Things Tween Gurls Know That You Don’t

In the “Things Tween Gurls Know That You Don’t” category chalk up the tidbit that a disproportionate number, perhaps most, of the pop hits by female “artists” such as Avril Lavigne, Kate Perry, Pink and Kelly Clarkson were written by Martin “Max Martin” Sandberg of Sweden and Lukasz Sebastian “Dr Luke” Gottwald, an American who is the son of a Polish immigrant.

A common theme of the music is “strong”, “independent” womanhood through promiscuity and exhibitionism.

In the “Things You Know That Tween Girls Don’t” category chalk up the tidbit that the music is pretty bad and, well, rather manipulative.

 

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Cass Sunstein Internet Dream Comes True?

Cass Sunstein, the Obama confident who once headed the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, has gotten his wish according to Glenn Greenwald writing at The Intercept at FirstLook.org.

Sunstein –who defended Bill Clinton against impeachment and George W. Bush for the Military Commissions Act of 2006 before working for Obama, and who believes the First Amendment should be rewritten —  notoriously proposed in 2008 having government agents infiltrate online groups and political websites to direct public opinion.

Greenwald, the journalist to whom whistleblower Eric Snowden leaked documents showing that policies were secretly changed to allow government spying on U.S. citizens, notes that the documents show that Sunstein’s plan has been implemented —  and in a way that follows rather sophisticated psychological principles with the goal of discrediting people and destroying reputations.

Like, well, Snowden’s. And Greenwald’s.

Who exactly can one trust one wonders.

In a quasi-related matter, a fellow who was using the Twitter handle @GSElevator and tweeting alleged juicy first-hand tidbit involving Goldman Sachs was found to be a resident of Texas with nothing to do with the New York-based investment banking house and cradle  of treasury secretaries and corrupt New Jersey governors.

The funny thing is that a whole lot of people in the New York financial community who are assumed to be super savvy and smart, believed him.

Just some things to mull around.

 

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February 27 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr

February 27 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr

Dorothy Hayer says children and watches must not be constantly wound up. You must let them run, too.

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Frightened Union Bosses Sic Minions

An AFP Pennsylvania event concerning paycheck protection in Warminister a few days ago was disrupted by flying monkeys sent by union leaders. Speakers were shouted down and filthy language was directed at those interested in what was to be said.

Police were called to escort the AFP people from the building. Jennifers Stefano, the speaker, found two tires slashed on her car.

Paycheck protection means union dues are forbidden from being automatically deducted from paychecks. In other words, if the union bosses want to keep their sweet salaries they have to convince their members to donate voluntarily, which means they have actually work for the issues that will help them.

Mrs. Stefano, a mom, says remaining townhalls are being rescheduled to address security concerns.

Below is a snippet of video taken at the Warminister event.

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February 26 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr

February 26 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr

Woodrow Wilson, the only doctor of philosophy ever elected president, could not read until he was 11 years old.

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Global Warming Irony

Today’s link is courtesy of Jim Vanore and concerns a story about the weather from noted Chicken-Little, world-burning-to-the-ground network, NBC,

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/deep-freeze/arctic-blast-sends-temps-plunging-50-degrees-below-normal-n38901

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February 25 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr

February 25 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr.

Yes Robert James, Abraham Lincoln did say that General Ambrose E. Burnside, “Is the only man who can snatch defeat from certain victory.” Burnside was the chap who popularized sideburns.

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Caller Explains Welfare

With the Labor Force Participation Rate at an all time low, and Food Stamps, Welfare, and Unemployment growing this caller explains welfare with seamless logic in this Off the Internet.

Somebody should read to her Aesop’s tale of the The Ant and The Grasshopper, and explain how it very much applies today.

Maybe the call is a prank set up by the disk jockeys. Maybe there is hope.

Hat tip Fran Coppock

 

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February 24 2014 Omnibit by William Lawrence Sr

February 24 2014 Omnibit Trivia by William Lawrence Sr.

If all the oil and gas wells drilled in the United States between 1970 and 1985 were laid end to end, they would reach to the moon and back more than twice.

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Michael Mann Courtroom Mockery

Michael Mann, the Penn State professor who gave us the “hockey stick” graph that ostensibly proved the world was catastrophically warming, is now learning the meaning of the worm has turned regarding litigation and public opinion

Mann sued Dr. Tim Ball on March 24, 2011 in the Supreme Court of British Columbia alleging libel because Ball said  “Mann belongs in the state pen and not Penn State.”

Canada, of course, does not have the First Amendment and libel suits by public figures are, presumably, easier to win up north.

John O’Sullivan, a political ally of Ball, published an article on Feb. 21 on Principia-Scientific.org that because Mann has refused to disclose his “hockey stick graph metadata” in he has all but lost the case. He further said that Ball is no longer being satirical about Mann belonging “in the state pen.”

“In short, Mann failed to show he did not fake his tree ring proxy data for the past 1,000 years, so Ball’s assessment stands as fair comment,” O’Sullivan wrote.

Seventeen-months later (Oct. 22, 2012), Mann sued political commentator Mark Steyn, National Review, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) and scholar/commentator Rand Simberg for a comment made by Simberg on CEI site calling Mann the “Jerry Sandusky of climate science, except that instead of molesting children, he has molested and tortured data”.

Steyn at National Review linked to and commented on the column saying:

Not sure I’d have extended that metaphor all the way into the
locker-room showers with quite the zeal Mr Simberg does, but he has a
point. Michael Mann was the man behind the fraudulent climate-change
“hockey-stick” graph, the very ringmaster of the tree-ring circus. And,
when the East Anglia emails came out, Penn State felt obliged to
“investigate” Professor Mann. Graham Spanier, the Penn State president
forced to resign over Sandusky, was the same cove who investigated Mann.
And, as with Sandusky and Paterno, the college declined to find one of
its star names guilty of any wrongdoing.

 

It’s a point not much different than one made here.The suit was filed in the District of Columbia.  Few consider it to have a chance. Many warned Mann it could backfire. It appears to have done so. Four days ago (Feb. 20) Steyn filed a counter-suit asking for $10 million in damages. Read it here as a pdf file.

 

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