Thanks to Eyeonileana (FL-18: Annette Taddeo instructs incumbent on Social Security) for the link to this video:
I wish everyone in the 18th Congressional District could see this: Democrats are sometimes accused, occasionally even with justice, of fear-mongering on Social Security. But with this incumbent it's all true: she really does support 50% privatization — and if she'd had her way, in the future people who depend on Social Security would be very very vulnerable.
Now does he dump her from the ticket? I'm guessing he doesn't.
News about the Hate Talk Express.
Friday
Thursday
Wednesday
Tuesday
Monday
McCain was on his 23rd bombing mission over North Vietnam when a surface-to-air missile struck his A-4 attack jet. He was flying 3,000 feet above Hanoi.
A then-secret report issued in 1967 by McCain's squadron said the aviators had learned to stay at an altitude of 4,000 to 10,000 feet in heavy surface-to-air missile environments and look for approaching missiles.
Sunday
Saturday
Friday
Lots going on on the local political scene.
FL-18
FL – 25
FL – 21
Even the traveling press isn't being told exactly where George Bush will be in Coral Gables tomorrow.
This is all the White House will say:
Coral Gables, Florida
2:35 p.m. EDT – EVENT: REMARKS AT A CONGRESSIONAL TRUST 2008
3:25 p.m. EDT RECEPTION
(CLOSED PRESS)
LOCATION: Private Residence
Coral Gables, Florida3:45 p.m. EDT – 4:30 p.m. EDT EVENT: MEETING WITH CUBAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY LEADERS
(TRAVEL POOL COVERAGE AT END)LOCATION: Coral Gables Location
Coral Gables, Florida
I suppose they know that if they let anything out, the demonstrators would be out in force. Probably headed by an army of retirees who have seen their savings start to evaporate.
Yes, George Bush is afraid of angry grandmothers. Probably with good reason.
The folks Emergent Chaos think they've spotted a scientific revolution:
This paper, “More Really is Different,” may be one of the most important papers of the last half-millenium. It argues that P.W. Anderson's concept of “emergence” is provable. It may have even proved it.
The idea of emergence, from whence this blog gets its name is the opposite of reductionism. It is the idea that a complex system acquires properties that the underlying parts cannot predict. It's nothing more and nothing less than a formalization of the adage, “The whole is more than the sum of its parts.”
The authors, Mile Gu, Christian Weedbrook, Alvaro Perales, and Michael A. Nielsen, argue directly that this may mean that a “Theory of Everything” may therefore be impossible.
This is big, big news. Read the paper. Read the commentary in The New Scientist, “Why nature can't be reduced to mathematical laws.”
If they are right, this goes to the core of the philosophical underpinnings of the way we understand the world. It may help explain everything from weather prediction to the origins of life to whether souls exist. I might even be engaging in understatement rather than hyperbole on that last bit. You may think it's a long way down to the chemist's, but this is big.
While you're at it, expect some highly entertaining debate, and pseudo-scientific whackos of every stripe to start quoting this. Maybe the next Kuhnian revolution has begun.
I am not a (series of) numbers, I am a free man.
[PS. New Scientist seems to be behind a paywall, alas.]
Recent Bluessky Posts
Jotwell Blenderlaw