I can tell you what it is. Why anyone with a per capita of under a million casts their vote for Dubya.

It was there in the debates, it’s been there all along, but there are moments when the trick is particularly naked. Read the rest of this entry »

“And there is, I am certain,

among the Iraqi people

a respect

for the care and the precision

that went into their bombing campaign.

It was not a long air campaign . . .

It didn’t last for weeks . . .

And there was minimal collateral damage

—unintended damage.”

by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld

TAKE THEM AT THEIR WORDS: SHOCKING, AMUSING AND BAFFLING
QUOTATIONS FROM THE GOP AND THEIR FRIENDS, 1994-2004;
Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio; Academy Chicago Publishers

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We explore the entanglement of the vacuum of a relativistic field by letting a pair of causally disconnected probes interact with the field.

We find that, even when the probes are initially non-entangled, they can wind up to a final entangled state.

Tell me about it.

This shows that entanglement persists between disconnected regions in the vacuum.

However the probe entanglement, unlike correlations, vanishes once the regions become sufficiently separated.

Nothing to add, here. Move along.

Take this with you: Is everything love?

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“I lie on the beach there naked,
which I do sometimes
and I feel the wind coming over me
and I see the stars up above
and I am looking into this very deep, indescribable night

it is something that escapes my vocabulary to describe.”

— Marlon Brando : 1924—2004

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One of Zinni‘s responsibilities while commander-in-chief at Centcom was to develop a plan for the invasion of Iraq. Like his predecessors, he subscribed to the belief that you only enter battle with overwhelming force.

But Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld thought the job could be done with fewer troops and high-tech weapons.

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