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New month, new stuff - 01 October 2008
Oct. 2nd, 2008 12:56 amWe’re back in the storytime sequence, so there’s plenty of work to be done already, with more work yet to come, both in what we have already planned, and what we’ll actually be planning. There are no such things as breaks in library world, even if there are ebbs and swells of programming. Plus, as my plug for this month, if you don’t already have your free public library borrower card, GET ONE. The wealth of information, free Internet access, and knowledgeable staff that you get with that card will come in handy in your life. Everyone should have a card, keep their fines paid off regularly, and respect the material in the library so that we never have to do rebuys because things keep mysteriously getting lost.
And thus, the news.
Internationally, piracy is a dangerous business. Boarding a ship that lies about its manifest can result in your death and a lot of inconvenient questions being asked of Iran, whose ship it was the pirates boarded.
The chief of the Nobel Prize for Literature has dismissed American writing en masse as being too "insular", favoring Europe as the capital of good literature.
Long after the reign of the real man, those who impersonate Josef Stalin still find good work, and perks, in Georgia, Stalin's native country.
An obvious truism - As Iraqi forces and police gain greater control and autonomy, they also have increased casualties and fatalities. Duh.
The U.S. miltary is laying down plans to carry over their Afghanistan operations and shift from ideological goals to practical ones as the administration changes over, proving that war can be effectively waged without the input of the civilians.
Domestically, a government investigation into nursing homes reveals that 94% of them were cited for health and safety violations last year, of which 17 percent were actually considered dangerous or caused actual harm or jeopardy. Boy, what a difference between those two numbers.
After the defeat of the House bill, the Senate bailout bill has been modified to hopefully keep one bill going, a bill that passed the Seante 75-24.
Beware the Republican candidates, apparently. John McCain's geography is once again erratic, placing Venezuela in the Middle East, which makes The General rewrite the maps to reflect these new truths, and there was apparently a sequence of time where voteforthemilf TLDs were redirecting to Senator McCain's campaign page, although that has since stopped, with the implication being that the McCain campaign bought such URLs as a defence against those who would use them to attack. Finally, in another thing that could be considered a betrayal of the true intentions of any politician, Senator McCain engages in a thought exercise of "If I were dictator", and then says that dictatordom is something he aspires to. Still pretty standard politician-speak, if you ask me, but that might prompt a response of “Define ‘cynical’”.
For those still undecided (or worrying about misdirection and lies), VoteHelp claims to be a non-partisan calculator that will help someone decide between Barack Obama and John McCain. What, the third parties are just chopped liver?
In candidate opinions, Senator Obaam needles Senator McCain hard with a gambling analogy, the comparison of Sarah Palin to the "Aunts" of the Handmaid's Tale, women who would willingly sell themselves out to a system that oppressed women, and then use their role and small power to oppress and squelch other women. Sounds a lot like the policies of Governor Palin.
The WSJ opines about Delaware's ease of lawsuiting, claiming Senator Biden will bring that similar ease to the country as a whole if Seantor Obama is elected, as Merrill Matthews believes Senator OBama's highly-regulated governemnt-provided health care plan is incorrect compared to Senator McCain's plans to let people purchase insurance coverage from providers in other states.
A little poking fun at Senator Obama through the use of a bad photo. That’s the safe part.
The not safe part was the hanging and burning of an effigy of Senator Obama on a college campus. Even if done without fully realizing the message it sends, this was an incredibly stupid decision. The school, to its credit, has laid down a swift and severe punishment for the act.
And the utterly brainless part - someone did research and concluded that liberals have messier desks than conservatives. We care... because? We should be more concerned that there's a serious chance the election will be decided throught he maniuplation of voting machines and dirty tricks that convince voters to stay home, including the foreclosure trick, and other tricks that say if out-of-state students register in their college’s state, they could lose things like insurances or scholarships, all of which aren’t true. Besides, subpoenas are still ongoing in investigating if people tampered with the 2004 election. That should be enough for all people to be vigilant against chicanery of all sorts.
In non-candidate matters, can you spare a little change for a bailout? Michael Moore thinks he's got a plan to pay for the cash - use all the profits and incomes of the very wealthiest to raise that kind of money, among other things. The WSJ still pushes the Paulson plan as the rememdy to a very real looming credit crunch, even if it isn’t the best thing, as others suggest that changing the accounting rules would bring several companies numbers back into healthy ranges.
Neal Boortz thinks the correct solution to the gas shortage in Georgia is to let price gouging do its very worst, as it will get all the people who don’t want to pay the prices out of the market and let the stations re-stock. And I’m sure all sorts of workplaces will be quite understanding that their workers can’t come into work today because gas is $8 a gallon and it’s just too expensive for anyone to drive in, or even carpool.
In the science realms, pictures of robots that can do all sorts of things, and look good at it. Leave it to the Japanese to think asthetically and functionally. Plus, Phoenix detected snow falling in the Martian atmosphere. It’s beginning to look like if we ever can generate the tools neded to sustain, bolster, or generate a Hume-type atmosphere, Mars is where we’re test-firing it. Planetary landers may have robots scouting out the best place to touch down, so that later missions set down smoothly. They might be carried on private rockets, as SpaceX proudly declares it has launched a private rocket into orbit around the planet.
Additionally, microscopic imaging that may not destroy or damage delicate biological things, examples of excellent use of CSS to generate beautiful typography, the anatomy of malware that preys on people's fear of malware,
Last for tonight, really cute pencil cases - again, the Japanese eye for asthetics and functionality. Eel on the menu at the reported Last Supper of Jesus?
But most importantly, and the very last point, vote for love. We’ve had more than enough people voting to prevent people from loving. Why not do some positive voting for a change? And instead of punishing and denying your friendships to follow an arbitrary set of guidelines and rules, why not do more to cultivate good friendships and relationships, no matter who they’re with? Google has officially spoken out against California Proposition 8, another of the "marriage-defining" amendments, because of the chilling and discriminatory effect it has on the people, in addition to vaguely worded language.
So lets vote for love.
And thus, the news.
Internationally, piracy is a dangerous business. Boarding a ship that lies about its manifest can result in your death and a lot of inconvenient questions being asked of Iran, whose ship it was the pirates boarded.
The chief of the Nobel Prize for Literature has dismissed American writing en masse as being too "insular", favoring Europe as the capital of good literature.
Long after the reign of the real man, those who impersonate Josef Stalin still find good work, and perks, in Georgia, Stalin's native country.
An obvious truism - As Iraqi forces and police gain greater control and autonomy, they also have increased casualties and fatalities. Duh.
The U.S. miltary is laying down plans to carry over their Afghanistan operations and shift from ideological goals to practical ones as the administration changes over, proving that war can be effectively waged without the input of the civilians.
Domestically, a government investigation into nursing homes reveals that 94% of them were cited for health and safety violations last year, of which 17 percent were actually considered dangerous or caused actual harm or jeopardy. Boy, what a difference between those two numbers.
After the defeat of the House bill, the Senate bailout bill has been modified to hopefully keep one bill going, a bill that passed the Seante 75-24.
Beware the Republican candidates, apparently. John McCain's geography is once again erratic, placing Venezuela in the Middle East, which makes The General rewrite the maps to reflect these new truths, and there was apparently a sequence of time where voteforthemilf TLDs were redirecting to Senator McCain's campaign page, although that has since stopped, with the implication being that the McCain campaign bought such URLs as a defence against those who would use them to attack. Finally, in another thing that could be considered a betrayal of the true intentions of any politician, Senator McCain engages in a thought exercise of "If I were dictator", and then says that dictatordom is something he aspires to. Still pretty standard politician-speak, if you ask me, but that might prompt a response of “Define ‘cynical’”.
For those still undecided (or worrying about misdirection and lies), VoteHelp claims to be a non-partisan calculator that will help someone decide between Barack Obama and John McCain. What, the third parties are just chopped liver?
In candidate opinions, Senator Obaam needles Senator McCain hard with a gambling analogy, the comparison of Sarah Palin to the "Aunts" of the Handmaid's Tale, women who would willingly sell themselves out to a system that oppressed women, and then use their role and small power to oppress and squelch other women. Sounds a lot like the policies of Governor Palin.
The WSJ opines about Delaware's ease of lawsuiting, claiming Senator Biden will bring that similar ease to the country as a whole if Seantor Obama is elected, as Merrill Matthews believes Senator OBama's highly-regulated governemnt-provided health care plan is incorrect compared to Senator McCain's plans to let people purchase insurance coverage from providers in other states.
A little poking fun at Senator Obama through the use of a bad photo. That’s the safe part.
The not safe part was the hanging and burning of an effigy of Senator Obama on a college campus. Even if done without fully realizing the message it sends, this was an incredibly stupid decision. The school, to its credit, has laid down a swift and severe punishment for the act.
And the utterly brainless part - someone did research and concluded that liberals have messier desks than conservatives. We care... because? We should be more concerned that there's a serious chance the election will be decided throught he maniuplation of voting machines and dirty tricks that convince voters to stay home, including the foreclosure trick, and other tricks that say if out-of-state students register in their college’s state, they could lose things like insurances or scholarships, all of which aren’t true. Besides, subpoenas are still ongoing in investigating if people tampered with the 2004 election. That should be enough for all people to be vigilant against chicanery of all sorts.
In non-candidate matters, can you spare a little change for a bailout? Michael Moore thinks he's got a plan to pay for the cash - use all the profits and incomes of the very wealthiest to raise that kind of money, among other things. The WSJ still pushes the Paulson plan as the rememdy to a very real looming credit crunch, even if it isn’t the best thing, as others suggest that changing the accounting rules would bring several companies numbers back into healthy ranges.
Neal Boortz thinks the correct solution to the gas shortage in Georgia is to let price gouging do its very worst, as it will get all the people who don’t want to pay the prices out of the market and let the stations re-stock. And I’m sure all sorts of workplaces will be quite understanding that their workers can’t come into work today because gas is $8 a gallon and it’s just too expensive for anyone to drive in, or even carpool.
In the science realms, pictures of robots that can do all sorts of things, and look good at it. Leave it to the Japanese to think asthetically and functionally. Plus, Phoenix detected snow falling in the Martian atmosphere. It’s beginning to look like if we ever can generate the tools neded to sustain, bolster, or generate a Hume-type atmosphere, Mars is where we’re test-firing it. Planetary landers may have robots scouting out the best place to touch down, so that later missions set down smoothly. They might be carried on private rockets, as SpaceX proudly declares it has launched a private rocket into orbit around the planet.
Additionally, microscopic imaging that may not destroy or damage delicate biological things, examples of excellent use of CSS to generate beautiful typography, the anatomy of malware that preys on people's fear of malware,
Last for tonight, really cute pencil cases - again, the Japanese eye for asthetics and functionality. Eel on the menu at the reported Last Supper of Jesus?
But most importantly, and the very last point, vote for love. We’ve had more than enough people voting to prevent people from loving. Why not do some positive voting for a change? And instead of punishing and denying your friendships to follow an arbitrary set of guidelines and rules, why not do more to cultivate good friendships and relationships, no matter who they’re with? Google has officially spoken out against California Proposition 8, another of the "marriage-defining" amendments, because of the chilling and discriminatory effect it has on the people, in addition to vaguely worded language.
So lets vote for love.
