All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford, Rutherford at Manchester(1962) by J.B. Birks
Preamble:
It hit me this afternoon as I was driving from Ottawa to a favorite bookshop in Carleton Place, right across from the Tim Hortons..As I was cruising down Highway 7 in my honking big Chrysler automobile enjoying the wicked nice day, it hit me! A philosophy of Life, the Universe and everything.. Maybe this is my one Good Idea! We are here to simply transmit and absorb entropy! Our existence is a scalable copy of the Universe in the small. All matter wants to evolve to something more complex..and if that is not possible all matter then prefers to just fart around! Think of the life and death of stars. They are born, and they burn, the hydrogen turns to helium and so on up the periodic table, until it becomes a red giant and then it collapses into itself and explodes into a super nova. The liberated gas plasma and vapors and all the created elements just fart around waiting for the next gravity source that will allow all the parts to form a new star and eventually change into something more complex. Now think of people forming into groups and then nations..In there efforts to create there world they must transmit entropy., but as they are doing so they absorb entropy. well in plain English they grow old and weary..We are nothing really but Entropy-Bots! Now of course some nations will be better at transmitting entropy then other nations. These nations will become Empires.. but alas only for a little while.. So what ya think? It needs a little spit and entropy but I smell a Noble...
Economy:
The earth has stopped moving in Ottawa the day after the municipal elections, there are now just a few shocked tremors. Eleven of, what is it, twenty seven seats at the table are new faces! This is history! This has never happened before, seriously. I put this done to my earlier post on how to pick a candidate; see how well it works? And they are a much better looking lot then the bums on the run! The surviving right wingers such as Jan Hardon are just soiling there panty's! With Larry as Mayor they looked like absolute intellectual giants. Now it is back to the laundry. They are going to be seen as the morons they really are.. Bummer...We even had a Mr. Dibbs goes to town!! Mathieu Fleury was working for the City of Ottawa in the Parks Department all 25 years old of him! He runs in Beacon Hill (broken hill...) and blows an incumbent out that served what, three terms! What a story! The pundits of the vulgar capitalist media (CTV) were going on about all in all the counsel is a little more to the right! EXCUSE ME! David Chernesenko won! formerly of the Green Party! With just him there the whole counsel could enter chambers dim the lights and raise Karl Marx and Trotsky from the dead! This group will provide blogging material for all time. Hold on to your seats folks.
Media:
God I miss Yurgen Goth so much. If you want to have your car radio on while driving home and not want to have one neuron of your brain fire just listen to Bitch Stirfry on the CBC radio....Buck Fifty Nine? He ain't worth a nickel... The only reason he got this job is not for how he makes you and I feel, but rather how he makes a certain program executive feel.... (Squeel.... you ready to some praying boy?)
Then when you get home you can watch what used to be the award winning program Politics on CBC Newsworld. God I miss John Neumann. Now I got to suffer I-even Soldaman. A Tory love in. The little thumpers have the answers, but they don't understand the questions! But it's alright. What did Steve Harpers right bower at the University of Calgary say in one of his books? NO ONE RUNS CANADA!! This show is now the proof of that!!
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Stream of Joyce it is....
Good roads, canals and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon the greatest of all improvements.
Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter XI, Part I, p. 174
Preamble:
I am so tired hearing the right wing wack'o conservatives whining about taxes. There are a whole bunch of places on Earth where there are low or even no taxes. Like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ethiopia to name a few failed states of tax free bliss. Yet the havens of tax free bliss have not relieved me of my whining conservative friends. Why is that do you think? It seems even in Canada that the tax system runs more on inertia and four more years then on the greatest good for the greatest number. What I would like to see is an international index of tax efficiency measured with a numerical value to four decimal places from .0000 to 1.000. Now as we all know governments spend tax dollars. How do you measure a well spent tax dollar? How do you measure a poorly spent tax dollar? Well lately it has dawned on me that a well spent tax dollar can be measured by the number of tax dollars it will return to government revenue in the future! Let me list a few well spent tax dollar projects (i) the Saint Lawrence Seaway, (ii) Hoover Dam (iii) Tennessee Valley Authority
(iv)Canadian National Railway and (v)Petro Canada. The last two were sold off simply because government shouldn't be in business! And the Canadian government made an absolute killing on both deals! That is a well spent tax dollar! Hoover Dam generates a whooping river of money still; not to mention all the tourist traffic. That was a well spent pile of tax dollars. Have you seen the brand new Buicks? The latest GMC trucks? Well my little tea-party friend "Government Motors" seems to be working really well indeed! The United States government should retain the interest in Government Motors. It appears that so far the quality of the managers in the Federal Civil Service are of a much higher quality then mere vulgar capitalism based corporations! Someday not tomorrow or the next day, but soon enough, we are going to go toe to toe with the Asians again! Where do you think you are going to get your tanks planes and guns? Toyota? Cream of Sum Young Guy Motors in China? Oh stop your killing me....What is a poorly spent tax dollar? It is simply a tax dollar spent that will not return even itself to government revenues in the length of time of a 25 year residential mortgage!! A good example of poor tax spending is excessive defense spending. A good example of a well spent tax dollar is education... I figure there must be a way to measure this just from the standard "national accounting" numbers that are already out there... Is there or what?
Economy:
The "rare earths" article has surged in page views recently at Wikipedia. This was caused by the Chinese choking off some delivery's to Japan... The Chinese have a "stranglehold" on rare-earth? Since freaking when? Is this figure as accurate as there GDP growth numbers? This is a crock!! The Russians have more of this filth stored from the Soviet days then the Chinese can shake a stick at! Here in Canada we haven't even started and or bothered to look for it! But it is here.. oh ya we got it up the wazzooo! I must be right... the surge has petered out and the article is back to its average number of page views... hmmmm do you think there is information in that??
Media:
This blog is reaching the farthest ends of the earth! I can't freaking believe that people in Russia are reading!??
And eight other countries.. It seems, much to my chagrin, that the most read post was my first stream of shit rant! I thought I would get booed out of the blog o verse.. And the post that I thought would go through the roof was the one on Saint John the Apostle.. really proud of some of the turns of the word in that one... Not one freaking view! Go figure. Writing is frustrating hard and cruel. Pictures are coming! I am starting to amass them and soon as I can figure out how to pound them in you will see them...Watched the New Sherlock Holmes on WPBS this evening and it was the best television I have ENJOYED in a long time...When Sherlock says "I am not a psychopath! I am a high functioning sociopath.. Get it right!" He really is a man of my own heart.
Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter XI, Part I, p. 174
Preamble:
I am so tired hearing the right wing wack'o conservatives whining about taxes. There are a whole bunch of places on Earth where there are low or even no taxes. Like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ethiopia to name a few failed states of tax free bliss. Yet the havens of tax free bliss have not relieved me of my whining conservative friends. Why is that do you think? It seems even in Canada that the tax system runs more on inertia and four more years then on the greatest good for the greatest number. What I would like to see is an international index of tax efficiency measured with a numerical value to four decimal places from .0000 to 1.000. Now as we all know governments spend tax dollars. How do you measure a well spent tax dollar? How do you measure a poorly spent tax dollar? Well lately it has dawned on me that a well spent tax dollar can be measured by the number of tax dollars it will return to government revenue in the future! Let me list a few well spent tax dollar projects (i) the Saint Lawrence Seaway, (ii) Hoover Dam (iii) Tennessee Valley Authority
(iv)Canadian National Railway and (v)Petro Canada. The last two were sold off simply because government shouldn't be in business! And the Canadian government made an absolute killing on both deals! That is a well spent tax dollar! Hoover Dam generates a whooping river of money still; not to mention all the tourist traffic. That was a well spent pile of tax dollars. Have you seen the brand new Buicks? The latest GMC trucks? Well my little tea-party friend "Government Motors" seems to be working really well indeed! The United States government should retain the interest in Government Motors. It appears that so far the quality of the managers in the Federal Civil Service are of a much higher quality then mere vulgar capitalism based corporations! Someday not tomorrow or the next day, but soon enough, we are going to go toe to toe with the Asians again! Where do you think you are going to get your tanks planes and guns? Toyota? Cream of Sum Young Guy Motors in China? Oh stop your killing me....What is a poorly spent tax dollar? It is simply a tax dollar spent that will not return even itself to government revenues in the length of time of a 25 year residential mortgage!! A good example of poor tax spending is excessive defense spending. A good example of a well spent tax dollar is education... I figure there must be a way to measure this just from the standard "national accounting" numbers that are already out there... Is there or what?
Economy:
The "rare earths" article has surged in page views recently at Wikipedia. This was caused by the Chinese choking off some delivery's to Japan... The Chinese have a "stranglehold" on rare-earth? Since freaking when? Is this figure as accurate as there GDP growth numbers? This is a crock!! The Russians have more of this filth stored from the Soviet days then the Chinese can shake a stick at! Here in Canada we haven't even started and or bothered to look for it! But it is here.. oh ya we got it up the wazzooo! I must be right... the surge has petered out and the article is back to its average number of page views... hmmmm do you think there is information in that??
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| Rare Earth-What today is made of... |
Media:
This blog is reaching the farthest ends of the earth! I can't freaking believe that people in Russia are reading!??
And eight other countries.. It seems, much to my chagrin, that the most read post was my first stream of shit rant! I thought I would get booed out of the blog o verse.. And the post that I thought would go through the roof was the one on Saint John the Apostle.. really proud of some of the turns of the word in that one... Not one freaking view! Go figure. Writing is frustrating hard and cruel. Pictures are coming! I am starting to amass them and soon as I can figure out how to pound them in you will see them...Watched the New Sherlock Holmes on WPBS this evening and it was the best television I have ENJOYED in a long time...When Sherlock says "I am not a psychopath! I am a high functioning sociopath.. Get it right!" He really is a man of my own heart.
Monday, October 4, 2010
How Rome fell...
What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refreshments about, with a view to benefit his business?
Jean-Baptiste Say, A Treatise on Political Economy, (Fourth Edition), 1832, Book I, On Production, Chapter XX, p. 214
Preamble:
I totally agree with J.B. Say; All marketers are liars. It seems that the only things that get the full court marketing press is the garbage you don't really need anyway. Ponder that for a moment.. Think of some great brands. Such as Google, Snap-on Tools, Fluke Instrument, Wikipedia, Berkshire-Hathaway.. Have you ever seen a 30 second low-life-hard sell spot on old media television for the great brands? No. Because they don't have to. Perhaps that is the start to a great new algorithm for intelligent shopping? I had a niece that was studying marketing at Carleton University. At a family BBQ, while she was trying to put relish on her burger, she was going on about how great a job and how much money people in marketing make. I asked her "why do you think the relish won't come out of that bottle dear?( The bottle of relish was half empty with the big chunks that wouldn't fit through the top...) Well Uncky Oracle it appears some idiot put the wrong top size on this bottle! "And who do you think made that decision dear and which department?" I asked... Well I guess it was the morons in marketing! Now do you understand when your Uncky Oracle says being in marketing is is the same as telling a lie everyday for the rest of your life? She saved herself, Thank God, and is now teaching English in South Korea!
Economy:
In 2008 marketing damn near destroyed the world. At all these insane investment banks the financial instruments were not called financial instruments they were more commonly referred to as "products". No new product was marketed without in house consent of a huge marketing machine! Brother can you spare a dime? Another marketing travesty that is still in full swing is the Human Resources Rip-Off...But of that another time.. You commonly hear today on and on and on some more; greenhouse warming and climate change will destroy our civilization and our planet. Bullshit! What destroys empires, civilizations and nation-states is simply this: poor management and Death-Wish marketing. When management fails at an entity the first people to leave are the smart ones! What took years to accumulate must now be replaced with much dumber people in a hell of a hurry. This is when the death spiral really kicks in; I refer to it as the skid mark effect. A really great example I am observing now in Ottawa from many disgruntled employees and managers is occurring with a vengeance at the City of Ottawa. Or as it is called at present Skid Mark Central! Ouch! This is due, I am told, to the present Cue-Ball administration. It is repairable, but it will take years to undue the damage. Transition teams take note. And the crap you are going to find under the corners of the carpets in the back rooms.....
Media:
A great text book on a subject is hard to find. Some of the grand old publishing houses republish the great ones and it is a perennial business. Recently on one of my never ending book crawls I discovered the greatest modern chemistry text I have seen so far. It is called: Chemistry & Chemical Reactivity by Kotz and Purcell, published by Saunders College Publishing, 1987. I always keep a selection on hand because they are interesting and help a ton with stock-picking. In this edition check out the special section entitled "Of Oceans and Eggs" on page 660. You will soon come to realize that the modern song of climate change etc... is yes just another marketing job....
Jean-Baptiste Say, A Treatise on Political Economy, (Fourth Edition), 1832, Book I, On Production, Chapter XX, p. 214
Preamble:
I totally agree with J.B. Say; All marketers are liars. It seems that the only things that get the full court marketing press is the garbage you don't really need anyway. Ponder that for a moment.. Think of some great brands. Such as Google, Snap-on Tools, Fluke Instrument, Wikipedia, Berkshire-Hathaway.. Have you ever seen a 30 second low-life-hard sell spot on old media television for the great brands? No. Because they don't have to. Perhaps that is the start to a great new algorithm for intelligent shopping? I had a niece that was studying marketing at Carleton University. At a family BBQ, while she was trying to put relish on her burger, she was going on about how great a job and how much money people in marketing make. I asked her "why do you think the relish won't come out of that bottle dear?( The bottle of relish was half empty with the big chunks that wouldn't fit through the top...) Well Uncky Oracle it appears some idiot put the wrong top size on this bottle! "And who do you think made that decision dear and which department?" I asked... Well I guess it was the morons in marketing! Now do you understand when your Uncky Oracle says being in marketing is is the same as telling a lie everyday for the rest of your life? She saved herself, Thank God, and is now teaching English in South Korea!
Economy:
In 2008 marketing damn near destroyed the world. At all these insane investment banks the financial instruments were not called financial instruments they were more commonly referred to as "products". No new product was marketed without in house consent of a huge marketing machine! Brother can you spare a dime? Another marketing travesty that is still in full swing is the Human Resources Rip-Off...But of that another time.. You commonly hear today on and on and on some more; greenhouse warming and climate change will destroy our civilization and our planet. Bullshit! What destroys empires, civilizations and nation-states is simply this: poor management and Death-Wish marketing. When management fails at an entity the first people to leave are the smart ones! What took years to accumulate must now be replaced with much dumber people in a hell of a hurry. This is when the death spiral really kicks in; I refer to it as the skid mark effect. A really great example I am observing now in Ottawa from many disgruntled employees and managers is occurring with a vengeance at the City of Ottawa. Or as it is called at present Skid Mark Central! Ouch! This is due, I am told, to the present Cue-Ball administration. It is repairable, but it will take years to undue the damage. Transition teams take note. And the crap you are going to find under the corners of the carpets in the back rooms.....
Media:
A great text book on a subject is hard to find. Some of the grand old publishing houses republish the great ones and it is a perennial business. Recently on one of my never ending book crawls I discovered the greatest modern chemistry text I have seen so far. It is called: Chemistry & Chemical Reactivity by Kotz and Purcell, published by Saunders College Publishing, 1987. I always keep a selection on hand because they are interesting and help a ton with stock-picking. In this edition check out the special section entitled "Of Oceans and Eggs" on page 660. You will soon come to realize that the modern song of climate change etc... is yes just another marketing job....
Sunday, October 3, 2010
The light shines....
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the life of men. The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not over come it.
John 1:1-4, English Standard Version (Study Bible), p. 2019
Preamble:
John was the last surviving apostle and the only one to die of natural causes at the age of 94! Wikipedia has a beautiful article about him and it is worth the time. The board and scholars of the English Standard Version must certainly be proud of this translation. It brings the melodic counterpoint of the Koine Greek to its English translation. Compare this to any other translation. The English Standard Version is head and saint above the rest. It is hard to be a "one percenter". And it must have been frightening as hell against the Romans, whose pure cruelty of power would make a battle hardened combat veteran of today look like a school crossing guard. At the end of the day we realize that John was a blogger, who posted to his medium with an enduring faith in the permanence of the word and the timelessness of his message.
Economy:
The Ontario Municipal Election is on October 25. The last time I checked there were 14 candidates for the job of counsellor in my ward! Some wards have many more. The reason is that municipal politics is the entry level to public life in Canada, or if your really cynical admission to the shallow end of the trough! How to pick the right candidate? I will share an algorithm with you. Algorithms are very important. I count them as one of the three most unsung inventions of modern life. The other two being the Haber-Bosch process and the standardized steel shipping container. Okay, here we go! Now this is not "politically correct" but it is easy and quick. First drop off all the fat ones. Reasoning: If the candidate cannot manage himself why would you allow him to manage your stuff? Second: Drop off all the ugly ones. Reasoning: Ugly means inflexible, it means "issues", it means impossible to reach agreement on anything. Now you should have about two or three attractive candidates left. Now pay attention... Pick the second best looking one! You will get it right over 75% of the time! I read it in a math book, honest to God!
Media:
The prediction of the demise of the book I am afraid is somewhat premature. With the advent of the internet and Wikipedia I have never read so much in all my freaking life! I have an OED with the magnifier! I have two editions of the Chicago Manuel of Style! I actually looked in one the other day and it was interesting! I don't get no respect at all!! I have books read for Wikiqoute, I have books for cited references for Wikipedia. I have books in read, books to read and books that got to go.. My cat is threatening to call the Department of Worker Health and Safety if she gets caught in another remainder avalanche! Its tough.. I'm telling ya...
John 1:1-4, English Standard Version (Study Bible), p. 2019
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| Saint John |
Preamble:
John was the last surviving apostle and the only one to die of natural causes at the age of 94! Wikipedia has a beautiful article about him and it is worth the time. The board and scholars of the English Standard Version must certainly be proud of this translation. It brings the melodic counterpoint of the Koine Greek to its English translation. Compare this to any other translation. The English Standard Version is head and saint above the rest. It is hard to be a "one percenter". And it must have been frightening as hell against the Romans, whose pure cruelty of power would make a battle hardened combat veteran of today look like a school crossing guard. At the end of the day we realize that John was a blogger, who posted to his medium with an enduring faith in the permanence of the word and the timelessness of his message.
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| Tomb of St. John in Ephesus, Turkey |
Economy:
The Ontario Municipal Election is on October 25. The last time I checked there were 14 candidates for the job of counsellor in my ward! Some wards have many more. The reason is that municipal politics is the entry level to public life in Canada, or if your really cynical admission to the shallow end of the trough! How to pick the right candidate? I will share an algorithm with you. Algorithms are very important. I count them as one of the three most unsung inventions of modern life. The other two being the Haber-Bosch process and the standardized steel shipping container. Okay, here we go! Now this is not "politically correct" but it is easy and quick. First drop off all the fat ones. Reasoning: If the candidate cannot manage himself why would you allow him to manage your stuff? Second: Drop off all the ugly ones. Reasoning: Ugly means inflexible, it means "issues", it means impossible to reach agreement on anything. Now you should have about two or three attractive candidates left. Now pay attention... Pick the second best looking one! You will get it right over 75% of the time! I read it in a math book, honest to God!
Media:
The prediction of the demise of the book I am afraid is somewhat premature. With the advent of the internet and Wikipedia I have never read so much in all my freaking life! I have an OED with the magnifier! I have two editions of the Chicago Manuel of Style! I actually looked in one the other day and it was interesting! I don't get no respect at all!! I have books read for Wikiqoute, I have books for cited references for Wikipedia. I have books in read, books to read and books that got to go.. My cat is threatening to call the Department of Worker Health and Safety if she gets caught in another remainder avalanche! Its tough.. I'm telling ya...
Saturday, October 2, 2010
How about this Google?
The tool, as we have seen, is not exterminated by the machine.
Karl Marx, Das Kapital, Buch I, Chapter 15 Section II, p. 422
Preamble:
When you first read this passage in Das Kapital you automatically think wrench, crowbar etc. Upon the second reading you realize Marx was a German and there is probably more then one meaning to what he was trying to get across. If you check your Oxford English dictionary the third meaning of tool is; "a person used or exploited by another." I am convinced Marx was speaking about managers! Karl had a lot to say about the birth of the manager class in Das Kapital. His insight and vision were right on the money. This man also saw the coming of what is known today as TNC's or trans national corporations and the endless screw ups that the credit system would take us in and through. (See Volume III for this..) He saw how the banking system would appear at first to serve then enslave the very people it was intended to serve. Sound familiar? Not bad for a stateless refugee with nothing but a library card....
Economy:
This is an idea pitch to Google. New from Google; What is the world thinking about now? In cooperation with Wikipedia (arms length of course.. don't be evil...) find out the top requested 100 articles in the last hour, the top 1000 articles by page view yesterday, last month, last year (rolling 12 months) and the top 1000 articles Year To Date.. There is a ton of priceless information in this.. It is just that Wikipedia for some reason can't seem to make this work all the time. They are having problems..partly money and partly ideology. I will say it right out loud; there is an internal war at Wikipedia caused by its incredible Myth Busting powers and the destruction of the" USA rules the world" paradigm. There appear to be those that would rather suppress the truth and preserve the old myth.. For example; who is the most popular economist by page view requests on Wikipedia? Did you say Adam Smith? I would. But you would be wrong! Adam Smith gets about 60,000 hits a month while Karl Marx gets over 225,000! It is astounding that ole Marx is the number one dude. He also is usually in the top 1000 articles. Last updated early 2009! Google could for a very small price provide the required hardware and funds, I figure no more then 7 figures annually, the users could get there page view stats capability back and Google could make even more money by showing good will and the resulting media coverage and HITS!! on the main page... Another example; what is the number 1 article right now on Wikipedia? Answer: Lady Gaga. But the Beatles are close behind at number 37 and they haven't played together in decades! So how good is Lady Gaga really?....
Media:
Did you see the CBC National News on Thursday last? Excellent television! The political panel segment was awesome! The excrement hit the fan....While discussing the last issue of the Macleans cover story about corruption in Quebec it all just went nuts! The best clip yet, watch it on Retro-bites on You-Tube! They also discussed the new book coming out soon called Harperland! Inside the present day Conservative Party. Now I figured it was bad but from what is in the advanced proofs it is much worse then even the Oracleofottawa thought. So that is pretty bad. There seem to be some serious Axis 3 and 4 issues if you follow my my drift...
Now a little Shop And Tell. On Friday I go to one of my favorite Chapters outlets (Canada's National Bookstore?) and ask when I could get a copy of Harperland? I am sorry sir we have no book by that name coming soon! Your kidding me right? Header Whats Her Name isn't going to let me read this book either!?
Well screw it. I'll get mine from Jeff at Amazon .com! And send a copy of Mein Kampf with that...... yes I know you will... Good Man you are!
(The Orcaleofottawa would like to welcome the new readers from Spain....)
Karl Marx, Das Kapital, Buch I, Chapter 15 Section II, p. 422
Preamble:
When you first read this passage in Das Kapital you automatically think wrench, crowbar etc. Upon the second reading you realize Marx was a German and there is probably more then one meaning to what he was trying to get across. If you check your Oxford English dictionary the third meaning of tool is; "a person used or exploited by another." I am convinced Marx was speaking about managers! Karl had a lot to say about the birth of the manager class in Das Kapital. His insight and vision were right on the money. This man also saw the coming of what is known today as TNC's or trans national corporations and the endless screw ups that the credit system would take us in and through. (See Volume III for this..) He saw how the banking system would appear at first to serve then enslave the very people it was intended to serve. Sound familiar? Not bad for a stateless refugee with nothing but a library card....
Economy:
This is an idea pitch to Google. New from Google; What is the world thinking about now? In cooperation with Wikipedia (arms length of course.. don't be evil...) find out the top requested 100 articles in the last hour, the top 1000 articles by page view yesterday, last month, last year (rolling 12 months) and the top 1000 articles Year To Date.. There is a ton of priceless information in this.. It is just that Wikipedia for some reason can't seem to make this work all the time. They are having problems..partly money and partly ideology. I will say it right out loud; there is an internal war at Wikipedia caused by its incredible Myth Busting powers and the destruction of the" USA rules the world" paradigm. There appear to be those that would rather suppress the truth and preserve the old myth.. For example; who is the most popular economist by page view requests on Wikipedia? Did you say Adam Smith? I would. But you would be wrong! Adam Smith gets about 60,000 hits a month while Karl Marx gets over 225,000! It is astounding that ole Marx is the number one dude. He also is usually in the top 1000 articles. Last updated early 2009! Google could for a very small price provide the required hardware and funds, I figure no more then 7 figures annually, the users could get there page view stats capability back and Google could make even more money by showing good will and the resulting media coverage and HITS!! on the main page... Another example; what is the number 1 article right now on Wikipedia? Answer: Lady Gaga. But the Beatles are close behind at number 37 and they haven't played together in decades! So how good is Lady Gaga really?....
Media:
Did you see the CBC National News on Thursday last? Excellent television! The political panel segment was awesome! The excrement hit the fan....While discussing the last issue of the Macleans cover story about corruption in Quebec it all just went nuts! The best clip yet, watch it on Retro-bites on You-Tube! They also discussed the new book coming out soon called Harperland! Inside the present day Conservative Party. Now I figured it was bad but from what is in the advanced proofs it is much worse then even the Oracleofottawa thought. So that is pretty bad. There seem to be some serious Axis 3 and 4 issues if you follow my my drift...
Now a little Shop And Tell. On Friday I go to one of my favorite Chapters outlets (Canada's National Bookstore?) and ask when I could get a copy of Harperland? I am sorry sir we have no book by that name coming soon! Your kidding me right? Header Whats Her Name isn't going to let me read this book either!?
Well screw it. I'll get mine from Jeff at Amazon .com! And send a copy of Mein Kampf with that...... yes I know you will... Good Man you are!
(The Orcaleofottawa would like to welcome the new readers from Spain....)
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