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Insty was the first blog I discovered. Pointed there very shortly afer 9/11 by my son, it was my portal to the blogosphere and I used his links to discover what have become all my daily use favorites, especially the 'burg.
I found Tim Blair, Roger Simon, LGF, Bill Quick and many more on his blog roll and am forever grateful.
Ditto! I discovered the world of blogging along with this site (which I credit with my political enlightenment) on Glenn's blogroll. This blog and others have yanked me out of my TV and MSM induced stupor.
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Oh, the poor puppies, sacrificed so Glenn could keep his energy levels up.
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Detained Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina will submit her wealth statement to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) today willingly, not under any pressure following the ACC notice which was stayed by the High Court yesterday, said Hasina's tax lawyer Khandakar Maniruzzaman yesterday. "She [Hasina] told me that she would submit her wealth statement," AL president's counsel Maniruzzaman told The Daily Star yesterday after holding a three-hour-long meeting with the AL chief at the special jail on the Jatiya Sangsad premises.
He said Hasina, who was detained on July 16 in connection with two cases on charges of extortion of Tk 8 crore, yesterday signed her three-page wealth statement which said that she has properties worth about Tk 2 crore.
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A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against detained Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary Obaidul Quader and his wife Isratunnesa after National Board of Revenue (NBR) filed two tax evasion cases. Barisal City Corporation Mayor Majibor Rahman Sarwar was granted a one-day remand in connection with extorting Tk 19 lakh from a construction firm owner. Hearing on a graft case against detained former BNP lawmaker Salahuddin Ahmed, his wife and three sons will be held today.
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The High Court (HC) yesterday granted Sheikh Hasina bail in another extortion case and ordered the government not to bring her to trial on the charge under the emergency power rules.
A bench comprising Justices Shah Abu Nayeem Mominur Rahman and Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury also asked the military-backed interim administration to reply within four weeks why its approving the case filed by businessman Noor Ali to be under the emergency rules should not be declared illegal.
The same day the bench stayed operation of the Anti-Corruption Commission's (ACC) instructions for Awami League (AL) President Hasina to submit a wealth statement. It ordered the anti-graft body to explain in four weeks why its order shall not be declared illegal.
Yesterday's ruling in Noor Ali's case, however, will not secure for the detained former prime minister release as the Supreme Court (SC) has meantime stayed the previous HC order allowing her bail in the extortion case filed by Azam J Chowdhury.
The HC's ad interim bail to Hasina and direction for the government not to have the case filed by Noor Ali to be under the Emergency Power Rules, 2007 will remain put off till disposal of the rule in this regard.
Earlier on July 16, the joint forces arrested her and a magistrate court sent her to a house designated as a sub-jail in the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban complex.
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Dude, it's Scotland. The land where the men are so tough they'll wear skirts into battle.
(I find the story horrible and sad. But I had to make a kilt joke. It was a compulsion.)
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Sounds exactly like the conditions the Mexican migrants worked under in the farm industry when I was a kid. They lived in shacks just outside of town. Local high school and college kids did the same work every summer. Below minimum wage since it was farm labor (exempt), but lots of overtime.
#5
If they were serious about doing anything about this, there would be a lot of employers in the slam already. However, such employers are always very careful to grease politicians palms so that they look the other way.
As in the US, they also set things up so that any employee who complains or makes trouble will be deported by the authorities quickly.
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Spot they don't live in shacks anymore, they live in Goverment funded housing, send their kids to public school (where they eat two meas free), and mostly don't pay taxes.
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Czechs seem to be good, and apparently bounce after the experience.
And they certainly deserve to for brewing the only genuine Pilsner in the world. Somewhere in my collections I have Pilsner Urquell bottle caps that are lined with cork.
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Somewhere in my collections I have Pilsner Urquell bottle caps that are lined with cork
But he content!
The thing is, since they switched to metal drums from oak wood, it is not the same brew, still good but not that good. Also I miss bottles, the cans seem to change the taste.
<>So I suppose we'll have to settle for the bagpipes instead, eh?
I like bagpipes. ;-)
Scottich bagpipes, that is. Czechs don't know how to play them. Sounds like a tortured badger.;-)
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The thing is, since they switched to metal drums from oak wood, it is not the same brew, still good but not that good. Also I miss bottles, the cans seem to change the taste.
Gah, that explains the flavor shift from subtle complexity over to dry-as-a-hay-sandwich taste.
As to the bagpipes, I'll tell a joke about them at another time.
Former Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali on Tuesday turned down Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and Pakistan Muslim League President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain's request to re-join the ruling party.
The curt brush-off came from Jamali when the prime minister and PML chief met him briefly on the sidelines of a lunch hosted by Health Minister Muhammad Nasir Khan at his residence in Islamabad. Some treasury parliamentarians were also invited to the lunch.
Requesting anonymity, one MP told Daily Times that the Leaguers discussed the country's overall political situation with a special reference to the ongoing rift between Jamali and Chaudhrys that had led the former to resign from party's basic membership. The PM requested Jamali not to issue hawkish statements against Chaudhrys and sort out differences with latter through dialogue and not through press statements in the 'larger interest' of the party, he said. Jamali said he had maligned no one in the party and had no intentions to do so in future. He turned down PM and Chaudhry Shujaat's request to join again the PML, the MP said.
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I've seen that movie, it doesn't end well.
An 8-million-year-old bacterium that was extracted from the oldest known ice on Earth is now growing in a laboratory, claim researchers.
If confirmed, this means ancient bacteria and viruses will come back to life as ice melts due to global warming. This is nothing to worry about, say experts, because the process has been going on for billions of years and the bugs are unlikely to cause human disease. Yeah, right. Continued on Page 49
Repost re: possible reservoir for Ebola/Marburg
Mary P. Remington mremingt at UMABNET.AB.UMD.EDU
Mon May 15 07:50:08 EST 1995
Perhaps the RNA would be lost but, the proviral DNA (assuming Ebola behaves as for instance other Lentiviruses) could persist and if incorporated into a cell or wound become infectious.
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No surprises here. Gore is a demagogue. He's also not particularly bright (flunked out of divinity school, dropped out of law school). In a better world he'd be selling used cars, not making policy.
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Look, the whole concept of anthropogenic global warming is proven science, so there is no need for debate. Besides, anybody who disagrees with me is on the payroll of the oil companies and other polluters.
/Al Gore
Extremely interesting! While the author doesn't go there (or at least this review doesn't), his thesis that the population capable of creating the modern world evolved through many generations of settled agricultural society, goes along a way toward explaining why some parts of the world succesfully adapt to modernity while others can't.
I think I'll email it to fjordman as it fits rather nicely with his views.
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Not really from the core of the story, but intriguing, nevertheless:
Dr. Clark said he set out to write his book 12 years ago on discovering that his undergraduates knew nothing about the history of Europe.
S'pose they know more, now?
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Nice to see yet another nail in the coffin of Jared Diamond's ridiculous premises.
While I think that Dr. Clark doesn't give quite enough credit to Western institutions in the evolution of better, more affluent societies (as per VDH), he certainly sees through the multi-culti BS of Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel".
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There is no "multi-culti" BS whatsoever in Guns, Germs & Steel.
#4
There was (modest)affluence in Britin from about 900 on. There is evidence from archeological digs that there was a small middle-class (or something similar to a middle class) from the time of the Romans to the Dark Ages. The Plague and the stupidity in response to it, combined with the beginning of the Little Ice Age devastated that modest affluence.
I've read "Guns, Germs, and Steel", and find quite a bit of it refuted by my own studies in the same areas. It's a nice premise, it just doesn't stand up well to rigorous testing.
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Historians used to accept changes in peoples behavior as an explanation for economic events, like Max Webers thesis linking the rise of capitalism with Protestantism. But most have now swung to the economists view that all people are alike and will respond in the same way to the same incentives.
This is patently false. Islam is a sterling example of people foresaking beneficial technologies and methodologies (i.e., scientific method) despite often direct penalties. Merely examine the first introduction of steam locomotion in China for further proof. While Japan embraced such advanced technology, the inability of China's ruling class to properly discern how beneficial such a quantum leap was caused their governing elite to prematurely discard it and resulted in a retrograde effect whose shadow China is just now emerging from.
While increasing agricultural yields played a big part in spawning the "rare genius" like Gutenberg or Watt, such technological leapfrogs also relied heavily upon improved materials and the methods of refining them. Much as how even now significant advances in microelectronics are equallyif not more oftendriven not by novel designs but by improved material properties of strength, purity or conductivity.
I have honest to God never heard of this thing. Which is usually a bad sign...
In a major blow to its high profile backers, including Gloria Steinem, Rosie O'Donnell, Jane Fonda and others, feminist talk radio network Greenstone Media is about to shut down, according to several trade reports this morning. No Oprah?
Despite its famous investors, ready access to cash and relatively high profile in the industry, Greenstone struggled to gain affiliates. And those who did carry its lineup of "chick chat" shows tended to be tiny outlets in peculiar places. Good chick chat. Ya can never get enough of that.
Perhaps foreshadowing the network's failure, a number of executives had departed under mysterious circumstances in recent months. Couldn't they find a Boys and Girls Club they could loot?
In March 2006, your Radio Equalizer broke exclusive details of Greenstone's secret connections to Air America Radio and in September discussed a cocky interview Gloria Steinem gave to the New York Times on the network and its future. Also that month, Rush Limbaugh skewered Fonda and the network's backers over their plan to challenge his ratings supremacy. Come and get me, chickies...
Around that time, Fonda gave her own over- the- top performance on NBC's Today Show, asserting her view that it would succeed. Jane Fonda wrong? Well can ya beat that?
Not only was Greenstone partially tied to Air America, it shared the same peculiar habit of making arrogant assertions that its programming could overtake conservative talk radio. In this case, the company claimed there was a large group of female listeners that had been underserved by traditional talk formats. Sounds like there's a reason for that...
Hey Jane, Rosie and Gloria: who did your market research? You should demand a refund. Nah. Rosie's too busy dropping acid, figuring out how to melt steel and playing with her webcam...
Now, a few questions remain: how much did they lose and what will they say about fem- talk's spectacular failure? Who will Steinem blame? Oh, I'm sure it's a long list. And none of "the girls" will be on it. But I'll bet Bush is...
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"Burn units are money losers" > IOW, too long lead times + too few patients, etc. between incidents to justify 24-7-365 operations. Taking up vital beds + bed spaces that can be used for other thingys. Sub-IOW, likely means consolidations-mergers and outsourcings.
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Our own burn unit is reasonably busy (unfortunately), but it does cost a lot of money. And we're constantly boarding non-burn patients there because it is an ICU, and we need ICU beds.
Burn patients are like trauma patients: you need the best when you need it, right now, and it's really expensive to be the best. And too many patients lack insurance to make either burn or trauma cost-effective.
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The USA has never come close to having the number of burn unit beds needed in case of a WMD attack, such as a small nuclear air burst over a populated area. The article states the # of burn unit beds has gone down from 1897 to 1820. Really not much of a difference. If 5,000 severely burned patients needed beds all at once, well, you can fill in the rest.
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Anguper,
Sadly the civilian planning for a mass burn casualty incident has relied on using military facilities to make up the difference. They apparently haven't noticed that the military capabilities have shrunk so badly that they're now down effectively to about 100 beds nationwide.
Mike
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Brooke in San Antonio is one of the worlds best burn centers, and has been since Vietnam. More than 100 bunks there unfortunatly. Beumont in El Paso also had an extensive burn center when I was there in 71.
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If there is a mass casualty attack that involves lots of living burned patients, does it matter how many beds we have? Where will those beds be? Think about it, even if you had 5000 beds in New York, if there are 10,000 severe burn victims half of the excess will die long before they reach a specialized burn unit. Part of that is simply logistics. The truth of the matter is, if there is a mass casualty attack that leaves even several 1000's of wounded the system will be overwhelmed no matter what you do. What if there are multiple attacks? As sad as it is there is no way to prepare for EVERY contingency.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The High Court (HC) yesterday granted Sheikh Hasina bail in another extortion case and ordered the government not to bring her to trial on the charge under the emergency power rules.
