Smoot-Hawley tariff laws trigger an international tariff laws. The tariff rate in 1925 is 37% in USA. It went up to 48% in 1930.
1930 is when the “great depression” takes place.
Anglo American War was taken place in the period of 1823-1826.
Tariff disagreement between Southern States and Northern States leads [...]
February 29, 2008. Bad Samaritans
February 28, 2008. Parent and child
The problem of influence of parent on children is very powerful. This has the practical outcome of both good and bad. If the parents are smart and thoughtful then the outcome of this relation is positive otherwise it is negative.
On the negative part, this explains why there are so many people still trapped in poverty [...]
In the bind?
NATGEO program on the final report of Fallujah assault is very interesting to view. It reveals that W Bush was under the pressure of his cabinet to approve the assault of Fallujah. This is such as baloney. I see that excuse before —pointing finger at some influential people in the administration for all the [...]
Monk
Monk meditation research is denounced by another religion group or the scientist of a different brand as some sort of waste of scientific budget. I come across such as ranting before in media. This is a belief that the monks or religion is using science as a tool to brainwashing for people or convert them [...]
February 23, 2008. Propensity of neurons
Learning algebra is something I find most delightful when I was in high school. The school system could only throw some red meats–problem beyond the grade level–to students. This is a very selfish way to teach students about math.
No teachers take time to explain the basic and foundation of the algebra when they handed [...]
Darfur, to be or not to be?
The athletic for Darfur is a movement that attempts to influence the Chinese government foreign policy. They plan to raise the issue of Darfur ethnics cleansing during August Beijing Olympic.
This is just a bunch of nonsense that would not lead to any where at least in short term. They protest Chinese involvement in Sudan. The [...]
February 21, 2008. Dan Devito and Arnold Schwarznegger
The propaganda machine is going all out to control the mindset of public regarding the shooting down of a spy satellite as a need to protect the public from toxic jet fuel. This is the style of western spin machine. Blanketing report is not different from those of Communist propaganda machine. When an event is [...]
February 20, 2008. Musing
Last night viewing of the British film about a bunch of school student and their relationship with their teacher and head master was very interesting. However, it is an old subject that “To sir with love” has shown before. One student that shows no interest of history says that “history is just a freaking [...]
February 19, 2008. Bad samaritans
The development of economics theory is exactly the growth theory of bigger pie for the rest of the world.
The bigger pie for the poor people of the developed countries is another myth. This is not happening in reality at all.
High tide lift all boat is a wrong analogy.
The same goes with the conservative economics theory [...]
Geopolitic
The declaration of independence of Kosovo is a historical event of the world. Hopefully this would not lead to more fighting of separatist groups around the world.
The mention of many small region clamoring for independence at the southern border of Russia leads me to think there may be the future trouble spots.
There is another point [...]
February 17, 2008. More musing on Bad Samaritans
What is the difference between what I have put down and a production product is the amount of details and examples to back up the concept and principle I found during readings.
The differences mean I have to do a lot of works to move up the production level.
The story of raising kids in the [...]
February 16, 2008. Bad Samaritans?
He has a view that the economics principle of the Bad Samaritans is still sound in general. However, It application is questionable in term of place, time and as far as meeting the need of developing the economy of third world countries is concerned.
So many things are so secretive that is unaware to [...]
Flash in the pan?
Laziness of handle materials and administrative tasks result in forgetting to pay bill to the power company. What a lesson in life. These are boring chores however, one still has to face every month.
Another problem is I am not sure how they will inform me about the amount of bill that I owe every month. [...]
February 14, 2008. Technical difficulty with the notebook PC
I wonder if the same problem of the key board and the mouse would happen after the old BIOS and mouse driver had been deleted and updated with a new version from Hp website.
The problem seem to go away. This is great and unbelievable……something brand new like this would have bugs show up at all.
This [...]
February 13, 2008. Super Delegate
There are a lot of talk about super delegate lately on the media.
There are so many talks about super delegates now within the Democratic party when the race between Obama and Clinton is close.
There is also another talk about electoral college for the states. Talk about democracy and popular vote and opinion survey, they [...]
February 13, 2008. Psychology of study something new
There are a lot of talk about super delegate lately on the media.
Why cursor of this new notebook PC so jumpy? something is not right…..Need to disable the key pad, I don’t know.
The reading of Seifert -Van Kampen theorem is very heavy going. I am glad that I did not spend serious money [...]
February 11, 2008. Topology musing
One thing leads to another, I was trying to read about Abelian group and free Abelian group and its generator, then in the process I had to review the concept of cyclic group and all other concept of coset, normal group, quotient group (also known as factor group) and group homomorphism.
I also raise a rhetorical [...]
February 10, 2008. Weekend reading
This is an excerpt from NYT op-ed page by Krugman. I have access to this section of the paper through public library online section.
“To answer this question you need to make a detailed analysis of health care decisions. That’s what Jonathan Gruber of [...]
About Politic
John Edgar Wideman’s “Fanon: a novel” was on DR show yesterday. This book weaves fiction, biography, and memoir to invoke message of the French philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist Frantz Fannon.
The story is about race, politic, colonialism that is still relevant today. It is impossible without using a racial designation to describe the current presidential [...]
February 07, 2008. Budget deficit, quack and radio
John Brinkley is the first marketing genius and the medical doctor that promote implanting Goat testicle to increase sexual virility. The notion of virility is a state of mind. He performed operations on both men and women. Pope Brock is the name of the author.
Born in a log cabin in Smoky Mountain of [...]
February 05, 2008. Musing
Yesterday I was listening to the Talk of the Nation program about the GOP camp criticizing John McCain’s temperament and tendency to vote with Democrats, I come across the expression “Casting the vote while holding ones’ nose”. This is a very fitting expression reflecting the feeling of out of control of the direction where [...]
February 04, 2008. Topology and frustration
Reviewing the Donald Kahn’s book on “Algebraic Topology” left me with a few more thing to be desired.
I need to read more on the John M. Lee book on the same topic of manifold. And the theorems that enable one to emulate manifold as 2 -Disk or sphere.
These are very [...]
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman is the author of this book. This coincides with the latest show on Nation Geography about how the nature recapture the earth after we had long gone.
He is just a writer not a specialist in plants (known as botanist.) He talks about plants all over the world. This is not only the North [...]
February 02, 2008. Weekend reminiscing
The newspaper cross word puzzles is so vague. The clues are very helpful at all. It could mean so many things. It is just a waste of time.
The watching of the program on Aztec sacrifice of human life is nothing but a kind of political maneuver of the fear of people about inexplicable thing [...]
