A History of the Polticization of Washington Think Tanks Intresting to see this explination of the think tank ecosystem. I would of loved to have heard how much of the same stuff was happening to the more liberal leaning ones. What People actually Pay in Income Tax vrs. Popular Perception It’s hard to take the Tea [...]
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2010-04-16 – Reading
Posted in Current Events, tagged AEI, Brookings, Think Tanks on April 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Getting the ical/ics feed from a King County Library
Posted in Current Events, Journal, Software - Technical on April 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been working on being an event calendar curator ala Jon Udell’s system and was stuck getting a good calendar feed from the King Country Library System for my local Snoqualmie library. As in most projects, you start with some HTML page of calendar entries. In this case a search for Snoqualmie Library leads to [...]
2009-02-08 – Economic Tidbits
Posted in Current Events, Intresting on February 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently Republican Economic Theory has returned to the Treasury View which is summed up as “Government spending crowds out private spending or investment, and thus has no net impact.” which is sorta weird since it’s a return to the macro-economic theory of the 1920/30s. We dodged a bullet called Bush’s Social Security Privatization which had [...]
Random Links for 2008/01/22
Posted in Current Events on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lilly’s Big Day I’m left speechless that the republican version of being business friendly is to attempt to uphold a technicality that destroys such a common sense law (capped at $300,000 btw). A Stimulus For Today And Tomorrow, And That’s OK the Director of the CBO estimated the multipliers for both "purchases of goods and [...]
Turnabout?
Posted in Current Events on January 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Regarding the message “There’s probably no God".” on 800 London Buses (in response to a religious one telling people to look up a biblical verse telling them they are going to hell), there was a woman tourist from LA is quoted: “I think it’s dreadful,” … ”Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I don’t [...]
Snoqualmie I-90 Exit
Posted in Current Events on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the not so good things about living out in Snoqualmie Ridge is that we share an exit with the north end of 18, a bypass around Seattle and frequent location for traffic backed up onto the highway, which has actually led to a number of accidents and I believe a few deaths. The [...]
NIST on Electronic Voting
Posted in Current Events, Political on December 3, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
The NIST has released a draft white paper on electronic voting machines. Washington Post summarizes: Paperless electronic voting machines used throughout the Washington region and much of the country “cannot be made secure,” according to draft recommendations issued this week by a federal agency that advises the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. … NIST says in [...]
What's going on in the world
Posted in Current Events, Political on July 4, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Seymour Hersh documents the battle in between Bush’d administration and the military branches over Iran policy. Political slogans were once again turned in poor law, this time proving your citizenship for Medicaid. Hadman proves the point that “conservative judges” are more idoligical then constitutional. It’s feels good to know that we haven’t lost the american system of [...]
State Secrets
Posted in Current Events, Political on May 23, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Henry Lanman over at slate is discussing the ramp up of the federal governments use of the state secret privledge. While it’s a fundamentally reasonable privilege, the ways it’s getting used to block investigation of possible illegal behavior is worrying. It doesn’t add confidence to learn that the original case in which the doctrine was [...]
The strategic scorecard for the US in Iraq
Posted in Current Events, Political on March 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a relativly concise and damning evaluation of the Iraq War by Anthony Cordesman of CSIS as posted on The Washington Note and linked to by Obsidian Wing: “The Iraq War Three Years On: A Scorecard Anthony H. Cordesman Let me preface the following points with the statement that I do not oppose the war, and that [...]
