A couple of hours ago VP Pence, Gov. Jay Inslee, and several CDC leaders spoke here in Washington.Leaving aside the boorish anti-Trump comments of Gov. Inslee and a couple of reporters, there were two very important facts released. (1) In South Korea, where testing has been rather broad, there are a lot of people with […]
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Feb 26.: I joked a week ago in unaswered letters to Seattle’s Mayor Jennie Durkan and King County Supervisor Dow Constantine that they should maintain their Sanctuary City policies, especially in times of the Coronavirus. That is now the official policy of the European Union: Open Borders. (“According to Bloomberg News, health ministers from Austria, […]
Continue readingSoleimani — Bonaparte
Every revolutionary faces threats to its regime survival from both the left and the right. The French Revolution was overthrown in turn by Napoleon Bonaparte (revolution from the right). The American Revolution faced a secessionist threat from the right (Confederate states) which it defeated in a terrible Civil War. The Soviet Revolution faced a threat […]
Continue readingThe Nazi Arabic-English Dictionary That Has The University Of Minnesota In Hot Water
This truly weird article [https://www.teaparty247.org/the-nazi-arabic-english-dictionary-that-has-the-university-of-minnesota-in-hot-water/ ] is about the Hans Wehr Arabic-English dictionary (and presumably the Arabic-German edition too). They are complaining it was developed in Nazi Germany and therefore the dictionary is evil. However it remains an essential mainstay in Arabic language courses, and that was a cause of controversy many years ago (1970s). The reason […]
Continue readingGoogle Translate Lies
“The translator is a liar.” — Medieval Italian proverb. Of course we all know that Google is constantly falsifying its ephemeral search results. For example, its autocorrection/autocomplete turns the search “Clinton Crimes” into “Clinton Cares”, while “Trump Cares” becomes “Trump Crime” Searches give improbable and unreproducible results. A few days ago after a crazy editorial […]
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