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BLAIRE WHITE ON J. K. ROWLING, SCOTLAND'S POLICY ON RAPISTS AND GENDER.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No4bzN3rKvc&t=210s
"It's a ludicrous policy that anyone with a shred of common sense or decency would oppose, but, we're dealing with a mob of people who don't have either of those things. Imagine being a woman who is raped by a man - and on their say-so, they get to be recorded as a woman by the police."

ISRAEL, INDONESIA IN NORMALIZATION TALKS.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/319788
“The goal is to normalize relations with Indonesia and Saudi Arabia,” the official said. “These are the two countries we want to reach an agreement with, but it is a slow process that takes a lot of time and effort. We hope for the best.”

DENMARK HEALTH CHIEF: OMICRON WILL END COVID-19 PANDEMIC.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10364503/Denmark-health-chief-says-Omicron-bringing-END-pandemic.html
'Speaking to Danish TV 2, Tyra Grove Krause - the chief epidemiologist at Denmark's State Serum Institute - said a new study from the organisation found that the risk of hospitalisation from Omicron is half that seen with the Delta variant.'

Crossposts: https://asher63.livejournal.com/842742.html

LINKAGE 2020-12-15

SOLARWINDS POSSIBLE VEHICLE OF GOVERNMENT HACK.
Austin-based software company SolarWinds, which makes server and network management applications, was the unwitting middleman in a sophisticated attack targeting the US Commerce and Treasury Departments.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/12/15/it-company-solarwinds-identified-as-potential-source-of-major-government-agency-hack/

ANTRIM COUNTY DOMINION AUDIT: 85,000 TIMES ALLOWABLE ERROR RATE.
Almost 70 percent of ballots processed were marked as errors.
https://www.westernjournal.com/dominion-audit-ballot-error-rate-least-85000-times-higher-fec-allows/

ARIZONA ISSUING SUBPOENAS FOR BALLOT COUNTER FORENSIC AUDIT.
Arizona Senate will issue subpoenas to inspect and audit ballot counting machines in Maricopa County, despite denials from county election officials of any irregularities.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/12/arizona-states-issues-subpoenas-forensic-audit-completed-maricopa-county/

PORTLAND SMALL BUSINESSES FACE RATE HIKES AFTER RIOTS.
Rates have gone up as much as fourfold.
https://www.oann.com/small-businesses-in-portland-face-insurance-hikes-after-riots/

ANTIFA INCITES VIOLENCE AGAINST ANDY NGO.
Graffiti inside antifa's self-proclaimed "autonomous zone" purports to give Andy's address, while cops and DA do nothing.
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1338809168170508291

BOY GEORGE IN DUET WITH ASAF GOREN, DEFYING ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVISTS.
"Rainbow in the Dark" includes Hebrew as well as English lyrics - at Boy George's insistence.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/12/09/uk-pop-icon-boy-george-claps-back-at-bds-activists-in-duet-with-israeli-singer/

Crossposts: https://asher63.livejournal.com/798654.html

Egyptian Arab man trashes Koran:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/a_brave_challenge_to_sharia_in_egypt.html

Pro-Equality Conservatives petition GOP:
http://www.advocate.com/politics/marriage-equality/2012/08/17/young-conservatives-freedom-marry-ask-rnc-reject-platform

Kippot in Malmo:
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/08/17/3104376/swedish-solidarity-kippah-walk-unites-jews-non-jews

Best light beer commercial ever:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=750_1361955514&comments=1

Hey, at least Bill got something out of it.

... at Media Tapper.
http://mediatapper.com/jihad-counter-jihad-and-why-you-should-care/

(That's not me in the picture.)

"Democracy is working just as it should in the EU's newest member state, argues the country's prime minister."

And he ought to know!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3vM-ThyXUQ

And what in the world were they doing in the plane's "laboratory"?

Conducting experiments?

* headdesk *

Cross-posted at Dreams Into Lightning.
http://asher813.typepad.com/dreams_into_lightning/2011/01/sargent-shriver-1915-2011.html

I remember him as the running-mate of my parents' favored candidate, the President of Massachusetts, in 1972, when I was 9 years old. But let's learn more.

Sargent Shriver - Wikipedia.

Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. (November 9, 1915 – January 18, 2011) was an American politician and activist. Known as R. Sargent Shriver or Sarge, he is best known as part of the Kennedy family, as the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and as the Democratic Party's candidate for U.S. vice president — having replaced nominee Thomas Eagleton, who resigned from the ticket — during the 1972 U.S. presidential election. Shriver died at the age of 95 on January 18, 2011.

I notice that among the many worthy programs he's credited with founding, there's Head Start. A certain little girl of my acquaintance is a beneficiary of the Early Head Start program, and I dare say she's the better for it.

Fox:

Shriver served as the first Peace Corps director in the administration of his brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy. He also led President Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" and was Democrat George McGovern's running mate in 1972.

"He was a man of giant love, energy, enthusiasm, and commitment," the Shriver family said in a statement, noting that he was surrounded by his five children, five children in-law and his 19 grandchildren.

"He lived to make the world a more joyful, faithful, and compassionate place," the family said. "He centered everything on his faith and his family. He worked on stages both large and small but in the end, he will be best known for his love of others." ...

One of those five children, Maria Shriver, is married to California's outgoing Republican governor Arnold Shwarzenegger. She's also the author of several children's books, including What's Happening to Grandpa?, a story about a young girl and her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's disease. (Sargent Shriver announced in 2003 that he had AD.)

BBC has more.

CNN:

Shriver, whose full name was Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., was 95. He had suffered for years from Alzheimer's disease.

The family released a statement, saying Shriver died Tuesday "surrounded by his five children, five children in-law, and his 19 grandchildren."

"He lived to make the world a more joyful, faithful, and compassionate place," the family's statement said. "He worked on stages both large and small but in the end, he will be best known for his love of others. No one ever came into his presence without feeling his passion and his enthusiasm for them."

President Barack Obama said he was "deeply saddened" over the death of Shriver, whom he called "one of the brightest lights of the greatest generation."

Go read the rest.

You might have caught the item about the planned robot astronaut on the Space Shuttle, named Robonaut-2:
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/nasa-robot-joins-space-station-100415.html
'Robonaut 2, or R2 for short, will be the first human-like robot to become a permanent resident at the space station when it arrives on a shuttle mission slated to September. The robot consists of a head and torso with two arms and two hands.

The dexterous robot not only resembles a human, but is specifically designed to operate like one. With the help of advanced control, sensor and vision technologies, R2 is built to use its arms and hands to operate the same tools that station astronauts use.

In the future, the greatest benefits of humanoid robots in space may be as assistants or stand-ins for astronauts during spacewalks or for other tasks that are too difficult or dangerous for humans, NASA scientists said.

"The project exemplifies the promise that a future generation of robots can have both in space and on Earth, not as replacements for humans but as companions that can carry out key supporting roles," said John Olson, director of NASA's Exploration Systems Integration Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington. ...'

And then there's the X-37:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-37
'The Boeing X-37 Advanced Technology Demonstrator is an unpiloted demonstration spaceplane that is intended to test future launch technologies while in orbit and during atmospheric reentry. It is a reusable robotic spacecraft that is a 120 percent–scaled derivative of the X-40A. The X-37 had its first flight as a drop test on April 7, 2006 at Edwards AFB. The spacecraft will be launched as a United States Air Force mission, rather than a NASA mission, in April 2010.'

Debka says that mission is slated for this Thursday:
http://www.debka.com/article/8730/
'Blastoff of the unmanned X-37B space plane from Kennedy Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida Space Center was delayed until Thursday, April 22, to allow Discovery to return to earth at the nearby Kennedy Space Center. With many of its features kept secret, the project has sparked speculation that the little Orbital Test Vehicle is the space version of the US Predator drone.'

Well, sure. Robots in space! Better yet, heavily armed robotic spacecraft!

I mean, what could go wrong?

My friend Michael Totten interviews Christopher Hitchens.

http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2010/01/michael-scheuer-terrorists-should-focus/

John from Franklin: I for one am sick and tired of all these Jews coming on C-SPAN and other stations and pushing us to go to war against our Muslim friends. They're willing to spend the last drop of American blood and treasure to get their way in the world. They have way too much power in this country. People like Wolfowitz and Feith an the other neo-cons -- they jewed us into Iraq -- and now we're going to spend the next 60 years rehabilitating our soldiers -- I'm sick and tired of it.

C-SPAN host: Any comment on that?

Scheuer: Yeah. I think that American foreign policy is ultimately up to the American people. One of the big things we have not been able to discuss for the past 30 years is the Israelis. Whether we want to be involved in fighting Israel's wars in the future is something that Americans should be able to talk about. They may vote yes. They may want to see their kids killed in Iraq or somewhere else to defend Israel. But the question is: we need to talk about it. Ultimately Israel is a country that is of no particular worth the United States.

C-SPAN host: You mean strategically?

Scheuer: Strategically. They have no resources we need. Their manpower is minimal. Their association with us is a negative for the United States. Now that's a fact. What you want to do about that fact is entirely different. But for anyone to stand up in the United States and day that support for Israel doesn't hurt us in the Muslim world is to just defy reality.

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Entries tagged with world

2022-01-03 | World | Linkage.

Linkage.

Linky Dinky

My first published piece ...

Headline of the Day

Mile-High Idiots

Sargent Shriver

Robots in space!

Totten Interviews Hitch

CIA's Michael Scheuer to terrorists: Kill Israelis, not us.