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Political

Pundit one and LAX

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

The mighty Glenn Reynolds has written another of his edifying columns out at Fox, this one on the LAX shooting.

As expected, he echos the other punditry’s concensus that the shooting was an act of terrorism. Hadayet was from Egypt, most likely hated Jews, objected to an American flag over his apartment and might possibly have met with an Osama Bin Laden associate in 1995. Therefore, this wasn’t the act of a man who went beserk, grabbed some guns, found a target and started shooting – this was the pre-planned, carefully thought out action of a terrorist.

What do you know, terrorism is occurring on the streets of America every day. Fancy that.

I’ll give him this, the Pundit One does have a different take in how to deal with these types of situations:

The clearest lesson of the Los Angeles International shooting is that diffuse threats like terrorism are best answered with diffuse defenses: lots of people, preferably armed, who are ready to respond in a hurry.

Lovely idea – arm a paranoid populace with guns and tell them they’re America’s first line of defense against terrorism.

Glenn Reynolds is nothing more than a thinking person’s chew toy.

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Weather

Cooler breezes

A thunderstorm rolled through today, breaking the heat spell. The temperature should be in the 80’s for the next couple of days, though dewpoints are high.

Before moving to St. Louis, I talked about humidity. Now I talk about dewpoints; I am becoming one with the area. I loved what the weather person said yesterday in regards to the high dewpoint, “Today’s a very juicy day!”

Speaking of weather, are you curious about how the Heat Index (HI) is calculated? Of course you are. Following is the simple formula:

1) Heat index(HI), or apparent temperature(AI)= -42.379 + 2.04901523(Tf) + 10.14333127(RH) – 0.22475541(Tf)(RH) – 6.83783×10**(-3)*(Tf**(2)) – 5.481717×10**(-2)*(RH**(2)) + 1.22874×10**(-3)*(Tf**(2))*(RH) + 8.5282×10**(-4)*(Tf)*(RH**(2)) – 1.99×10**(-6)*(Tf**(2))*(RH**(2))

Piece of cake, do it in my head.

I finished closing up my California bank account and transferring the funds into the St. Louis account. The people in St. Louis are so nice! The teller at my new bank, Courtney, spent an extraordinary amount of time today helping me get what was a mess – of my own making – cleaned up. What blew me away is that she knew every single person who came in while I was there – by name.

I am now “Miss Powers”, so show a little respect you dweebs.

Tomorrow promises more thunderstorms and cooler weather. If the dewpoint drops a bit, I found a nice little trail close to home I want to try. As a break from writing and ThreadNeedle and other coding. Of course.

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Political

Bad boys

Seems as if Dick Cheney, fearless co-leader of the US, is being sued for artificially boosting stock prices while he was CEO of Halliburton.

This follows on the SEC’s investigation of Halliburton’s accounting practices. Not surprising – Halliburton’s accounting firm was Anderson.

I worked for Sierra Geophysics, a subsidiary of Halliburton in Seattle. SG was great. Halliburton was shit, closing down our productive and successful operation primarily because we were in the Northwest and got uppity at times.

Anderson was the company that recommended Halliburton close us down.

Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do
What you gonna do when they come for you.

Bad boys, bad boys, what you gonna do
What you gonna do when they come for you.

Diana King, Bad Boys, 1995