Jonathan Gewirtz has found some, down in the Everglades. I hadn’t previously been aware that there were plans for a solid booster for the Saturn.
Winning Wars
Well, the comments drifted pretty far off topic in this post. Many of them would have been better directed toward this one, on the administration’s seeming unwillingness to recognize that we are in a state of war with Iran.
I’ll repeat my comment there, in response to the comment that we need boots on the ground to “win” a war with Iran.
Do we have sufficient infantry (today) to sustain a win over Iran?
We don’t need any infantry to “sustain a win over Iran” for certain values of “win.” Despite the nutty straw man comments from the trolls, I’ve never proposed invading, or conquering them, or even necessarily regime change (though that would be nice, and might be a side benefit of a more robust stance against them).
If the goals are to a) prevent them from getting nukes, b) discourage them from continuing to arm people killing us in Iraq and c) prevent them from disrupting Gulf shipping, that can all be done with airpower (and seapower) alone. Certainly Israel has no intention of invading or conquering Iran, or putting boots in Persia, but you can bet they have plenty of war plans, and they don’t expect to lose.
Oppression Of The Poor
By “environmentalists.” Looks like an interesting documentary.
Back From Vacation
Thomas James has lots of new posts over at Marsblog this morning.
Check out in particular his thoughts on spacecraft diets. Also, I’m curious as to what he means by (JARGON WARNING!), “It’s worth noting that a good chunk of that excess weight is due to changes to the LM FPR configuration neccessitated by the merging of the NG/Boeing and Smart Buyer configurations and inputs from NASA ADPs.”
An acronym list would be useful, but what and when was the “merging of the NG/Boeing and Smart Buyer configurations”?
Just Wondering
…while integrating graphics into a proposal. Since phone booths seem to be disappearing with the ubiquity of cell phones, where does Superman change his duds? Did anyone see the movie? How did they handle it?
Recognizing The Enemy
Melanie Phillips, like me, doesn’t understand why the administration doesn’t see the obvious–that we are at war with Iran, but not fighting back in any discernible way. They continue to go completely unhindered, and unpunished, as they frustrate our ability to stabilize Iraq, and provide the arms and training with which our troops are killed daily. We don’t need more troops. We need more clue, and a new strategy.
It’s All Good
Moonbats (and non-moonbats) often accuse me of being a “right-winger” and a “conservative.” I guess that’s because I don’t think that George Bush is Hitler reincarnated, and that removing dictators who support terrorism is a good thing. But if anyone really wants to know why I’m not a conservative, Will Saletan has an interesting example. So-called liberals are afraid of cloned animals and cloned food. Conservatives seem to look askance at cloned humans. I’ve got no problem with either.
It’s All Good
Moonbats (and non-moonbats) often accuse me of being a “right-winger” and a “conservative.” I guess that’s because I don’t think that George Bush is Hitler reincarnated, and that removing dictators who support terrorism is a good thing. But if anyone really wants to know why I’m not a conservative, Will Saletan has an interesting example. So-called liberals are afraid of cloned animals and cloned food. Conservatives seem to look askance at cloned humans. I’ve got no problem with either.
It’s All Good
Moonbats (and non-moonbats) often accuse me of being a “right-winger” and a “conservative.” I guess that’s because I don’t think that George Bush is Hitler reincarnated, and that removing dictators who support terrorism is a good thing. But if anyone really wants to know why I’m not a conservative, Will Saletan has an interesting example. So-called liberals are afraid of cloned animals and cloned food. Conservatives seem to look askance at cloned humans. I’ve got no problem with either.
Now Here’s A Stupid Test
I scored a 31, but it’s really meaningless, because for many of the questions, in my mind, the answer was “neither of the above,” but that wasn’t an option. Of course, one knew right out of the box that it was a stupid test, because it assumes that people can be put on a one-dimensional scale of “liberal/conservative.” I’d like to know how Glenn answered differently from me to get a lower score.
I agree with him, in that I don’t consider myself anything on that scale, and certainly not a “moderate.” There’s a cretin over at sci.space.policy who, whenever I inform him that I’m neither a Republican or Democrat, or Conservative or “Liberal,” invariably says, “then you’re a moderate?”
No. As Glenn says, I’m an extremist, but an eclectic one.
[Saturday morning update]
Volokh has more. Note the commenter who has analyzed the Javascript, and found liberal bias:
You start out as fully liberal, and whenever you give the conservative response, it gives you a certain number of points. Therefore, not answering a question is equivalent to giving the liberal answer. All responses give you one point except the first, which gives you two. If a liberal would check a checkbox, its value is ignored, so even if you don’t check it, it doesn’t affect your score.
So, if I’d done what I wanted to do in many cases, and left the question blank, because it was so mindless, I’d have probably scored as a “liberal.” Note all the idiot stereotypes and false choices implied by the questions. As many noted, if I were teaching a political science (now there’s an oxymoron) class, I’d flunk whoever came up with this thing.