From MediaBlog (from InstaPundit):
CAPTAIN SHERMAN POWELL: Well sir, I’d tell you, if I got my news from the newspapers I’d be pretty depressed as well.
I am sure he is right. I cannot imagine how hard it must be fighting a war when not just the enemy, but your own country is hell bent on having you fail.
Seattle has a discriminatory program that uses public money to exclude non-muslims from a swimming facility. This is not acceptable, so here are their emails to contact them.
The program is being funded by the North Seattle Family Center unit of the Children’s Home Society.
Their website lists two contact people, Derek Wentorf and Ann Fuller.
Derek Wentorf’s email address is derekw@chs-wa.org.
Ann Fuller’s email address is nfctr@juno.com.
Contact them via email or (206) 364-7930 regarding your thoughts on whether public funds should be used to segregate our society. You may also use their page.
Contact me if this information is inaccurate.
Here is a flash history.
Stop indulging your media frenzy fantasies, go home and tend to your children and what is left of your marriage. update: too late.
America may not be worth dying for, but is it worth killing?
Back in the day, our enemies needed to make propaganda for themselves. These days, Iran waits for Michael Moore to produce exactly what they are looking for, and then shuts down the cineplex to put Moore’s propaganda to work for them.
Want to learn Chinese? Important part number one is figuring out how to distinguish between the four different tones of Mandarin.
Chinese is going to be hard! Sinosplice breaks down how you will feel learning the language. Mommy!
The world is becoming safer because the world is getting older.
Today, Israel is forcibly removing Israeli settlers from Gaza. The LA Times reports that radical young West Bank settlers moved into Gaza and are camping there for the fight. Meanwhile the NY Times reports that Gaza youngsters are slashing tires and smashing windows in their own protests.
The Arab radicals follow the same pattern. I can think of examples of young, female suicide bombers, but no old ones. Most of the Iraqi insurgents and suicide bombers you hear about are in their 20s. On the other side, US soldiers are also generally in their 20s. It every corner of the world, the youth are the most radical, extreme and violent.
We also know that the world is aging. Stories abound detail various countries’ aging population and the problems aging causes.
It is little surprise then that global war and violence are in sharp decline by every accountable measure. The safest countries such as Japan also have the oldest populations.
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Humans process language by building larger structures from smaller language blocks. Opinions are a group of arguments, which are groups of sentences, which are groups of words. Words are a collection of word chunks that are analogous to Kanji.
When constructing a word, we sometimes combine multiple words into a single word. Examples are some-times, block-buster, book-mark. Sometimes we do the same thing but compress the words slightly. Examples are mov(e)-able. In Chinese or Japanese, these would be represented by two characters. News-paper, for example, is represented by the combination of “New” and “Gateway to the Ear”.
Over time, we begin to modify and compress these multiple words into more compact groupings. Thus, “sun (together)” and “lambanein (take)” now combine into Syllable.
I mostly thought of this because I was surprised to learn that retrieve was once “retrover (find again)”.
I was hoping these thoughts would be more organized, but they are nothing much beyond retreading earlier thoughts of mine.
Here is your hilariously untrue fact for the day (courtesy ndnpac.org):
20.5 million Americans have visited an adult web site. 31 million read blogs.
I’ll just say this: Find someone who is unaware the internet is a porn emporium. Microsoft did not buy an anti-spyware company because too many people read blogs.