Related source » INCREDIBLE: Jeb Corliss wingsuit skydiver flies through mountain cave
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“Human glider Jeb Corliss jumps from a chopper, then flies through a hole in the side of a mountain in China.”
— Published on Sep 24, 2011 by itnnews
I'm amazed how his balls could fit through that hole! — geppegep
Image via WikipediaRelated source » Journalism Class That Urges 'Context' In Reporting On Jihad Misses Point: Motive MattersIs there no end to the lunacy of the left? Seriously, when do ordinary people who do not subscribe to a self-loathing philosophy, one that must subject itself to extreme contortions to exonerate murderous bastards who want to kill us all, finally say, "Enough already! If you must be a supplicant to the blasphemy of inviting self-destruction, please have the decency to congregate elsewhere. The rest of us want to continue to lead healthy and productive lives for as long as we can."
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“And I learned, among other fairly uncontroversial facts about what has been among the world’s fastest growing religions, that while approximately 3,000 people were killed on 9/11, approximately 15,000 people in the U.S. are murdered each year. I also learned that in most years, “jihad organizations” have accounted for “well under 1 percent” of the half million people who are murdered annually. At its “peak” – of what, Poynter.news University doesn’t tell us– the jihad groups have accounted for under 2 percent of the toll. […] The point of the class seems clear, as MRC [the conservative Media Research Center] argues: to downplay “the impact and importance” of “jihad” and the challenge of terrorism and Islamist terrorism, in particular. Those who follow a violent and perverse interpretation of this pillar of Islam may be a tiny minority, but they have changed our nation’s policies, and arguably, its history. But there is no way to know that either from this insipid list of platitudes about one of the world’s largest and most influential monotheisms. This is a course in political correctness for reporters assigned to cover Islam in America who have slept through the past decade. It is unworthy of Poynter.”
— By Judith Miller, September 29, 2011 (FoxNews.com)
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Related source » Jetman Flight at Grand Canyon West
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“In May 2011, Jetman achieved a beautiful and memorable flight in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA... and here's the official souvenir video! Many thanks to all who were involved in that adventure!”
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Related source » Press Man: The Prisoner of Zandi via Blog thisThere you have it, boys and girls — the making of well-rounded progressive zombies, especially on America's regimented liberal campuses. The best and the brightest are groomed (creamed?) by their bigoted professors, who make no distinction between their course syllabuses and their personal political agendas.
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“Here’s how the go-to guy works. Let’s say you’re a reporter on a deadline and you need a quote right this minute […] If it’s the economy you’re writing about, [your go-to guy is] Mark Zandi. He has all the qualities that go into making a go-to guy of the very first rank. He is fluent on television and keeps his sentences short. His demeanor is pleasant. He uses the word “narrative” with abandon—“narrative” being the hottest word in journalism since “transparency”; it’s this year’s “accountability.” And he’s a liberal. All go-to guys are liberals. They can’t be identified as such, lest their authority as disinterested observers be undermined and the reader or viewer begin to get ideas. Ideological fuzziness is good; ideological hermaphroditism is better. […] In economics, Zandi is capable of meeting all of a reporter’s go-to-guy needs, so the trade has been careful in obscuring his liberalism. He is a registered Democrat, as he freely admits when asked. But he’s seldom asked. The key to his indispensability is that he once—once—did some work for a Republican. […] The job of the go-to guy transcends accuracy. It is instead to confirm the circular reasoning that underlies so much of modern liberalism. A stimulus will create jobs because that’s what a stimulus does. In a budget standoff, Republicans and not Democrats are stubborn and unyielding, because stubborn and unyielding is how Republicans are. […] Ask Mark Zandi […]”
— Andrew Ferguson, September 2011 (commentarymagazine.com)
Image via WikipediaRelated source » Implementing the Quantum von Neumann Architecture with Superconducting Circuits: via Blog thisI never thought I would stoop to quoting two half-assed Chris's ("BACK" Berman and "Tingles" Matthews) in a single post, but the referenced proof-of-principle study for quantum computing sends tingles "… up my leg"!
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“The von Neumann architecture for a classical computer comprises a central processing unit and a memory holding instructions and data. We demonstrate a quantum central processing unit that exchanges data with a quantum random-access memory integrated on a chip, with instructions stored on a classical computer. […] Our results, in combination especially with longer qubit coherence, illustrate a potentially viable approach to factoring numbers and implementing simple quantum error correction codes.”
— Matteo Mariantoni, et al, Submitted on 17 Sep 2011 (arxiv.org/abs/1109.3743)
Image via WikipediaRelated source » U.S. Gamers Crack Puzzle In AIDS Research That Stumped Scientists For Years | Fox News: 'via Blog this' [This related source is recommended in its entirety.]What a creative approach towards solving one of the great problems that has plagued humanity for more than three decades! As David Deutsch explains in his wonderful new book:
“In just three weeks, online gamers deciphered the structure of a retrovirus protein that has stumped scientists for over a decade, and a study out Sunday says their breakthrough opens doors for a new AIDS drug design. […] Looking for a solution, researchers at the University of Washington turned to Foldit, a program created by the university a few years ago that transforms problems of science into competitive computer games, and challenged players to use their three-dimensional problem-solving skills to build accurate models of the protein. With[in] days, the gamers generated models good enough for the researchers to refine into an accurate portrayal of the enzyme's structure. What's more, the scientists identified parts of the molecule that are likely targets for drugs to block the enzyme.”
— Published September 19, 2011 (foxnews.com)
“Indeed, the fall of tyranny is never enough. The sustained creation of knowledge depends also on the presence of certain kinds of idea, particularly optimism, and an associated tradition of criticism. There would have to be social and political institutions that incorporated and protected such traditions: a society in which some degree of dissent and deviation from the norm was tolerated, and whose educational practices did not entirely extinguish creativity. None of that is trivially achieved. Western civilization is the current consequence of achieving it […]”All doomsday predictions neglect to account properly for unforeseen solutions, solutions that do not violate the laws of physics. People are universal explainers. Progress always brings with it new problems, but this is not a rational reason for choosing stasis. Every static society in history (including prehistory) has been doomed by stasis-mandated ignorance. So-called "peak oil" alarms calling for some sort of rationing strategy, for example, are nothing more than submission to stasis, eventual decline, and ultimate disaster.
— David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
“Many people have an aversion to infinity of various kinds. But there are some things that we do not have a choice about. There is only one way of thinking that is capable of making progress, or of surviving in the long run, and that is the way of seeking good explanations through creativity and criticism. What lies ahead of us is in any case infinity. All we can choose is whether it is an infinity of ignorance or of knowledge, wrong or right, death or life.”My own choices are knowledge, right, and life. Every rational person should make those choices. I can not think of a better explanation for that elusive meaning of life itself.
— David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
Image via WikipediaRelated source » The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Waxman Blames Rich Jews!He's the complete package — everything that people look for in a schmuck. In the section on Jewish identity of his Wikipedia biographical entry he is described, in part, as follows:
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“In what has got to be a prizewinning display of that peculiar skill that consists of joining chutzpah with execrable taste, California's Henry Waxman, a leading liberal, blames the loss of one of the safest Democratic seats in Congress on rich Jews. […] It does not strike [Waxman], perhaps, that voters might not want to be represented by a party that embraces sex maniacs and that is perceived as down on Israel.. […] Irving Kristol noted long ago that for all manners of historical and sentimental reasons, the Jews seem to be the only group -- if such they still are -- in America that votes against its own interests, and he reproached them for it. In a recent book [Why Are Jews Liberals?] Norman Podhoretz made the same case at somewhat greater length. […] Rep. Waxman, who represents California's 30th Congressional District, which includes Santa Monica, Malibu, Beverly Hills, and a few other proletarian neighborhoods, perhaps liked it that way because so long as Jews vote against their own best interests, they will elect the likes of Henry Waxman.”
— By ROGER KAPLAN on 9.16.11 (spectator.org)
Waxman is proud of his "strong Jewish identity" and has drawn political conclusions from his exploration of the religion. "Judaism is about acting and doing the right thing, not simply believing in it or mindlessly following ritual," he said in a speech presented by the University of Southern California's Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. Waxman said he applies Jewish ethical values to his congressional service. [emphasis added]So Waxman may think he acts in accordance with a "strong Jewish identity". But self-loathing was never part of Jewish dogma. I'm not a scholar of Jewish philosophy, but my basic understanding is that Judaism prescribes self-preservation, not self-loathing, as an imperative that even trumps religious observance. This is what Egypt miscalculated when it attacked Israel on Yom Kippur in 1973. Although Israel was surprised by the attack, the fact that it occurred on its holiest of days did not alter significantly Israel's defensive response. Only the intervention of the superpowers prevented Arial Sharon's army from demolishing the Egyptian army they had surrounded near the Suez.
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeRelated source » Jewish Support for Obama Down, but Not DisproportionatelyMy fellow Jewish-American voters, what in the world are you thinking? How much more of the travesty euphemistically known as the Obama Administration do you need to have shoved down your collective throat to acknowledge that you have perpetrated the most self-destructive policy upon our people since that of the despicable Jimmy Carter? Jewish people, taken as a demographic whole, are supposed to be intelligent. Since when has self-inflicted punishment become the intelligent thing to do?
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“There is little sign that President Obama is suffering disproportionately in support among Jews; 54% approved of his job performance from Aug. 1-Sept. 15, 13 percentage points higher than his overall 41% approval rating during that time, and similar to the average 14-point gap seen throughout Obama's term.”
— by Frank Newport, September 16, 2011 (gallup.com)
Related source » Newmark's Door: The Left: still bitterly disappointed, still unhappy
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“Note to the Left: […] the reason you're so consistently disappointed is that your vision of the world simply doesn't work.”
— Posted by Craig Newmark, September 12, 2011 (newmarksdoor.com)
“There are no shortcuts to expertise. The only known exceptions were Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Rain Man, and Barry Bonds.” — TheBigHenrySo these myopes want to share the wealth with one and all because, you know, "Everybody chairs things, bro". And that is the "vision" being sold by the likes of Snake-oil Obama, Batshit Crazy Pelosi, and Al Gore Your Ox. Unfortunately, in the world we actually have to live in, there is nothing that vanishes quicker than shared wealth. Why? Well because, boys and girls, there is nobody who is willing to replenish shared wealth. That's why.
Image via WikipediaRelated source » George W. Bush Presidential CenterNever again.
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“Ten years ago, the sun rose on a peaceful September morning. By the time it set, nearly three thousand people were gone – the most lives lost on American soil in a single day since the Battle of Antietam.”
— President George W. Bush
“I can hear you. I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you.
And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.”
Image by safoocat via FlickrRelated source » Two Different Worlds - Thomas Sowell - Townhall ConservativeAs an antidote to the nausea-inducing piece of mindless video-dreck (see my post titled "Capitalism Unwound", below) try the soothing sensible words of Thomas Sowell (above). Both the video-rant and the sensible words have been uttered by African Americans, so spare me the obligatory charges of racism. These two individuals share racial characteristics, but in the realm of cognition they are members of different species.
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“What kind of world do we want -- one in which everyone works to increase wealth to whatever extent they can, or a world in which everyone will be supported by either government handouts or private philanthropy, whether they work or don't work? It is not an abstract question. We can already see the consequences on both sides of the Atlantic. Those who have grown used to having others provide their food, shelter and other basics as "rights" are by no means grateful. On the contrary, they are more angry, lawless and violent than in years past, whether they are lower-class whites rioting in Britain or black "flash mobs" in America. Their histories are very different, but what they have in common is being supplied with a steady drumbeat of resentments against those who are better off. Politicians, intellectuals and whole armies of caretaker bureaucrats are among those who benefit, in one way or another, from picturing parasites as victims, and their lags behind the rest of society as reasons for anger rather than achievement. Leading people into the blind alley of dependency and grievances may be counterproductive for them but it can produce votes, money, power, fame and a sense of exaltation to others who portray themselves as friends of the downtrodden. Both private philanthropy and the taxpayers' money support this whole edifice of a make-believe world, where largesse replaces achievement and "rights" replace work.”
— Thomas Sowell, 9/6/2011 (townhall.com)
Related source » Happy Labor Day From The Left (secularapostate.net)
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