Young Lake Two Panoramic

Young Lake Two Panoramic, originally uploaded by J.H.C..

You just have to love this view in the Yosemite back country. Not the typical views you have of Yosemite. By the way, you can see some of my photos of Yosemite right here

Reflect

Reflect, originally uploaded by J.H.C..

Just an awesome photo that I wanted to share with everyone. This is in the Yosemite back country

Time to resurrect this blog

Hello everyone...

Well it is time for me to resurrect this dormant blog.
I am going through it right now and deleting all dead
links, adding and updating things. I will be starting
the blogging again soon.

I would love to read any comments.

First audio blog

21st Century Lifelessness

Our communication........Wireless
Our business......................Cashless
Our telephone..................Cordless
Our cooking.......................Fireless
Our youth.........................Jobless
Our food............................Fatless
Our labor...........................Effortless
Our conduct....................Worthless
Our relation......................Loveless
Our attitude....................Careless
Our feelings......................Heartless
Our politics......................Shameless
Our education...............Valueless
Our Follies.........................Countless
Our arguments...............Baseless
Our commitment..........Aimless
Our poor..........................Voiceless
Our life..............................Meaningless

Finally,
Our existence..................Useless????

Dirty Politics of Discreditation

It is one thing to disagree with someone and present arguements against his or her case and then let the best idea stand up. But when you activly try to discredit people and try to find and manufacture dirt, it can only point out the weakness of your argument.

The adminsitration is now looking for ways to get into Iran, now that it has egg on the face with Iraq. ElBaradei is not phrasing his words exactly the way the administration wants them to be phrased. Therefore, they take the liberty to tap his phones.

The first link below is a recent CNN article about this. The second is some of the analysis by Paul Craig Roberts about the readiness of the US to attack Iran, even with strong European opposition.

Here is an excerpt from the analysis (2nd link).

The important unanswered question is: why do the neocons with their proven record of duplicity and delusion still hold the reigns of power in the Bush administration? Why isn’t Feith in prison? Martha Stewart is in prison for "lying" about a noncrime. Feith’s lies have killed thousands. The Iraq war is based entirely on neocon lies. The war is costing the US a fortune it does not have. The war is producing US casualties comparable to those of the Vietnam war and has killed a minimum of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians.

The neocons have destroyed Iraq’s infrastructure, alienated the entire Muslim world and made the US the most hated country on the planet.

U.S. taps ElBaradei phone

A Dose of Non-Delusional Reality for Douglas Feith

Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its Database

Google is working with major institutions around the world to add digital libraries that are searchable on the internet. WOW!! This is going to be fantastic! Prestigious institutions like Oxford University, New York Public Library and our local Stanford University are joining this effort.

Now we have to account for our time even better than before and stop wasting so much of it. Here is an interesting short article by Salah Eddin Arqadan (sorry it is in Arabic, I will try to get it translated soon) about the power of the internet and our accountability for all the time that we save using it.

The internet and abuse of time and location

شبكة الانترنيت وسوء استخدام الوقت والزمان

A Stubborn Refusal to Die

Please take a look at this! I have added it as a permanent link on the right set.

Mounting Scandal at Aipac Prompts Talk of Lobbying Powerhouse's Demise

This is a very interesting article about AIPAC. You may need to register your email at the Forward website to read this article in full. But in case that you can't here are some excerpts from it.

Communal insiders warn that an indictment of an Aipac official or a trial that casts the association in a negative light could severely weaken the lobbying prowess of all Jewish organizations at a time when Israel and Jewish agencies are facing rising hostility in many corners, and depending increasingly on support from Washington lawmakers.

"If this goes to court, and I am not even talking about a guilty verdict, it will be very damaging to the community," said an official at one national Jewish organization. "If this goes to court, Aipac as Aipac will be on trial, and if Aipac goes down, it's a disaster for the whole community."

Also this

"It's okay to say once that the FBI is ticked at Aipac, but a grand jury with subpoenas — that's not someone running a grudge campaign," said an official with a major Jewish organization. "Clearly, somebody has thought this through. And they are looking for something."

Steve Pomerantz, a former FBI investigator who consults for Jewish organizations sounded a similar note. He said the nature of the subpoenas suggests that FBI investigators know what they're looking for.

"This is not a fishing expedition," he said. "It's clear to me they have some specific information which is leading them in a specific direction."

And finally this

"People, even in Washington, don't know the difference between some Jewish group and Aipac," said an official with a major Jewish organization. "For them, any Jew lobbying on the Hill is Aipac."

This perception of a stronger connection to Aipac often has been an asset for other Jewish organizations when attempting to advance issues unrelated to Israel, the official said. But with the current legal developments, some Jewish activists say they are beginning to feel uncomfortable with the link. "There are some who are beginning to think in terms of self preservation," the official said.

There are many more details in this. If you would like to see the rest of the article and don't want to register your email address, leave me a comment here and I will email you the full article.

U.S. Students Fare Badly in International Survey of Math Skills

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