committee about the Iraq war, and not only to whether or not they are historians (I mean, why on earth not equal representation for pianists and jugglers?) but also to the dispropotionate number of Jews [i.e., Juice]. If not, why does he think this fact worth pointing out? That the Jewish Chronicle has no inhibitions about mentioning it is neither here nor there, since the Jewish Chronicle won't be purveying the innuendo that 40 per cent Jews is too many Jews. And that the Arabic media have no inhibitions doesn't help Miles for a different reason; because the Arab media may well have some such thought in mind. But Miles is unabashed. He's jolly well going to go right ahead and intimate that two Jews is [two] too many Jews.”
— ‘Norman Geras, November 22, 2009’
Related Link » Cartoon Round Up (@ Theo Spark)We're from the Government. We're here to help you.
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— ‘By Mark Scott at 15:47, 22 November 2009’
Related Link » Hadleygate: Politics and Peer ReviewThough I have been retired from LANL for the better part of a decade, I still like to believe that I belong to an international community (scientists), who may very well represent the last vestige of humanity dedicated to a pursuit of knowledge, without socio-political intrusion (at least in principle). When this type of skulduggery is reported, I grieve for my still-active former colleagues, whose reputation as a community of dedicated researchers is besmirched via association with the community of science at large.
“Premier journal publications amplify your voice and pay your bills. And when that becomes a political process, the American Association for the Advancement of Science will resemble ACORN more than it will resemble anything Galileo, Darwin, or Albert Einstein would recognize as an organization promoting the advancement of science. And to that point, this is one of the most despicable, unethical, disgraceful screeds I have ever read if, as is alleged and if true, it came from a politician masquerading as a climate "scientist" [...]”
— ‘Secular Apostate, November 21, 2009’
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It contains a nude photo of Nancy Pelosi.
Related Link » NPR Shocker: Attorney General Holder Stumped By Lindsey GrahamIs there no limit to the perversity of this leftist Administration? Does anyone in this Administration understand the concept of "aiding and abetting our Nation's sworn enemies"? Are they planning to top this atrocity by welcoming bin Laden with a ticker-tape parade down Manhattan's Broadway?
“SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM, (R-S.C.): If we captured bin Laden tomorrow, would he be entitled to Miranda warnings at the moment of capture?
ERIC HOLDER, ATTORNEY GENERAL: Again I'm not -- that all depends. I mean, the notion that we --
GRAHAM: Well, it does not depend. If you're going to prosecute anybody in civilian court, our law is clear that the moment custodial interrogation occurs the defendant, the criminal defendant, is entitled to a lawyer and to be informed of their right to remain silent.” [emphasis added]
— ‘Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters’
h/t domania.us
h/t TheoRelated Link » Seven questions that keep physicists up at night
“The material world may, at some level, lie beyond comprehension, ... No one has yet fathomed how the universe seems to know when it is being watched.”
— 23 October 2009 by Ivan Semeniuk, Waterloo
Related Link » The Classification of Everything
“The fundamental meaning of everything is classification.”
— TheBigHenry
Related Link » Bowing to "World Opinion"
“In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes. [...] Behind this decision and others is the notion that we have to demonstrate our good faith to other nations, sometimes called "world opinion." Just who are these saintly nations whose favor we must curry, at the risk of American lives and the national security of the United States? Internationally, the law of the jungle ultimately prevails, despite pious talk about "the international community" and "world opinion," or the pompous and corrupt farce of the United Nations. Yet this is the gallery to which Barack Obama has been playing, both before and after becoming President of the United States. [...] In the wake of the obscenity of a trial of terrorists in federal court for an act of war — and the worldwide propaganda platform it will give them — it may seem to be a small thing that President Obama has been photographed yet again bowing deeply to a foreign ruler. [...] As a private citizen, Barack Obama has a right to make as big a jackass of himself as he wants to. But, as President of the United States, his actions not only denigrate a nation that other nations rely on for survival, but raise questions about how reliable our judgment and resolve are.”
— ‘by Thomas Sowell, November 17, 2009 (TownHall.com)’
h/t Theo
h/t TheoRelated Link » Report: Imam Says He Didn't Pressure HasanPost #1,001 And, in other news ...
“WASHINGTON — The radical Muslim imam who communicated with the Fort Hood shooting suspect said he did not pressure Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan to harm Americans, The Washington Post reported Monday.”
— ‘November 16, 2009 (AP)’
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”
— ‘The Wizard of O's Press Secretary’
“My son never did what I asked him to do.”
— ‘Neville Chamberlain's mother’
“Some of my son's best friends were juice.”
— ‘Klara Pölzl’
“I promise you, she is a strict constructionist.”
— ‘Sotomayor's Nominator-in-Chief’
“My son is a good boy.”
— ‘Joyce Dahmer’
Related Link » memory lane
“an imaginary path through the nostalgically remembered past”
— ‘merriam-webster.com’
| Post # | Post Title | Post Date |
|---|---|---|
| 900 | Not a Pelosi Fan | AUG 23, 2009 |
| 800 | A Dangerous Inquiry | JUN 19, 2009 |
| 700 | So, how's that change working for you? | APR 7, 2009 |
| 600 | Return to Sender | JAN 30, 2009 |
| 500 | § The First 44 | DEC 1, 2008 |
| 400 | Someone to Watch Over Them | OCT 2, 2008 |
| 300 | Toggling the Switches | JUL 11, 2008 |
| 200 | Cheese Food Nation | APR 6, 2008 |
| 100 | Kaka Named FIFA World Player of 2007 | DEC 18, 2007 |
| 1 | ... Justice for all | APR 16, 2007 |
“I saw what they were bringing home; poetry and shit ...”
— From Dangerous Minds
Related Link » White House Backs Fed Oversight RoleThis is the same Christopher Dodd who, along with his counterpart-in-crime-in-the-House Barney Frank single-handedly brought Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to their knees.
“Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.) seeks to create a new agency to supervise all federally chartered financial institutions, taking powers away from the Fed and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., among other agencies. Mr. Dodd's proposal aims to narrow the central bank's purview so it focuses more closely on monetary policy.”
— By MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN and COREY BOLES (WSJ)
Related Link » Thank you former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura BushI know absolutely no one in HillBuzz circles, and until today [h/t Theo] have never heard of their website. If you have been reading me for any length of time, you know that I used to make fun of that lot. That will likely not change. But I believe in giving credit where it's due.
“We know absolutely no one in Bush family circles and have never met former President George W. Bush or his wife Laura. If you have been reading us for any length of time, you know that we used to make fun of ‘Dubya’ nearly every day … parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, lampooned as a chimp, a bumbling idiot, and a poor, clumsy public speaker. [...] Well, we told you before how much the current president, Dr. Utopia, made us realize just how wrong we were about Bush. We shudder to think what Dr. Utopia would have done post-9/11. He would have not gone there with a bullhorn and struck that right tone. More likely than not, he would have been his usual fey, apologetic self, and waxed professorially about how evil America is and how justified Muslims are for attacking us, with a sidebar on how good the attacks were because they would humble us. Honestly, we don’t think ‘President’ Gore would have been much better that day. The world needed George W. Bush, his bullhorn, and his [indomitable] spirit that day … and we will forever be grateful to this man for that. As we will always be grateful for what George and Laura Bush did this week, with no media attention, when they very quietly went to Ft. Hood and met personally with the families of the victims of this terrorist attack.”
— ‘Posted by HillBuzz, November 10, 2009’
Einstein's self-proclaimed "biggest blunder" — his postulation of a cosmological constant (a force that opposes gravity and keeps the universe from collapsing) — may not be such a blunder after all, according to the research of an international team of scientists that includes two Texas A&M University researchers.My point here is that at least the folks at HillBuzz have the decency, unlike the vast majority of that lot of douche bags, to admit publicly that they had been wrong about their malignant treatment of the former President. I'd like to think that if and when I am convinced that I had been wrong about my very low opinion of our current President, I will have the decency to admit that publicly too.
— ‘ScienceDaily (Nov. 28, 2007)’
“I saw what they were bringing home; poetry and shit ...”
— From Dangerous Minds
Related Link » Info & TriviaOK. I do NOT watch the "Regis and Kelly" show, OK? But there's a big TV above our lobby's coffee machine, OK?
“Kelly Ripa, co-host of the popular syndicated morning talk show Live with Regis and Kelly, has one of the most sought-after seats in television. In her past six years hosting with Regis Philbin, she has received five Daytime Emmy nominations for Outstanding Talk Show Host.”
h/t TheoRelated Link » TheBigHenry Manifesto (rev.1)
"Cogito, ergo sum [I think, therefore I am]." — René Descartes
"I am, therefore I may [timshel]." — TheBigHenry
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." — Edmund Burke
"All that is needed for the forces of evil to succeed is for enough good men to remain silent." — (William Safire?)I refuse to be shoved into tomorrow's gas chambers without speaking out while I still can.
Related Link » Backlash
“There has been an extensive anti-backlash backlash, however, to the extent that even suggesting [that] Islamic extremism is a problem … has become the problem. I’m still waiting to hear the great outcry from Muslims, here and abroad, against the extremism [itself], rather than whining about fears of being targeted every time someone from within their midst kills a dozen or 3,000 Americans.” [emphasis added]
— ‘Jules Crittenden’
“The best leftist defense is preemptive whining.”So, an American-born ethnic Palestinian U.S. Army Major, who claimed to be a Muslim first and an American second and who defended homicide bombing as analogous to sacrificing one's life to protect one's comrades in battle, shouts a jihad "God is great" in Arabic and proceeds to kill 12 unarmed American soldiers and to seriously wound 38 others, before being brought down by first responders.
— ‘TheBigHenry’
“When you have nothing but a long list of talking points, jump the shark.”
— ‘TheBigHenry’
Related Link » Mandatory sex lessons for every 15-year-oldThe 15-year-olds texted their friends: "ROTFLMAO".
“Mr Balls said: ‘Sex and relationship education is a very important element and we see it as crucial to our drive to reduce teenage pregnancy’.”
— ‘From The Times, November 6, 2009’
Related Link » White House says it's 'speaking truth to power' over Fox NewsA mangled and bleeding metaphor was brought to the ER in critical condition following a botched attack by a senior White House advisor. After what seems to have been an attempt to gut the innocent conceptual device of meaning, in order, apparently, that it might be put to use on the ground as a vacuous slogan alongside a growing army of such slogans, the victim was abandoned by the perpetrator on the CNN interview-room floor. It is now on life support in the ICU of an unnamed hospital in the vicinity of CNN headquarters. Its chances of recovery are thought to be slim.
“Senior White House adviser and Obama crony Valerie Jarrett gave an interview to CNN in which she rapidly backtracked on the required administration line that Fox News is biased. When Campbell Brown asked whether she also thought that MSNBC (which is every bit as liberal as Fox is conservative) was biased she just crumbled. Within the space of a minute, Jarrett said of Fox that ‘of course they’re biased’, then that ‘I don’t want to just generalise all Fox is biased’ (sorry, but you just did – eight seconds ago) before finally settling on the preposterous ‘we’re actually calling everybody out’. That’s, er, calling out ‘everybody’ whose name is made up of two words, second word news, first word beginning with F and ending in X. In the middle of all this patent nonsense, Jarrett blurted out the truly bizarre notion that ‘what the administration has said very clearly is that we’re going to speak truth to power’[!]
Poor plucky little Barack Obama, United States Commander-in-Chief and leader of the Free World taking on Goliath. They may still act as if the election campaign is still on but it might be a good idea for Jarrett and Co to reflect that they are power.” [emphasis added]
— ‘Toby Harnden, Daily Telegraph's US Editor, based in Washington DC.’
I dunno, but the above-mentioned headline just possibly could be the mother lode for politically incorrect and very inappropriate remarks. It is undoubtedly the archetype "the headline is the story".Related Link » Giant Crack in Africa Will Become New Ocean
“A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will eventually become a new ocean or sea, researchers now confirm. [...] [M]agma pushed up through the middle of the rift area and began ‘unzipping’ the rift in both directions, the researchers explained in a statement today.”
— FoxNews.com
“I saw what they were bringing home; poetry and shit ...”
— From Dangerous Minds
Related Link » Sharpton's ex & kid cuffed in 'cop rage'So according to your logic, Ms. Sharpton, it's not your fault that you are obnoxious, because, as his oldest daughter, it is your responsibility to follow in your Dad's footsteps. Interesting line of defense ...
“The rabble-rousing Rev should give his daughter a sermon about road rage. [...] Dominique Sharpton was charged with resisting arrest, and issued summonses for crossing a double yellow line and running a light. [...] She told Amsterdam News in a 2008 interview that following in her father’s footsteps was, ‘not something I really planned on doing, but I know it’s something I have to do. Being his eldest daughter, it’s my responsibility.’” [emphasis added]
— ‘By LARRY CELONA, October 31, 2009 (NY Post)’
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