QOTD - Presidential Edition

"“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”"

Any idea who that was?

If This Is True NY Times should be sued

A Most Peculiar Test Drive | Blog | Tesla Motors:

"You may have heard recently about an article written by John Broder from The New York Times that makes numerous claims about the performance of the Model S. We are upset by this article because it does not factually represent Tesla technology, which is designed and tested to operate well in both hot and cold climates."

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The article goes on to describe data logging results that contradict what Broder said. This is pretty pitiful if true and should result in the author being fired and the newspaper sued for a large amount of money.

My Kind of Civility

The Desert Tortoises With Boltcutters Civility Pledge » Pharyngula:

"Rather than worry overmuch about civility, I pledge to be as kind as possible. And sometimes the kindest possible contribution to a discussion with someone acting in bad faith and harmfully is to tell them to go fuck themselves sideways. "

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Couldn't have possibly said it better

On medical coding and Albany Med

When your hospital codes a Colonoscopy as outpatient surgery rather than as a preventative service in order to get a bigger payment I would think that is fraud. Albany Med doesn't agree.
Shame on them.

On naming things after MLK

Do more of this outside of black neighborhoods. He should be recognized as a hero for all.

On naming things after Nathan Bedford Forrest

Don't do that.

On naming things after jefferson davis

don't do that.