Barack's Mother gives us all an example: - ‘No Picnic for Me Either’ - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Columnist - ‘No Picnic for Me Either’ - NYTimes.com: "In his education speech this week, Barack Obama retold a by-now familiar story. When he was a boy, his mother would wake him up at 4:30 to tutor him for a few hours before he went off to school. When young Barry complained about getting up so early, his mother responded: “This is no picnic for me either, Buster.”"

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How the Rich Help Us All

Latest news headlines - CNET News: "Message in a bottle raft

March 13, 2009 4:00 AM PDT

British adventurer David de Rothschild plans to sail from San Francisco to Australia in a 60-foot vessel made from recycled plastic bottles--and to teach the world a few lessons about recycling along the way."

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Firm Evidence for God

Reliquary: Galileo's Lens

Yesterday the Congress declared Einstein's birthday, "Pi Day."

Rep. Baird from WAstate described fascination with the existence of such a magical number. But why? I suspect Baird is reflecting the need of some of his constituents to find reason to believe in God.

Let me help.

Unless there is an Intelligent Designer, then one would assume that some number would describe the ration of diameter to circumference but what intrinsic property of reality, other than ID, would mean that value was 3.0?

Personally, I think there is better evidence for an underlying intent in this here world. That is the value of the speed of light in km/sec: 300,000! Since meters are based on the diameter of the Earth and were invented in France, That value, called "C" seems to me to prove their is God, that the God used the speed of light to determine the diameter of the Earth, and, of course, that God is French.

Africa: Beyond Oil?

The Hindu : Front Page News : Friday, March 13, 2009: "Sahara sun could power all of Europe
First findings of major research point to potential of revolutionary solar energy plan"

Pakistan Nuclear Weapons Under Development

Pakistan Nuclear Weapons : Pakistan Defence: "Pakistan Nuclear Weapons

This is under development like before."

Pakistan Defence

Turkish Aerospace Industries to upgrade 42 F-16 jets

Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) has agreed to upgrade 42 Pakistani F-16 fighter jets. Read the story

The ‘jewel in the crown’ was the Bush administration’s announcement in March 2005 that it would sell F-16 to Pakistan again. This was seen as a reward for President Musharraf’s efforts in the war on terror, and came in response to Islamabad’s pleading for over two years. The PAF would like to equip three to five squadrons and initial indications were that Pakistan had plans to buy 79 F-16s from Lockheed Martin. Fifty-five of them would be new C/Ds and the rest second-hand, the deal including the upgrade of the 32 1980s vintage F-16s in PAF service. Two F-16s were flown to Pakistan at the end of November 2005, but the deal is now on hold as it would seem insensitive to expend US aid on fast jets while thousands are still suffering in the wake of the devastating Kashmir earthquake. President Musharraf stated that the order for the latest F-16C/Ds will enhance Pakistan ‘strategic capability’ and make a major difference to its ‘strategy of defensive deterrence.” For all the talk of the aircraft being equipped with the latest AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missiles to defend Pakistani airspace, the new F-16s are Justas much about enhancing the effectiveness of Pakistan’s nuclear deterrent.

Lessons to Our UK Cousins

Home | Mail Online: "BBC presenter in hot water for comparing Sri Lankan-born newsreader George Alagiah to a chimp
GEORGE ALAGIAH

A BBC news presenter came under fire after he jokingly asked TV viewers if they could see a likeness between his Sri Lankan-born colleague George Alagiah and a chimpanzee."

Obama Walking Near Water?

Financial Markets News - FT.com: "Overview: US consumer data heighten optimism

US retail sales fall less than expected as oil and gold prices move higher and investors appear to put concerns about the financia"

Africa Joins Billionaire Club

NigerianNews::Nigerian News Portal; Unbridled and UnAfraid: "Otedola Joins Dangote on Forbes World’s Richest List
President/CEO, Dangote Group and Dangote Oil, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has been joined on the Forbes list of world’s richest persons by shipping magnate, Mr. Femi Otedola, who is also the President/CEO of Zenon Petroleum and Gas as well as Chairman/CEO of African Petroleum Plc."

Tax Us Please

Crosscut - News of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest: "It's virtually impossible to rescue our budget without raising taxes. But will straightforward math and common sense carry the day?"

Jerusalem Post | Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World

Jerusalem Post | Breaking News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World: "PA unity negotiations near collapse
Hamas spokesman says disagreement over Israel holding up deal; Fatah to release 45 prisoners."

Barhoum and other Hamas spokesmen reacted angrily to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's demand that a new Hamas-Fatah government accept the conditions of the Middle East Quartet, namely recognizing Israel's right to exist, renouncing terrorism and accepting all agreements between the PLO and Israel.

Taher a-Nunu, spokesman for the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, .... said.

"Fatah wants a government that accepts the two-state solution, and this is something that Hamas can't and will never accept," Nunu said. "We are prepared to accept a Palestinian state in the 1967 boundaries only as a temporary solution, without recognizing the Zionist occupation of any inch of our homeland."

Same old, same old.

Granma

Baseball and much more take Cuba into second round of World Classic
CUBA responded to its position as favorite, a label that has weighed down more than one team at this still youthful World Baseball Classic, by winning a sensational 5-4 victory against the much improved and effective Australian team in a game played at the Foro Sol Stadium in Mexico City. On the Mexican stadium�s playing field, the Cubans not only displayed that they are a great baseball...

South American defense
ministers demand an end to the
Peraza decided the game with a sensational homerun in the eighth inning.
blockade of Cuba
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, March 10.� Defense ministers from the region, meeting today here at the first South American Defense Council (CDS), agreed on the need for the United States to bring an end to the unjust economic blockade of Cuba, imposed for almost 50 years, reports PL. Ram�n Carriz�lez, vice president and defense minister of Venezuela, confirmed that the entire international community is against this blockade and the arbitrary measures adopted by the U.S. toward the island.

Trust in God?

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: "Megan is having second thoughts about Obama:

Having defended Obama's candidacy largely on his economic team, I'm having serious buyer's remorse. Geithner, who is rapidly starting to look like the weakest link, is rattling around by himself in Treasury. Meanwhile, the administration is clearly prioritized a stimulus package that will not work without fixing the banks over, um, fixing the banking system. Unlike most fiscal conservatives, I'm not mad at him for trying to increase the size of the government; that's, after all, what he got elected promising to do. But he also promised to be non-partisan and accountable, and the size and composition stimulus package looks like just one more attempt to ram through his ideological agenda without much scrutiny, with the heaviest focus on programs that will be especially hard to cut.

I have a strong feeling that if it was that easy to fix the banking system, it would have been done already. I'm prepared to give them some time on this, Obama-shill that I am, and have come to see the cogency of some of the arguments against hasty and possibly foolish decisions. Bernanke is persuasive on this.

We had a crisis of similar proportions in a different area with a new president last time around. Looking back, do we really think Bush's failures after 9/11 came from too much circumspection or"

I agree with Sullivan. Thi is a historic moment and nothing useful is going to happen overnight. We need leaders who can plan months and years ahead.

As for partisanship, so far very few if any Repub;ocans have made constructive suggestions. In the ansence of that, frankly, they seem to me to be mor einterested in saving their seats then promoting our mutual welfare.

In fact, as I was writing, I cam across this amazing piece:

By John Poirier and Diane Bartz

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc Chairman Richard Parsons said on Thursday that the bank does not need any more capital injections from the government and expressed confidence that Citi would remain in private hands.

Asked in an interview with Reuters whether Citigroup needed additional government capital injections, Parsons said: "No, I think actually, particularly with the latest conversion... Citi is actually one of the better capitalized banks in the world."

A New Low in Drug Research: 21 Fabricated Studies Involving Drugs Such As Vioxx, Celebrex - Health Blog - WSJ

A New Low in Drug Research: 21 Fabricated Studies Involving Drugs Such As Vioxx, Celebrex - Health Blog - WSJ: "A New Low in Drug Research: 21 Fabricated Studies"

Pres. Obama Will Not Attend Annual Gridiron Dinner, First President Since Cleveland to Miss - mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC

Pres. Obama Will Not Attend Annual Gridiron Dinner, First President Since Cleveland to Miss - mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC: "Pres. Obama Will Not Attend Annual Gridiron Dinner, First President Since Cleveland to Miss

This year's date coincides with the spring break of President Obama's daughters' school and club members have been informed the Obama family will be out of town, likely in Chicago."

The Unholy World Currency Alliance

Nobel-prize winner backs world currency | The Australian: "KAZAKH President Nursultan Nazarbayev has won backing for his plan for a single world currency from an intellectual architect of the euro currency, Nobel-prize winner Professor Robert Mundell.

Nazarbayev, speaking at an economic forum in the glitzy new capital he has built on the Kazakh steppe, defended his proposal for the 'acmetal'' world currency saying it might 'look kind of funny'' but was not."

Gad! I have nothing against a world currency but all that I have read of this Khazaki makes me wonder if Mundell is taking some sort of odd pills? I do know that a Canadian entreprenur has been workign with Bill gClintin to legitimize Nazarbayev.

Dutch Translational Research Center Provides 100M Euros in Funding for Research Projects | GenomeWeb Daily News | GenomeWeb

Dutch Translational Research Center Provides 100M Euros in Funding for Research Projects | GenomeWeb Daily News | GenomeWeb: "NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – The Center for Translational Molecular Medicine, a Dutch public-private partnership founded a year ago, said that it has awarded a total of €100 million ($128 million) to eight new research projects targeting cancer, cardiovascular, neurodegenerative, and infectious diseases."

Holland has a population at about 16 million, the US has a population of 3oo million. $ 2,400,000,000

Obama's roots have Irish eyes smiling - Erika Lovley - POLITICO.com

Obama's roots have Irish eyes smiling - Erika Lovley - POLITICO.com: "He’s touted his father’s Kenyan roots and his mother’s Kansas upbringing.

But Irish Americans say they’re still waiting for Barack Obama to embrace another influential figure from his past: his great-great-great-grandfather Falmouth Kearney.

An Irish immigrant who came to America in 1850, Kearney hailed from Moneygall, County Offaly, a tiny Irish village about an hour and a half west of Dublin. And according to Ancestry.com, this link makes Obama about 3.1 percent Irish."

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Natural Racism?

High school students from around the United States who were finalists in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search, run by Science News publisher the Society for Science & the Public, met with President Obama March 9 as part of a week of activities and awards. Full Story Society for Science & the Public

This image bothers me a lot more than a lot of the statistics about education in the US. There is ONE black face here, that is the President!

How does this happen? I do not know the answer BUT I do know that this shows we have neglected the top of the talent pool when targeting the education of AA. The number of educators who see the "black problem" as being only an issue of the low average achievement are living in a fantasy world. Human achievement has always been based on competition .. we are after all apes. If there is no path for AA kids to excel, ALL black kids will be hurt.

The other obvious issue here is the paucity of Euro kids. I suspect this is a result of the loss of immigrant family structure as Americans melt into the pot. Does this mean that Blacks are the most American of us all?

GO .. the ultimate test of human value, falls.

For the last two decades, human cognitive superiority had a distinctive sound: the soft click of stones placed on a wooden Go board. But once again, artificial intelligence is asserting its domination over gray matter.