two weeks ago, ann did a great job defending that white supremacist group, council of conservative citizens. great job. good foot forward for the right…my favortite bit is their sale of white power type t-shirts.
Here is where a lesser person would say “I told you so” to all his readers. I didn’t know she was sticking up for white supremacists, but it has a credible air of tone-deafness to it.
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Has anyone else noticed the gold gaffe? Maybe you have to be a scientist or a jeweler to pick it up. I doubt there are five people inside the Beltway who have any idea what the periodic table is.
From what I’ve read she didn’t so much as defend them as try to point out how they had been used to make some other people look bad… However, she was apparently insufficiently condemnatory of all of their ideas and statements for today’s atmosphere of racism-phobia. Perhaps it was a space issue; I believe the mention of the group in question came in her book, which was about a number of issues, not this one group. I don’t know — I haven’t read the book, I only got this info from some blog post I read somewhere, or maybe it was in the last newsletter my Grand Wizard sent out.
Laypeople have no idea how heavy gold really is because today the only way most people have any contact with gold is in delicate little jewelry pieces and things like that. On the other hand, lead is famously used in weights and those heavy coverings they make you put on when you get X-rays, so they automatically associate lead with heavy things.
five steve?
im thinking you overshot it by about four.
yes, she was rather tone-deaf in sticking up for these guys. that is a very christian interpretation indeed. Im not totally down with little green footballs-at all–but Charles Johnson is about right on this.
parties that get routed from office have an extended period of working out their lunatics from the fold and refining the message. right now, this is the GOP.
It was a well crafted sentence, but whenever you say something like that, you need to do a quick bit of research to make sure you’ve got the facts down. Especially outside of your area of expertise. I’m not sure why she chose the specialty of geologist tho, those guys aren’t that much into that sort of thing.
I don’t read her unless prompted to, so I have no idea what she had to do with the white whatever they ares.
Lead (Pb atomic number 82, molecular weight 207.19) and gold (Au atomic number 79, molecular weight 196.96) per http://www.webelements.com/
Your link noted that gold is denser than lead but isn’t it reasonable to assume that higher atomic numbers = higher weight?
I last studied chemistry in 1978. Wet science was always my weakest area of the field. If I’m mistaken (and I might be), it’s not an unreasonable mistake for a non-scientist. I’d blame the editor (or Ann) for not having a scientist friend review the statement.
My father reasonably notes that court transcripts ought to be vetted for years for scientific misstatements intended to mislead a jury and that lawyers shouldn’t merely get their verdicts reversed/appealed but they should accumulate disbarment points. Accumulate enough points and lose your license for a year. Return to practice and accumulate enough points again, lose your license for two years. Keep doubling penalties like a backgammon cube. Lawyers should fear taking advantage of general court innumeracy and inadequate scientific knowledge.
February 22nd, 2009 at 4:55 PM
two weeks ago, ann did a great job defending that white supremacist group, council of conservative citizens. great job. good foot forward for the right…my favortite bit is their sale of white power type t-shirts.
February 22nd, 2009 at 5:34 PM
Here is where a lesser person would say “I told you so” to all his readers. I didn’t know she was sticking up for white supremacists, but it has a credible air of tone-deafness to it.
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Has anyone else noticed the gold gaffe? Maybe you have to be a scientist or a jeweler to pick it up. I doubt there are five people inside the Beltway who have any idea what the periodic table is.
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:29 PM
“I doubt there are five people inside the Beltway who have any idea what the periodic table is.”
Isn’t that an annual list of when you’re “on the rag”?
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:02 PM
From what I’ve read she didn’t so much as defend them as try to point out how they had been used to make some other people look bad… However, she was apparently insufficiently condemnatory of all of their ideas and statements for today’s atmosphere of racism-phobia. Perhaps it was a space issue; I believe the mention of the group in question came in her book, which was about a number of issues, not this one group. I don’t know — I haven’t read the book, I only got this info from some blog post I read somewhere, or maybe it was in the last newsletter my Grand Wizard sent out.
Laypeople have no idea how heavy gold really is because today the only way most people have any contact with gold is in delicate little jewelry pieces and things like that. On the other hand, lead is famously used in weights and those heavy coverings they make you put on when you get X-rays, so they automatically associate lead with heavy things.
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:03 PM
five steve?
im thinking you overshot it by about four.
yes, she was rather tone-deaf in sticking up for these guys. that is a very christian interpretation indeed. Im not totally down with little green footballs-at all–but Charles Johnson is about right on this.
parties that get routed from office have an extended period of working out their lunatics from the fold and refining the message. right now, this is the GOP.
February 23rd, 2009 at 7:25 AM
It was a well crafted sentence, but whenever you say something like that, you need to do a quick bit of research to make sure you’ve got the facts down. Especially outside of your area of expertise. I’m not sure why she chose the specialty of geologist tho, those guys aren’t that much into that sort of thing.
I don’t read her unless prompted to, so I have no idea what she had to do with the white whatever they ares.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:19 AM
Interestingly ( to some ) , uranium, gold and plutonium are all very nearly twice as dense as lead.
“Is it warm?”
Larry Niven
February 24th, 2009 at 2:11 PM
http://chemistry.about.com/cs/generalchemistry/a/aa050601a.htm About alchemy and the goal of turning lead into gold.
Lead (Pb atomic number 82, molecular weight 207.19) and gold (Au atomic number 79, molecular weight 196.96) per http://www.webelements.com/
Your link noted that gold is denser than lead but isn’t it reasonable to assume that higher atomic numbers = higher weight?
I last studied chemistry in 1978. Wet science was always my weakest area of the field. If I’m mistaken (and I might be), it’s not an unreasonable mistake for a non-scientist. I’d blame the editor (or Ann) for not having a scientist friend review the statement.
My father reasonably notes that court transcripts ought to be vetted for years for scientific misstatements intended to mislead a jury and that lawyers shouldn’t merely get their verdicts reversed/appealed but they should accumulate disbarment points. Accumulate enough points and lose your license for a year. Return to practice and accumulate enough points again, lose your license for two years. Keep doubling penalties like a backgammon cube. Lawyers should fear taking advantage of general court innumeracy and inadequate scientific knowledge.
February 24th, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Ask the oldest and smartest rabbi you know what he thinks of your dad’s idea. The principle is fine; the application is an impossibility.
February 25th, 2009 at 5:59 AM
I’ll settle for a website listing the lawyer, his address, phone # and license # and a layman’s description of the egregious error.