A serial accumulation of memory, incident, consideration, reconsideration, personal discovery and attempts at truth.
It is intended for my attention and that of other interested persons
If that changes, I will extensively re-edit.
Warning:
I attempt to use inductive logic.
A powerful lesson for both parties emerged Tuesday: Demographic
shifts that are gradually reshaping the American electorate cannot
overcome a difficult political environment and a weak message.
United States Politics and Government; Midterm Elections (2014);
States (US); Elections, House of Representatives; Elections, State
Legislature; Elections, Senate
Everything the Republicans do is the wrong thing to do for the national interest.
Setting up a Supreme Court case, the decision overturned lower
court rulings in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee that were in
favor of same-sex marriage.
Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions and Domestic Partnerships
Mazda announces a Global Cup race series for its 2016 MX-5 Miata;
General Motors to kill the fleet-only Chevrolet Captiva crossover.
Automobiles
"Honda has received a second order from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
to produce documents related to seven recalls involving parts from
Takata, the airbag supplier. The safety agency imposed a Dec. 15
deadline, stipulating that Honda should also include internal
communications regarding the recalls. (The Detroit Free Press)"
In many states, voters approved ballot measures that were directly
at odds with the positions of many Republican candidates who won.
Minimum Wage; Abortion; Gun Control; Marijuana; Mandatory
Sentencing; Conservation of Resources; Editorials; Referendums; United
States Politics and Government; States (US); Birth Control and Family
Planning; Voting and Voters
If the national interest is separated from the personal interest the American electorate votes for it. . . .
Call the 99% Democrats. Call the 1% in fact and in aspiration Republicans.
The fit is sloppy. I have to add religion to the model.
Publicly, at least, no lawmakers have called on him to quit, but
several days of poor newspaper headlines reflect disappointment in his
performance, opinion surveys show.
Elections; Legislatures and Parliaments
To understand the current politics of Great Britain look to the failure of Clement Attlee in the postwar economic austerity. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Attlee]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_Conference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_exchange-rate_system All money is fiction.
We are seeing a bubble in gold.
We can go broke waiting for it to burst.
Donors are increasingly taking into account whether an
institution’s investment portfolio includes petroleum or coal companies
before making a contribution.
Endowments; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Philanthropy; Coal; Oil (Petroleum) and Gasoline
We should give up fossil fuels.
We are not going to do so willingly.
Doing without the income from fossil fuels is a political question.
Eugene Kaspersky’s global computer security company, Kaspersky Lab, is a major sponsor of the Ferrari Formula One team.
Automobile Racing; Computer Security
I was wondering why.
The thought of employment for Edward Snowden occured to me.
"Q.
You have started warning about the future of virus attacks on the
so-called Internet of Things, which involves many of our everyday
household objects.
A. Yes,
first you have to understand whether there is a risk or not. You have
to understand how the attacker might profit by attacking this particular
device. For example, many years ago my engineers and myself analyzed
the iPod. It’s a computer; it’s possible to infect it, yes. But we
realized that there is no reason to do that. No money. It is just a
device.
Thinking
about the new devices, like smart TV, I think the next victim of the
attacks is smart TV. You are watching the TV, the TV is watching you,
and then the blackmail: pay money. They hijack computers, they encrypt
the data in the computers and they send a message: Send SMS to the paid
number to receive the activation code, it will get the system back to
you. Smartphones are the same. They block the smartphone and there is a
message: ‘Pay money to unblock it.’"
I am having trouble with Firefox and AVG free.
It seems to be mostly Yahoo at the bottom.
I am also troubled by the Times business office.
By MONICA DAVEY and MARY WILLIAMS WALSH | Nov 7th 2014
Judge Steven W. Rhodes was to present his decision on Friday
afternoon, and was widely predicted to accept Detroit’s proposal to shed
$7 billion in debt.
Bankruptcies
The judge has ruled.
He has accepted the plan as presented. I do not know more than is in the Times.
Less than 16 months after Detroit became the
largest city in the United States to file for bankruptcy, a federal
judge on Friday approved a plan intended to help it escape years of
financial ruin.
Federal money will be used to protect the health care centers,
which are in flood-prone areas, from the kind of damage that Hurricane
Sandy wrought in 2012.
After surviving the Ebola virus in August, Nancy Writebol, a
59-year-old missionary, donated blood plasma to Craig Spencer, the
patient in New York.
Ebola Virus; Blood; Blood Donation; Quarantines
It is a fix known to work.
Blood work seems to be beyond the capabilities in West Africa at this time.
Finding recovered victims is important. It is the most useful work for an immune assay test.
By ISABEL KERSHNER and MAJD AL WAHEIDI | Nov 7th 2014
The militant group Hamas, now a partner with its longtime rival Fatah, denied denies responsibility, but many were skeptical.
A Palestinian internal squabble.
Probably Sunni X Shia
Hamas would use bigger charges.
Israeli intelligence would not hesitate to kill.
Fatah could do it. Egypt could also do it as could the Turks.
My bet is on the Turks.
options.
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