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31 Oct Backdate
Oct. 31st, 2008 10:58 pmIt’s Samhain, or All Hallow’s Eve, or Halloween, or Candy and Costumes Day, however you want to look at it, and most of this data is superceded.
Before we start the news, I, as a person in a relationship (or planning on being in one) have zero wish to see marriage “protected” by persons who cluelessly think that permitting homosexuals, persons of different races or religions, groupings of more than two persons under one contract, or any other “weird” or “unnatural” grouping of people is somehow damaging the sanctity of their religious ceremonies. Even though I don’t live in California or any of the other states that have marriage-defining amendments up this election, I’m still not happy that Michigan passed theirs and that the federal DOMA exists. The fewer states that add this to their constitutions, the less work undoing this in the age where people feel that it’s unfair and discriminatory to deny people the benefits of the marriage contract (or the age where the first Court decision that finds in favor of recognizing those marriages across states lines or with the federal government).
Also, if you’re an American, vote, damn your eyes. As much as I hate Turd Blossom, he&apos right on this thing: Polls can be wrong, and have been the last two elections.
On the international stage, Uh, ma? There's a cheetah in the garden. That’s not the only weird thing - the road signs in Wales have been spouting some translation errors. It came back in Welsh, and so they thought that was the translation. As it turns out, it was the out-of-office message, instead.
The UN Secretary General has urged Lebanon's neighbors to support Hezbollah's transformation from a militant faction to a political party. In Iraq, thirteen down, five to go. At this rate, Iraqi control might be achieved by the end of 2011 that's being discusssed in the Status of Forces Agreement. Oil prices are affecting the Iraqi draft budget, though, so maybe they’ll want us to stay on a bit more so that payroll doesn’t crush them. Additionaly, a Human Interest story showing that doctors in the military save the lives of the populace around them. Hippocrates would be proud.
The world is at least somewhat as interested in our election as we are, and if the world had their say, Senator Obama would be a clear winner over Senator McCain.
As things head down the stretch into the final parts of the election, I think I may have dinally found the most impressive campaign posters of the sequence (and they’re nonpartisan), namely American Presidential Wrestling (scroll down), and American Vice Presidential Wrestling.
Domestically, Senator Stevens denies he's a convicted felon, because his appeals have not been exhausted.
Ryan Beiler at God's Politics offers a "Letter from Bush's 2008" looking back to 2000 as a response to Dobson's 2012 letter from the Obama presidency, using what has already occurred to us under the current administrator as his backdrop for dropping off a letter back in time. Perhaps he would also for in favor of Proposition R, approved by the city of San Francisco, that would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant in honor of the current administrator.
Time for some uncomfortable juxtaposition. Economy: Down 0.3%. ExxonMobil: record profits.
While claiming the flags are nonpolitical, it does make for an interesting pairing to be able to see a Confederate flag, a U.S. flag, and an Obama sign all in the same photograph.
An interesting conundrum - a North Carolina woman sent her absentee ballot in the mail about an hour before she passed away. Now, I wonder whether the state can legally count her vote, because she was alive at the time she cast the ballot, or whether she has to be alive at the point the ballot is received by the state for it to count.
In the opinions, A voting guide for those who don't want to vote for wither the Democrat or the Republican - the libertarian-anarchist choice is the Green Party candidate, but there are several others for whom you can cast a vote, so that your vote is a reflection of your true opinion, not because you feel that you would [Kodos] throw your vote away [/Kodos].
Red State Socialism? Apparently, the blue states pay in more than they receive, and the red states get more than they put in. Redistribution of wealth? Absolutely not. Necessariy federal spending, absolutlely. The point may be lost, though, as according to Frederick Kagan, we should be voting solely on security, both domestic and international, instead of on economics, and so this makes a neat sideshow, but is certainly not the thing we need to concentrate most on. If education is your issue, though, Joseph Rago lays out what he finds to be the important parts of both candidates' education plans.
John Fund on making the case that ACORN is a despicable organization, with embezzlers, no real quality control, and whistleblowers about the group’s real operations. Only in the beginning does he say “And Barack Obama has ties to ACORN, so because of that, he’s also a despicable person.”, which is a pretty big jump to conclusions.
Talking the candidates specifically, watch a conclusion - that Senator Obama feels judges should side with the powerless over the powerful - appear out of thin air. What was said was that the Senator, in opposing Samuel Alito’s confirmation, said that he found Alito’s reading of the Constitution to side disproportionately with the powerful against the powerles. What that has apparently turned into, however, is the Senator saying that he wants judges who will legislate from the bench and who will blindly do the opposite of what Alito did and always find against the government or corporations. If you accuse someone of bias, it must mean that you are biased in the opposite direction. With Senator Obama, though, accusations that he is a blank slate, relecting whatever people project him to be is just as common an accusation through the campaign time than the heavy hard-line liberal socialist who wants acticist judges line. The overarching narrative, of course is the terrorist-endorsed, media-fellated, too dangerous to lead, and too inexperienced to recognize the real threats line.
Senator McCain's health plans, especially his deregulation attitude, will likely impact women in a bad way - their birth control, or their insurance entirely, may stop being covered. Upping the ante (or at least staying on that same level), Governor Palin has said she feels her First Amendment rights are threatened by those who call her attack style negative.
At the end of our candidate matters, a reassurance. People can, indeed, say nice things about the person they are not voting for. This is important, because it means that when not needled in such a way to think negatively about the opposition, peopel still do fundamentally respect each other and the candidates. It’s not past the pale. It is not to the point where serious consideration will be given to the person writing that Obama losing will spark another civil war.
Technology: programmable stable molecular clock, SmartInsulin, that can sense when its needed and release lots, and sense the correction and taper off, and nanobots that can traverse even tiny blood vessels.
Also, a museum trip, stopping at a shoe museum, a hand fan museum, a museum of bags and purses, another hand fan museum, a handkerchief museum, one mroe hand fan museum, and a hat museum. All toured out? Let’s move on, then.
At the end, short apocalyptic fiction contest. 500 words or less. $20 prize. Good start to NaNoWriMo? Maybe. Go write. And pay no attention at all to those hordes who feel that women writers should spend their time on other pursuits and give up writing, because they can’t imagine the posibility of a successful woman writer writing under her own name, believing that there just aren’t too many good women writers.
Before we start the news, I, as a person in a relationship (or planning on being in one) have zero wish to see marriage “protected” by persons who cluelessly think that permitting homosexuals, persons of different races or religions, groupings of more than two persons under one contract, or any other “weird” or “unnatural” grouping of people is somehow damaging the sanctity of their religious ceremonies. Even though I don’t live in California or any of the other states that have marriage-defining amendments up this election, I’m still not happy that Michigan passed theirs and that the federal DOMA exists. The fewer states that add this to their constitutions, the less work undoing this in the age where people feel that it’s unfair and discriminatory to deny people the benefits of the marriage contract (or the age where the first Court decision that finds in favor of recognizing those marriages across states lines or with the federal government).
Also, if you’re an American, vote, damn your eyes. As much as I hate Turd Blossom, he&apos right on this thing: Polls can be wrong, and have been the last two elections.
On the international stage, Uh, ma? There's a cheetah in the garden. That’s not the only weird thing - the road signs in Wales have been spouting some translation errors. It came back in Welsh, and so they thought that was the translation. As it turns out, it was the out-of-office message, instead.
The UN Secretary General has urged Lebanon's neighbors to support Hezbollah's transformation from a militant faction to a political party. In Iraq, thirteen down, five to go. At this rate, Iraqi control might be achieved by the end of 2011 that's being discusssed in the Status of Forces Agreement. Oil prices are affecting the Iraqi draft budget, though, so maybe they’ll want us to stay on a bit more so that payroll doesn’t crush them. Additionaly, a Human Interest story showing that doctors in the military save the lives of the populace around them. Hippocrates would be proud.
The world is at least somewhat as interested in our election as we are, and if the world had their say, Senator Obama would be a clear winner over Senator McCain.
As things head down the stretch into the final parts of the election, I think I may have dinally found the most impressive campaign posters of the sequence (and they’re nonpartisan), namely American Presidential Wrestling (scroll down), and American Vice Presidential Wrestling.
Domestically, Senator Stevens denies he's a convicted felon, because his appeals have not been exhausted.
Ryan Beiler at God's Politics offers a "Letter from Bush's 2008" looking back to 2000 as a response to Dobson's 2012 letter from the Obama presidency, using what has already occurred to us under the current administrator as his backdrop for dropping off a letter back in time. Perhaps he would also for in favor of Proposition R, approved by the city of San Francisco, that would rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant in honor of the current administrator.
Time for some uncomfortable juxtaposition. Economy: Down 0.3%. ExxonMobil: record profits.
While claiming the flags are nonpolitical, it does make for an interesting pairing to be able to see a Confederate flag, a U.S. flag, and an Obama sign all in the same photograph.
An interesting conundrum - a North Carolina woman sent her absentee ballot in the mail about an hour before she passed away. Now, I wonder whether the state can legally count her vote, because she was alive at the time she cast the ballot, or whether she has to be alive at the point the ballot is received by the state for it to count.
In the opinions, A voting guide for those who don't want to vote for wither the Democrat or the Republican - the libertarian-anarchist choice is the Green Party candidate, but there are several others for whom you can cast a vote, so that your vote is a reflection of your true opinion, not because you feel that you would [Kodos] throw your vote away [/Kodos].
Red State Socialism? Apparently, the blue states pay in more than they receive, and the red states get more than they put in. Redistribution of wealth? Absolutely not. Necessariy federal spending, absolutlely. The point may be lost, though, as according to Frederick Kagan, we should be voting solely on security, both domestic and international, instead of on economics, and so this makes a neat sideshow, but is certainly not the thing we need to concentrate most on. If education is your issue, though, Joseph Rago lays out what he finds to be the important parts of both candidates' education plans.
John Fund on making the case that ACORN is a despicable organization, with embezzlers, no real quality control, and whistleblowers about the group’s real operations. Only in the beginning does he say “And Barack Obama has ties to ACORN, so because of that, he’s also a despicable person.”, which is a pretty big jump to conclusions.
Talking the candidates specifically, watch a conclusion - that Senator Obama feels judges should side with the powerless over the powerful - appear out of thin air. What was said was that the Senator, in opposing Samuel Alito’s confirmation, said that he found Alito’s reading of the Constitution to side disproportionately with the powerful against the powerles. What that has apparently turned into, however, is the Senator saying that he wants judges who will legislate from the bench and who will blindly do the opposite of what Alito did and always find against the government or corporations. If you accuse someone of bias, it must mean that you are biased in the opposite direction. With Senator Obama, though, accusations that he is a blank slate, relecting whatever people project him to be is just as common an accusation through the campaign time than the heavy hard-line liberal socialist who wants acticist judges line. The overarching narrative, of course is the terrorist-endorsed, media-fellated, too dangerous to lead, and too inexperienced to recognize the real threats line.
Senator McCain's health plans, especially his deregulation attitude, will likely impact women in a bad way - their birth control, or their insurance entirely, may stop being covered. Upping the ante (or at least staying on that same level), Governor Palin has said she feels her First Amendment rights are threatened by those who call her attack style negative.
At the end of our candidate matters, a reassurance. People can, indeed, say nice things about the person they are not voting for. This is important, because it means that when not needled in such a way to think negatively about the opposition, peopel still do fundamentally respect each other and the candidates. It’s not past the pale. It is not to the point where serious consideration will be given to the person writing that Obama losing will spark another civil war.
Technology: programmable stable molecular clock, SmartInsulin, that can sense when its needed and release lots, and sense the correction and taper off, and nanobots that can traverse even tiny blood vessels.
Also, a museum trip, stopping at a shoe museum, a hand fan museum, a museum of bags and purses, another hand fan museum, a handkerchief museum, one mroe hand fan museum, and a hat museum. All toured out? Let’s move on, then.
At the end, short apocalyptic fiction contest. 500 words or less. $20 prize. Good start to NaNoWriMo? Maybe. Go write. And pay no attention at all to those hordes who feel that women writers should spend their time on other pursuits and give up writing, because they can’t imagine the posibility of a successful woman writer writing under her own name, believing that there just aren’t too many good women writers.
