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When I was 22 years old, I discovered what it meant to finally have a big person job. I discovered it was cooler to be in college. I suppose 22 and discovery are inextricably connected forever.
So yeah, Thing 22 is all about discovering apps. This thing suggests I use one of their fancy search methods to discover new apps, and so I shall.
Internal dialogue: "Let's see, Elizeduction, what shall we search for today?"
Responding internal dialogue which is also named Elizeducation: "Hmmm...I don't know, what do you think?"
Internal dialogue: "How about apple orchards? You plan to go to the orchard tomorrow!"
Responding internal dialogue which is also named Elizeducation: "My god, you're a genius!"
Internal dialogue: "You too, Elizeducation. You too."
So, I used Quixey, an app search engine, to see what I could find out about Minnesota apple orchards. It didn't go well. My internal dialogue reminded me that something so specific is probably stupid to search for. Please note, I didn't intend for this to be a teachable moment or anything. I was honestly just being stupid.
Alright, alright...new topic: Discovering new music!
So after a quick search, I found a bunch of apps I already have (Shazam, SoundCloud, Soundwave), but also one I didn't -- Discovr.
So I tried it. It's rad. I found good musics. Recommended. Buy it.
That's all.
Oh hey, I'm Elizabeth. I'm a Coordinator of 3D Design, Innovation, and Personalized Learning. My title is long. My list of complaints is not.
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This past Friday, I went to San Francisco to turn in my application for my China visa. On the drive home, I listened to a podcast where Rob Scott talked about how people view the world through invisible lenses. The analogy he made is that these lenses are like the pieces of glass in a pair of spectacles, or in a microscope, a telescope, a pair of binoculars, a camera. Each lens allows the viewer a different perspective to view the world. Perhaps one that is clearer, or one where we can focus on faraway things, or teeny tiny things.
More importantly, these lenses are usually invisible to us. Thus, most people are oblivious to the lenses through which they see the world, and assume that everybody else sees the world the same way that they do, which makes it extremely jarring when others do not. It got me to thinking about all the lenses that we grew up filtering the world through. What assumptions do we make about the world around us? What sorts of beliefs and ideas did we grow up thinking was self evident? What cultural biases do we even have? At the end of the day, we are the products of our environment, though we do not necessarily see it.
During one of the first science classes I ever took in middle school after I moved from hot, tropical Singapore to the cold and rainy Pacific Northwest, we had to fill out a worksheet on temperature, that was supposed to teach us conversions from Fahrenheit to Celsius. One of the questions was: "what is normal room temperature?" That seemed like such an easy question to me. It was clearly 28°C (82°F).
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That was the first of many small events that had me questioning everything that I'd ever known in my short life. As I grew older and travelled more, as I ventured out across the globe, I started noticing all these invisible lenses that I saw the world through, and I started accepting that everybody sees the world differently.
When I lived in China in my mid-twenties, all the Chinese people I knew kept trying to find a husband for me, even though I wasn't really interested in marriage, a concept they found quite inconceivable. When I lived in Europe, I was absolutely gobsmacked that everything except for certain restaurants and gas stations closed by 6pm, and that nothing was open on weekends. European friends explained to me patiently that family time was important, and it was quite obvious that having everything close down meant that everybody had the chance to spend quality time with their loved ones.
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Thursday, 2 February 2012
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I for one think we need a preferential system in order to answer this question ;)ReplyDelete
It's a really difficult choice. Can I have nearly 1000 days to think about it?ReplyDelete
George, On matureish reflection I'm willing to accept that. Anything to make the outcome fairer, I say!ReplyDelete
Ged: You can have till autumn 2014, but I'll accept late entries where the answer is "no".ReplyDelete
Absolutely, Wenda... oh, sorry, BarneyReplyDelete
No, no, no. It's not going to be a Mad Max Wastland it's going to be a Banana Republic run by dark, secret forces.ReplyDelete
That's what self-styled Gallus Besom Muriel Gray said on the 1st of May 2007 anyway.
"It's crucial this time," said Ms Gray. "This is a planetary alignment of disasters waiting to happen. People say they want a change without realising what it will mean. All these dark secret forces hope for independence so that they can have unelected, undemocratic power. What a future Scotland that's going to be. Hello, banana republic!"
P.S Is, "Gallus Besom", Scots for, "Moon Unit"?
If you've got, "Do ya punk?", in the the header then instead of, "Choose one of the options below", it's got to be,ReplyDelete
I know what you're thinking: "Did he give three options below, or maybe it's only two? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being this is a referendum, the most powerful election in the world, and would blow the UK clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well do ya, punk?"
Ah Doug... there's nothing like planetary alignment disasters to get the nut jobs out. Is she the daft old bat on Radio Scotland?ReplyDelete
If we become independent, does that mean we could grow our own bananas, and lose the frightening prospect of Big Ears as head of state and that crocodile as his concubine?
Aye... LOL. Ah dae feel lucky.... whit ir yiz gonnae dae 'boot i'h?
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Sun Philter
Merry meet.
In reading "The herbal Alchemist's Handbook" by Karen Harrison (that is reviewed in this issue), I came across directions for a philter – an infusion of herbs that is charged with intentions and the energies of the moon or the sun. With the Summer Solstice approaching, I chose to create one with the energy of the sun.
In her book, she says to gather calendula, Saint John's Wort, chamomile and juniper berries, and at sunrise, put a teaspoon of each in a chalice, cauldron or bowl that can hold 16 ounces. As they are added, she directs you to focus on the healing properties they offer, such as chamomile for serenity and Saint John's wort for confidence. A sun gemstone – sunstone, diamond or gold topaz – could also be added.
The directions continued, having you meditate on health, energy and vitality as you direct your breath over the mixture, then pour in 12 ounces of spring or distilled water, stirring deosil while charging it with intention. Place the container in the sun and the next morning, strain it and pour into a sterilized container; store in the refrigerator. To use, she tells you to add a tablespoon to a cup of herbal tea when you think you are getting sick or if you are feeling fatigued. It can also be used as a wash to hasten the healing of burns, cuts, bites or sprains.
Using Harrison's directions as a guide, I did some research and came up with a longer list of botanicals that are said to contain sun energy. Some of them, in addition to hers, are ash, birch, buttercup bush, cinnamon, hibiscus, hops, marigold, rue, peony, saffron, sunflower and walnuts.
On Midsummer's Eve, I gathered up as many as I had on hand – in varying quantities – and put them in a glass mason jar. I then put 12 ounces of filtered water in a larger mason jar. Just as the sun rose, I held them up to the first rays, poured the herbs into the water and swirled them around deosil while infusing them with healing intentions. The jar sat on my windowsill until mid-day when I took it out to my garden with me. While I planted and weeded and harvested herbs for the protection bundle I make every Summer Solstice to hang above my door, the jar sat in the sun, absorbing warmth as well as light. It then went back on my south-facing windowsill until sunset, when I went to a spot not far from home and held it up to catch the last rays of the longest day before the sun dipped behind the hills and trees.
It was after midnight when I was moved to strain the contents into a quart mason jar. There were approximately 10 ounces of liquid. I felt guided to fill the jar, adding approximately another 10 ounces of filtered water and 10 ounces of vodka to stabilize it, making something similar to the flower essences I've made before. While my intent was to keep the jar on the counter, it ended up in the refrigerator.
I added a tablespoon to an oversized mug of herbal tea and could sense the warmth, strength and power of the sun.
There's still plenty of summer sun left should you decide to brew a batch for yourself.
Merry part. And merry meet again.
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OK, the one thing I'll comment on here is the media bias angle since that's a topic of some interest to me.
The answer is that DUH, of course our media is biased, and anybody paying the least bit attention knows that. Guess what? So are most other media outlets. I don't know of any 100% objective and straight down the middle media source, do you? You have to get your news from different sources with different slants these days to get the full picture, and even then it can get pretty murky. You never really know.
As for these supposed atrocities buried in the leaked documents, the biggest reason why our media might not report on that is because a) they're arguable, half-truths, out of context, or otherwise not quite the whole story, or b) because the Democrats are in power and the media is overwhelmingly liberal and don't like to air stories that would be damaging to Democrats. Personally, my guess is that it's probably a mix of both. Similar angle is that a lot of the continued fallout from the Gulf oil spill and the piss poor federal response to it isn't being covered, because the Democrats are in power. The job of the media here is to hold the government accountable, but in reality they really only hold Republicans accountable while propping up and sheilding Democrats.
Assuming what you're claiming is 100% true (it isn't, a lot of it is untrue, half-true, or highly debatable) and the Republicans were in power, people who know how the media works here know beyond any doubt that the media would be all over it slamming the Republicans for war crimes non-stop, around the clock on our 24/7 news cycle. Heck, that's what they did when Bush and the Republicans were in power and did so with hardly any proof as well. Now there's apparently some proof but the media is silent. Hmmmm.... Similarly, if the Republicans were in power the media would also be slamming the Republicans to this day for their piss poor Gulf oil spill response except there's silence on that as well because the Reps aren't in power, the Dems are. Republicans get attacked even without any proof, and Democrats get shielded even with overwhelming proof. Even during the oil spill coverage was minimal. It would be non-stop around the clock coverage of doom and gloom both on the war and the oil spill with the Republicans still in charge. Suddenly after Obama was elected the media seemed to lose interest in reporting on wars and disasters with the Democrats in charge. Funny how that works.
My biggest issues.
- Extremely anti-business and private sector government KILLING jobs and our economic power and freedom.
- Extremely out of control government spending racking up $5 TRILLION in debt in the past few years, which will quickly send us into economic ruin Greek style and which also severely limits the free capital available to the private sector which actually CREATES jobs and wealth.
- Out of control entitlement programs that NEED reform NOW (social security, medicare, etc.)
The conduct of the war? Wikileaks? Dealings with China? Small fish in a large sea.
As for a full-scale collapse, I pray it never happens, but that's why you need to have cash and a pile of guns and ammo stored someplace.
Just kidding. I actually don't give two shits, and your sense of drama is overwrought here.
Most people don't give a shit. Not that there's any reason they should, given that the state is historically authorize by society to use force on behalf of the nation.3. What do you think the consequences will be? The world will hate you, of course, but other than that - will you face internal riots? Or will this just go away like most other horrors in the past?
Hell no. Elites never act in the best interest of the people they rule -- the people's best interest is merely a positive byproduct. However, as the US government has discarded all sense of sanity, that isn't happening either.4. Do you think your leaders act in your best interest?
Neoconservatives basically run the US senate and cabinet on behalf of Israel, so plenty.5. How much do you think foreign interests control your politics?
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tl;dr1. Why on earth is there so much discussion about abortion and gay people's rights in the US, when discussing those matters will not change a single thing? (Gay people and abortion will not disappear no matter how much people discuss, so just shut the fuck up. K?) I think it's a bit like the bread and circus tactics of Rome - it takes away focus from real matters. Like if it's ok to shoot babies in the head to terrorize civilians into supporting your forces. And if supporting such actions will benefit your country or not in the long run. Or if pumping up the Christmas Trees yet again will cause the dollar to collapse and send the US back to Middle Ages in development. Or if it's OK that the Chinese has taken over as the World Economic leader. And if that will mean your collapse no matter what, or if you can hold on to power using military forces. Or if it's OK to criticize the Chinese for breaking human rights in their own country, when the US shoots civilians in the Middle East to gain power over the region. Or if the Chinese possibly will win also that race, since they spend the money they earn on selling you Christmas gifts on buying up companies and land in the Middle East, instead of taking power through war. Or that the Chinese will definitely win the popularity contest in that region by giving people there jobs and money, instead of bombs and nightmares. And how that will gain you all.
What do these signs mean, , etc.? Why cannot socionists use symbols Ne, Ni etc. as in MBTI? Just because they have somewhat different meaning. Socionics and MBTI, each in its own way, have slightly modified the original Jung's description of his 8 psychological types. For this reason, (Ne) is not exactly the same as Ne in MBTI.
Just one example: in MBTI, Se (extraverted sensing) is associated with life pleasures, excitement etc. By contrast, the socionic function (extraverted sensing) is first and foremost associated with control and expansion of personal space (which sometimes can manifest in excessive aagression, but often also manifests in a capability of managing lots of people and things).
For this reason, we consider comparison between MBTI types and socionic types by functions to be rather useless than useful.
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In the end we agree that we want the U.S. "fixed", but like most ideological debates go we disagree completely on what exactly the real problem is and on how exactly to fix it.
Anyways have fun with your thread. Have been so busy lately that I haven't even had time to follow up on some of the ones that I've started.
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European medias don't say anything like this (what ananake says), by the way.
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POLITICS and WAR:
1. How does it feel to be American, knowing that your nation murders innocent civilians systematically? Do you feel personally responsible?
I will say first of all that I love the underlying spirit of America, which I think has very little to do with politics, economic empire, etc. Unlike many of the intellectuals I have been friends with and have learned from, I am not ashamed per se to be American. I happen to be in Europe at the moment, and I like it a lot, and I also like the U.S. I'm not here to escape my Americannness.
BUT I am ashamed of some of the things that have been done in the name of my country. I'm also ashamed of my country's lack of care for its own citizens. I do feel responsible. If anyone ever wishes to take me to task as an American, to criticize my country's policies, unless they are making factual errors, I completely accept what they have to say and have no problem saying that, as an American, I am sorry.
The most difficult two moments I faced as an American were (1) meeting a child from Iraq whose arm had been blown off by an American bomb and (2) meeting a Mexican woman whose guerrilla husband had been disappeared; the U.S. government knew what happened to him but would not give her any information. Fucking hell, I was sorry on behalf of this country. But sorry isn't really good enough for shit like this:
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2. Or did you not know? (In that case - how does it feel to know that your media is biased?)
The U.S. media used to be pretty fucking incredible, and you can still find pockets of outstanding journalism here. But journalism's former role as the "Fourth Estate" has almost completely crumbled. It's not so much that the media are biased. I mean, they are, but that's not the worst problem. It's that they don't practice journalism anymore. It's just a bunch of crap. It's news-tainment, and the bottom line is money. It's also designed to keep people in a state of fear, which is why I mostly refuse to watch TV programs of any kind.
3. What do you think the consequences will be? The world will hate you, of course, but other than that - will you face internal riots? Or will this just go away like most other horrors in the past?
Although the U.S. is in severe decline, I find it difficult to gauge where things are heading. My guess would be a long, slow decline. Because that would only be a continuation of longstanding trends that have a lot to do with the shrinking prospects of the American middle class. Basically, shitty education, shitty culture, shitty food, poor health, poor health care ... the odds are stacked against us here. It's a shame, too, because I know many fine, dedicated, intelligent, hardworking people in the U.S. who are great parents, who care about this country and want to do the right thing.
4. Do you think your leaders act in your best interest?
Um, no.
5. How much do you think foreign interests control your politics?
I'm not sure I can easily answer this question because it's not how I would state things. I don't know if you've ever heard of something called "Social Threefolding," but it more or less describes what I think a well-run country would be like.
POLITICS and GAY people:
Abortion and gay rights to me are subjects that stand for huge and nearly insolveable differences between various factions in the United States. Since I'm from the South and my family mostly still live there, I experience it as a gap between the ardently religious and the religiously indifferent. The threat to abortion rights, the blocking of gay rights ... they stand for the fear that each group (religious right, irreligious left) has of the other, of being controlled by the other, of having insupportable values foisted on them.
And, you know, I grew up in a place where as a teen I might as well not have had the right to an abortion. This is something I've had a hard time explaining to, say, German friends. That even a small to medium-sized U.S. state is often as big as a European country, but without the level of services, the population density, the ability to simply travel around. I lived in a rural town in the South, a town with no abortion services. To get an abortion I would have needed to go to a big city, and there were no buses or trains running regularly back and forth. In my case, my mom would have supported me getting an abortion if I'd needed one, but if that had not been so, I would have been pretty well stuck. I knew young girls who felt they had no choice but to give birth. So although it's not my prime concern, the abortion issue does matter to me. If abortion is outlawed, I think many of us will wonder what's next, where the madness could stop.
The whole gay-rights issue, man ... Again, I think it's important to try to understand the cultural framework around it and to see that it's a signal issue, a barometer.
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1) I'm not an American. I live here and they might call me a citizen, but in my mind I will never be part of this country. As for the systematic killing, all countries do it in one way or another, playing the blame game is silly.
As for responsibility, I think about it every day. Up to this point I have figured that I cannot do everything and could not possibly be at fault for everyone that remains ignorant and clueless.
2) Yeah I know. What news I do read is indeed from Wikileaks. But again, no blame game, as all countries are guilty of this.
3) What? Nothing will happen. You over over exaggerating the world's response to the war. You'll always have people like steve here who will always have a way around the facts.
4) Never. I even find it funny you quoted that popular Churchill saying, who to me is an abomination like the rest.
5) I don't make guesses about things I don't know unless I feel I have enough to make an inference. However, I will say that I know our 'politics' are guided by the same thing everyone else's 'politics' are guided by. The United States and most western Euro countries have the same underlying political motives, so again, using the US as a scapegoat for the world's corruption is a silly maneuver if that's what you're doing (I can't be certain as I have not thoroughly read your replies) as they are all equally guilty.
Gay people, different ethnic groups, the middle/lower classes etc. will never be given equal say or rights unless they demand it, and they won't demand it unless they know they have the power to obtain it, and they won't know they have this power unless they are educated about it, and they won't get educated about it because our country's education system teaches us to believe in and respect the power of institutions. I don't feel responsible for not going outside and yelling at people because it wouldn't amount to anything. Again, this too is true across the world and is very unspecific of the US.
One thing I do believe has changed is that my family in the South have become more and more dogmatically religious, and their religion has become more and more mixed with politics. I find this trend upsetting, to say the least. I know people who are literally told whom to vote for in church.
I also find that I meet fewer people who speak in support the U.S.'s Iraq involvement, even when their politics are hard right, even when they are very "Let's support our troops" in their outlook. Of course, it's too late now to take back what's been done.
Clearly, the U.S. is very polarized and very big and complex. To try to make one nation out of all these states, all these various people? It's just difficult. It's so hard to generalize about the U.S. I have spent a lot of time in different parts of it and have a hard time answering Europeans' questions about it sometimes. (I.e., are you asking about restaurant quality and prices in New York City, in Wisconsin, in Wyoming, in Texas, in Missouri ... ? And on the political front, when you want me to answer a question about Native Americans, which tribe? Which KIND of tribe? Which kind of members of a tribe? Do you want my perspective as a white American with Indian ancestors, or do you want me to try to give you an answer that might be more approximately what a native person would say? Grrrrrrr.)
I know a lot of people living in progressive U.S. locations who are, in my view, sort of aligned in values with current European trends. These are people who are NOT necessarily academics or intellectuals--the class of Americans who have "always" aligned themselves with Europe and eschewed all things American. I would just say that their lifestyles are more European: the way they raise their kids, the schools they choose, the food they eat, their ideas about health, their level of materialism, etc.
But just as often I see people in the U.S. who would confuse Western Europeans greatly.
And I also think that as long as the U.S. lags behind in terms of covering basic social needs like health care, it will be difficult for the U.S. to seem culturally like a Western European society.
If the Iraq war and our economic shenanigans haven't caused a serious break between Europe and the U.S., what will? I'm in France right now and see the seepage of my country's culture into this one's everywhere I turn.
Regarding abortion and gay rights, gosh, it's hard to simplify that into something that will fit in this thread. If you want to talk about it sometime in PMs, I'm game. You're expecting it to stand up to reason, and it doesn't and it won't. It's a question of zealotry. I mean, I'm facebook friends with people from my high school in the South, and a lot of them regularly post about God and prayer and stuff. One of them posted photos of herself and some fancy friends at a very nice Christian women's group dinner that was held in the evening ... across the street from an abortion clinic where they had spent the day talking poor and young women out of abortions.
I guess that there's no way for me to readily impart what it's like to live in a very culturally and geographically isolated part of the United States and how some people in such places make religion the cornerstone of their lives, and how their religion is mixed with sociopolitical issues. Yes, it's crazy. It's fundamentalism. When people are in such a mindset, of course it's very easily for politicians to manipulate them. (And no, I'm not saying these are the only manipulated Americans.)
I'm not wrong about what I would say nor am I backwards, so if you're actually open-minded and "undecided" then let me know. Otherwise I'm not going to waste my time.
Why even comment if you think nothing can happen...ashton and steveentj...this viewpoint is common of gamma in my expirience and they underestimate the potential for change and mindlessly repeat self interest arguments. And of course Ashton has to throw in blatant bullshit like our media being "crazy left wing". Oh they're not any wing ashton they're just acting in their own best interest.
It may have something to do with weak Fe.
On the discussion of this topic, I agree with anake on the problem here...
Let's create a new movement that won't get co-opted like the bs tea party.
I agree that media is now such large business and so delocalized that it has to fight for its interests, which are mostly business. When the mega corporation that owns your media business also owns stock/or is owned in part in oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, etc, they don't talk bad about these interests.
1. How does it feel to be American, knowing that your nation murders innocent civilians systematically? Do you feel personally responsible?
I feel normal. I don't identlfy much with the country of my citizenship and birth, or with any other for that matter. I am a historical realist, so the fact that people murder each other on behalf of state or other interests doesn't surprise me. People have been killing each other since time immemorial. I certainly don't like it, but it's part of our program. What our nonexistent predators can't do for us, we do for ourselves under various pretexts.
2. Or did you not know? (In that case - how does it feel to know that your media is biased?)
I can't stand TV and popular media. There is definitely a bias toward the emotional and the stupid. Intelligent analysis has to be found elsewhere.
3. What do you think the consequences will be? The world will hate you, of course, but other than that - will you face internal riots? Or will this just go away like most other horrors in the past?
The consequences of "murdering innocent civilians systematically?" I would say limited consequences, if any. I think it'll go away. Americans, I think, have more pressing problems on their mind than various war atrocities of which they are already fairly aware.
4. Do you think your leaders act in your best interest?
Of course not. Nobody knows what our best interests are anyways, least of all politicians.
5. How much do you think foreign interests control your politics?
Not sure what you mean. I think U.S. politics are guided more by domestic commercial interests that have a foreign component (typically a foreign source of raw materials).
1. Why on earth is there so much discussion about abortion and gay people's rights in the US, when discussing those matters will not change a single thing?
Because these issues are commonly seen as religious ones, and the U.S. is a predominantly religious country. Bible fundamentalism is very much alive in the U.S. If God said homosexuality is an abomination, how can one justify extending civil privileges to gay couples?
Where do I think the U.S. is headed? Bankruptcy and political collapse within the next 20 years. One day the middle class will wake up to realize it is impoverished. I suspect the U.S. will attempt to solve its problems through wars before finally losing most of its remaining international influence and turning sharply isolationist. Meanwhile, national neuroses and paranoia will continue to grow until a breaking point is reached.
The basic underlying reasons for this are 1) the U.S. has enjoyed a privileged position of superpower status for several generations and therefore has the option of "legitimately" exercising force, 2) it has run out of resources and must now get them from other countries, 3) over its history the U.S. has amassed an incredible amount of wealth, and its political institutions and infrastructure have evolved to serve the interests of those who hold the wealth, and 4) the U.S. is just too big, and therefore less democratic than it could be.
No matter who's in power (i.e. Dem or Rep), the resource problem cannot be addressed in any politically acceptable way, so the economic crisis will continue and the national debt will continue to grow. I doubt there is anything that can be done at this point to bring the debt down because, fundamentally, expenses are rising and the economy is falling.
I don't know how this will all play out but it will not be pretty.
It is easier for the eye of a camel to pass through a rich man than for a needle to enter the kingdom of heaven.
A common theme in your posts though is how America's lousy image abroad is hurting us, and yes I agree with this wholeheartedly. But ask yourself, what is the reason for this? Is it truly due to America's actions and our supposed 'war-crimes' among other things, or could it possibly be due to relentlessly biased and also anti-American foreign media sources? I've been to Europe quite a bit, including during our 2004 elections here. I thought American media was bad enough, sheesh. Do you think Europeans are truly getting a balanced perspective of America from your own media outlets? Somehow I doubt it, so that's in play as well.
Not going to belabor the point because media is always going to be biased, and that will never change. The cure for this is better leadership that can take the media by the horns and win with a pro-American message and change people's minds. Bush failed here miserably and simply ignored the media. I think it was Karl Rove who said his biggest regret during his time in the Bush admin is their decision to simply ignore the media and not fight back. He regrets that now. Is Obama any better? At least Europeans like Obama better than Bush, but he's hardly any better and the apologist speeches he gives abroad do nothing to prop up our image imho. Guess we'll have to wait around for the next 'great leader'. America has been where it's at before, ya know.
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Oh the Great Silent Majority seems to have spoken. BTW, by and large, the silent majority isn't present on this forum either, or on the Internet as a whole for the most part. I've always wondered why that is. Some friends and I had a few theories once but can't remember what we came up with. So if ananke wants to get views from the 'silent majority' this probably isn't the place for that.
From the Heritage Foundation, a prominent conservative think tank here in the States. For differing views, see also CATO (libertarian, iirc) and Brookings (liberal)
Morning Bell: Get to Work
Posted By Ed Feulner On November 3, 2010 @ 8:58 am In Ongoing Priorities | No Comments
My fellow conservatives,
The people have spoken. Reckless spending, stifling regulations, ever-rising taxes, endless debt and the looming government takeover of health care have brought this nation to a tipping point. Not surprisingly, the American people have now taken matters into their own hands.
How we got to that tipping point is clear. For too long, Washingtons preening elites have assumed that they knew best and that government was in itself the all-purpose solution to every perceived problem.
But the American people have a collective wisdom, and they expressed it yesterday. They took a stand and decided on a new direction because continuing down the path were currently on would mean the end of the American Dream.
They repudiated change that denies our character and tradition, and called instead for an American Renewal that taps our values. The message that came out of this election, I can assure you, was heard around the world. Everyone now knows that Americans remain a strong and free people, unbowed by adversity and unwilling to exchange their birthright of liberty for a perpetual stew of bureaucratic rule and government dependency.
But lets be clear, now we must all get to work. The new Congress has a choice: answer the call of renewal or betray the hopes of the American people. It is time for conservatives to be conservative, and not backslide.
We here at The Heritage Foundation are inspired by your commitment to Americas principles, and bolstered by your demand for practical, conservative solutions to our common problems. We and our 700,000 members will work day and night to make sure Washington has heard you, too, for now the real work begins.
There is much work to be done by the new Congress. Heritage is issuing a set of five simple actions Congress must take in order to meet this mandate of the American people. These five priorities represent the bare minimum of what is expected of our new representatives. More will need to be done to get our nation back on the right track, but taking these actions represent a good start.
I recommend that you print out [1] this document, share it with friends and family.
This list, which we call Solutions for America: Get to Work [2], is comprised of the following calls to action:
Please see the full document here [1]. Each of these things must be done if Washington is to fulfill its electoral mandate and meet its constitutional responsibilities.
- FREEZE AND CUT SPENDING: Congress should immediately freeze discretionary budget authority at 2010 levels; and cut at least $170 billion from the federal budget for fiscal year 2012. This is only a first step. In the past four years, Congress has approved more spending that even the bureaucrats can handle. Congress must immediately survey the unobligated balances of all appropriations made in the past four years and should reclaim these unspent taxpayer funds and use them to reduce the deficit.
- REPEAL OBAMACARE: Congress must immediately pass a bill that repeals Obamacare. Until Congress is able to get the President to sign a law repealing Obamacare, it must withhold funding, block key provisions and override regulations carrying out Obamacare. Only after Obamacare is rejected, can Congress undertake a careful, thoughtful legislative process to make practical adjustments that allow the free market to provide affordable, effective health care insurance choices.
- STOP THE OBAMA TAX HIKES: Congress must reject the Obama tax hikes, and make permanent the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, thereby helping the economy grow and create more jobs.
- PROTECT AMERICA: Congress must pass a budget resolution that wont put our troops at risk or leave Americans vulnerable. It can do this by providing for defense an average of $720 billion per year (to be adjusted for inflation) for each of the next five fiscal years, in addition to the funding needed for ongoing contingency operations. Congress must make the defense budget as efficient as possible and reinvest dollars achieved from reforms in the military to offset the cost of modernizing and developing next-generation equipment.
- GET CONTROL OF GOVERNMENT: Congress must immediately reestablish legislative accountability by posting complete legislation, ending earmarks, reviewing all unauthorized programs and respecting constitutional limits on government. Congress must check executive branch overreach with aggressive oversight, roll back recent government interventions, stop unnecessary administrative regulations and sunset new ones, restrict bureaucrats rulemaking authority and override executive orders.
We must not underestimate the difficulty of this task. This is but the beginning of a long recovery and renewal. Theres much to be done. We need to put an end to the crony capitalism that permeates so many of the outrages of these past two years. Government elites should not be picking winners and losers, giving bailouts to GM and waivers of the health care law to McDonalds.
We must return to the states the authority and flexibility to solve problems best resolved at that level of government. Replace federal failure and incompetence with state ingenuity custom-tailored to solve local problems.
Many will say it cannot be done, and some will demean the people and trivialize their objectives. They will do so at their peril. That attitude ignores what has just taken place. Let us never overlook our noble purpose: to restore America, rebuild its limited government and revive a nation of unlimited possibilitieswhere freedom, opportunity, prosperity, and civil society flourish.
This is a pivotal time. The public mind is engaged, and the eyes of the people are on Washington to see if their government will listen to them once again. We must seize the moment, or the moment will be lost, and so might our country.
Americans have reached back to their roots and history to rediscover their traditions and values. Theres a reason the Tea Party took a name from one of our earliest revolutionary events. One of the worst things our President has done in his two years in officeon top of the spending, the overreach of health care and the inability to allow the private sector to create jobshas been in comment after comment to disparage the people, their wisdom and their intelligence.
We must remain committed, stay focused, be ever vigilant and keep the faith.
What do these signs mean, , etc.? Why cannot socionists use symbols Ne, Ni etc. as in MBTI? Just because they have somewhat different meaning. Socionics and MBTI, each in its own way, have slightly modified the original Jung's description of his 8 psychological types. For this reason, (Ne) is not exactly the same as Ne in MBTI.
Just one example: in MBTI, Se (extraverted sensing) is associated with life pleasures, excitement etc. By contrast, the socionic function (extraverted sensing) is first and foremost associated with control and expansion of personal space (which sometimes can manifest in excessive aagression, but often also manifests in a capability of managing lots of people and things).
For this reason, we consider comparison between MBTI types and socionic types by functions to be rather useless than useful.
-Victor Gulenko, Dmitri Lytov
If you want to see election reaction from all quarters, go to www.realclearpolitics.com and start reading. They link articles from all angles. I like this site. Also www.politico.com does an excellent job of covering American politics fairly.
Election 2010: A Dramatic Political Reversal - Susan Page, USA Today
Massive Swing by Independent Voters - Gerald Seib, Wall Street Journal
For Obama, the Tide Turns Starkly - Peter Baker, New York Times
Sweeping Uprising is a Shining Moment - Michael Goodwin, New York Post
A Setback, Not Defeat for Progressives - E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
Dems Over-Interpreted Our Mandate - Sen. Evan Bayh, New York Times
The Ephemeral Nature of Political Power - Philip Klein, American Spectator
Republican Party Time: Man Up Mr. Speaker! - Maureen Dowd, NY Times
Why Midwest Swing States Flipped to the GOP - Doug Schwartz, CBS News
Less Government, More Freedom - Sen. Jim DeMint, Wall Street Journal
Obama Thumped, but Policies Were Right - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post
More Stimulus, Anyone? - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Exit Polls: Unprecedented White Flight from Dems - David Paul Kuhn, RCP
President Obama Must Walk the Walk on Change - Mark Halperin, Time
Lunatic Notion of American Exceptionalism - Peter Beinart, Daily Beast
Midterms May Have Saved a Superpower - Nile Gardiner, Daily Telegraph
A No-Confidence Vote for Obama - Richard Cohen, Washington Post
The problem is that you keep twisting around what I wrote and then trying to cram it into your world political macro economic theory which I fundamentally don't even agree with in the first place. And that's why nothing makes any sense.Originally Posted by ananke
See Ashton's post. I was too lazy to want to type something up like that but pretty much +1 to most of that.
Not so easy. China artifically keeps the Renmibi undervalued. When they'll let it float, exchange rates will likely become very volatile until adjustment occurs (or, if they don't let it float, sooner or later inflation will explode in China). So, probably, dollars will keep on being the numeraire for quite some time.And that is the way it is heading, with China's new economic situation. The US era is coming to an end, and it is NOT because of war crimes, but because the free ride of having THE world reserve currency will end.
By the way, an almost obscure paper which shows interesting stats and comparisons related to GDP figures (which are often used to compare the "slow" EU to "fast" USA): On misusing National Accounts data for governance purposes (there's also a more detailed version in german: Messprobleme bei der Ermittlung des Wachstums der Arbeitsproduktivität ? dargestellt anhand eines Vergleichs der Schweiz mit den USA ). It seems like a lot of differences can be explained away by taking into account how EU and US statistical methods differ. These facts are quite interesting, because there's a lot of talk related to Debt / GDP ratios etc., and if statistical tricks can easily modify the numeraire, most economic comparisons become...worthless chit-chat.
Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit
The present brings to mind things I can hardly believe are happening. Many around me are either unaware of global issues or are heavily misinformed by their local news station about them. Needless to say, I hate the idea of America and Americans in general.
Some quick examples;
genocide; tens of millions native Americans (just in the US) murdered to build the bloody foundation of this nation (note; yet more were systematically killed the name of other nations, namely Spain).
human rights violations; civil rights? gay rights? children's rights? many euro nations have problems with this too.
slavery; over a hundred million, murdered, which would not have worked without Euro cooperation (as well as some African nations).
as well as others which I do not feel I need to comment on like; financial and military support of corrupt governments, assassinations, disgusting war practices (more human rights violations here), etc.
"Not all countries are involved in war"; No nation is innocent in the past, and in the present many have involved themselves in middle eastern conflicts themselves.
US has a responsibility...; If the US didn't receive so much support from other nations none of this would have happened. Hell, other countries even payed for most of the Iraq war's beginning and opened the door to US occupation. And that's leaving Afghanistan out of the picture; many euro nations were there for the beginning and I believe at least Britain is still in there. All who were involved took either a direct or indirect part in the slaughter.
"Media"; Give me a frightening story and a channel and I'll give you anything you want.
"World is changing and the US is going down"; To some extent, I must agree with you that the US is running out of status and options, but I don't think China has any intention of demanding all the money back all at once else they would have stopped selling in the first place. I also would like to believe that the rest of the world wouldn't sit and watch if China chose to forcibly take compensation, but then again they've been sitting and watching the Iraqis and Afghans get torn up for years and haven't managed to do anything about it, so I fear I cannot say for sure what they would do.
"Other leaders/10% is a lot"; I can vote for corrupt asshole A or corrupt asshole B. Both are equally liable to murder tens of thousands for a few dollars in their pocket. You don't survive in politics unless you cater to special interest parties that sponsor you (any politics that matter anyway), and after that you have so many political obligations to keep that you lose sight of what you were fighting for to begin with, if you were fighting for anything. The system needs an overhaul and that just won't ever happen unless the people over here either by having an armed revolution (but that will just change the system and won't stop the rich from running it), or the American people become educated about their nation's true history and are not spoon fed nationalist/racist doctrine.
Even if A happens the system will change but the people running it won't. Corrupt asshole A and B will still be around to be corrupt assholes. B will never happen so long as corrupt assholes run the education system, and well, they do.
"Other politics"; I suppose what I just wrote proved your point here. Our system even recently approved corporate 'gifting' of money to politicians *sigh*. I don't claim to know the specifics of foreign governments as I've lived here all my life (and read from bias textbooks), but I can say that what I said about the fundamental problem, the fact that it's run by the rich who are interested in keeping it that way at the expense of their underlings, won't change no matter your location or your system. However, I do respect some western Euro countries, namely Norway, Sweden, Switzerland etc. yet even they have their share of crimes.
@Steve; I don't know how to say this, but the US has never has never ever upheld anything close to 'opportunity, freedom, prosperity...'. There are plenty of simple facts that flat out contradict everything America claims to stand for.
Also, for the record, outsourcing does not work for anyone. The parent nation loses business and wages and the nation receiving shit wages gets ditched the moment they organize and demand higher wages for some other poor group in their position that will accept shit wages, and then they're back to the poor conditions of the past. Also, the business practices are in no way justifiable; many corporations pay less than the necessary amount for survival.
We don't even know how technology might change in 30 years. If there's an energy-related breakthrough (something I hope), political fights centered over oil and/or similar resources might become outdated. It'll then be interesting to see what they'll try to come up with as a reason to waste a nation's money.
Yeah I was agreeing with you on that, meaning that growth-figures coming from the other side of the Atlantic can't easily be optimistically compred to our meager Euro levels.True, but again, the trend is clear.
Obsequium amicos, veritas odium parit
I'd like some clarification on the questions as to when "you" is used in the singular sense and when "you" is used in the plural sense.
As for the educated citizens and the well meaning politicians, they are all outliers. Never enough to get the word out and never enough to make a difference. I can't see any way I can inspire or contribute to change in the current system.
1) I can see America cracking and falling into the sea sometime in my lifetime, so my plan is just to have enough money saved up that I can send my family to Europe or whatever. I'm learning Russian, so between Russian, English and Spanish (and maybe I should learn an African language just to be safe), I think I'll be able to move us to a reasonably safe country, especially if my wife speaks french. I do worry about being able to get my mom, dad, stepmom, and little brother out too... but hopefully the crash will happen after they've passed away. I think that militarily and diplomatically, we have enough street cred to run on fumes for at least 25 more years, short of outright war with China, which we could still very plausibly win. If we can make it fifty, I can be reasonably sure my parents will be gone by then. Actually, I might be getting too old by then, so I may want to at least set up an alternate residence on another continent.
2) People debate gay marriage and abortion because people genuinely believe those are important moral issues. To ignore moral issues merely because there are practical issues as well is... careless. Of course everything is about balance, and we should care about the practical issues too, but see it from their (my?) perspective: if the United States is legally sanctioning the killing of millions of children every year, and also legally sanctioning the killing of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of innocent Middle Eastern citizens every year, which one am I going to go after the hardest? Won't I fight pretty hard against both? I'm not necessarily saying that "abortion is murder" (my personal argument is that we can't know, and so if you wouldn't blow up a building that there's a fifty-fifty chance a person might be in, you shouldn't get an abortion), or that it should be legally banned in all cases (whatever the morally right choice is, the government cannot tell a woman that she is obligated to bear the child of her rapist or a close relative, or bring to term a pregnancy that will put her life in severe danger, etc). But I am trying to illustrate how some people think about the issue, and why that would motivate them to argue about even in a political climate in which there appear to be more pressing issues.
Not a rule, just a trend.
IEI. Probably Fe subtype. Pretty sure I'm E4, sexual instinctual type, fairly confident that I'm a 3 wing now, so: IEI-Fe E4w3 sx/so. Considering 3w4 now, but pretty sure that 4 fits the best.
Yes 'a ma'am that's pretty music...
I am grateful for the mystery of the soul, because without it, there could be no contemplation, except of the mysteries of divinity, which are far more dangerous to get wrong.
Western Europe is a pretty good choice, unless some form of automation sweeps society, they'll need more immigrants to compete with China as they've become too self-indulgent to reproduce more Europeans on their own.
(I wonder if that ever means the EU will ever try to annex Russia, the Middle East and Africa -- that's another what, billion and a half people?; personally, I'd recommend they do it asap to tie those countries to the EU economy and European nationalism else risk losing out on resources and productivity; or worse, have those countries become pawns of China, something already started in parts of Africa.)
I'd still recommend putting everything aside and learning Mandarin, especially if you ever plan to go into business. Pick up Hindi while you're at it.
Learning to deal with a certain smugness and air of vindication from our new overlords might also be a good idea.
Capitalism is the belief that the rich don't work hard when they don't earn enough, and that the poor don't work hard when they earn too much.
English will be the lingua franca for some time, maybe forever, but it's always good to talk to the locals on their own terms.
Depends on your government. But learn Chinese anyway, it'll make you better in Maths.What if you're planning to do research, esp. for your government?
The Chinese Language, Numbers, and Ability in Math
Capitalism is the belief that the rich don't work hard when they don't earn enough, and that the poor don't work hard when they earn too much.
"If you aren't finding mathematics difficult, you aren't progressing fast enough."
ASHTON: I agree with many of your points, but do you really think that true capitalism is possible in as large and wealthy a country as the U.S.? I tend to think not. If the country split up into states, then both democracy and market freedom would probably improve dramaticaly.
If you can think of a historical example of a large, wealthy, AND capitalist country, please do so. I can only think of large, state-dominated capitalist economies. The truly capitalist ones either haven't yet built up enough wealth for the wealth to begin to concentrate and dictate political and economic decisions, or they are small and thus have greater localization of decision making.
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text:
my first day in biology class.
According to the teacher there are 8 characteristics all living things have.
here are my thoughts on the correlations:
1: life must consume and expend energy: Ne
2: life must respond to changes in its environment: Se
3: life must maintain a homeostatic environment: Si
4: life must have a plan for its growth encoded in the form of DNA: Ni
5: life must reproduce: Fi
6: life must evolve and descend from previous life forms: Fe
7: life must consist of a cell or cells: Te
8: life must be highly organized: Ti
in my opinion they correlate perfectly ...
I may update this thread with more biology findings, just cuz it helps me remember the shit this way.


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Nagpur : Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, is author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists As Political Activists in 1930s America (University of Chicago Press), co-author with Akira Kimura of Rethinking the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Japanese and American Perspectives (Horitsu Bunkasha, 2010), co-author with Yuki Tanaka of Genpatsu to hiroshima - genshiryoku heiwa riyo no shinso (Nuclear Power and Hiroshima: The Truth Behind the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Power (lwanami, 2011), and co-editor with James Gilbert of Rethinking Cold War Culture (Smithsonian Institution Press). A New York native, he received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1984.
He was active in the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements and remains active in antiwar and nuclear abolition efforts. In 1995, he founded American University's Nuclear Studies Institute. That year, on the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombings, his Institute co-hosted a major exhibit with the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which displayed many of the artifacts that were originally supposed to be part of the Smithsonian's ill-fated Enola Gay exhibit. Every summer, since 1995, he has taken Institute students on a study-abroad class in Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.
The Institute was named the most creative and innovative summer program in North America by the North American Association of Summer Sessions. In 2003, Kuznick organized a group of scholars, writers, artists, clergy, and activists to protest the Smithsonian's celebratory display of the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum annex. As part of this effort, he cofounded the Committee for a National Discussion of Nuclear History and Current Policy and the Nuclear Education Project with Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba and professors Mark Selden and John Dower.
His current projects include a book on scientists and the Vietnam War and another that looks at how the evolving understanding that nuclear war could lead to annihilation of all life on the planet has shaped the behavior and views of military strategists, policymakers, and the public. He and Oliver Stone co-authored the 10 part Showtime documentary film series and book both titled The Untold History of the United States.
He regularly provides commentary for all the major U.S. and international media and has begun his fourth three-year term as Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer.
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Now I realize that in the Bush Administration the key qualifications for running NASA are that you find homosexuality and abortion offensive and you believe 'The Flinstones' were a documentary, but Michael Griffin, The NASA chief is in line for a Presidential Medal of Freedom if he keeps this up.
This week, National Public Radio asked Griffin whether climate change was a problem mankind should "wrestle with."
Griffin responded as if one of NASA's deep-space probes had dropped him off on Pluto. "I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists," he said. "I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with."
Digging his toes deeper into his mouth, Griffin said, "I guess I would ask which human beings -- where and when -- are to be accorded the privilege of deciding that this particular climate that we have right here today, right now, is the best climate for all other human beings. I think that's a rather arrogant position to take. . . . Nowhere in NASA's authorization . . . is there anything at all telling us that we should take actions to affect climate change. . . . NASA is not an agency chartered to, quote, 'Battle climate change.' "
In other words, he is planning on drinking Pat Robertson's Amazing Protein Shake to make it through any discomfort caused by global climate change.
Does it really matter? We seem to be talking past the important issue here. Assume for just one moment that humans aren't creating global climate change, but it's happening. Even Dick Cheney has acknowledged that thermometers are not simply hippy science (way to go Dick). We also have a massive problem with oil being located mainly in a place that is not very friendly to us, with citizens who wear suicide vests attached to their body. The supply of oil is not self replicating. We will run out.
The lunatics want us to not have that conversation. God created the world about 6,000 years ago, and it's arrogant of us to think we could harm it. Oh, and it's not good for Exxon's bottom line. Praise Jesus, pass the credit card, I need me some premium.
Even if we are going to be hysterically in denial, the rest of the world isn't. They are going to create green technologies, market them, and profit. Breathing some sulfur coated toxic air as the world passes us by may be spiritually uplifting for this crowd (let's call it Jesus' incense), but economically we will suffer. Our sons and daughters will continue dying to protect the resource, and perhaps you can still believe Moses rode across the Sinai on a T-Rex and still understand this simple fact.
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|Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe
On December 16th 1944 the Germans launched a last ditch offensive in the Ardennes Belgium that came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge. Hitlers goal was to capture the Belgian port of Antwerp and to drive a wedge between the British and American forces. The main thing that hindered the German's success was the American resistance at St. Vith on the northern shoulder of the bulge and Bastogne on the southern shoulder. Bastogne was strategic because it was a vital crossroad that had to be held. Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne to Bastogne with orders to hold the town at all costs. The 101st had the right stuff. When told they were surrounded, one soldier replied "Those poor bastards". The following is an account of the response of General Anthony McAuliffe to a German surrender demand by Lt. General Harry Kinnard.
We got into Bastogne late on the night of 18 December, 1944. We were not well equipped, having just gotten out of combat in Holland. We were particularly short of winter clothing and footwear. On the 21st of December we became completely surrounded by Germans and our field hospital was overrun by a German attack. We had put the hospital in what would normally have been a safe place, but no place is safe when you are completely surrounded. At this time, we were not able to receive air resupply because the weather was absolutely frightful. It was very, very cold and snowy. Visibility was often measured in yards. Our lack of winter gear was partially offset by the citizens of Bastogne who gave us blankets and white linens that we used for camouflage. While we were still surrounded, on the morning of December 22, a German surrender party, consisting of two officers and two NCOs, and carrying a white flag, approached our perimeter in the area of our Glider Regiment, the 327th. The party was taken to a nearby platoon command post. While the enlisted men were detained the officers were blind folded and taken to the command post of the 327th where they presented their surrender ultimatum. The ultimatum in essence said the 101st's position was hopeless and that if we elected not to surrender a lot of bad things would happen.
The message was brought in to the Division Headquarters by Major Alvin Jones, the S-3, and Colonel Harper, the Regimental Commander. They brought the message to me, the G-3 and Paul Danahy, the G-2. My first reaction was that this was a German ruse, designed to get our men out of their fox holes. But be that as it might, we agreed that we needed to take the message up the line. We took it first to the acting Chief of Staff of the Division, Lt. Col. Ned Moore. With him, we took the message to the acting Division Commander General Tony McAuliffe. Moore told General McAuliffe that we had a German surrender ultimatum. The General's first reaction was that the Germans wanted to surrender to us. Col. Moore quickly disabused him of that notion and explained that the German's demanded our surrender. When McAuliffe heard that he laughed and said: "Us surrender? Aw, nuts!" the date was December 22nd, 1944.
To the U.S.A. Commander of the encircled town of Bastogne.
The fortune of war is changing. This time the U.S.A. forces in and near Bastogne have been encircled by strong German armored units. More German armored units have crossed the river Our near Ortheuville, have taken Marche and reached St. Hubert by passing through Hompre-Sibret-Tillet. Libramont is in German hands.
There is only one possibility to save the encircled U.S.A. troops from total annihilation: that is the honorable surrender of the encircled town. In order to think it over a term of two hours will be granted beginning with the presentation of this note.
If this proposal should be rejected one German Artillery Corps and six heavy A. A. Battalions are ready to annihilate the U.S.A. troops in and near Bastogne. The order for firing will be given immediately after this two hours' term.
All the serious civilian losses caused by this artillery fire would not correspond with the well known American humanity.
The German Commander.
But then McAuliffe realized that some sort of reply was in order. He pondered for a few minutes and then told the staff, "Well I don't know what to tell them." He then asked the staff what they thought, and I spoke up, saying, "That first remark of yours would be hard to beat." McAuliffe said, "What do you mean?" I answered, "Sir, you said 'Nuts'." All members of the staff enthusiastically agreed, and McAuliffe decided to send that one word, "Nuts!" back to the Germans. McAuliffe then wrote down: "To the German Commander, "Nuts!" The American Commander."
McAuliffe then asked Col. Harper to deliver the message to the Germans. Harper took the typed message back to the company command post where the two German officers were detained. Harper then told the Germans that he had the American commanders reply. The German captain then asked, "Is it written or verbal?" Harper responded that it was written and added, "I will place it in your hand."
The German major then asked, "Is the reply negative or affirmative? If it is the latter I will negotiate further." At this time the Germans were acting in an arrogant and patronizing manner and Harper, who was starting to lose his temper, responded, "The reply is decidedly not affirmative." He then added that, "If you continue your foolish attack your losses will be tremendous." Harper then put the German officers in a jeep and took them back to where the German enlisted men were detained. He then said to the German captain, "If you don't know what 'Nuts' means, in plain English it is the same as 'Go to Hell'. And I'll tell you something else, if you continue to attack we will kill every gd German that tries to break into this city."
The German major and captain saluted very stiffly. The captain said, "We will kill many Americans. This is war." Harper then responded, "On your way Bud," he then said, "and good luck to you." Harper later told me he always regretted wishing them good luck.
|The 101st moving into Bastogne