Why has the GOP been so loose with truth – and ever more so in the 2012 Presidential Campaign? It is a legitimate question to ask given the ever more blatant lies, falsehoods and simpleton deceptions leading up to and during the GOP convention. Even Fox News noted the blatant lying trend with Chris Christie and even more […]
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Greg Hampkian has written a grocery-store checkout counter piece for ther NYTimes – entiled Men, Who Needs Them. Rather than exploring the motivation around the piece it is worth doing some PolitiFact-like check of truthiness in the arguments. So lets start out with the premise and first argument. The central behaviors of mammals revolve around
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Windows 8 has received some very bad notices from diverse sources – John Dvorak at Marketwatch and a PC Gamer Tim Edwards among others are some of the salient ones. Despite these nay sayers ye Editor is very optimistic about the success of Windows 8. I think the nay-sayers are protesting too much about the learning curve for
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Roger Cohen has a perceptive piece in the NYTimes which explores how two different ideologies have become locked into intransigence. Iran is using nuclear power and the threat of making nuclear bombs and a delivery system to become the pre-eminent Muslim and Shiite state. Israel is using the Iran thrust to nuclear power to
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The London Olympic Games were a broad success and this posting has the links to prove that beyond a doubt. For what was seen live[or time delayed for after supper entertainment in the US] was supplemented with live feeds available from NBCOlympics.com allowing one to watch without commentary just about any Olympic event live [or
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There is a superb free course available from Coursera and the University of Pennsylvania on Health Policy and the Affordable Care Act. Dr Ezekiel Emanuel who is an Onclogist is a great speaker in this free Coursera program and he starts off by providing a clear chart of the fundamental problem facing healthcare in the United
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NYTimes headline – Iran Sentences Four to Death Over $2.6 Billion Bank Fraud. Hmmmmm – Sharia or Islamic Law has more bite on white collar crime than in the US. This is the number one festering financial problem in the World. The top ranks of the Financial community in the US,and all the developed world, appear to
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Financial turnaround Tall Tales from the Banking Community are not hard to find because the Banksters are creating scandolous headlines at an ever faster rate this year. Yet these same parties and much of the Financial Press continue to insist that everything is a-okay. The apologists make very hollow arguments: 1)financial markets are the
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As soon as I hear the words “Gun control” I cringe. This is because the opponents of Gun Control have been able redefine it as denial of any gun bearing rights whatsever, So the NRA advance the thinking that if you cede any control or regulation of firearms – that will be the thin edge
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Takethe5th’s prognosis on Gun Control in the wake of the Aurora Massacre, Hey USA You’re in NRA’s Power Bang Killer Lottery Like It Or Not, has proven to be woefully accurate. There has been a chorus of no gun control across all of the media. NYTimes describes clearly the abdication of our political leadership.Now comes the clean
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Almost as if on cue, Jennifer Rubin makes a righteous fool of herself in an Opinion Piece at the Washington Post about the Aurora Massacre Shootings. It is the same old. same old “Gun Controls would not work” which is music to NRA ears and a GOP which has gone draconian on any regulation. No
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“Good morning, shooters. Happy Friday! Weekend Plans?” was the tweet posted on the NRA’s American Rifleman account this morning 7 hours after the horrific mass killings in Aurora Colorado. But NRAman could have just as easily tweeted“Hey USA, you are in the NRA Power Bang Killer Lottery whether you like it or not”. Quickly after
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The following is a rotten prediction based on the LIBOR Scandal. It is “rotten” becuase it has huge implications not just for the US Presidential elections but also for worldwide governance. And the situation is not pretty. First take a look at the LIBOR Scandal here: The whole problem is this. If banks and Financial
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There is a growing Moral Vacuum in the US . It is about institutional interests that are able to shape and transcend Justice first internally and then in the broader public realm. Institution’s ability to delay and outwit Justice is an eternal gambit; however the stakes have become ever greater for 3 reasons: 1)Because the
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Update: Breaking on July 17. 2012 the NYTimes finally recognizes the profound impact Coursera and other free online university offerings are having on undergraduate education. Read it here or follow Takethe5th.com and get the story 3 months earlier and with live experience nuances. This blog has been an enthusiastic supporter of the Coursera University Courses
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What possible connection can one make with convicted child molester, Penn State Assistant Football coach Jerry Sandusky, and the LIBOR interest rates set in London by a select list of 18 banks lead by Barclays Bank? Another bit of trash journalism or is there a possible connection? Jerry Sandusky, convicted child molester This last week, the
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The free online courses available from Coursera [Stanford, Princeton, University of California at Berkley, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvannia] have broken the ice on online college courses. Now MIT has had a program for the past 5 years called OpenCourseWare which made course materials from more than 2,000 classes available free online. Typical MIT
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For the past 2-3 months, this sports fan has been scrambling to find coverage of the many Olympic trials going on throughout the World and North America in particular. The competition is fierce and dramatic for those Tickets to London as old faces triumph or waver [see Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake, Phelps and Lochte,
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When you think of the English, Justice and “Doing the Right Thing” they are almost synonymous. One has to think that near-failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland and Northern Rock during the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis was just an anomaly. Just a whiff of the Wall Street Flu. The British run Wimbledon, the Olympics and
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This Ted talk by Don Tapscott on the fundamental attributes of Openness is illuminating: Don waxes highly hopeful about an Open Future. But there are stark counter-examples right now. Spain,much of Southern Europe and the MidEast have 40% or much higher youth unemployment. The crux of the problem is also covered in the lecture. Note
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Google is making its new Nexus Q Media Streamer in the USA. Its a medium sized commitment and it could go wrong because the price is on the high end for media devices despite some of the new features – see a review here. But the significance is not small as noted in the NYTimes and
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The Big 3 in Consumer Computing for the next 3-8 years have declared themselves. With Microsoft and Google now committing to hardware as well as software they have joined Apple as all-in in Consumer Computing. In effect the Apple Model, compete in any and all hardware and software segments while holding the critical OS keys
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The DOJ-Department of Justice when it won its Antitrust case against Microsoft also lost it at that moment because the officials involved had not agreed on a remedy for controling Microsoft. In the end it was $3 billion in fines and kid glove supervision by the Bush DOJ for 5 years. However, one remedy which
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With the announcement of Microsoft’s Surface, now all the major OS vendors have moved all-in in betting to take the Consumer Computing Crown. Microsoft Surface is more than a tablet – Surface Pro is a laptop PC No more side bets through proxy hardware or software vendors, Apple, Google and Microsoft are now building everything required for
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The weekend produced the usual crop of great reads. Here are 4 that captured our attention: NYTimes, Paul Krugman – Why Elect Mitt, We Already Have a Failing Republican Economy Salon, Horowitz and Wakefield – “All We have to FEAR” looks candidly at the 20 fold rise in Anxiety disorders in modern life. TheNewYorker, Amy
Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone is noted for his investigations of the Financial Community particulary since the Financial Meltdown of 2007 to 2009. In an article in Rolling Stone for February 2011 Matt asked the question Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?. he concluded that it was two major factors – The Obama administration and
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Instead of a growing buildup of excitement for Windows 8 since the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview in early March, there has been a growing crescendo of first alarm and then profound disaffection for Windows 8. And this litany is coming from mostly Windows loyalists. This is not good for Redmond. And it
Well I saw the Jamie Dimon performance on Meet The Press on Sunday Morning and he looked good in a Black Swan motif. Here is what some commentary had to say: LATimes – What Jamie Dimon Didn’t Tell You on Meet the Press NYTimes – What the Banker Did Tell you in StageCoach FinancialTimes – Jamie Dimon creates a
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One can almost hear the wailing Blues line – “Why Obama and Romney Ain’t Your Man”. It has a haunting truth to it as it careens around your head to a pulsing back beat. Day after day the the obvious becomes a refrain ever louder. These dudes aren’t going to do anything about the Financial
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Over the past half year, I have become a huge fan of theDailyBeast. theDailyBeast is the other website for Newsweek – very provocative and opinionated articles, thus in the manner of Fox New not bound by rigorous no-bias paternalistic standards of Newsweek. The difference between the two is the spice that makes the two work well together.
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Readers of this blog have seen at least a dozen articles about how the GOP is running of the the rails – no longer functioning as an an effective party in our political processes and sabotaging our Democracy. This is a very serious assertion. But take a look at the evidence: In A Two Party
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Adobe has not yet completely solved the problem of Steve Jobs and Apple. Steve unjustifiably killed Adobe’s Flash brand with his libelous accusations on the performance of Flash. See here for the all the details on how nefarious and self-serving Steve’s rants about Flash were but how NO-Flash presents problems for Apple. However, NO
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