If President Obama, who I voted for because I thought he was progressive, sends 30,000 troops into Afghanistan it’s time to institute compulsory military service in the United States. Our military has depended on “Stop Loss,” the ultimate Catch-22, to keep volunteers in the military seemingly for ever. I think [...]
Here, there is a lot of attention again on the anti-Muslim xenophobia: the swiss voted in favor of a law forbidding the building of minarets at mosks, and of course our silly PVV is gloating at the prospect, and not entirely without political gain: I am pretty convinced more than [...]
Tomorrow, for the second time this semester, staff, faculty and students at the University of California campuses will go on strike for 3-days. The first strike, a one-day strike on September 24, which I attended, saw an estimated 5,000 workers, students and faculty jammed into UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza. That [...]
Yeehaw, I am on Google Wave, got my invitation today. If you have no idea what I am talking about watch this jaw-dropping video in HD
WPvideo 1.10 [...]Here are the latest numbers for my country (Oct 23 / Oct 30 / Nov 6 / Nov 13th / Nov 20th / Nov 27th / Dec 4th)
Inhabitants: 17 mln Total number of people admitted to hospital because of H1N1: 205 / 335 / 611 / 909 / 1270 / 1587 [...]Sometimes, when I chat or email with people from the US, especially in the pre-Obama era, there was a sort of almost un-American attitude seeping though like “you know, we are not ALL the bunch of idiots you hear from, please know there are people with actual brains”, of course [...]
The video plug-in seems to have gone banana’s. I’ll see what I can do.
Hmm, seems to be Firefox related, Chrome and IE do play.
Update: It was an update of an add-on, Page Speed to version 1.3, so probably most of you didn’t even notice, d’uhh
[...]This is not a very nest-like post I guess. Last Thursday, a guy I worked with quite a bit at a client of mine passed away at age 36. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor about a year ago. As far as understand, if inoperable, it is next to [...]
Today, in a people’s vote, the Irish votes “yes” for the Lisbon treaty. It might seem small news on the worlds chessboard, but it a way it isn’t. The European Union is far from a state (like the US). It’s sovereign countries, who, in essence agreed to cooperate on several [...]
Argentina, 30 years ago, the Dirty War. The military junta has depending on who you believe between 9.000 and 30.000 people arrested, questioned, tortured and “disappear”. The preferred method of killing is to load these poor bastards, mostly trade-unionists, students and activists in a plane or helicopter, [...]
I have blogged about my country being the most wiretapped in the world before. Now often when I discuss privacy issues, the response is: “I don’t care, I have no secrets, and I rather have a government keep an eye on the bad boys”. Erm, right. History will tell a [...]
We use a few different words here in politics so what in the US would be called a “secretary of….” here is a “minister”. Minister of agricultural affairs, given European subsidies one, if not the most important in terms of money, is trying to soften the public opinion about gen [...]
I had a good laugh today (with of course the good scientific-philosophical undertone) with this inspiring, and very funny 10 minute talk on TED by John Lloyd.
We can see matter, but we can’t see what’s the matter.
Or, quoting W.H. Auden
We are here on earth to help others. [...]
Making an appointment within the enterprise is not so hard these days. Everybody has their Outlook/Exchange or Notes/Domino system in place, nicely connected to their blackberries. In the more informal space, it is much harder to get this all done. Sure I run google calendar synchronizing with my blackberry using [...]
Bear with me, maybe a bit of a long intro. My back yard faces a small park “lint” running in parallel to the freeway behind it. My office is at the back of my house in the former garage. This morning, I was working in my office. As it is [...]
As a father of high-school and college attending kids, I know all to well that text book pricing is something between exorbitant and theft. And while “we” tend to think the teachers and professors like to press some extra money from students (read: usually parents) that is not the case, [...]
POOF, its gone!
Ed’s home page was updated Thu, 20 Aug, 2009 00:15:56 PST
As I post, the chat room is gone, the forum is still there, and the Lone Ranger is still kicking bad guys bottoms.
I’ll have to go and find my last offer I made Ed [...]
I was just listening to Trudy Lieberman (CJR) on this weeks CounterSpin from Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) talk about Obama’s “health care reform.” Kinda depressing to hear her point out that Obama has shifted the conversation away from the “universal health care” that he promised during [...]
The risk level for Mexican flu has been downgraded in my country to the level of normal, seasonal flu, and tamiflu will no longer be supplied. And here are the statistics:
give tamiflu to 200 otherwise healthy flu patients and it will prevent one case of serious complications, at the same [...]
Once upon a time, a Bigfoot sold a document to Ed hale.
:
Ed hid it until he could find someone reputable to present it in court.Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
And then Ed got mentioned on Countdown.Visit msnbc.com for [...]
At f***ing last. Skype is finally offering dial-in numbers in my country.
Residents of South Africa, Netherlands and Malta can now take advantage of Skype online numbers. They’re perfect if you have friends, family or colleagues who don’t [...]
From the Huffington Post (and they seem to have it from Associated press, oh my, we might have to pay for this).
A Sudanese female journalist facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public in violation of the country’s strict Islamic laws told [...]
And while not trying to hijacking the subject, I couldn’t be helped but being moved by this news. Fair use excerpt:
LONDON — He spent his life conducting world-renowned orchestras, but was almost blind [...]
Aaron Selbig and Allan Tesche, August 1, 2008
Long time Anchorage political heavyweight Allan Tesche passed away today.
Fair winds Alan, you’ll be sorely missed.
[...]We are seeing bogus comments flowing in at an alarming rate. I have changed a setting so we, the admins, need to approve comments before they appear. Sorry folks, we’ll try to get rid of this as soon as possible.
[...]Personal sortakinda rant, but I hope some of you can benefit.
I have been an enthusiastic user of marked product. Google docs is fantastic when co-working on documents real-time. Gmail is a terrific email system, Latitude/maps is of unheard quality and the blackberry product line, in my case a modest 8310 [...]
Saturday the 4th of July was a gorgeous day for a holiday. So nice WillowaRaven and I decided to head up to Wasilla and check out the premier Teabagger gathering in Alaska. Following the marvelous news from Saint Sarah the day before, how could we miss it?
We drove straight thru [...]
Willow Ptarmigan in Denali National Park, Alaska from Dennis Zaki on Vimeo.
Credits to Dennis Zaki @ Alaska Report
[...]
September 9th last year this girl was given only 4 months to live.
Good girl Hidey.
And it wouldn’t have happened if JDW hadn’t spent so much time with her. Hidey got literally weeks if not months of lap time, and a special place on the bed. JDW [...]
Oy oy oy, this was bound to happen. In the comics section of a well respected newspaper here.
“Fokke and Sukke have red cheeks of shame – God only wanted to hold him over the balcony railing, and then accidently dropped him”
[...]We’ll be heading down to the Anchorage Assembly meeting Tuesday night to participate in the Anti-Discrimination hearings. For those of you who don’t know, a local Baptist group has tried to xtian filibuster the proceedings with over 500 people giving testimony on why they hate gay people and [...]
A couple of days ago, I posted on The Regulator that Ed Hale had finally lawyered up in his battle with Phil Berg and Momma E. The astute reader may remember that Ed called his Eagle Scout lawyer “one of the best.”
So, he’s got “one of the best” [...]
Both:
Nun verschwinden alle Plagen (Now all torments disappear)
Nun verschwindet Ach und Schmerz (Now grief and sorrow disappear)
Soprano:
Nun will ich nicht von dir lassen (Now I shall not abandon you)
Bass:
Und ich dich auch stets umfassen (And I also shall constantly embrace you)
Soprano:
Nun vergnüget sich mein Herz [...]
Lowell Shinn and Ed O’Neill sold their Brown Jug liquor store chain to a Canadian Corporation last year. The Candaian firm has raised prices, fired many long time employees and imposed a host of restrictions and benefit cutbacks on those employees that have remained.
How dumb are we???
The distributors [...]
Before I write anything else let me put one of my beliefs right up front: there has never been a successful remediation of major oil spill any where in the world, ever! All of the talk about having “skimmers” and equipment in place is bullshit. If there is [...]
Eric Holder is gonna let Ted Stevens off the hook. From the LA Times:
The first Alaska blog with the story
[...]This is a neat video, done with time lapse. Kinda just runs along, then.. BALOEY!
Redoubt Eruption March 27 2009 from Bretwood Higman on Vimeo.
It’s ironic that only a few days after the 20th anniversary of The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound a new environmental disaster may be looming on the Alaskan horizon. This time it’s a potential crude oil spill into Cook [...]
I just received an email to let me know that Dr. Riki Ott, a resident of Valdez Cordova, a commercial “Fisherma’am,” author and Marine Biologist will be on Democracy Now! this Tuesday. Riki is the author of Sound Truths & Corporate Myths and more recently, Not One Drop. It’s [...]
Through egodialogues.
A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning.
He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands [...]
Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 crashed at Amsterdam Schiphol airport at 10:31 AM local (CET) time this morning, Februari 25th (8:31 UTC, 4:31 AM EST, 1:31 AM PST).
Last edit: I am going to put this entry to rest, with my understanding of what happened. Do feel free to [...]
