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November 01, 2014

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L'il Sumerian cuneiform to start off the thread.

No biggy...

henry

Looked like this NYT story clogged up your toilet and you had to use increasingly powerful plungers.

daddy

I'm "unwashed" at the moment myself, so using that as my excuse hope you won't mind me pasting a bit of a Taiwanese Soap Opera reviewer commenting on the recent Soaps that made Barmaid Peggy nuttier than usual.

During these past two years, SETTV has been inundated with a really bad Sunday-night drama line-up. All dramas after the popular Miss Rose went down as crazy and illogical. King Flower was actually quite decent and one that I enjoyed but not only was there a ludicrous makeover but also down the track there was a male lead switcheroo and well, that doesn’t quite fit your typical drama format (well, IMO anyways). Then came Love Around which was sane, but oh-so-bland and boring! After that came the trainwreck that was Déjà Vu and then we had the half-way-second-male-lead-switheroo-plus-psychologically-impaired-mess of Fall in Love with Me. These dramas were mess after mess, wreckage after wreckage and crazy after crazy. I’m just hoping that the follow-up drama Say Again Yes I Do (AKA I Do²) does not follow this horrible, horrible fate of its predecessors. Dearest Drama Gods, Can we just have one decent drama that does not head down this atrocious trajectory, pretty please?

Sounds logical to me!

daddy

TM,

If you need my permission to just go in and nuke the NYTimes, you've got it!

Steve

Friendly Reminder: The economy was better in 2006 (GOP Control) than in 2014 (Democrat Control):


http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/11/friendly-reminder-economy-was-better-in.html

matt

Local newspaper's print edition headline last night:

"Gourds Light up Night"

This one's for you, Porch.

rse

henry@3:09--

comment of the day so far.

Marlene

Gov.LePage said he didn't trust Kaci,he isn't going to keep quiet,he is worried about her safety. The state troopers and the media cameras are gone,so she got her 15 minutes. She assured the police chief in Fort Kent that she doesn't plan on going into town. He escorts the Maine CDC person to the house,so this is costing the town money.

Jack is Back!

For the uninitiated, the Haka and its translation:

Ka mate, ka mate! ka ora! ka ora! Will I die, Will I die

Ka mate! ka mate! ka ora! ka ora! Will I live, Will I live

Tēnei te tangata pūhuruhuru This is the hairy man

Nāna nei i tiki mai whakawhiti te rā Who brought the sun and caused it to shine

Ā, upane! ka upane! A step upward, another step upward!

Ā, upane, ka upane, whiti te ra A step upward, another... the Sun shines!

Coming up in a few minutes on NBC. All Blacks v. USA Eagles

One of my greatest sports moments was to watch New Zealand V. England at Twickenham in 1997 where they drew 26 all. It was a Johah Lumu game and he started the trend to monster wings and backs. You'll see some 300 pound guys running today but not for 5 seconds but for 80 minutes.

Jeff Dobbs

TM:
And utterly missing from this "background" are examples of Big Government fails where mistrust would have been warranted. Leaded gasoline and the War On Dietary Fat come to mind, and I welcome other examples.

Asbestos removal was sooooooo important to Obama that he left Altgeld before it was completed.

A mistrust of the science may have been less well-placed than a mistrust of the greatest man who ever lived never accomplished anything more than getting elected.

clarice

Let me suggest the myths that hormone replacement pills protected the heart and that the first birth control pills were perfectly safe.

Jeff Dobbs

Well, DDT might oughta be mentioned too.

Captain Hate

Has 404 said anything about the released Marine?

Stephanie accidentally OnT?

Ted Roof sux... that is all.

Captain Hate

Damn straight, hit; Rachel Carson was about as sciency as ManBearPig, but probably not as fat.

daddy

Speaking of Cunieform, current very interesting and so far enjoyable read is The Ark Before Noah: Decoding the Story of the Flood

It's about quite recent discoveries revealed from digging up the old cuneiform clay tablets from ancient Mesopotamia and reading their accounts of ancient Noah-type Flood stories.

But what I thought of interest tonight was this bit from the author/curator in the Brit Museum overseeing their collection of over 130,000 clay cuneiform tablets:

Cunieform absolutely cannot be written with the left hand, and any school candidate who manifested that sinister tendency in antiquity would, no doubt, have it beaten out of him, as has often happened since in human history.

Apparently the wedged symbols would come out incorrectly if done by Southpaws!

Wedge shape and calligraphic proportion did not remain static over three thousand years of use. Teachers of sign-writing in cuneiform school always promoted the accepted shapes with vigor, and personal style in handwriting had no place at all. Early cuneiform around 2900 BC has long, slim wedges,; the first-millenium Assyrian Librarians perfected a canon of proportions to such an extent that one library scribe can hardly be distinguished from another without micro-photography, while under the Seleucids in the fourth century BC cuneiform signs leaned so backwards that they look like dominoes on the verge of collapse.

Cunieform absolutely cannot be written with the left hand

This got me wondering if this was the possible large scale social origin of the discrimination of Left Handedness. If Cunieform Writing (believed to be a gift from the gods) had banned Lefties from writing for the 3,000 plus years during which Cunieform was the only extant writing system in most of the world, I imagine that would certainly have made a social impact upon society.

All that said, it got me to thinking, "What, if anything, is of obvious benefit in normal society from being Left Handed, and if there is such an obvious benefit, is it big enough to overcome 5,000 years of anti-left stigma in human history. Off the top, all I can think of beneficially is Hendrix, or SouthPaw pitchers in Baseball, and lefty hitters like Ichiro padding his Batting Average by beating out infield dribblers to first base.

Leaving "wiping our behinds" out of the equation, is there anything Lefties have done for us lately to make us not hate 'em?

Jeff Dobbs

daddy:
Leaving "wiping our behinds" out of the equation, is there anything Lefties have done for us lately to make us not hate 'em?


Whether or not I have done anything to assuage your bigoted hate - I am compelled to put it on record that I have never wiped your behind.

Jack is Back!

Gators! Fake FG. TD.

Jane

Hey Daddy, do the cruise boats come in near you?

Captain Hate

I don't have a Dawg in this SEC fight.

Jack is Back!

CH,

Good because Gators just scored to go up 14-7.

rich@gmu

hahahahahaha ... Florida up on the dawgs.

rich@gmu

florida and georgia are both wearing home jerseys ... don't UCLA and USC do that when they play?

rich@gmu

everyone must getting in their half time bathroom break.

to recap todays action

The Turtles beat Ped U 20-19

The Gators up 14-7 at the half

and

WVU is up 13-7 against the Horned Frogs at the half.

MarkO

Experts? Experts? I know and love experts. During one antitrust case I had, as experts, nearly the entire faculty of the Harvard Business School.

You have no idea the persuasive power of a suite at the Huntington Hotel. It amazed me how they seemed to opine exactly as further lodging seemed to require.

jimmyk on iPad

Daddy, lefties have and advantage in some of her sports, thought mainly because they are a small minority. Like tennis, and maybe boxing. They face righties all the time, but righties aren't used to facing them.

rich@gmu

so glad that the Times to the time to Voxsplain ebola to us losers.

Didn't Coulter have the response to this a few days ago?

another thing the experts missed ... The War on Salt.

jimmyk on iPad

Auto correct: Lefties have AN advantage in SOME OTHER sports

jimmyk on iPad

And on experts: The history of economics policy over the last 100 years, from central planning to the geniuses at the Fed who were so sure that mortgages weren't going to be a big problem, is replete with experts getting it wrong.

Jack is Back!

jimmyk,

Like basebal?

Holy Moly. Florida is provig you can run all day on Georgia. Gators 21 - 7 over the Dawgs.

rich@gmu

ha ... TD Florida!!!!

Orange Blue Orange Blue.

narciso

so I think this falls into the category, of 'known unknowns'

rich@gmu

So give a cheer for the Orange and Blue, Waving forever,
Forever pride of old Florida, May she droop never
We'll sing a song for the flag to-day, Cheer for the team at play!
On to the goal we'll fight our way for Florida

narciso

so who is helming Georgia, right on to the rocks?

rich@gmu

Richt is the coach at Georgia. Don't think he is in jeopardy. They look off, probably too hung over for an afternoon start.

Florida has only thrown the ball 6 times for 3 completions. this has been all on the ground.

Jeff Dobbs

probably too hung over for an afternoon start.

If I had a nickel for every time mrs hit and run said that.......

Captain Hate

Steph has to be loving this. The Dawgs are always capable of dropping a hot steaming game like this no matter what the circumstances.

rich@gmu

FG Florida ... I should drink 3 beers in their honor. 24-7

sbw

Daddy, not buying the cuniform.

Thems is stacked Martini glasses and I don’t advise you to drive anymore tonight.

rich@gmu

ha Georgia fumble.

Jane

I believe that Obama refused to help the marine because Fox News was all over the story. I doubt any other network spent much, if any, time on it. And Obola wanted to make sure everyone knows who is boss. He's a vindictive and petty little man.

MarkO

A nasty homunculus.

rich@gmu

Posted by: Captain Hate | November 01, 2014 at 05:49 PM -

this could go on and on and on. a shame it has to end.

rich@gmu

WVU up 27-14 on TCU. Perfect time for an onside kick ...

MarkO

Just asking for a friend:

What form of cuni does daddy have?

anonamom

Please, let's not forget the food pyramid, with the eight servings a day of grains as the foundation of good health.

Or make that as the foundation of the massive obesity/diabetes/ hypertension costs we are dealing with today.

Stephanie accidentally OnT?

Woot! Dawgs losing, Tech winning. It's A Good Day!

On the way out to dinner.

Go Gators!

narciso

apparently slick isn't bringing out the crowds either:


http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/11/republican-joni-ernst-slams-obama-over-delayed-release-of-sgt-tahmooressi-video/

rich@gmu

lol ... Orange Blue Orange Blue

Jack is Back!

anonamom,

You are certainly in the Kingdom of large servings of grains each day. Enjoy and don't forget to order up a good English fry for breakfast. You'll loive the beans, tomatoe and mushrooms:)

rich@gmu

50 rushs for 321 yards rushing in this game

Captain Hate

The slattering continues

rich@gmu

WVU up 30-21

Jack is Back!

Something wroing with the polls (over the years, BTW) to think the No. 11 ranked team in the nation can bet beat like a drum by an unranked under-coach team like Florida. But saying that everyone in football knows the superior athletes Florida has but without proper management.

donald

Hudson Mason.

glasater

I saw daddy's symbols and thought golf tees.

rich@gmu

how about eugenics? that was progressive "science"!

did anyone else see ace's "I love science sexually" tweets ...

GMax

If you have been watching Tommy Jensen like I have for several elections knows that while Tommy wolfs in mid election campaigns and even seems to find more Democrats than ever show up on election day,but when the last poll before the election is released, he quite often finds "movement" and he tries very hard to get the call correct, as he knows he will be judged vis a vis this last poll, not the other ones. So get a load of his view of KY just released:

PPP

McConnell 50
Grimes 42
Libertarian 3


I think it about time to start organizing the majority, Mitch.

rich@gmu

TCU making a come back another td, still down 28-30

narciso

Erdogan seems to be behaving like the dawgs:

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4830/erdogan-book-of-defeat?anid=7

Jeff Dobbs

glasater:
I saw daddy's symbols and thought golf tees.

Well that brings back memories...

Yes remember my symbol.

Posted by: PeterUK | October 24, 2009 at 05:48 PM

For context - Cassandra of VillaousCompany had come on JOM, and PUK had made her spit out her beverage with one of his make-you-spit-out-your-beverage comments. Clarice warned her to learn PUK's "symbol" to avoid such a thing in the future.

This was PUK's dry response.

This was one week before PUK died.

jimmyk


And of course, worthy of special mention in the economic arena are the experts who gave us 404Care.

Then there are those that are forcing Common Core on us. And "sex education" that sends the message that there is such a thing as safe sex between 14-year-olds.

I don't know this first-hand, but a friend who grew up on a farm would talk about how his family would roll their eyes at the experts from the D of A who would come and "help" them.

And so on. The list of government expert failure is so long that it would be much easier to list the successes.

jimmyk

A belated HB to Pagar, and condolences for iggy on this anniversary.

Neo

The federal authorities and Ferguson protestors have strongly criticized state officials for providing the local Grand Jury with all of the evidence available regarding the Ferguson shooting, arguing that the Grand Jury should instead be denied access to evidence providing legal justification for Brown’s killing.

Most folks are never on a Grand Jury, so they have no idea what a Grand Juror can do. In a word .. “everything”. They get to ask questions, something that trial juries, in most cases, can only wish for. Not only do they get to ask questions of the witnesses, but they can ask questions of the prosecuting attorney.

It is the responsibility of the Grand Jury to look at all the facts that they can. I am pressed to understand just how the above statement can be true unless the federal prosecuting attorney is just plain out lying to the federal Grand Jury or it is made up of the biggest group of intellectual cretins the feds could find.

rich@gmu

ha another td ...

rich@gmu

59 rushes for 422 yards, 5 tds ...

Jeff Dobbs

TCU wins on a last second field goal.

rich@gmu

TCU wins 31-30 ... gonna be a tough night in Morgantown.

Jeff Dobbs

My mom and dad met at TCU. My sister graduate from TCU as well.

Back in college I once went on a road trip to TCU to visit an old HS baseball teammate. That was a party. I threw up in a street near campus after drinking too much.

I mean just look at all the history I have with TCU!

Jeff Dobbs

I hope my parents don't read JOM.

Tonto

Dear Iggie: You are so much in my thoughts and prayers.

Donald: How is your father doing? It is so hard on the surviving spouse. Children don't have the "luxury" of grieving -- they have to tamp down their own grief and support the parent who is bereft. Praying for you.

GMax

This new pollster Vox Populi Polling releases another one that looks different than most recent NH polling. It will be interesting to see after the election which view of the turnout model is correct:

US SENATE – NEW HAMPSHIRE (VPP)
Scott Brown (R) 49%
Jeanne Shaheen (D-inc) 45

jimmyk

Neo@6:56, what is that from?

In any case, I have the impression that only the prosecution case gets any say in a grand jury hearing. There is no defense attorney, no requirement of presenting exculpatory evidence, etc. So is it a valid point that the state should not be offering exculpatory evidence or other help to the accused in a GJ hearing? I had the idea that the only real inhibition on the state at this stage is the cost of indicting someone who has no chance of getting convicted.

narciso

would you be surprised to hear that Steadman's wheelhouse, is still going after Zimmerman,

if the case were reversed, how would the Times approach it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/arts/provocateurs-death-haunts-the-dutch-.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0

narciso

I'm not making it up:

http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/10/fbi-convenes-grand-jury-for-zimmerman-civil-rights-case/

rich@gmu

>>>explore the public mistrust of experts. As is so often the case with the Times, I am left marveling at the mental acuity of liberals.

>>>the Grand Jury should instead be denied access to evidence providing legal justification for Brown’s killing

narciso

the word they are looking for is hudna

http://therightscoop.com/boko-haram-says-captured-girls-have-been-married-off-to-islamists-denies-claims-of-truce-being-reached/

RickB

It's the LI characterization of CNN propaganda on Ferguson. The key is at the bottom:

Another point of contention could come at the end of the grand jury process, when local officials want to immediately release all evidence that was part of their investigation.

If federal officials are still conducting their investigation, they may oppose the release of sensitive information.

The St.Louis prosecutor wants to get the eyewitness testimony by six blacks, taken immediately after the shooting, on the public record to offset the trash testimony generated by activists over the following days.

rich@gmu

still waiting for that honest conversation ... any day.

GMax
The Kansas Republican party has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission regarding Democratic involvement in independent Senate candidate Greg Orman’s campaign. The complaint comes after numerous reports that national and state-level Democrats, or groups associated with Democrats, have worked to help Orman, who’s threatening to unseat Republican incumbent Pat Roberts.

The Independent candidate supported by George Soros and now the entire Democrat establishment. I think I can see through this one...

MarkO

Honest conversation? Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2b21yAeEpQ

rich@gmu

the ducks up 14 - 3 early.

rich@gmu

must be JOM date night ...

RickB

Ernst just joined Cotton on the walk to the winner's circle. I'm glad to see my Heritage favorites in early so focus can be kept on the GOPe turtle races.

RickB

Ernst just joined Cotton on the walk to the winner's circle. I'm glad to see my Heritage favorites in early so focus can be kept on the GOPe turtle races.

narciso

taking him at face value is a mistake:


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/24/sp-ukraine-russia-cold-war

Danube on iPad

I see the Mids are in a bit of a sticky wicket early.

rich@gmu

Rick-

Is she leading in the recent polling against Braley?

rich@gmu

wasn't going to give the play by play DoT cause I didn't want to spoil it ...

RickB

Rich,

The Des Moines Register (which endorsed Braley) has a poll this evening giving her a 51-47 lead and showing her ahead in all four CDs. Braley is not even carrying his own CD. It's a definite shift in the wind for Iowa and will affect the legislature as well, given Branstad's very high popularity.

Jack is Back!

Lots of good games on right now. Hard to keep track.

Cowbell U finally wakes up.

Ole Miss is up.

Navy is down but not out.

And the Gators are still celebrating in the River City.

Jack is Back!

Navy tied. Damn that was fast.

Danube on iPad

Thanks, Rich. We are leaving in about twenty monites and I'll turn on the DVR and watch the rest when we get home. There are a couple of other Canoe U. guys at the dinner so it may be on there.

Nice answering drive.

Dave (in MA)

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/bill-clinton-plugs-kay-hagan-in-nc-112395.html?hp=LGA&un_destination

Levin's nomination for dumbest headline of the year.

I don't think it's dumb at all.

plinkada

Here's a great article on the non-science of dietary salt restrictions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/we-only-think-we-know-the-truth-about-salt.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Why looky there, it's in the New York Times...

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