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PosterChild's JournalOperation Chico: I Survived!
Somehow the conversation devolved to civil defense - high/low sirens, fallout shelters, emergency broadcasts and, of course, duck and cover. I related my very vague memories of participating in an early 60s population dispersal excersize. We jumped in the car and drove to improve don't know where, and stayed in a strange home for the night with I don't know who. The landscape , in my memory was barren and desert like. All in all it's had a very low key, benign twilight zone feel to it.
So, my curiosity piqued by my vague memory , I did a little inner webz sluthing and found out that I had been part of Operation Chico:
I was wrong about the early 60s. It was the late 50s. I was only three at the time. But I do remember it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chico
http://www.solanoarticles.com/history/index.php/weblog/more/operation_chico_was_only_a_test
Birthers, ‘Trumpists’ and a crisis for the GOP
Birthers, ‘Trumpists’ and a crisis for the GOP (DU Get a mention)
http://wapo.st/1KQDqCA
Would America elect a socialist to be President ?
Um, no. Why do you ask?
http://www.gallup.com/poll/183713/socialist-presidential-candidates-least-appealing.aspx
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/17/could-a-socialist-actually-be-elected-president/
We are the scientist and engineers of...
... Solar Probe Plus... ask us ANYTHING ,!!!
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3hvybf/were_members_of_solar_probe_plus_spp_nasas/
#ilooklikeanengineer - Who Doesn't ?
I work with (and for) some very accomplished , very talented female engineers. Designing and building spacecraft for some of the most challenging missions ever undertaken by human kind. I can imagine them having to put up with remarks like these.
#ilooklikeanengineer wants to challenge your ideas about who can work in tech
http://wapo.st/1JK8QtR
Alongside other social virtues, I value power....
Power is a positive, necessary, social force and no one actively engaged in politics, including you and Bernie, can do anything virtuous and beneficial without it. Running for office is running for power.
Since we humans are social animals, we need to systematically coordinate our efforts and cooperate in order to achieve just basic survival, let alone greater and more encompassing shared goals. Power is the mechanism that enables selection of such goals and effective social cooperation towards achieving them. If those goals are good, then power, the means to those goals, is good.
My conception of power is the ability to administer a system of rewards and punishments in order to influence behavior. I conceive of governance as the use of this ability in the service of justice.
My impression is that what those who...
... say they value "honesty and integrity" really value is a clear, unambiguous, public articulation of their own personal views. Which are often at the fringes of the general electorate; an electorate that is quite often ambivalent about the issues that concern the activists who demand "honesty and integrity". Another, less charitable, view of "honesty and integrity" is that it often devolves into "pandering to the base".
I personally appreciate candidates who take a broader, more inclusive and nuanced approach to the issues.
Obama’s push on trade splits Democrats along economic lines
Obama’s push on trade splits Democrats along economic lines
http://wapo.st/1FrlIOP
But the TPP also aims to strengthen patents for pharmaceutical, financial and information technology companies, extend copyrights for entertainment studios, and safeguard the free flow of data across borders for Internet and software firms. It is in those areas, independent economists have said, that the TPP could have the biggest impact in the United States....
“If we are going to capture the future, then we’ve got to open up markets to the kinds of things that we’re really good at, that can’t be duplicated overseas,” Obama said at the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce in April. “We’re good at innovation. Were good at services. We can create things that other countries can’t create.”
Over the past decade, high-tech industries and those that rely heavily on intellectual property have dramatically outperformed traditional manufacturing, Labor Department statistics show. From 2002 to 2012, the combined economic output of Hollywood and “high-tech” industries – including pharmaceutical production, engineering services, and computer and aerospace manufacturing – grew by 30 percent, after adjusting for inflation. Traditional manufacturing shrank by 1.1 percent.
Martin O’Malley: You heard it here first: I’m running for president
Things are almost ready here in Baltimore, where I’m about to step on stage to officially announce my candidacy. But first, I want to take a quick moment to thank you for all of the encouragement you’ve given me over the last few weeks. Our nation faces big challenges—from an economy that is severely out of balance to ever-changing threats to our national security. I know we can address these challenges and rebuild the American Dream as long as you’re standing with me.
(Social) Liberals are enjoying a comeback
http://wapo.st/1HHoCmq
That’s according to a new Gallup poll that finds the shares of American adults considering themselves “socially liberal” and “socially conservative” each total 31 percent. (The remaining respondents either called their views “moderate” or had no opinion.) Gallup has been tracking these categories since 1999, and the latest numbers simultaneously signify the highest share ever recorded for liberals and the lowest recorded for conservatives.
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