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There and gone again - 22 October 2008
Oct. 22nd, 2008 05:42 pmBallot sent. Civic duty complete, assuming it gets there on time, in time, and is then counted rather than being challenged or invalidated.
Internationally, the Borneo of reality is not the Borneo of dreams. If the palm oil rush slows, though, and the government manages to decorrupt, there might still be some left. Considering according to an EU study, the costs of deforestation are bigger than even the current bank bailout, prudence might be that saving forest is saving money. So it might mean widespread adoption of nuclear energy, and figuring out how to make the Urban Tumbleweeds smaller.
India has launched its first lunar probe, designed to orbit the Moon and compile a three-dimensional atlas of Luna, and then plant the national flag of the country on Luna's surface. More nations join the space race. No wonder some are in a hurry to weaponize the place and try and gain or maintain some sort of control over access to the outer limits.
Airstrike hits target in Afghanistan. Problem? Target was Afghan army checkpoint. Case of mistaken identity means firefight and then airstrike. They're looking into how to avoid repeating such a mistake.
Incentives not to send someone to the hospital? I feel like there's more to this story than what's reported. Why would such a thing like this come into existence? It's not like the UK would have a situation where someone waited 19 hours in emergency for a broken leg, left without actually seeing a doctor, and was charged $162 for the experience, like someone in Dallas did.
Domestically, Is the idea of the American Dream, with lots of wealth and lots of stuff, unsustainable and impossible to achieve?
Bad journalism is awful - after spending a third of the article setting up San Francisco as a den of vice, villainy, and sadomasochism, talk about Proposition K and the problems that it has, which would be to stop police pursuance of prostitution cases in the city, while not actually legalizing it nor necessarily providing protective measures for sex workers or continuing investigations into sex trafficking.
In politics, faced with the prospect of a Democratic supermajority in the Senate, the GOP is making a big noise about the evils of one-party rule, conservative outlets note that the NYT's war coverage in Iraq has fallen off, and confuse correlation with causation by saying it must be due to the success of the "surge", and furthermore feel that the words "islamist" and "jihad" are necessary items for the discourse, rather than softer, more nuanced terms.
Almost half of the voting populace surveyed bought the idea that ACORN is deliberately trying to register illegal voters, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll. Which does not actually mean they are, but that the message being hammered by conservatives is being listened to by some. Speaking of polls, though, in all cases, trust, but verify. The polls are good if read correctly.
Regarding candidates, In Chesterfield County, Virginia, an Obama supporter's signs were stolen and replaced with a Confederate flag. My memory is probably failing me (and I might go back in my own news archives to look), but I don't think the last campaign had anything near this level of deliberate attacks (or they weren't reported). Even worse, when Muslim supporters of John McCain went after more radical supporters who claimed Senator Obama was both a communist and a radical Muslim, bombarding them ith counterarguments and fliers until they left, the McCain campaign apparently forbade them from talking to CNN about the matter. Whether that's the McCain campaign trying to bury instances that some of its supporters may be racists or religiously prejudiced or the McCain campaign trying to squelch the idea that there are moderates who aren't racist or religiously prejudiced, I don't know.
Senator Biden warned that the next president (Barack Obama, in his esteemed opinion) would be tested by a crisis when he was in office, which is a proper headline, rather than CNS's attempt - "Obama Campaign Tries to Soften Biden’s Warning -- About Obama", which tries to twist the Senator's words into saying that he thought Senator Obama would precipitate a crisis when he came into office, through his own machinations and policies. Rather than, say, being handed another financial institution's collapse to deal with. Yet another familiar line of attack comes from Thomas Sowell - we don't know anything about the real Barack Obama. All we have is the carefully constructed liar whose actual record betrays him as the dictatorial wannabe he is. And it's so apparent in the way he handled Joe the Plumber's bitingly incisive question that he doesn't care about "everyman" and really just wants to impose his rule on all of us.
There's a little crowing about how Senator Obama's plan to make diplomatic discussions with hostile nations won't work because the hostile nations have their list of preconditions, as if that somehow hurts Senator Obama's ability to meet with them if they want to.
Neal Boortz writes a long piece about all the reasons why he won't vote for Senator Obama, tying in a lot of the narratives and attacks of the Republican Party into one neat package supposedly addressed to the undecided voter. Micheael Medved sticks to myths conservatives have about how an OBama presidency wouldn't be that bad for them, in an attempt to get the apathetic up and out voting.
Oh, and because Senator Obama outraises Senator McCain, that's a source of contention and accusation that Senator Obama promised to abide by federal funding if his opponent did, when the Senator only promised to try and work out an agreement on the matter... so Republican supporters are grousing that money is buying the election.
Ben Shapiro has a conservative-based checklist to see if you're an elitist, and thus not part of "the rest of us" and Not A Real American.
For those looking for a break from Seriuz Poltiks, the presidential and vice-presidential candidate Halloween masks. Better than all the people I see around wearing Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon masks. Although I do recall someone at a new Year's party with the Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln masks on and bikini briefs. Rather pasty dead guys.
For those looking for a laugh, try this message about the need to break "African witchcraft" cast on John McCain to make him look addled and slow. The message itself is pretty incoherent, throwing up everything it can and trying to see if something sticks.
In technology, the possibility of anonymous e-cards sent saying "Uh, I have an STD, and now you might, too", sneakers that generate power as the user walks, a green light for magnetic brain therapy to help depression, and the serious situation that happened when someone found how to break DNS and exploit it - luckily, a good guy rather than a malicious one.
And, for those adventurous, Installing MacOS X on a PC using a basically cracked copy of the installer.
On the late runs, Kaiju anatomical drawings, in case you wondered how Gojira's guts are all aligned.
Last for tonight, embracing paradox to make oneself more happy.
Internationally, the Borneo of reality is not the Borneo of dreams. If the palm oil rush slows, though, and the government manages to decorrupt, there might still be some left. Considering according to an EU study, the costs of deforestation are bigger than even the current bank bailout, prudence might be that saving forest is saving money. So it might mean widespread adoption of nuclear energy, and figuring out how to make the Urban Tumbleweeds smaller.
India has launched its first lunar probe, designed to orbit the Moon and compile a three-dimensional atlas of Luna, and then plant the national flag of the country on Luna's surface. More nations join the space race. No wonder some are in a hurry to weaponize the place and try and gain or maintain some sort of control over access to the outer limits.
Airstrike hits target in Afghanistan. Problem? Target was Afghan army checkpoint. Case of mistaken identity means firefight and then airstrike. They're looking into how to avoid repeating such a mistake.
Incentives not to send someone to the hospital? I feel like there's more to this story than what's reported. Why would such a thing like this come into existence? It's not like the UK would have a situation where someone waited 19 hours in emergency for a broken leg, left without actually seeing a doctor, and was charged $162 for the experience, like someone in Dallas did.
Domestically, Is the idea of the American Dream, with lots of wealth and lots of stuff, unsustainable and impossible to achieve?
Bad journalism is awful - after spending a third of the article setting up San Francisco as a den of vice, villainy, and sadomasochism, talk about Proposition K and the problems that it has, which would be to stop police pursuance of prostitution cases in the city, while not actually legalizing it nor necessarily providing protective measures for sex workers or continuing investigations into sex trafficking.
In politics, faced with the prospect of a Democratic supermajority in the Senate, the GOP is making a big noise about the evils of one-party rule, conservative outlets note that the NYT's war coverage in Iraq has fallen off, and confuse correlation with causation by saying it must be due to the success of the "surge", and furthermore feel that the words "islamist" and "jihad" are necessary items for the discourse, rather than softer, more nuanced terms.
Almost half of the voting populace surveyed bought the idea that ACORN is deliberately trying to register illegal voters, according to a Rasmussen Reports poll. Which does not actually mean they are, but that the message being hammered by conservatives is being listened to by some. Speaking of polls, though, in all cases, trust, but verify. The polls are good if read correctly.
Regarding candidates, In Chesterfield County, Virginia, an Obama supporter's signs were stolen and replaced with a Confederate flag. My memory is probably failing me (and I might go back in my own news archives to look), but I don't think the last campaign had anything near this level of deliberate attacks (or they weren't reported). Even worse, when Muslim supporters of John McCain went after more radical supporters who claimed Senator Obama was both a communist and a radical Muslim, bombarding them ith counterarguments and fliers until they left, the McCain campaign apparently forbade them from talking to CNN about the matter. Whether that's the McCain campaign trying to bury instances that some of its supporters may be racists or religiously prejudiced or the McCain campaign trying to squelch the idea that there are moderates who aren't racist or religiously prejudiced, I don't know.
Senator Biden warned that the next president (Barack Obama, in his esteemed opinion) would be tested by a crisis when he was in office, which is a proper headline, rather than CNS's attempt - "Obama Campaign Tries to Soften Biden’s Warning -- About Obama", which tries to twist the Senator's words into saying that he thought Senator Obama would precipitate a crisis when he came into office, through his own machinations and policies. Rather than, say, being handed another financial institution's collapse to deal with. Yet another familiar line of attack comes from Thomas Sowell - we don't know anything about the real Barack Obama. All we have is the carefully constructed liar whose actual record betrays him as the dictatorial wannabe he is. And it's so apparent in the way he handled Joe the Plumber's bitingly incisive question that he doesn't care about "everyman" and really just wants to impose his rule on all of us.
There's a little crowing about how Senator Obama's plan to make diplomatic discussions with hostile nations won't work because the hostile nations have their list of preconditions, as if that somehow hurts Senator Obama's ability to meet with them if they want to.
Neal Boortz writes a long piece about all the reasons why he won't vote for Senator Obama, tying in a lot of the narratives and attacks of the Republican Party into one neat package supposedly addressed to the undecided voter. Micheael Medved sticks to myths conservatives have about how an OBama presidency wouldn't be that bad for them, in an attempt to get the apathetic up and out voting.
Oh, and because Senator Obama outraises Senator McCain, that's a source of contention and accusation that Senator Obama promised to abide by federal funding if his opponent did, when the Senator only promised to try and work out an agreement on the matter... so Republican supporters are grousing that money is buying the election.
Ben Shapiro has a conservative-based checklist to see if you're an elitist, and thus not part of "the rest of us" and Not A Real American.
For those looking for a break from Seriuz Poltiks, the presidential and vice-presidential candidate Halloween masks. Better than all the people I see around wearing Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon masks. Although I do recall someone at a new Year's party with the Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln masks on and bikini briefs. Rather pasty dead guys.
For those looking for a laugh, try this message about the need to break "African witchcraft" cast on John McCain to make him look addled and slow. The message itself is pretty incoherent, throwing up everything it can and trying to see if something sticks.
In technology, the possibility of anonymous e-cards sent saying "Uh, I have an STD, and now you might, too", sneakers that generate power as the user walks, a green light for magnetic brain therapy to help depression, and the serious situation that happened when someone found how to break DNS and exploit it - luckily, a good guy rather than a malicious one.
And, for those adventurous, Installing MacOS X on a PC using a basically cracked copy of the installer.
On the late runs, Kaiju anatomical drawings, in case you wondered how Gojira's guts are all aligned.
Last for tonight, embracing paradox to make oneself more happy.
