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No rest for the working - 05 October 2008
Oct. 5th, 2008 04:55 pmUrgh. I'm kind of alternatingly proud and worried about my job in terms of the amount of microorganisms I come in contact with. Proud because I joke that the librarian immune system is superior to many others around, because we see so much of the populace and their children, with all the bugs they have. Worried because the public library might be one of the world's easiest disease vectors, especially for the kind that delay somewhat before lashing out and flooring those infected. Yes, I'm saying this because I have a stuffed nose. Those usually aren't show-stoppers, but I wonder how many of us would keep going to work unless we were laid out flat and could get up and physically go to work. Blargh. Just trying to keep myself well-stocked on defense/attack items so that the cold passes quickly and with minimal risk of infection to others. Thankfully, I have the day off tomorrow, too, so I can spend much time convalescing... assuming I get all the work at home done, too.
As things draw to a close on Banned Books Week, a reminder that books are dangerous things in both the right and the wrong hands, but nobody's hands should be used to restrict access to those books. And besides, the library can be a pretty wild place...at least in the movies.
Internationally, Asghanistan still has a long way to go on women's rights, to the point where women are still routinely executed for doing just about anything with their lives.
A suggestion that terrorist organizations are not primarily political groups, but social ones, based on how they operate and how they often fail to meet political goals.
Plans were set in motion to broadcast a BBC announcement in case the country had been hit with nuclear weapons, according to new material available in the UK National Archives. The importance of the BBC in people's lives, but also the possibility to leading that the BBC had been destroyed in some manner left it as a "better-than-nothing" solution.
Young child evades security systems, stones animals, feeds them to crocodiles at zoo. The child is too young to be held criminally accountable, so the zoo is looking into bringing suit against the parents. I'd keep a serious eye on that child to see what other tendencies might be developing, and whether they can be arrested or changed in time.
Domestically, our own shine through with a mother who left her three children, all under 5, in the car while she went in to go shopping. The only possibly good thing going for her is that she left the windows down some. Might work for the pets, but definitely not for the children.
More reasons why bailout plans aren't the best for the people, putting some blame on the prosperity gospel for the credit crisis, trusting in God to pay things of Caesar, more negotiations for buying, including Wells Fargo attempting to take over Wachovia, and Kimberly Strassel trying to paint a Republican who voted for the bailout as being unfairly harangued by liberals and conservatives alike, when this really was part of the deal when he signed on to be a politician, "leadership" or no.
Talking candidates, apparently Governor Palin had a third e-mail account she used for official communication off her official accounts. For her eerie similarities to other members of the current administration, The General has demonstrated the new balance of power in the government, in a handy diagram. Beyond that, reservations about Governor Palin's actual pro-lifeness, based on how her hunting technique has no real respect for the prey, seeing the campaigns as a struggle between getting the vote out and suppressing as much of the vote as possible, and someone actually believes that Sarah Palin is getting such negative press because women are just bitchy and hateful toward her, because she's pretty, and confident, and not at all because her and Senator McCain's policies would make most women worse off than they were before her. Worse, other people appear to be buying this line of thinking. So much so that they're still trying to convince the populace that Sarah Palin is perfect and a true feminist, but those angry woman-hating liberals are trying to demonize her because she supports "life" and not abortion. Abortion may be the crystallizing focus-point of the idea of choice, but that's because the other side has been trying to take that choice away from them. If the government were to rule on mandated abortions and sterilizations for some part of the populace, in a eugenics manner, then one would think the pro-choice part of life would be stridently against that, as well, because it's about choosing whether or not to have the child, not having that choice taken away.
It doesn't help, either, that Sarah Palin is repeating debunked claims and lying to her base, in documentable manners, and has done so repeatedly, as well as misquoting a Secretary of State to put a new meaning on the statement, changing "help" to "support" in the quote so it read "There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women" instead of "help other women", a radically different meaning. Hopefully, the Governor will correct herself, but it's unlikely - after all, as seen above with the "those who don't support me as a woman are traitors to women" reasoning, it's much better to call them out on their lack of support than to have them call you out on your lack of willingness to help.
Senator Obama, for all the claims of his post-racial status, often finds that his supporters have to talk race in certain parts of the country, trying to convince the voting populace there that his race is a tiny thing compared to all the policy things that his opponent will do. The attitude, however, is pretty widespread - and in places you might not normally guess, as in a Florida middle school teacher using the word "nigger" in a pejorative context to describe Senator Obama. The teacher was not immediately sacked from his position for doing so, but suspended. John Hawkins believes America had a dearth of common sense, and that's what's leading to our downfall, starting in economic matters, where he might find a lot of nodding heads, but then going into social issues like homosexual marriage, single-payer health care, and other liberal staples as further examples of how we've lost our common sense. And Lorie Byrd does her very level best to try and paint the Obama presidency and a Democratically-controlled Congress as a nightmare scenario, with liberalism running rampant and unchecked, liberal Supreme Court Justices, and all with the patented Obama way of doing things by raising taxes on everyone to pay for his spending programs, all under the apparently thin veil of fixing what's gone wrong with the country in the last few years. Truthfully, I think the voting populace would line up behind anyone who could convince them he would change things, and in this election, Senator Obama is doing a much better job of it than Senator McCain.
In SCIENCE, aiming to generate full-color e-paper, a couple building robots, Starship Dimensions, for those questions of whether an Earth Alliance destroyer is bigger than the Imperial Starship Destroyer, pitting real and virtual pilots against each other, and the effects of overhyping medicine on socialized medicine programs.
Last for tonight, Stormtrooper, meet hooded sweatshirt, matchbox advertisements, and... Kung Fu Election?
As things draw to a close on Banned Books Week, a reminder that books are dangerous things in both the right and the wrong hands, but nobody's hands should be used to restrict access to those books. And besides, the library can be a pretty wild place...at least in the movies.
Internationally, Asghanistan still has a long way to go on women's rights, to the point where women are still routinely executed for doing just about anything with their lives.
A suggestion that terrorist organizations are not primarily political groups, but social ones, based on how they operate and how they often fail to meet political goals.
Plans were set in motion to broadcast a BBC announcement in case the country had been hit with nuclear weapons, according to new material available in the UK National Archives. The importance of the BBC in people's lives, but also the possibility to leading that the BBC had been destroyed in some manner left it as a "better-than-nothing" solution.
Young child evades security systems, stones animals, feeds them to crocodiles at zoo. The child is too young to be held criminally accountable, so the zoo is looking into bringing suit against the parents. I'd keep a serious eye on that child to see what other tendencies might be developing, and whether they can be arrested or changed in time.
Domestically, our own shine through with a mother who left her three children, all under 5, in the car while she went in to go shopping. The only possibly good thing going for her is that she left the windows down some. Might work for the pets, but definitely not for the children.
More reasons why bailout plans aren't the best for the people, putting some blame on the prosperity gospel for the credit crisis, trusting in God to pay things of Caesar, more negotiations for buying, including Wells Fargo attempting to take over Wachovia, and Kimberly Strassel trying to paint a Republican who voted for the bailout as being unfairly harangued by liberals and conservatives alike, when this really was part of the deal when he signed on to be a politician, "leadership" or no.
Talking candidates, apparently Governor Palin had a third e-mail account she used for official communication off her official accounts. For her eerie similarities to other members of the current administration, The General has demonstrated the new balance of power in the government, in a handy diagram. Beyond that, reservations about Governor Palin's actual pro-lifeness, based on how her hunting technique has no real respect for the prey, seeing the campaigns as a struggle between getting the vote out and suppressing as much of the vote as possible, and someone actually believes that Sarah Palin is getting such negative press because women are just bitchy and hateful toward her, because she's pretty, and confident, and not at all because her and Senator McCain's policies would make most women worse off than they were before her. Worse, other people appear to be buying this line of thinking. So much so that they're still trying to convince the populace that Sarah Palin is perfect and a true feminist, but those angry woman-hating liberals are trying to demonize her because she supports "life" and not abortion. Abortion may be the crystallizing focus-point of the idea of choice, but that's because the other side has been trying to take that choice away from them. If the government were to rule on mandated abortions and sterilizations for some part of the populace, in a eugenics manner, then one would think the pro-choice part of life would be stridently against that, as well, because it's about choosing whether or not to have the child, not having that choice taken away.
It doesn't help, either, that Sarah Palin is repeating debunked claims and lying to her base, in documentable manners, and has done so repeatedly, as well as misquoting a Secretary of State to put a new meaning on the statement, changing "help" to "support" in the quote so it read "There's a special place in hell for women who don't support other women" instead of "help other women", a radically different meaning. Hopefully, the Governor will correct herself, but it's unlikely - after all, as seen above with the "those who don't support me as a woman are traitors to women" reasoning, it's much better to call them out on their lack of support than to have them call you out on your lack of willingness to help.
Senator Obama, for all the claims of his post-racial status, often finds that his supporters have to talk race in certain parts of the country, trying to convince the voting populace there that his race is a tiny thing compared to all the policy things that his opponent will do. The attitude, however, is pretty widespread - and in places you might not normally guess, as in a Florida middle school teacher using the word "nigger" in a pejorative context to describe Senator Obama. The teacher was not immediately sacked from his position for doing so, but suspended. John Hawkins believes America had a dearth of common sense, and that's what's leading to our downfall, starting in economic matters, where he might find a lot of nodding heads, but then going into social issues like homosexual marriage, single-payer health care, and other liberal staples as further examples of how we've lost our common sense. And Lorie Byrd does her very level best to try and paint the Obama presidency and a Democratically-controlled Congress as a nightmare scenario, with liberalism running rampant and unchecked, liberal Supreme Court Justices, and all with the patented Obama way of doing things by raising taxes on everyone to pay for his spending programs, all under the apparently thin veil of fixing what's gone wrong with the country in the last few years. Truthfully, I think the voting populace would line up behind anyone who could convince them he would change things, and in this election, Senator Obama is doing a much better job of it than Senator McCain.
In SCIENCE, aiming to generate full-color e-paper, a couple building robots, Starship Dimensions, for those questions of whether an Earth Alliance destroyer is bigger than the Imperial Starship Destroyer, pitting real and virtual pilots against each other, and the effects of overhyping medicine on socialized medicine programs.
Last for tonight, Stormtrooper, meet hooded sweatshirt, matchbox advertisements, and... Kung Fu Election?
