tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33916212024-03-12T21:05:51.270-04:00Policy & RantsPolitical and Public Policy. Political discussions and politics. A discussion and lots of very pointed editorial comments on doings 'round the world; but especially in the USA.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.comBlogger397125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-49909213534895592202014-02-25T08:53:00.000-05:002014-02-25T08:53:09.441-05:00The light-blue-suiters want that pesky federalism-thingy to GO AWAY.This article in MarineLink.com doesn't say so but the author is a retired Coastie.
Rawther conspicuously missing from MarineLink are articles by mariners who've been boarded by Commissar and Gauleiter wannabes wearing USCG uniforms.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-27426941726383109812013-12-05T17:42:00.003-05:002013-12-05T17:42:41.694-05:00Reaction to the College bubbleWhich is proceeding as Dr Glenn Reynold's has forseen. Reynolds also notes that there are some college majors which are well worth the time; effort; and expense. Here's one: Engineering. Here's an alternative:
The Engineering Candidate Hawsepipe (TECH) program is a comprehensive training program for selected high school graduates who want to pursue careers as seagoing marine engineers.
Is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-3142578150585580962013-11-26T08:24:00.000-05:002013-11-26T08:24:33.158-05:00RedistributionComes now Mickey Kaus who's bemused that the press is (n.b. finally) tumbling to the fact that Obamacare takes from some and gives to others. In a word, redistributive.
Also sprach der Noo Yawk Times:
The idea is basically that Obamacare is secretly (“shhh!” says Tim Noah) redistributive. Obama can’t use the term lest he scare the right, says Harwood. And if youre going to be Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-44374355927976321782013-09-05T13:12:00.001-04:002013-09-05T13:12:10.849-04:00Sebelius Describes Federal Government As 'Our Federal Family' | CNS NewsBig sis/ Big Brother... they're all family!
Sebelius Describes Federal Government As 'Our Federal Family' | CNS NewsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-62506570808763154842013-08-08T08:04:00.001-04:002013-08-08T08:04:47.074-04:00Confederate flag will fly along I-95 - Richmond Times-Dispatch: City Of RichmondI'm going to pick nits: what will fly, assuming the Times-Dispatch got the dimensions right, is the Confederate Naval Ensign. The Confederate battle flag is square; further, the "Confederate Flag" -- the flag of the Confederate States of America -- looks nothing like either of the above.
IOW, these yahoos are trying to make trouble, not honor history; because I don't think they're big CSN Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-88262670498671500952013-07-19T09:59:00.001-04:002013-07-19T09:59:11.522-04:00Yep, sailing permanently twists your mind.Instapundit, a/k/a Professor Glenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee's Law School, posted a link to cleaning advice published in Popular Mechanics (for which he also writes). He also added a hint passed onto him by a maid -- t'is good advice, don't get me wrong -- but he ended the post with:
"She offered the trick in lieu of a fee, and it’s a great one."
Ahem. what would you Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-52633587925558822372013-06-17T14:43:00.004-04:002013-06-17T14:43:45.173-04:00War; Speak Truth to Power (swiped from www.JerryPournelle.com)
Go back a few years. Imagine a CIA plot to get Iran which considers us the Great Satan and hates us, to declare war on al Qaeda and expend blood and treasure on exterminating al Qaeda – which long ago declared war on us, and which is the most easily defined enemy in our War of Terror. Imagine that al Qaeda might be induced to expend its resources fighting Hezbollah and Iran. Imagine that we Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-6765941446528417422013-06-14T11:08:00.000-04:002013-06-14T11:08:01.666-04:00With POTUS 44 tiptoe-ing into SyriaWhy do I think his accent's starting to sound like LBJ?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-87922833166537262742013-06-05T11:31:00.002-04:002013-06-05T11:31:45.973-04:00Defense reform: the unusual suspects sound off!Signatories include Cato, Center for American Progress, American Enterprise Institute, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Alert the media: it's a cold day in hell!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-54971966857717681662013-06-05T11:26:00.001-04:002013-06-05T11:26:45.759-04:00English's greatest word: dirigismean DIRIGISME: economic planning and control by the state Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-3954151450161901712013-05-08T13:58:00.003-04:002013-05-08T13:58:32.777-04:00You're counseling women to submit?Really?
Instapundit links to a report by Wired Magazine which found a brochure from Shaw AFB saying “it may be advisable to submit than to resist.”
Yes, the sentence's really structured that way.
Let me be clear*: a necessary although not, alas, sufficient condtion for any pretense of being a civilized society is the ability of women to say 'no.'
If she says 'no' and her wishes aren't Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-59528651851565641712013-05-06T11:29:00.000-04:002013-05-06T11:29:00.909-04:00Man, it's a good thing the maritime unions spent so much time & money on re-electing the Prezotherwise the administration might screw 'em over!d
Oh, wait...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-2642796035614639672013-05-06T11:19:00.001-04:002013-05-06T11:24:02.520-04:00Note for the seminar: your texts don't do a very good job of pointing out why national party influence in a local campaign isn't always a good idea. Chances are virtually 100% that *no one* in the DNC even dreamt that a tie-in to Nancy Pelosi would actually effect the race!
Ann Althouse on the Sanford/Colbert Busch campaign
Money quote: "
"At one recent campaign stop, Sanford debated a Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-10940015745985495282013-05-02T10:11:00.000-04:002013-05-02T10:11:04.681-04:00Deirdre McCloskey dissects Michael Sandel's "What Money Can't Buy."
Money quote comes from Virginia Postrel: "Deirdre McCloskey dissects Michael Sandel's "What Money Can't Buy."
I think Sandel's better described as a dirigismean although I think Dr. McCloskey'd say communitarianism's the same thing.
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.2027/article_detail.asp
Here's the quote from Dr. McCloskey:
The Poverty of Communitarianism
A Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-63324370735629372102013-04-30T11:23:00.000-04:002013-04-30T11:23:07.276-04:00Armed Robber Has Shotgun Snatched by Unassuming Superhero
If you do this correctly, you end up with a disarmed robber wannabe.However, if you do it wrong...The question then becomes whether you'll be robbed *and* shot in which case you might as well go for it; because, when seconds count, the police are only minutes away!
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-81132561202270020712013-04-23T17:38:00.005-04:002013-04-23T17:40:03.062-04:00Game of ThronesShamelessly swiped from Uncle Tim Bolego's Revenge Dr Adams of CalPoly, Pomona
The Game Of Thrones Is A Game Of Coins
From: "Pamela C. Adams" <pcadams@csupomona.edu>
By Matt McCaffrey and Carmen Dorob | April 17 2013 11:31 AM
There has been a good deal of buzz in the past few weeks about the premiere of the third season of HBO’s hit series “Game of Thrones.” But for those who have Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-41620928716039747592013-04-23T08:21:00.001-04:002013-04-23T08:21:05.217-04:00When seconds count, as Glenn Reynolds is wont to say, the police are only minutes away....Money quote from Paula Bolyard:
I realized at that moment that the police cannot protect me from the Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs of the world.
The best they can do is tell me to lock myself in my home while they search for the bad guy. Though the residents of Watertown (and the surrounding greater-Boston area) were held in a state of near-martial law, the best most of them could do was huddle in their Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-30706011447530352852013-03-18T15:12:00.001-04:002013-03-18T15:13:09.181-04:00Government as Old-Age HomeMQ:
"None of us wants to impose new burdens on vulnerable seniors," write economists Harry Holzer of Georgetown University and Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution in The Washington Post. "[But] for how long will we continue to sacrifice investments in our nation's children and youth ... to spend more and more on the aged?"
Hypocritical conservatives are liberals' unspoken allies. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-53267584780290426382013-03-15T12:28:00.000-04:002013-03-15T12:28:03.066-04:00Younger Generations Lag Parents in Wealth-BuildingThe grey lady gets even grayer.
Master of the Obvious quote:
Because wealth compounds over long periods of time — a dollar saved 10 years ago is worth much more than a dollar saved today — young adults probably face less secure futures for decades down the road, and even shakier retirements.
As you might expect, the Times doesn't note that younger generations are looking at -- by the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-13848805275128129682013-03-14T12:39:00.001-04:002013-03-14T12:39:39.254-04:00The Perils of Intellectual Apostasyswiped from Richochet. Money quote:
Most of the New Deal liberals that I once knew have passed on. They have been replaced in positions of authority by a generation for whom everything is political. Its motto is "the personal is political and the political is personal." What this means in practice is that the members of this generation tend to regard those at odds with them not as merely wrong Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-15688681531016477382013-03-08T11:28:00.000-05:002013-03-08T11:28:44.693-05:00Die unabhängige politische Partei-Chef befiehlt dir zu stoppen trägt diese Kondome!On accounta 'cause you might be a prostitute. 80% of NYC high school grads can't read well enough for community college, but YOU might be a prostitute.
Wir mussen Ordnung haben!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-24263875236142781442013-02-28T11:22:00.003-05:002013-02-28T11:22:41.742-05:00Administration to Dismantle U.S. Merchant Marine? It would be, I suppose, in bad taste to point out that ALL of the unions endorsed POTUS 44. I presume dues-paying members are satisfied that the campaign donations were worth it....
just saying.
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/Administration-to-Dismantle-US-Merchant-Marine/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-66082299740303939762013-02-28T09:50:00.002-05:002013-02-28T09:50:43.686-05:00Coasties publish an Interim rule to enforce MARPOL. but they still want commentsSo a revision of the international agreement on marine pollution -- a/k/a/ MARPOL -- went into effect on 1 January 2013. The Coasties either knew this was coming but couldn't get their act together to allow comments before this shtuff became international law* or they figured that the industry would make their lives complicated if they knew what was coming (because the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-15137875594152794102013-02-26T09:41:00.001-05:002013-02-26T09:41:28.417-05:00Women & Children firstSinking of the HMS Birkenhead - 26 February 1852
On February 26, 1852, the troopship HMS BIRKENHEAD grounded at Danger Point, near Cape Town, South Africa. It was carrying about 400 British soldiers to fight in the Kaffir War in South Africa. Also on board were about 200 civilians, mostly women and children. There were not sufficient lifeboats for everyone. The senior British Army officer Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3391621.post-2650399505528400082013-02-11T15:51:00.000-05:002013-02-11T15:51:18.846-05:00The Coasties Regulatory kowtow to the ILOAch, RR, where are you now that we need you?
The US Coast Guard seeks comments on a draft Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular (NVIC) that sets forth the Coast Guard’s policies and procedures regarding inspection of US vessels for voluntary compliance with the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC 2006), which enters into force on 20 August 2013. Comments should be submitted by 13 March. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08057766063907866916noreply@blogger.com2