Hugo SciFi award Goes to Chinese novel for first time

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Monday August 24, 2015 · 8:15 AM PDT

2015/08/24 · 08:15

That's the news; no Chinese language novel has ever won before.

But what I wanted to say is that "The Three-Body Problem" by Liu Cixin is really good, and I think it would be appreciated by anyone who is interested in either sci fi or politics. Not many sci fi novels open with a battle between radical factions during the Cultural Revolution. Just saying.

The English translation was by Ken Liu, who wrote "The Grace of Kings". I found "The Three-Body Problem" because I was intrigued by the cover of "The Grace of Kings" at the bookstore and was searching the local library for a free copy. That too was good.

Both Three Body and Grace are first books in planned trilogy, although I could stop at the end of the first and be totally satisfied.

NYTIMES: "Vague Email Rules Let Fed Agcies Decide When to Save or Delete"

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Friday March 13, 2015 · 8:15 AM PDT

2015/03/13 · 08:15

The NYTimes walks back the premises behind its own coverage of E-ghazi with a forehead-slapping article.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

It's hard to follow the anti HRC arguments as they proceed to the final resting place of "Well, it has an appearance of impropriety as shown by all the articles that wrongly asserted she broke rules".

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Monday March 09, 2015 · 1:47 PM PDT

2015/03/09 · 13:47

"Hillary Clinton Faces Test of Record as Women’s Advocate" was the title of the New York Times article.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

But it turns out, the record discussed isn't even HRC's. Instead, the record is that of Arab states. But through the magic of reporting the controversy instead of common sense, the NYTimes managed to hang other countries' practices, some of which she has criticized by name, on her.

By reporting the criticisms of a charity, not for what it does, but for what the people giving money to it do, the NYTimes continues its complicity with the VRWC in finding new standards to apply to Clintons only.

More behind the orange superampersand.

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Friday January 23, 2015 · 4:35 PM PST

2015/01/23 · 16:35

http://www.cnn.com/...

Washington (CNN)—Mark it down as a rare win for House GOP moderates. After scrambling into the evening on Wednesday, House Republican leaders decided to scrap a vote on a controversial anti-abortion measure scheduled to coincide with an annual gathering of anti-abortion advocates on Thursday because they couldn't round up enough support.

I can't tell you how refreshing this is to hear: anything to slow the devolution, anything to sow dissent in the GOP, anything that's MODERATE in the House, is good news.

And for some good news on domestic terrorism .........

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Monday January 10, 2011 · 1:56 PM PST

2011/01/10 · 13:56

A man convicted of threatening the jury hearing the case of a DIFFERENT domestic terrorist: follow over the fold for something interesting.

White targeted Hoffman on his Web site, overthrow.com, because Hoffman was the foreman on the jury that in 2004 convicted Matthew Hale, a downstate white supremacist, of soliciting the murder of U.S. District Judge Joan Lefkow after she ruled against him in a trademark-infringement case.

In the 2008 posting, White named Hoffman as the "gay Jewish anti-racist'' juror who had helped convict Hale and also made references to his longtime partner. He then splashed personal details about Hoffman — who is not Jewish — on the Web site, including his color photo, home address, phone numbers and even his cat's name.

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Wednesday December 01, 2010 · 10:36 AM PST

2010/12/01 · 10:36

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Two years after the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program was launched, the Congressional Budget Office now estimates the government's economic rescue package will cost taxpayers $25 billion.

In its fourth statutory report on TARP, the CBO said the remaining costs mainly stem from the bailout of insurance giant AIG and the auto industry, as well as efforts to prevent foreclosures. Those programs cost about $45 billion, while other transactions resulted in a net gain of $20 billion for taxpayers.

http://money.cnn.com/...

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Tuesday November 02, 2010 · 7:20 AM PDT

2010/11/02 · 07:20

Is this going to be the Proposition 8 fiasco all over again, where people wake up to find that the other side has successfully mobilized at the ballot box to both override the courts AND public sentiment?

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The last time Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Marsha Ternus was on the ballot, nearly half of voters didn't bother to weigh in on whether she should keep her job. What a difference eight years and a ruling allowing gay marriage can make.

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No, the conservatives and republicans can have it.

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IL-SEN: Kirk says Bush lied to him, then takes Rove's Big $$$

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Thursday October 28, 2010 · 5:32 AM PDT

2010/10/28 · 05:32

Mark Kirk is very bipartisan, in the way that he'll gladly blame republicans for his own mistakes:

Kirk: Bush administration lied about Iraq
Oct. 27, 2010, 5:46 p.m. PDT
Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Republican Mark Kirk says the Bush administration lied to him about the evidence for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Kirk voted to invade Iraq and said he was morally certain Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

But in a debate Wednesday, the U.S. Senate candidate said he was given false information in a briefing by the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency under President George W. Bush.

Kirk says he "absolutely" believes he was lied to.

Kirk faces Democrat Alexi Giannoulias (jeh-NOO'-lee-us) in a tight race for the Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama.

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IL-GOV Another Repub denounces fed. grant but wants the cash

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Friday August 13, 2010 · 9:17 AM PDT

2010/08/13 · 09:17

Remember the federal funding that will save 160,000 teacher and public safety jobs at the state and local government level?

Remember the good old days when Mark Kirk, senate candidate from Illinois, said he would vote for the bill, then decided to vote against it under pressure from the republican leadership?

http://www.dailykos.com/...

Suddenly, Kirk's caving to put party politics over Illinois schools and jobs seems downright respectable, thanks to the casual hypocrisy of republican candidate for governor Bill Brady, who is against the funding but for getting the funds. See the distinction? Me neither.

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Wednesday August 11, 2010 · 5:25 AM PDT

2010/08/11 · 05:25

Sir Mark Kirk told people he would support the jobs bill that would save 160,000 of jobs AND make sure our kids had a minimal number of teachers this fall.

Here's Obama talking about it.

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His voting record

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Doesn't matter, he'll get around to lying about everything sooner or later.

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How To Easily Win Debate over Birthright Citizenship/14th Am.

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Friday August 06, 2010 · 8:01 AM PDT

2010/08/06 · 08:01

It's easy, so it's a short diary.

Right now, any person born in the US is a citizen per the 14th Amendment to the constitution.

Some people think it's wrong that an illegal alien or a tourist can have a child while in the US and that child is a citizen.

They suggest some other requirement in addition to being born in the US.

So let's pick one out of the air: the hypothetical NEW RULE is that one parent has to be a US citizen. YOu can plug any other requirment into a new rule for purposes of the following thought experiment if you want: it doesn't change anything.

Now: prove you are a citizen under the New Rule.

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Monday June 28, 2010 · 2:11 PM PDT

2010/06/28 · 14:11

In a case closely watched in Chicago, former CPD Commander Jon Burge has been found guily of perjury and obstruction of justice related to torturing persons in police custody, but not of the assaults themselves.

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Hugo SciFi award Goes to Chinese novel for first time

NYTIMES: "Vague Email Rules Let Fed Agcies Decide When to Save or Delete"

NY Times Reaches for Another Hit Piece on Clinton

CNN reporting "House GOP Leaders Cave on Abortion Bill"

And for some good news on domestic terrorism .........

TARP cost estimate cut to $25 billion, says CBO

Iowa judicial retention vote threatens another Prop 8 type loss

IL-SEN: Kirk says Bush lied to him, then takes Rove's Big $$$

IL-GOV Another Repub denounces fed. grant but wants the cash

IL-Sen: General Kirk "Changes Mind", Votes Against Jobs Bill, Education

How To Easily Win Debate over Birthright Citizenship/14th Am.

Jon Burge found guilty of perjury re: Police Torture.