Sunday, December 19, 2010

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PJTV: Author John Ringo: The Merger of SciFi And Military Tech

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 03:33 PM PST


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China Reveals Plan to Build an Aircraft Carrier

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 01:23 PM PST


It is hard to be considered a serious navel power without one; at least as far as projecting power is concerned. There is a big difference between planning to build one and actually having it. We will have to wait for more detailed plans (ex. size, aircraft armaments, range, defensive capabilities...) to see how much it will change the balance of power in the region.

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"China has confirmed for the first time that it is preparing to build an aircraft carrier, a move set to heighten international concerns over the rapid expansion of its naval power.

Beijing announced its step quietly with one sentence buried at the end of a lengthy government publication.

"In 2009, China put forward a plan and a programme for building an aircraft carrier," says China's Ocean Development Report (2010), a book published in May by the State Oceanic Administration, a body under the Ministry of Land and Resources.

"This shows that China has started entering a new historic era of comprehensively building itself into a great naval power. [This] is China's historic task for the entire 21st century," the report said.

A senior Chinese defence official told the Financial Times two years ago that the world should not be surprised if China built an aircraft carrier. In March last year, Liang Guanglie, China's minister of defence, told his Japanese counterpart that China would not remain forever the only major power without an aircraft carrier."

Gold Vending Machine in Florida

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 11:20 AM PST


This type of machine is not new, but it is the first I have seen in the USA.

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Ayn Rand & The World She Made: Q&A With Anne Heller

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 09:17 AM PST

King of Geeky Pillows: How I turned a One-Time Sewing Hobby Into a Global Business - Roberto Hoyos

Posted: 19 Dec 2010 07:01 AM PST

Washington Post Fails to Publish Own Poll on ObamaCare's Showing it Has The Lowest Popularity Ever

Posted: 18 Dec 2010 05:44 PM PST


I thought ObamaCare was supposed to get more popular after it passed; I guess not... . Of course, you would not know this if you put to much faith/emphasis on traditional media sources.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/12/14/amazing-wapo-fails-publish-own-poll-obamacares-lowest-popularity-ever

"A new ABC-Washington Post poll found ObamaCare sunk to its lowest popularity yet: 52 percent opposed, and only 43 percent in favor. ABC mentioned the poll without fanfare at the end of a Jake Tapper report on Monday's World News, and Tapper added this was the health law's "lowest level of popularity ever." But Tuesday's Washington Post reported not one sentence on the poll in the paper – even as they reported in the paper that the same survey found Obama's tax-and-unemployment-compensation deal has "broad bipartisan support."

This is the same Post that highlighted the news on Page One on October 20, 2009, when they found a "clear majority" in favor of a socialist "public option" -- amid charges they oversampled Democrats.

The numbers weren't excluded because they arrived late. The Post poll numbers went up on the website yesterday at about 1 pm, under the headline "Health care opponents divided on repeal." That obscured the numbers a bit, as Cohen found a "slim majority" (not a "clear majority"?) currently oppose ObamaCare:

Overall, 52 percent of those polled oppose the overhaul to the health care system, 43 percent are supportive of it. Fully 86 percent of Republicans are against the legislation; 67 percent of Democrats support it. Independents divide down the middle, with 47 percent in favor and the same number opposed.

Cohen made no mention of that phrase "lowest level of popularity ever.""
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