A statistical perspective
America has less than 5 percent of the current global population. Counting only Europe, China, and India, America has less than 15% of the current relevant population. We WILL NOT be able to impose our...
View ArticleA Statistical Perspective on American Power
Now with new title goodness! America has less than 5 percent of the current global population. Counting only Europe, China, and India, America has less than 15% of the current relevant population. We...
View ArticleCui bono?
Who benefits... all our puerile analysis of policy is focused on 'who is hurt', not 'who benefits'. This diary is completely focused on 'who benefits'. I have three analyses to share: 1) The neo-con...
View ArticleThe 11/2 Defense: My election absolves EVERYTHING
This is absolutely unFuckingBelievable. A perfect example of Bush's malignant narcissism and fundamental willingness to sacrifice all of us and the Constitution and basic human decency for his own...
View ArticleMy KosGeekCode
I am interested in developing a measure by which KosInes (long "O", long "I") can determine who knows what in given fields. For a first approximation of this measure, I am expert in mathematics,...
View ArticleThe Republican Recrudescence
What you need to know to understand this diary: 1) the definition of recrudescence, second definition at dictionary.com What I want to say: Despite the recent election, the basic American tropes are 1)...
View ArticleWhat YOU'VE spent on the Iraq War
I think a good way to approach this is not the cost in human lives, but in monetary cost. $200B/300M Americans is $666.00 per person, $2,664 for a family of 4. Has it been worth it? The annual cost is...
View ArticleDem's Tet Offensive
We've won several important battles in the last two days. Gannon and Social Security. But these are merely the latest local excesses/overreachings of the cabal trying to bend America to its will. How...
View ArticleMATHShop: MSM response time
Hello. I have deep and exquisite expertise in mathematics and computer science. What I have noticed is that the MSM (Main Stream Media) have a 2-7 day (48-168) hour response time to being seared from...
View ArticleTHE PERFECT IS THE ENEMY OF THE GOOD ENOUGH
Look, why are so many leftists straining at the gnat in their eye when the enemy is beating us blind with the beam in their eye? The very first lesson of mass communication, mass action, mass ANYTHING...
View ArticleIt's all about THE POWER
Coulter is a sideshow. All pundits are a side show. Who among all our threats actually has THE POWER to change things? Congress certainly has the power to change things. Bush's catastrophic...
View ArticleWhy the Senate exists in the first place
The Senate exists only and exactly because the Minority was worried about being overwhelmed by the Majority. One of the brilliant balances designed by Our Founders (tm) was that the Minority always had...
View Article30 pieces of silver
Each and every life lost in New Orleans is worth more than that... but the utterly banally evil Administration officials and the media slavers who enable them are eager to claim their 30 pieces or less...
View ArticleNext round of refugees
Pretty soon many of the people who made it out before the storm hit are going to start running out of money. And unlike most natural disasters, these people's jobs are gone too, so they have no money...
View ArticlePrediction: Rita will bring compassion fatigue
I think that everyone who cares about the evacuees from Katrina has given all they can, with the exception of the very wealthy, who I predict will not respond with the same generosity for Rita. I think...
View ArticleWe won't be able to clean house
We won't be able to clean house. Even if a miracle occurs, and we get back both the House and Senate, and even if a greater miracle occurs, and we are able to hand over Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, et...
View ArticlePardons for all, and other balance of power issues
Or, if the Dems win both the House and the Senate this fall... and it looks like the big guns are going to be seriously investigated, I predict that Cheney, et al will be pardoned; in fact I predict...
View ArticleThe Kiss of Death for Hastert
Bush has just come out in support of The Redoubtable Mr. H! From the AP...Hours after a conservative Washington newspaper called for Hastert's resignation, Bush referred to the speaker as a "father,...
View ArticleThe Damage Bush can still do
Remember that even though we hold the House and Senate, Bush can still do incredible damage. For example, he still runs the various Federal agencies. Follow me after the break...
View ArticleThere's no THERE, there
The fundamental flaw of the Iraq Study Group is the assumption that there is still some sort of a national nucleus that can be called 'Iraq'. It's absolutely not true.
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