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  4. Here’s a very interesting and forceful interview given by Peter Navarro, a key economic advisor to Donald Trump. He’s really having to pull his interviewer out of his smaller viewpoint to, reluctantly I think, see the big picture on what Trump wants to do to jumpstart America’s economy:
    http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-09-21/fed-fueling-obama-paper-bull-market-trump-adviser-says
    Looks like Trump wants to see a return to real value in the stock market derived from healthy economic growth and not Obama’s smoke and mirrors as supplied by the Fed.

  6. The Inevitable Evolution of Bad Science
    …shows how the incentives of modern academia naturally select for weaker and less reliable results.
    A scientist’s career currently depends on publishing as many papers as possible in the most prestigious possible journals. More than any other metric, that’s what gets them prestige, grants, and jobs.
    Now, imagine you’re a researcher who wants to game this system. Here’s what you do. Run many small and statistically weak studies. Tweak your methods on the fly to ensure positive results. If you get negative results, sweep them under the rug. Never try to check old results; only pursue new and exciting ones. These are not just flights of fancy. We know that such practices abound.
    http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/the-inevitable-evolution-of-bad-science/500609/

  7. No kidding!
    I noticed that even as far back as my first time as a grad student in 1979/80. Intellectually, at least in academe, it’s largely a Ponzi scheme with the objective being the acquisition of funding. If one brings in enough money, one’s eligibility for tenure increases. Once that’s been achieved, the amount of funding that’s brought in is a factor in determining how much one gets paid as well as increasing one’s chances at promotion.
    It’s all about money and prestige. During my Ph. D. convocation, the university president addressed the audience like a CEO speaking to a shareholders meeting. The fact that there were people there waiting to receive their degrees was of lesser importance.

  11. Man ON the moon is my absolute favorite song by REM. The lilting shuffle tune and haunting vocal style perfectly fits that weirdo Michael Stipe. I can’t really explain why … but the song always gives me “chills” … that galvanic skin response when one is moved emotionally. I think it reminds me of time spent listening to old vinyl with my children. Or maybe it is the sad recollection of comic genius Andy Kauffman … I don’t know ?

  12. This is rather interesting.
    Mayor of Sacramento decide he had enough of an idiot.
    “Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson Hit in Face with Pie at Event, Assaults Protester in ‘Bloody’ Scene:
    http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2016/09/21/sacramento-mayor-kevin-johnson-hit-in-face-with-cake-at-event-assaults-protester-in-bloody-scene
    Don’t know his politics, don’t really care.
    Mayor did the right thing.
    The idiot that pied him, will not do that, never….ever….again….guaranteed.
    Unless he is a mental case, which could be a cover for normal idiot.
    Case closed.
    End of story.

  15. I read that story in total AMAZEMENT ! But it left me with a couple questions …
    1. Where is the video of this ? Surely, in a high school there were countless cell phones in video mode. Surely film of this BEATDOWN by a still athletic Mayor (Go Bears!) was taken. Where is it ?
    2. Imagine Donald Trump threw a few haymakers at some IDIOT protester who hit him with a pie ? Can you imagine the faux outrage about that ? But I guess we already knew that Democrap politicians were inoculated against press scrutiny.
    Having said that … I … actually applaud the mayor for meeting action with a superior re-action. Good on him. And, BTW, this “protester” is a well-known “regular” stalker of the Mayor.

  16. Mao* Strong Report.
    …-
    “Chinese Premier greeted with 19-gun salute, protests” (np)
    “China jails prominent rights lawyer for 12 years” (np)
    …-
    “The Catastrophic Dam Failures
    in China in August 1975”
    “In 1950, shortly after an episode of severe flooding in Huai River Basin, the government of the People’s Republic of China announced a long term program to control Huai River system. It was called, “Harness the Huai River.””
    “Over 85 thousand died as a result of the dam failures. There was little or no time for warnings. The wall of water was traveling at about 50 kilometers per hour or about 14 meters per second. ”
    http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/aug1975.htm
    *Liberal Justine’s favourite dictator.

  17. Yeah, that song has a similar effect on me. Now it reminds me of yet another comic genius with a sad history. But then, the song had that “haunting” feel to it before I ever learned it was about Kauffman.
    I thought Jim Carrey did a great portrayal of him. I felt the same “embarrassment” and empathy as when Kauffman himself would go on stage and try to push the comedy envelope by going sooo over-the-top that he would lose his audience.
    Thank you veddy much.

  18. NME666;
    Not particularly interested in new jet fighters for the Canadian Forces. Rather the money be spent on icebreakers for the north and for establishing military bases there. Not a military man other than through study. Simply think that presence in the Artic other than by air is essential to long term sovereignty claims. Russia, China and even the USA are not our friends in the Artic.
    Might I even suggest mandatory service in the Artic for Canadian youth in exchange for approved university study financing?

  19. Isn’t the internet wonderful. So many stories about fabulous things, unbelievable, amazing things. Albeit the stories are mostly about just how close we are to a break though. But what the hell….
    Why, I read, it seems like just the other day, about small fusion reactors that a major corp. would be marketing in the near future. And reactionless drives that would get us to Mars in a matter of days. And cold fusion. And batteries which would revolutionize electrical storage. And life which was based on arsenic rather than phosphorous. And then there were the stories about aliens and other stuff from other parts of the universe.
    I ask again, isn’t the internet wonderful?

  20. Socialism: the religion of the stomach.
    …-
    “The diary of a desperate mother trying to put food on the kitchen table.”
    “The looting, the blackouts, the mob lynchings, the hospitals with no supplies. Venezuela’s collapse into disarray is of a scale unseen in the Western Hemisphere in decades. In an effort to illustrate what day-to-day life is like on the ground, Bloomberg reporter Fabiola Zerpa documented her efforts to secure food for her middle-class family. This is a selection of entries from her month-long chronicle.”
    http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-venezuela-diary/

  21. Oh my God!
    “I regret doing this”…Already CBC coming to her aid on this one:
    http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=between%20two%20ferns&qft=%20filterui:videoage-lt1440&view=detail&mid=23946ACFC85453EA89FB23946ACFC85453EA89FB&FORM=VRDGAR
    Huge! Not sure why Drudge not linking yet…Maybe he does not promote Hollyweirdos but this is priceless…Check it to the end!…The real zinger is at the end of the 5 min roast of HILLARY.

  23. The Trump show in précis:
    “If Trump’s Not Conservative, Why Do Democrats Fear and Loathe Him?”
    Trump’s proposal for subsidized maternity leave and childcare seems big-government, but it’s good campaign strategy, and could work as policy. If Trump can staunch the hemorrhaging of American jobs, renegotiate the heist occurring against us in the global marketplace, and stop the invasion of millions of dependent immigrants, the entitlement reforms he’s proposing—including the salvation of Social Security—might fall into the realm of affordability.”
    Yes, the left always goes after the Republican nominee. They featured a Paul Ryan look-alike pushing granny over a cliff with a Medi-scare ad. They ridiculed Senator John McCain with ageist humor. They undermined and ridiculed Governor Palin at every turn. One Obama Super PAC suggested Governor Romney was to blame for a constituent’s death from cancer. Let’s not get started on George W. Bush.”
    Trump’s a different story. There aren’t enough crypto-Hitlerian subtexts or Strangelove A-bomb allusions in the world to capture the awfulness the prospect a President Trump presents to social justice warriors, re-conquistadores, and the blame-America-first crowd. Trump discomfits conservatives too, for different sets of reasons, and no one can deny that conservatives reasoning in opposition to Trump have had every opportunity to express themselves. But it’s the fear on the left that is instructive.”
    If Trump is not conservative, and no serious person thinks he’s a liberal, that means he’s become the scariest centrist that the usual progressive suspects have ever encountered. The reasoned (and at times hysterical) concern of the “RINO” establishment pales in comparison to the terror Donald Trump inspires in forces whose vision for the United States is one of open borders, multi-nationalist hegemony, and globalist social justice.”
    https://pjmedia.com/election/2016/09/16/if-trumps-not-conservative-why-do-democrats-fear-and-loathe-him/2/#comments

  26. B.O’narcissist.
    “As his presidency comes to a close, the fact is that Obama has little to show the world on Syria. With an estimated half a million deaths, the Middle East in flames and European allies destabilised by the impact of refugee flows, he will pass on a festering crisis to his successor.”
    …-
    “The devastation of Syria will be Obama’s legacy
    The US president badly misread Putin. Only a tough approach with Russia can secure any kind of peace”
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/22/syria-obama-us-president-putin-russia
    …-
    “This is his sole legacy: a massive post-traumatic stress disorder.”
    http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/obama.html

  27. I agree. Canada has no need to play in the “My stealth fighter is better than your stealth fighter” games. The money should be spent instead on ports and bases across Canada’s North. The spin-off will be viable economic support for Northern communities instead of culture-numbing socialist welfare. The US has done that effectively in Alaska with bases becoming regional centers of economic activity.

  30. “Might I even suggest mandatory service in the Artic for Canadian youth in exchange for approved university study financing?”
    A most excellent idea.
    Never going to happen though with useless idiots in charge.
    Would not even happen with volunteers.
    Tough life is not conductive to the snowflakes and flowers, even for a year.

  33. Good analysis. The tendency in Canada is also to demonize Conservatives. Ultimately, this simply leads to extremism, vs. A balanced centrist approach. The Liberals I think are currently manifesting some extreme positions and intolerance for opposing views and rejecting calls for balance.

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