We are slacking our way to success on Saturday afternoon.
And as we slack, we wonder - when women make different career choices that lead to lower pay, it represents a national crisis so grave that our President feels obliged to lie about it.
But when the loss of subsidies with higher income discourages the working class from actually trying to work their way up the ladder, progressives cheer the choice of free time over paid effort.
Well... since the topic is women in society, sort of, I am also wondering whether I can make it through yet another day without accidentally seeing some ice dancing from Sochi. Now this is an example of women crushing the American spirit. Most of the time we can count on male-oriented sports programming, with lots of football, basketball, beer commercials, hair loss advice, pick-up trucks, and of course, Viagra and its many, many, many competitors.
But come the Olympics the networks feel obliged to scoop up the chicks with lots of ice dancing (winter) and gymnastics, synchronmized swimming and rhythmic aerobic dancing (summer). Groan - why can't I be watching Lithuania play Estonia in ice hockey like a real American? Instead I am being offered a chance to watch Miss Unpronounceable from Unrecognizable twirl around like... well, like the finger twirling next to my head to indicate my probable mental status.
One day more...
Tonight's beer is Ayinger Altbairisch Dunkel.
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 08, 2014 at 06:48 PM
Sorry, Building 7, but yes - I think you should be mocked and ridiculed.
Posted by: Extraneus | February 08, 2014 at 06:51 PM
Jack is Back | February 08, 2014 at 05:22 PM
So Florida economy is equal to South Korea? Print is kinda small, not bad though, Korea's got some heavy hitters like Hyundai
Posted by: windansea | February 08, 2014 at 06:52 PM
Danube, since the spirals seen in nature are well understood and the hair thingies are not, further investigation seems warranted.
Laterz!
Posted by: Not_bubarooni | February 08, 2014 at 06:53 PM
Here's a review by his former? paper;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/historybookreviews/10382547/Catastrophe-by-Max-Hastings-review.html
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 06:56 PM
I can categorically state that no building has ever collapsed because of a fire.
Collapse is caused by gravity.
Posted by: Rob Crawford | February 08, 2014 at 06:58 PM
Extraneus
This fire brought down building #7
Really?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 06:58 PM
Is that a readily available beer, ot more of a niche product, Captain,
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 06:59 PM
Danube, I just read your post on the sequence of numbers. I'm starting to think I was looking at the wrong thing in those pix...
Posted by: Not_bubarooni | February 08, 2014 at 07:01 PM
Okay. We chose the older apartment with amazing views.
It is now 2-0 JiB.
Posted by: Sue | February 08, 2014 at 07:02 PM
TBT,
As an engineer and someone with a Masters in it and on his way to a Doctorrates, let me share a nugget of lknowledge that people of your IQ will never understand, those buildinds you describe would never have been brought down by anything but fire.
Now let me ask you something, can fire melt moment connections?
Easy guy. That is a specific engineering question not one you will find in Google.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | February 08, 2014 at 07:04 PM
You are an idiot that knows nothing about it.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 07:05 PM
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
Fuddynacci pdf spiral, I guess...
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 07:07 PM
TBT proves once and for all that he his not even worthy to be a psiss pot here at JOM.
Command from HQ - Ignore!
Posted by: Jim Eagle | February 08, 2014 at 07:08 PM
It's pretty widely available, narc; and fairly inexpensive.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | February 08, 2014 at 07:10 PM
Do you think it was an inside job? That was the question, which had nothing to do with Building 7.
Posted by: Extraneus | February 08, 2014 at 07:11 PM
Test
Posted by: Jim Eagle | February 08, 2014 at 07:12 PM
Sadly, when I hear the name Jim McKay I first think of "They're all gone."
Apropos of nothing, when I was a kid there was a mob murder in my hometown. I was utterly shocked. I had no idea what to think.
Hearing McKay say that evoked the exact same response. It simply made no sense to me.
Posted by: Jane-Rebel Alliance1 | February 08, 2014 at 07:12 PM
Clarice Feldman at Richard Perle's 4th of July party (in France)
and looking very stylish :)
Posted by: windansea | February 08, 2014 at 07:15 PM
3-zip
America.
Posted by: Jim Eagle | February 08, 2014 at 07:16 PM
Extraneus
Wrong. The first question you should ask is, did our government tell us the truth?
Did fire cause #7 to collapse?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 07:16 PM
Today I understood why DoT had a masters degree in mathematics.
But, I still like the hair.
Posted by: MarkO | February 08, 2014 at 07:19 PM
I was going to tell the Justice Department to go "Eff" itself, but according to the ADN they already did. Here's the headline"
Justice Dept. applies same-sex rights to itself.
This will sound contrary to conventional wisdom but I am convinced that if Obama actually came out to Alaska at Begich's request, and spent 4 days or so in carefully scripted locales, he could seal Begich's re-election and improve his poll numbers in the lower 48 significantly.
He would have all the media in the state in his back pocket, since they are all to the Left (TV stations, Newspaper's). He could fly in to the 2 Military bases (Elmendorf in Anchorage and Eiseison in Fairbanks) so he would never have to deal with any uncontrolled demonstrations from any of the population.
he could arrange to speak to the local college kids UA Fairbanks or UA Anchorage) which would completely suck up his BS like normal College kids do.
he could motorcade thru Wasilla making snarky comments about Palin that the media would love to promote heavily, and he could continually say stuff like "I can't see Russia."
He could do an excellent photo Op at the closed for pollution North Poll refinery, blame it on the Koch Brothers, and meet carefully selected locals who are living on Bottled water due to the Refinery Groundwater pollution.
He could easily stand for photo-ops in NPR-A where there is bad oil pollution, dug years back by the Feds but never cleaned up, and simply talk about environmental catastrophe and Global Warming.
He could do a photo-op with the Natives at the Proposed Pebble Mine and the Media would entirely spin that for him without even trying.
He and Begich could both damn the Repub Governor for not taking Medicade/Medicare money and not creating an in-state Health Exchange, which they could then argue is going to deprive Natives in the Interior of Health care. Murkowski and Don Young would nod in agreement.
He could do a photo-op at the village built on a coastal sand bar 50 years ago (where the Corps of Engineers built a school), and talk about the natural erosion but blame it on Climate Change.
And since Begich is a great talker on his feet, at all these locations all he would have to do was say a few choice teleprompted sentences, then sit down and let Begich, who is a much better speaker, take over. Nobody in the Media would ever challenge either of them.
And everybody is still interested in our State, so it would get all the lower 48 MSM Press up here to lapdog right along.
It would be trumpeted as successful and Obama would be talked of as a courageous guy doing a gutsy move and going into the belly of the beast. Begich would have a lock on the Native Interior vote, insuring his re-election, and I think a few select others in the Lower 48 might then see if they couldn't get Obama to do something a bit similar in their cases.
I hope he does not do it, since I think it would be successful.
To the dogs. later.
Posted by: daddy | February 08, 2014 at 07:19 PM
It's ok, we know what you'd answer if you had the guts.
Now about those Bilderbergs.
Posted by: Extraneus | February 08, 2014 at 07:21 PM
Isn't that Clarice Feldman's good friend Paul Wolfowitz with the guy Clarice blames Plamegate on.
Hey, I'm a friend of Clarice's and I'm a Freemason who used to work with both CIA and NSA.
(Dude, the Bilderbergers? That is **so** 1975.)
Posted by: Charlie Martin | February 08, 2014 at 07:21 PM
Was your written answer to Danube's question in building 7?
Get on with it. He is willing to engage, but you don't seem to be visiting JoM for debate.
I am reminded of the bear/hunter joke.
http://www.jokes.com/funny-dirty-jokes/hze5zy/yes--mr--bear
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 07:23 PM
Extraneus
If you think that fire brought down #7. You are a complete fool.
There is nothing to debate with you.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 07:25 PM
If we all agree that fire brought down building 7, do you go away?
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 07:28 PM
"If we all agree that fire brought down building 7, do you go away?"
Pot/Kettle.
Posted by: justified | February 08, 2014 at 07:30 PM
This is pretty funny from Taranto.
James Taranto @jamestaranto 38m
Read the headline, then check out the author's shirttail bio. You can't make this stuff up. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/jobs-leisure-republicans-want-us-to-work-all-the-time-103282.html
To save you the trouble: Benjamin Kline Hunnicut is professor of leisure studies at the University of Iowa and author of The Forgotten American Dream.
Academia is becoming a parody of itself.
Posted by: jimmyk | February 08, 2014 at 07:30 PM
I don't think fire brought down bldg 7. Sasquatches did.
Posted by: Sue | February 08, 2014 at 07:31 PM
Sounds like Dana's a "truther"!
I guess any cause based on ignorance and bigotry will find Dana on its side...
Posted by: Rob Crawford | February 08, 2014 at 07:31 PM
Dang, been reading the blog forever but haven't really checked in for awhile.
Is Tbt the current incarnation of dublindave, Dana whatshis face or a different entity???
Posted by: Not_bubarooni | February 08, 2014 at 07:32 PM
That would explain why none of them showed up for work that day.
Posted by: Rob Crawford | February 08, 2014 at 07:32 PM
Some believe a pot or kettle brought down building 7.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 07:32 PM
No sports on tap, but we do get a look inside the Kremlin... Keep grabbing those ankles Costas! Where did I put those Firefly DVDs?
Posted by: henry | February 08, 2014 at 07:32 PM
Money is on another entity, but Dana chimes in with agreement with it from time to time. I suspect that has more to do with Dana's hatred of any group made up of happy, successful people.
Posted by: Rob Crawford | February 08, 2014 at 07:33 PM
Sue
That's as likely to be true as fire.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 07:34 PM
well that's kind of interesting, having finished Red Fortress, of course Coastas being able to be conversant in any of this, snorfle,
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 07:34 PM
Mrs O'Leary's cow brought down building 7. TBT was supposed to close the barn door, but he's no better at doors than he is at investigations.
Posted by: henry | February 08, 2014 at 07:35 PM
You doubt squatches were involved? Well, I've got no use for you.
Posted by: Sue | February 08, 2014 at 07:36 PM
Some believe in Santy Claus and the Easter Bunny. But when a baby moves on to solid food, it starts to give up it's childish whims.
Posted by: justified | February 08, 2014 at 07:37 PM
Poor heifer burns down Chicago and from then on gets all the blame...
Posted by: Rob Crawford | February 08, 2014 at 07:38 PM
Is the ladies hockey team expected to medal?
Posted by: Sue | February 08, 2014 at 07:39 PM
Sheeple. A comment board full of sheeple who think they know it all.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 07:39 PM
It was a fire Rob.
Posted by: henry | February 08, 2014 at 07:39 PM
No I don't. I just asked a question.
Posted by: Sue | February 08, 2014 at 07:40 PM
When will you be making that move to solids?
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 07:43 PM
CaptainHate, my choice tonight is Boulevard Westside Rye Ale. Boulevard is outta St.Louis and a fairly good brewery. I'm in S Indiana and I personally think they are one of the better options I'm presented with in the local market (Bloomington, IN)
Posted by: Not_bubarooni | February 08, 2014 at 07:44 PM
We all know Clarice brought down Building 7. No reason to hide it anymore.
Posted by: Jane-Rebel Alliance1 | February 08, 2014 at 07:44 PM
--She produces this dramatic picture by flinging her head and body rapidly upward and backward.This sort of cheating is what I object to.--
I think this poor guy missed the whole point of the exercise.
Posted by: Ignatz | February 08, 2014 at 07:45 PM
Okay, it's not going to be precisely *any* kind of regular spiral because the body doesn't articulate that way --the head and nect don't rotate around a point. But it pretty clearly approximates a logarithmic spiral because it appears the angle between the radius and the tangent appears roughly equal and any point.
We can see analytically that it has to be approximately a logarithmic spiral, because the velocity of the water as it's flung away varies quadratically with the distance from the head. But since it's unlikely the chick in the picture maintains a precisely constant angular velocity, that would still only be approximately.
Posted by: Charlie Martin | February 08, 2014 at 07:45 PM
Yeah, but because a cow started ONE fire doesn't mean it started ANOTHER ONE.
Even if it was filmed running from the scene.
Posted by: Rob Crawford | February 08, 2014 at 07:46 PM
Sheeple!
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 07:47 PM
I am reminded of the bear/hunter joke.
lol
Posted by: Extraneus | February 08, 2014 at 07:47 PM
Either somebody mixed their metaphors or babies eat liquified bunnies and jolly fat men.
Posted by: Ignatz | February 08, 2014 at 07:47 PM
"When will you be making that move to solids?"
I don't believe in Santy Claus, or that painted eggs increase fertility, or coincidences.
Posted by: justified | February 08, 2014 at 07:51 PM
It would require further close observation,
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 07:52 PM
So it is not a coincidence that you showed up when TbT gassed out?
The B Team.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 07:52 PM
That 7:47 diagram is precisely the kind of detailed engineering analysis that I have lacked to convince me that trutherism is where it's at.
Count me in Ernie.
Posted by: Ignatz | February 08, 2014 at 07:54 PM
N_B, I'm unfamiliar with that brewery (there are sooooo many) but thanks for the heads up. Last weekend I got together with my music listening buds and brought a growler of Lagunitas Brown Shugga, an American strong ale that was very popular and a good value.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | February 08, 2014 at 07:55 PM
Ignatz
Is that because you were previously given extensive details on what cause #7 to collapse?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 07:57 PM
Had this yesterday, CH:
http://alesmith.com/beers/speedway-stout/
Mmmmmmmm...
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 07:58 PM
TK, I'm not that much of a stout fan (as to be contrasted with being more stout than I ever thought possible) but that cortex wrecker should be road tested at least once.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | February 08, 2014 at 08:02 PM
"He handled that with great class."
He sure did. The poor guy was just a lover of sports and the Olympics, and suddenly he's thrust into narrating a gruesome story of terror and murder to the world. What a fine gentleman.
Posted by: Danube on iPad | February 08, 2014 at 08:03 PM
Why are you folks arguing with a 17 year -old? Or am I overstimating TBT's age?
Posted by: Buford Gooch | February 08, 2014 at 08:04 PM
Neither am I, CH. When my best good friend called to make sure I had chilled glasses ready, I knew he wasn't going to steer me wrong.
It is delicious.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 08:05 PM
Come one guys, the cat's is our of the bag. Everyone knows that the SkyDragon brought down WTC #7.
Posted by: Bori | February 08, 2014 at 08:06 PM
My interest is officially piqued, TK.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | February 08, 2014 at 08:07 PM
Engineering minds often are at odds with common sense. Though brilliant in the narrow band, they become idiots as to context.
For example; notice how of all the categories of intellect which support most IQ test standards don't include Intuition. Difficult to measure? Sure, but that doesn't answer it's role in intelligence. Just because you can't show your work, yet arrive at the solution with a key-stroke, doesn't make your answer wrong.
Engineers must have cold facts and rock-solid equations before they move any needle. Careful, they are.
Sometimes you fly on your gut. My gut tells me something is rotten in lower Manhattan.
Posted by: justified | February 08, 2014 at 08:08 PM
You know, the crAzy pills the Soviet agents put in the water are really working, albeit with delayed action. If only Dr. Zigorsky had not erred in the dosage, we would all be working in a Soviet republic.
Posted by: miss Marple | February 08, 2014 at 08:08 PM
Engineers write IQ tests.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 08:10 PM
Bori
Of coarse the government would never ever lie to you. You are to smart.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 08:10 PM
It is interesting how often the worlds of the far paleo right and far occupier left experience an intersection of common irrationality.
Posted by: Ignatz | February 08, 2014 at 08:11 PM
I had the opportunity to tour the US Steel Fairless Hills complex before it shut down. Few spectacles in life match seeing an open hearth furnace tapped live. The furnace, a five story tall cube, is lined with refractory brick and filled with a big fire and lots of pig iron and scrap steel. It is tapped with dynamite, producing a river of fresh molten steel that pours into a giant bucket (also lined with brick), then into forms on rail cars.
A truth you can't handle... Fire melts steel.
Posted by: henry | February 08, 2014 at 08:11 PM
Buford,
Truthfully, my argument is winning, right? It was squatches.
Posted by: Sue | February 08, 2014 at 08:12 PM
Stupid fracking jackalopes really frost me,
they had the plans, thanks to a mole in the FDNY
http://peterlance.com/wordpress/?p=1182
KSM who was an engineer used those plans to calculate what it would take to do the deed,
capische,
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 08:14 PM
TK, my fellow sots agree with you: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/396/3833/
Posted by: Captain Hate | February 08, 2014 at 08:15 PM
TBT
Of "coarse" I know the government lies, they told me I could keep my health plan. I did not know that it was for my well-being of "coarse" but they could have been "truitfull".
Posted by: Bori | February 08, 2014 at 08:15 PM
Pretty thorough debunking of this idiocy with many useful links to pro and con sites and studies, including the fairly conclusive NIST.
Think I'll go read a little Orly Taitz for something that sounds sane by comparison to the "truth".
Posted by: Ignatz | February 08, 2014 at 08:17 PM
I trust I haven't offended the many, many engineers who frequent JOM.
Posted by: justified | February 08, 2014 at 08:17 PM
henry
No one said fire does not melt steel. However, if you knew anything about steel, you would realize your argument is so simplistic it is childish.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 08:17 PM
So I want to understand the "truth" here. Did George Bush hire the Saudi's to bring down the 2 World Trade Center buildings and knowing that wouldn't be enough, wired building #7 to detonate on command? I tell ya, greed gets you every time.
Posted by: Jane-Rebel Alliance1 | February 08, 2014 at 08:19 PM
bori
That's was intended.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 08:19 PM
Speaking of simplistic:
Seems simple enough.
What gives TbT?
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 08:20 PM
this is why the 'willful blindness' displayed in the Metcalf incident, as Noonan called it, is so worrying, what the hell is it when you cut transmission lines, and fire at generators,
a game of paintball, might not be AQ, might be ELF or Zoroastrian militants, but there's something amiss,
Posted by: narciso | February 08, 2014 at 08:22 PM
Jane,
To invade Afghanistan and Iraq to build a pipeline. And they are 'this' close to proving it. And have been since 9/12/2001.
Posted by: Sue | February 08, 2014 at 08:22 PM
Poor Dana. Some dumb truther is getting all the attention and cleo can't take it.
Posted by: boris | February 08, 2014 at 08:23 PM
And a middle took out the pentagon and those aboard the plane were killed elsewhere.
Posted by: Sue | February 08, 2014 at 08:23 PM
TK
How many top officials at the pentagon do you know?
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 08:23 PM
CH, one of the reviews mentions that this is the base for their "barrel aged" product as well.
Apparently it sells for a shitload.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 08:24 PM
TBT
So was mine.
Posted by: Bori | February 08, 2014 at 08:24 PM
Missile not middle.
Posted by: Sue | February 08, 2014 at 08:25 PM
Yep, Sue, I think the squatches did it (but they used fire).
Posted by: Buford Gooch | February 08, 2014 at 08:25 PM
"TK
How many top officials at the pentagon do you know?"
Before I answer, you'll have to establish the relevance of the question.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 08:25 PM
Speaking of fire, I am going to lite one.
Have fun kiddos.
Posted by: Threadkiller | February 08, 2014 at 08:27 PM
You already have.
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 08:27 PM
This shows how a Fibonacci spiral (a "volute") can be constructed graphically:
http://3.7designs.co/blog/2010/10/how-to-design-using-the-fibonacci-sequence/
Note that the area of each succeeding square is equal to the sum of the two immediately preceding squares. The spiral occurs in nature as a result of cell division, when the number of cells that divide are equal to the sum of the cells that divided on the two previous iterations. Why that happens is the subject of an entirely different discipline of which I have no knowledge.
Posted by: Danube on iPad | February 08, 2014 at 08:28 PM
Alas I sense I have stepped on a toe or two.
Boris; gout means you're too acidic. Eat more leafy greens and less red meat.
Posted by: justified | February 08, 2014 at 08:31 PM
"Sometimes you fly on your gut. My gut tells me something is rotten in lower Manhattan."
justified
Structural Engineers will tell you the same thing!
Posted by: Truthbetold | February 08, 2014 at 08:35 PM