tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92977992024-03-14T14:49:38.642-04:00Dr. C.A Curmudgeon Doc on the Eastern Shore of Maryland wondering what has happened to my country.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1592125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-78444285125300271482013-01-01T18:41:00.001-05:002013-01-01T18:41:52.146-05:00Logic<br />
Recently, on the blog <a href="http://algernonsarmadillo.blogspot.com/">Psychobabble, </a>I made a comment regarding the school shooting in Newton, Connecticut:<br />
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<blockquote class="tr_bq">
We all "have a right to our opinion" and mine corresponds with yours (the author of Psychobabble).
But, opinion only covers things that are not, by nature, logical. To me,
if children are being killed by guns, the answer is either to get rid
of the children, or, get rid of the guns. </blockquote>
I guess one of my many failings is speaking in hyperbole. It does often tend to dilute the emotion, in this case sadness. My good friend from the <a href="http://sammysdot.blogspot.com/">Northeast corner of the Pond</a>, took issue with the my contention that this was a logical question. Hoping he will give permission, I'll copy his comment:<br />
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Trouble is, Doc, that logic starts from premises ... and people pick their own premises.<br />
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Your
unspoken premises in the above logic (and ones with which, of course, I
passionately agree) include "children should not be killed by guns" and
"children matter more than guns". The NRA and its fellow travellers
would agree the first one but equivocate over the second.<br />
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And we
all do the same in different ways. Which of us argues for constraint on
road vehicles which currently kill about two thousand people a year in
the UK (of which approx 8-10% are children), thirty thousand in the USA,
three hundred thousand globally? As societies we tacitly accept, as the
NRA does with firearms (and governments do with foreign wars, and
industrialists used to do with child factory labour), a level of child
mortality as the price of our chosen norms. And those acceptances become
premises in our logic.</blockquote>
As always, there is a lot of wisdom in what the Growlery has to offer. However, I think his comment raises several profound questions. The first, of course, is our "tacit acceptance" of certain occurrences as norms, in particular, the death of children. This is an issue that has occupied my thinking for some time and it has multiple ramifications. It bears remembering that children have only recently gained the status of real people. The reason for this is quite clear. Up until the 20th century, the mortality rate for children even in first world countries (e.g. <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=idm99dX1XUoC&pg=PA96&dq=child+mortality&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_wnjUOKxB-6P0QG-ioCgDQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=child%20mortality&f=false">Italy</a> p 8-9) was very high. I have an old Pediatric textbook from the 1920's that estimates that upward of 40% of children died before the age of 5 y.o. in the 19th century. In <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=idm99dX1XUoC&pg=PA96&dq=child+mortality&hl=en&sa=X&ei=_wnjUOKxB-6P0QG-ioCgDQ&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=child%20mortality&f=false">Tudor England</a> p 113, for which records exist, the death rate by the age 10 years was circa 42%. One can only shudder to think what the death rate of children in the ancient and medieval must have been.<br />
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As one consequence, until very recently, children did not become real people probably until they left childhood and went into adulthood bypassing the current extended adolescence. Certainly Romeo and Juliet were considered people though it is obvious that they are adolescents. The heroine in Balzac's Les Chouans, the Republican operative (sic), is in her mid teens but I can't find the reference. Thus, if my hypothesis is correct, the death of a child while tragic at any time for a parent, probably did not have the ramifications that such a death does today.<br />
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Fast forward to the 21st century. Starting in the 1970's, many medical centers established neonatal intensive care units. Younger and younger babies were surviving. Every life became more and more important. The age at which a newborn is judged "viable" has dropped in my professional lifetime from 26-27 weeks to as low as 23 weeks! The consequences of this pushing of the frontier of viability are many. Firstly, and most importantly for the discussion here, it places more and more emphasis on survivability of children. (the ethics of the viability question is also important but not part of this discussion).<br />
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Many other developments have changed the focus of Western Society to put importance on the survival of every child. These are well known. Families are small because of less demand for ready farm workers. And families do not need have many children to replace those children who died, usually from disease. (I should put a plug in here for getting vaccinations).<br />
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As a result of this, children are extremely valued in our society. We spend millions of dollars on a NICU baby. Since the 1960's one might even say that our society is youth oriented, though an argument can be made that dollars have replaced it. The reaction to the massacre in Newton I think exhibits this concentration of attention. (One wonders if the reaction would have been the same if it had been 20 African-American children.) However, I don't think this feeling is in anyway universal across all scenarios. As the Growlery points out, the fact that we are so complacent when hundreds of thousands of children in Iraq were slaughtered and continue to be slaughtered in Syria, Afghanistan and Gaza lends some credence to his contention that some things matter more than the actual life of a child, in the minds of some people.<br />
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Yet still, I would argue that anyone who held the possession of a assault-rifle above the life of a child (always in the abstract, of course) is in some way perverted. After all, we are evolutionarily driven to produce and nurture children. Can the momentary pleasure of causing a deer to die of lead poisoning compare? Children are, as some crazy Greek said, immortality for some of us. But, it is also true that we as a society in a certain way accept the carnage of the automobile. But, I would argue, it is certainly not in the same ethical category as guns. I would like to point out that there is at least some control of who drives a car and increasingly severe penalties for using it for slaughter, even unintentional, which can't be said for a gun.<br />
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What exact value do we then place on the life of a child? Versus the life of an adult? What about the value of the elderly? (stop looking in the mirror, Dr. C.) Our Congress at the very minute debates slashing funds for social programs that will result in untimely deaths. Who is the arbitrator?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-30674715830684525702012-12-29T12:57:00.000-05:002012-12-29T12:57:11.960-05:00The Real America<br />
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/29/gun-sales-surge_n_2380738.html">This </a>is very scary. What are these people going to do with these weapons? If they want to shoot guns at people, why don't they join the Army. Oh, wait, that would require some courage and discipline. Sorry I asked.<br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
The phones at gun shops across the country are ringing off the hook.
Demand for firearms, ammunition and bulletproof gear has surged since
the Dec. 14 massacre in Newtown, Conn., that took the lives of 20
schoolchildren and six teachers and administrators. The shooting sparked
calls for tighter gun control measures, especially for military-style
assault weapons like the ones used in Newtown and in the Aurora, Colo.,
movie theater shooting earlier this year. The prospect of a possible
weapons ban has sent gun enthusiasts into a panic and sparked a frenzy
of buying at stores and gun dealers nationwide.</blockquote>
(By the way, bulletproof vests won't protect you against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.)<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-599207695001169572012-12-24T13:13:00.000-05:002012-12-24T13:13:17.226-05:00Children VFor the Children of Iraq and Afghanistan:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-57300936124162840682012-12-23T11:35:00.000-05:002012-12-23T11:35:19.961-05:00Children IVFor the children of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-43860595033030772502012-12-18T18:43:00.000-05:002012-12-18T18:43:53.586-05:00ChildrenI am not exactly sure what to say about the tragedy in Connecticut. I think a lot of words are out there already. I do know that there are many, many innocent children who meet their deaths every year who are not mourned. Whose short lives are only considered "collateral damage." Sometimes it is just too much to comprehend. So, here are some children:<br />
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My <a href="http://jsbookreader.blogspot.com/2012/11/just-chatting.html">friend across the pond </a>put me onto a post describing <a href="http://www.gwpda.org/medical/liceand.htm">Trench Fever</a> that was a scourge of Allied troops in World War I. This is a topic that certainly has six degrees of interest surrounding it like the expanding ripples in a pond. (it is also something that would take forever to research without the Internet.)<br />
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As my friend and the article point out, there are three different lice (louse) infestations of man. There is head lice (the scourge of elementary school), with their little egg shells called nits (as in "nit picking"), pubic lice, ye olde crabs, and body lice which are the vector of Trench Fever. Apparently it wasn't appreciated until after WWI that the louse was the vector. There may have been a million cases of Trench Fever during the War which didn't lead to fatalities but did lead to incapacitation and, eventually, depression.<br />
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So, Ripple 1. Depression after combat. Two books that deal with the mental state of soldiers: first is actually a series, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Road">The Ghost Road</a>, by Pat Barker. The focus is on shell shock but with the incidence of Trench Fever so high (it is rarely fatal) one wonders how many of the soldiers experiencing shell shock had comorbid depression sequelae to this infection. As a Rickettsia infection it is similar to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_spotted_fever">Rocky Mountain spotted fever</a> and, see below, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartonella_henselae">Cat Scratch Fever</a>. RMSF can have major CNS effects, but its main pathological effect is on blood vessels leading to necrosis of fingers and toes. Presumably this is due to invasion of the blood vessel wall by the organism. The second book that comes to mind is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdsong_(novel)">Birdsong</a> by Sebastian Faulks. (I only now find out that it is also a part of a triolgy including The Girl at the Lion d'Or and Charlotte Gray; the first I have read but not the second). Neither Ghost Road or Birdsong explicitly mentions Trench Fever, to my knowledge though there is a sequence in Ghost Road where the soldiers get to take showers and laundry their clothes.<br />
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Ripple 2: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartonella_quintana#cite_note-medterms-1">Bartonella Quintana,</a> transmitted by the louse and the causative organism of Trench Fever, has very interesting biology. How the biology relates to the symptoms it is hard to tell. For one thing the organism inhibits <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptosis">apoptosis</a> of infected cells. Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is a Holy Grail of cancer research. That is, most cells in the human that can be transformed into cancer cells are cells that reproduce. Bone marrow and the linings of the intestine and the lung are constantly turning over. Cells, maybe stem cells, are also constantly dividing to produce new bone marrow and epithelial cells. In turn, the old, senescent cells must commit hari kari, or apoptosis. This may have something to do with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere">telomeres</a>, repetitive nucleotide sequences that protects the ends of chromosomes. In any case, a cancer cell has apoptosis blocked in a similar manner to a cell infected with Bartonella Quintana. In the latter case, all that happens is that the disease persists and the patient can experience multiple relapses of Trench Fever. Not a very nice prospect but not as serious as cancer.<br />
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Ripple 3: Bartonella Hensalae and Quintana again. Bartonella Hensalae is a not uncommon infection best known as Cat Scratch Fever. Cats carry this bacteria but do not become infected. Actually, it is usually kittens less than six months and they are prone to scratch! (I can't really tell you from personal experience because I am not very friendly with cats.) After the scratch, which sometimes becomes locally infected, the bacteria goes to a regional lymph node and can cause gross and painful enlargement. This scares the living devil out of everyone since mimics lymphoma. There is also a meningitis caused by Bartonella Hensalae but is is uncommon.<br />
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One further biologic property of B.Hensalae is that it induces angioneogenesis, that is, the growth of new blood vessals. This also occurs with B. Quintana. Ironically, this is also a property of cancer cells. Without angioneogenesis, there would be no growth of tumors since they would run out of their blood supply. Much research is going into this field, led in the past by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judah_Folkman">Judah Folkman</a> (very interesting man, he.) In the case of these two bacteria, it is termed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillary_angiomatosis">Bacillary Angiomatosis</a>.<br />
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I think one could follow the ripples out pretty far. Interestingly, scratching around the Internet looking up these links raises a lot more questions than it answers. While similar in many respects, infections with the three organisms <i>B. Quintana</i>, <i>B. Hensalae</i> and <i>Rickettsia rickettsii </i>are vastly different, even though they each have similar biology (untreated R. rickettsii can easily be fatal). On the other hand, why is it that the simple little head louse while causing infinite consternation in the classroom is basically harmless?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-26470858084643719472012-11-17T12:36:00.001-05:002012-11-17T12:36:58.961-05:00Chinese Cowboy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was impressed by the diversity of costumes at the Chinese Congress. My word, they even had a Cowboy! Of course the Native Americans have close genetic ties to Asians, particularly the Navajo. So, I guess they should have Cowboys too.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-84654915224431752252012-11-14T22:45:00.000-05:002012-11-14T22:45:12.757-05:00What can one say?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are those of use that are very pleased with the result of last week's election in the United States. Obama <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBK2rfZt32g">meeting with his campaign staff</a> sort of summed up our feelings. But we have so much work to do, it is a little daunting. I think that the very top of the list is climate change. The reality is that we are doing little or nothing to cut down the planet's carbon emissions. Even worse, the next big thing appears to be using methane as a fuel. Methane produces CO2 just as any hydrocarbon. In addition, methane as a greenhouse gas is much more potent than CO2 and much could be released in the extraction.<br />
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The next task is to control the spread of nuclear weapons and to actually, for all intents and purposes, eliminate them. The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is sitting in our Senate, awaiting ratification. It is unclear how long it will be before it can muster the 66 votes necessary to pass it. It is truly amazing that something as important as this can be blocked by the political whims of 13 men.<br />
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Hopefully the economy will continue to meander upwards. I still think a major push in rebuilding infrastructure would be the equivalent of WWII in stimulating things. But our culture weighs against it. I have a suspicion that I am ignoring the true situation in that up until 2009, America was totally addicted to accumulating trash, not vitalizing our country. Every Christmas I would watch as families went on buying sprees having to purchase the latest gizmo for their children. One year it is "Tickle Me Elmo" and another it is Hannah Montana. The lifetime of most of this ephemera can be measured in milliseconds. It piles up, and piles up. It is hard to throw things away. All it does is inculcate a sense of entitlement and a sense of greed in our children. These children are soon teenagers and then adults. Such an ethos branded on their souls can't be good.<br />
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But, I am as guilty as they. There is something intrinsically pleasing about consuming. Given that the product always looks better in the magazine advertisement or on the web site that it does in reality. There is still that frisson of pleasure when one opens the package and takes out the new toy. And, I know, all this is necessary to create jobs so we can make more and more trash. The trouble is, the jobs will be in Walmart.<br />
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Finally, the most important thing for America is to somehow heal the rift that has been created between the two political groups. I can never remember a time in previous elections when the losing party harbored such hate for those who won. As I tried to point out in a post on violence in the Super Bowel, Americans have been brainwashed into thinking that there is only one outcome: winning. Of course not everybody can be a winner, and there is many a High School athlete who learns this the hard way. But to experience the rancor that is out there this past week toward Obama and others is a new experience. It does not bode well for the spirit of cooperation that will be needed to get the country rebuilding infrastructure, removing the peril of nuclear weapons, and literally changing the ethos of the polity.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-56168372336668277362012-10-21T18:17:00.001-04:002012-10-21T22:27:08.889-04:00Gotterdammerung<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thank you who commented on the Super Bowel post. There is much food for thought and, if my brain ever returns to the starting blocks I will try to address some of the ideas. In particular, I want to comment on the dramatic increase in concussions and sports injuries in recent years in our youth.
Dr. C.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-75873198928194605872012-02-06T13:59:00.000-05:002012-02-06T13:59:27.539-05:00A few things the Super Bowl says about America<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNuMoWIe7zw0JUalUVfzHLaRRySFufzy39W1z0SjBTdsHbNeGMlhdl_baYvAvdLHFd7bOfAbaxHKQwqjxbdw-S9ZDiTUlG27fBq4BWg13MaKKSzcf0xu7qnu7CK5iDmUgCsmk4/s1600/SuperBowl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNuMoWIe7zw0JUalUVfzHLaRRySFufzy39W1z0SjBTdsHbNeGMlhdl_baYvAvdLHFd7bOfAbaxHKQwqjxbdw-S9ZDiTUlG27fBq4BWg13MaKKSzcf0xu7qnu7CK5iDmUgCsmk4/s320/SuperBowl.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
I don't have a television set, but I was invited to watch the Super Bowl last night at a friend's house. As happens with many people who don't have television in their homes and are constantly exposed, I was riveted to the screen. Habitual watchers seem to be able to multitask when the T.V. is on. I can't. I didn't watch the second half which, I am told, was quite exciting. However, I did make some observations:<br />
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The evening was imbued with violence. Even before the game, and at every conceivable chance during the game, advertisements for movies assaulted us with pictures of explosions, hurtling cars, crashing sky scrapers, and guns, guns, guns. These concentrated attacks of mayhem were viewed by millions of children. When something like this is so vivid, it becomes reality for children (I say this from experience recalling when I first saw Disney's Snow White as a child and the discussion amongst adults about whether the evil queen was too terrifying for us wee ones. She was. ) If one remembers for the moment that Obama is trying to negotiate peacefully with Iran to stop another disaster in the Middle East, you have to wonder what kind of message about the use of violence we are sending to susceptible minds. (I am avoiding the whole discussion about the importance of the engendered fear inspired by fairy tales like those of the brothers Grimm.)<br />
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Children also accept the violence on the field where over muscled men clash at terrific speed. These same children try to emulate this in their on play and this accounts in part for the dramatic increase in concussions that we are seeing. It seems that the whole point of this being a "ball" game has been lost.<br />
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Tattoos are ubiquitous among athletes. It used to be that such body art was only seen in the State Fair where it was classified with the other "freaks." Thankfully, we have put to rest entertainment based on unfortunate genetic malformations, but the tattoos have spread widely. I suspect that there would also be piercings on these players if it didn't pose a potential for ripping out the piercing by the opponent. One has to wonder what is going to happen to these men in 10-15 years when they want all this ink out of their skin. I understand that treatment, is very painful and only partially successful.<br />
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One should also comment on the extraordinarily elaborate half time show. It was a perfect reflection of our mass culture and, as such, was frightening to behold. I'll leave it at that.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-18660050674569620702011-12-24T10:29:00.000-05:002011-12-24T10:29:49.239-05:00Merry Christmas<div style="color: red; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And to each and all, have a peaceful holiday season!</span></div><br />
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So, being a baby wonk, I constructed a table:<br />
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So, I doubt if one can find such a number.<br />
Unless, on simple adds the number of digits as in this table:<br />
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I haven't looked at the answer. I'm probably wrong. In which case, I will slink away.<br />
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Ah, Ha! <a href="http://sammysdot.blogspot.com/2011/12/sledgehammer-approach-to-puzzles.html">The Wizard across the pond</a> shows me up. Of course I didn't extend my calculations beyond 100. If I had, I would have gotten the following graph of the difference:<br />
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What appeared from 1 to 99 as a dull, monotonically increasing pattern was part of a bigger pattern going the other way. (I should take it beyond 1000.) <br />
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When the difference is taken gives this graph:<br />
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So, I slink away.<br />
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For what?<br />
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Everyone thought America had responsible adults in charge. God help us. <br />
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(*TSE after WWI; refers to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes">Guy Fawkes</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-61670586064693865372011-10-01T11:56:00.000-04:002011-10-01T11:56:08.044-04:00Friday Crab Blogging (late).<br />
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A while back <a href="http://doctorc.blogspot.com/2010/10/friday-crab-blogging.html">we discussed</a> how to tell male and female crabs apart. It has to do with their apron being <a href="http://www.lpsteamers.com/sex.html">either the Capitol or the Washington Monument</a>. The males are, as Michalea has indicated (and did so <a href="http://doctorc.blogspot.com/2010/10/friday-crab-blogging_15.html">last year</a>), "Jimmeys," and the females are "Sooks." (though the word "sook" apparently means "baby" <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sook">in Southwest England.</a>).<br />
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Life is like a game of <a href="http://chrome.angrybirds.com/">Angry Birds</a>. What do the <strike>Birds</strike> Gods have in store for us next?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-58800724496429476302011-08-15T10:01:00.000-04:002011-08-15T10:01:32.206-04:00Getting the Beatles Back Together<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxf-xueW-vv9La6oTKaTjegMSGZzfZvoyZemb8eSJCQzoG2Ej3_Dia959bxqcZyF2pBwaV5xOXsvK77p-2f3ZYiS_OKE4eOPp-bdC4IEtWdQsjKHrt04ahXPBaMRLbv1k4ouIN/s1600/GettingBeatlesTogether.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxf-xueW-vv9La6oTKaTjegMSGZzfZvoyZemb8eSJCQzoG2Ej3_Dia959bxqcZyF2pBwaV5xOXsvK77p-2f3ZYiS_OKE4eOPp-bdC4IEtWdQsjKHrt04ahXPBaMRLbv1k4ouIN/s320/GettingBeatlesTogether.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">This from my nephew, a musician.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-28093446448541429592011-08-13T11:30:00.000-04:002011-08-13T11:30:47.928-04:00Taking a Hostage<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6NmFFAfdrATebHtN6U8IdhAD5F-r8Sq4VJtcOeITfts7e4mZaJtYP6FJPMYrYzhYQB7UKckn_A9JIvJC8YwcUYLMYsgC8-4L5D1ySYH9TcA3pV1HqoykFujJ1_2VVX2l4ehaz/s1600/john-boehner-eric-cantor-ef568c01e2d34814.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6NmFFAfdrATebHtN6U8IdhAD5F-r8Sq4VJtcOeITfts7e4mZaJtYP6FJPMYrYzhYQB7UKckn_A9JIvJC8YwcUYLMYsgC8-4L5D1ySYH9TcA3pV1HqoykFujJ1_2VVX2l4ehaz/s320/john-boehner-eric-cantor-ef568c01e2d34814.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
The use of other human beings in armed conflict, as well as taking humans as hostage in, say, a hijacking or other type of terrorist attack, goes to the very core of what it is to be civilized. While the use of civilians as hostages is probably as old human conflict, it was the practice of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_military_tactics_and_organization">Khrash by the Mongol hoards</a> that may be the most odious:<br />
<blockquote>A commonly used tactic was the use of what was called the "kharash". During a siege the Mongols would gather a crowd of local residents or soldiers surrendered from previous battles, and would drive them forward in sieges and battles. These "alive boards" or "human shields" would often take the brunt of enemy arrows and crossbow bolts, thus leaving the Mongol warriors safer. The kharash were also often forced ahead to breach walls.</blockquote>It is likely that this was used in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_%281258%29">siege and destruction of Baghdad</a> in 1258. For students of irony, one should perhaps compare this to the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_awe">Shock and Awe</a>" attack on Baghdad by "allied" (i.e. American) forces in 2003. Lost in the glorification of that massive bombardment was that fact that innocent civilians lived there. Baghdad just can't cut a break.<br />
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There is no doubt about it, Boehner, Cantor and friends took the American people hostage in the recent Debt Limit debacle. There are still politicians, nay, <a href="http://www.newser.com/story/123408/michele-bachmanns-default-plan-duck-and-cover.html">presidential candidates</a>, who feel America should have been let to default on their debt. That these supposedly intelligent candidates are still flourishing, nay, are considered lead contenders, speaks volumes to the level of political discourse in this country.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">The basic idea is that when there is a conflict between the leaders of two groups, threatening members of the opposing groups with harm (the leaders, e.g. Saddam Hussein, Boehner, Cantor remain unscathed) has become, if not acceptable, then a common means of attaining one's end. Using the above examples, it is an observation that this method is used either when one of opposing forces is either overwhelmingly powerful with respect to the other (Baghdad then and now) or the attacker is basically powerless (terrorism). Perhaps one should lump both of these together under the rubric "terrorism" and simply say that "Shock and Awe" was a form of State Terrorism. Israel's invasion of Gaza with the subsequent loss of civilian life could be discussed in these terms. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">One alternative is compromise. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement">Since 1938</a>, the word "compromise" has come to signify cowardice. If it is one thing that most humans fear. It is being labelled a coward or an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement">appeaser</a>:</div><blockquote>The term appeasement is commonly understood to refer to a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to another power. It has been described as "...the policy of settling international quarrels by admitting and satisfying grievances through rational negotiation and compromise, thereby avoiding the resort to an armed conflict which would be expensive, bloody, and possibly dangerous."</blockquote>Alpha males don't compromise. To make their point, they sometimes even march across the fields of <a href="http://www.gettysburg.com/">Gettysburg </a>and get slaughtered. John Boehner and Eric Cantor view themselves as alpha males. They view Obama, as one who seeks compromise and is therefore weak. Thus, Boehner after using the American economic welfare as hostage in the recent Debt Limit debacle, felt that he had gotten <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/01/eveningnews/main20086598.shtml">98% of what he wanted</a>. That was not a compromise, it was an appeasement. The long term effect on politics will be to, as they wanted, severely weaken the American's view and conception of Obama. Though probably unintended, it reinforces the stereotype of the black male being subservient to the white male, with that relationship somehow natural and acceptable. Racism runs deep in our Country.<br />
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Thankfully, there is a glimmer of hope. The recent <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2011/08/11/2011-08-11_house_speaker_john_boehners_approval_rating_plummets_on_par_with_nancy_pelosi_po.html">plunge in the polls</a> of Boehner's approval may mean that Americans have seen through the hostage ploy. I do know that none of us ever want to see it used again. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-48417585252733526082011-08-10T19:53:00.000-04:002011-08-10T19:53:05.271-04:00FailPart of the Grand Capitulation, i.e. the "deal" that Obama negotiated with Boehner and McConnell, was setting up a committee of six Democrats and six Republicans to come up with a plan to slash the Debt by $1.5 Trillion. Today, McConnell and Boehner named the six Republicans. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10/mcconnell-boehner-deficit-committee-appointments_n_923312.html">Each of these six have</a>: <br />
<blockquote>"signed a pledge to Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform that they will not vote to raise taxes."</blockquote>Why even have a committee that is doomed to failure from the start? How can we possibly get out of this mess without raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans, or at least rescinding those tax cuts put in place by George W. Bush? <br />
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We have become an illogical country.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-54200393322273863372011-08-09T13:58:00.000-04:002011-08-09T13:58:57.157-04:00Just a little Error<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-QgrU3EIqia9TTZqqTvWQWMqvCEOANRkCoOPHNRnrxb5bO3MNfSoNgtgxDK1H9zBI-oEag0igjSZFhA1B5NxhSIfWIa8nZvltjyfdpbCyu8O8luRZV6OJMJcXXoGWP4jorYb5/s1600/797px-StandardPoors_Headquarters.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-QgrU3EIqia9TTZqqTvWQWMqvCEOANRkCoOPHNRnrxb5bO3MNfSoNgtgxDK1H9zBI-oEag0igjSZFhA1B5NxhSIfWIa8nZvltjyfdpbCyu8O8luRZV6OJMJcXXoGWP4jorYb5/s320/797px-StandardPoors_Headquarters.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
Apparently, behind one of these windows, there is someone with a calculator. That someone made a mistake. A <b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/2-trillion-error-p-calculations-us-014901805.html">two trillion dollar</a></b> mistake. To paraphrase <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/everett_dirksen.html">Everett Dirksen</a>:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-59697577577096995512011-08-07T11:52:00.000-04:002011-08-07T11:52:22.148-04:00Friday Crab Blogging (late)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcfl4GUza2bDBG9L7_YFX5iUDlJdNDlCxvDed7jRvyPP8nzrc0lokLJ1zfFQrq2y27Qo29V1VsA41Su7J3gJHuWdO41MvhwYRy-rKcAAFtNr-a2maDOS3BKLAomqLEFOpOH8OP/s1600/Crabs647.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcfl4GUza2bDBG9L7_YFX5iUDlJdNDlCxvDed7jRvyPP8nzrc0lokLJ1zfFQrq2y27Qo29V1VsA41Su7J3gJHuWdO41MvhwYRy-rKcAAFtNr-a2maDOS3BKLAomqLEFOpOH8OP/s320/Crabs647.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Note that there is both sunshine and rain. BIG drops.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Hailey told me this was a "Christmas Crab." ??????</div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Local talent. Very nice young lady. Working her way through college. I wish I had this enthusiasm.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9297799.post-56736738500892492282011-08-02T11:17:00.001-04:002011-08-02T12:07:54.037-04:00What Iceberg?After legislative extortion of an unparalleled magnitude, the House has finally passed a bill that would raise the Debt ceiling. It will also do a number of other things that many of us predict, will not help the country at all. Lost in the shuffle was the whole question of jobs. No matter how much one cuts from the Federal Budget, unless there are increased revenues (from taxes, from those who have jobs), we will never even come close to that fiscal Nirvana of a balanced budget (which, we had, by the way, under Clinton only to be destroyed by Bush II and his two tax cuts. Tax cuts that were supposed to help the "job creators" but simply transferred a large amount of wealth into the pockets of the obscenely rich. But you knew that.)<br />
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The Senate has yet to vote on this bill but it is said that it is a foregone conclusion that it will pass. Mitch McConnell is already gloating and talking about the members of the "super committee." Excuse me, Mr. McConnell, since when were YOU Majority Leader of the Senate? Was this simply a vote or, as many of us suspected, a coup d’etat.<br />
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We used to think of bailing out to Vancouver or Ireland. Those options have had their own problems recently. Why leave in any case since the theater is so good and the second half promises to be full of surprises.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0