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Day Plus One - 05 November 2008
Nov. 5th, 2008 11:50 pmUp top, no, not the election, but the end of Opus, who has been a good companion along the way, whether as Bloom County, Outland, or Opus. And some souvenir designs, because, really, if people want to take a day off politics, they’re entitled. Just don’t forget it’s also Guy Fawkes Night.
Internationally, The Danish courts must decide whether the government has standing to give the boot to squatters on a very old navy base that have been there for more than thirty years.
A Cabinet minister in Iran was ousted after confirmation that his degree from Oxford was faked. You don’t lie in a situation like that - they will find you eventually.
The FCC has opened up the segments of spectrum in between conventional braodcast channels, known as "white space", for commercial use, potentially leading to the development of higher bandwidth and farther reaching wireless access.
Michael Crichton, author of "Jurassic Park", "The Andromeda Strain" and other science fiction novels, has dies at 66.
As one might guess, considering the significant amount of jubilation or desperation in the streets of where you are, Senator Barack Obama is the victor in the 2008 United States Presidential election, according to projections (and soon to be according to the actual count.) This, done somewhat cheerily, despite all the waiting. He is also apparently moving pretty quickly, selecting Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.
The Obama victory generates lots of moods, from relief at the knowledge of the end of the Republican Party's rule for these eight years, that those who have spelling difficulties on "terrorist" are not in power, and neither are those who will not refer to abortion clinic bombers as domestic terrorists. There are a lot of happy feelings on the liberal side. For the first time in eight (or more) years, optimism runs high on what the country can do. Also, the obvious mention of African-Americans celebrating the election of the first African-American president. Of course, there are also letters to the new president on how to get re-elected: Do what you promised and fix things.
In the other major liberal issue of the night, Proposition 8, in California, at this point, it looks like it has passed, narrowly At least, that's assuming that percentages stay as they are. Which leaves the liberals watching shaking their heads again and wondering why that keeps happening, even after electing the Democratic president, as well as planning for the next step by challenging the legality of the amendment. Although there isn’t much for hope in that, the fact that the discrimination is on display and being fought in the open, rather than being closeted, is better than it was. And, there are celebrities now who can openly say that they found the passage of the proposition astounding, rather than having to weep silent tears. Progress, slow, but progress. I suppose.
Although, by some line of reasoning, the passage of Proposition Eight may require the doom of all marriages, hetero- and homosexual, because the ruling by which the homosexual marriages were permitted has not been significantly disrupted nor defeated. And thus, to bring California into compliance with the law, equality will be enforced... to the lowest common denominator, rather than attempting to be less disrupting and bring the unequal up to the rest.
Feministing has a rundown on how all the anti-homosexual, anti-choice, anti-equality initiatives and amendments have gone. Most of the anti-homosexual ones have passed, the anti-choice failed, and the anti-equality ones have passed (although jury’s still out on one, as of when this was written).
In what may very well be ephemera now, A former Senator had his ballot challenged by an election official, claiming that his residence was really in a different state than the one he tried to vote in, media outlets have spent twice as much on covering President-elect Obama as they have Senator McCain, but the protracted primary fight and higher fees charged by the Obama campaign may be skewing the numbers pretty hard, so that charges of media favoritism by spending may very well be overblown. Besides, there are still going to be people who think that we'sve done George W. Bush wrong for the last several years, and who are certain, still, that Senator Obama has run his entire campaign on false pretenses, and will now spring all sorts of scary liberal things on the populace that will make us weak, mess up our ability to catch those who hate America, and turn us into a radically socialist state while still maintaining the pretense of a free market.
And, now that I think about it, complaints about the economy and political plans for Democrats will continue unabated, including commentary on the economy and what not to do to make the downturn worse, both from conservatives and from prominent liberal voices, and the tenor of things will probably change to the question of whether the Democrats be able to govern effectively, now that they have both hosues of the legislature and the Presidency. Or complaining about the way that the liberals will enshrine as official curriculum that America, and more specifically, white America, are oppressive, classist, sexist, racist homophobes. Might be worthwhile, though, if they can kick out the style of thinking that takes a fifth grader's Halloween art as a gang sign.
Truth be told, though, I think![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
arcana_j has a point. So long as half the country is scared stiff by nonexistent bogeymen that are supposedly their countrypeople, distracted from their duties by frivolities, and told that unless they fear and have faith in a being that gets angry at the drop of a hat, progress cannot be achieved.
At the end of this political section, the obvious - while conservatism may fall down and make an windows-rattling THUMP as it hits the canvas, they're not down and out, and they're not going anywhere. And, now that it’s over, we’ll get to see what went down in the campaigns that was kept secret and that might have had profound influence on the voters. Including Senator Obama apparently dropping an F-bomb.
Of course, prejudice isn’t just based on race, religion, or orientation. Weight and body shape often are a source of still-tolerated prejudices, because the assumption is that those who are big are lazy, have no control, and could magically fix themselves with effort.
Fred Phelps hates lots of things, his son included, to the point of violence, according to the account of Nate Phelps, the son. And his sister (or someone with the name that can speak appropriately like her) shows up as the first comment to condemn him. Throwing stones at the adulterers is the job of the sinless, as I recall.
Elsewhere in the news, rapist shot when he attempts to repeat the crime.
In science and technology, fibromyalgia may be a neurological condition, rather than a physical one, pictures of keys can be used to create duplicates of them that work, mice cloned after 16 years of being frozen, can mate and produce offspring, the stuff behind the holographic interview system at work last night on CNN, the possibility of dark matter proof, a healthy skinny pill, cheap, self-assembling optics, and a cardboard office.
Last, and to bring some joy back into the matter, if you voted and have a Babeland store near you, bring in your proof or your word of honor that you voted and receive a free sex toy. Because politics and sexuality are actually pretty linked, according to history. And, have some Noir-style posters for more modern movies.
Internationally, The Danish courts must decide whether the government has standing to give the boot to squatters on a very old navy base that have been there for more than thirty years.
A Cabinet minister in Iran was ousted after confirmation that his degree from Oxford was faked. You don’t lie in a situation like that - they will find you eventually.
The FCC has opened up the segments of spectrum in between conventional braodcast channels, known as "white space", for commercial use, potentially leading to the development of higher bandwidth and farther reaching wireless access.
Michael Crichton, author of "Jurassic Park", "The Andromeda Strain" and other science fiction novels, has dies at 66.
As one might guess, considering the significant amount of jubilation or desperation in the streets of where you are, Senator Barack Obama is the victor in the 2008 United States Presidential election, according to projections (and soon to be according to the actual count.) This, done somewhat cheerily, despite all the waiting. He is also apparently moving pretty quickly, selecting Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.
The Obama victory generates lots of moods, from relief at the knowledge of the end of the Republican Party's rule for these eight years, that those who have spelling difficulties on "terrorist" are not in power, and neither are those who will not refer to abortion clinic bombers as domestic terrorists. There are a lot of happy feelings on the liberal side. For the first time in eight (or more) years, optimism runs high on what the country can do. Also, the obvious mention of African-Americans celebrating the election of the first African-American president. Of course, there are also letters to the new president on how to get re-elected: Do what you promised and fix things.
In the other major liberal issue of the night, Proposition 8, in California, at this point, it looks like it has passed, narrowly At least, that's assuming that percentages stay as they are. Which leaves the liberals watching shaking their heads again and wondering why that keeps happening, even after electing the Democratic president, as well as planning for the next step by challenging the legality of the amendment. Although there isn’t much for hope in that, the fact that the discrimination is on display and being fought in the open, rather than being closeted, is better than it was. And, there are celebrities now who can openly say that they found the passage of the proposition astounding, rather than having to weep silent tears. Progress, slow, but progress. I suppose.
Although, by some line of reasoning, the passage of Proposition Eight may require the doom of all marriages, hetero- and homosexual, because the ruling by which the homosexual marriages were permitted has not been significantly disrupted nor defeated. And thus, to bring California into compliance with the law, equality will be enforced... to the lowest common denominator, rather than attempting to be less disrupting and bring the unequal up to the rest.
Feministing has a rundown on how all the anti-homosexual, anti-choice, anti-equality initiatives and amendments have gone. Most of the anti-homosexual ones have passed, the anti-choice failed, and the anti-equality ones have passed (although jury’s still out on one, as of when this was written).
In what may very well be ephemera now, A former Senator had his ballot challenged by an election official, claiming that his residence was really in a different state than the one he tried to vote in, media outlets have spent twice as much on covering President-elect Obama as they have Senator McCain, but the protracted primary fight and higher fees charged by the Obama campaign may be skewing the numbers pretty hard, so that charges of media favoritism by spending may very well be overblown. Besides, there are still going to be people who think that we'sve done George W. Bush wrong for the last several years, and who are certain, still, that Senator Obama has run his entire campaign on false pretenses, and will now spring all sorts of scary liberal things on the populace that will make us weak, mess up our ability to catch those who hate America, and turn us into a radically socialist state while still maintaining the pretense of a free market.
And, now that I think about it, complaints about the economy and political plans for Democrats will continue unabated, including commentary on the economy and what not to do to make the downturn worse, both from conservatives and from prominent liberal voices, and the tenor of things will probably change to the question of whether the Democrats be able to govern effectively, now that they have both hosues of the legislature and the Presidency. Or complaining about the way that the liberals will enshrine as official curriculum that America, and more specifically, white America, are oppressive, classist, sexist, racist homophobes. Might be worthwhile, though, if they can kick out the style of thinking that takes a fifth grader's Halloween art as a gang sign.
Truth be told, though, I think
arcana_j has a point. So long as half the country is scared stiff by nonexistent bogeymen that are supposedly their countrypeople, distracted from their duties by frivolities, and told that unless they fear and have faith in a being that gets angry at the drop of a hat, progress cannot be achieved. At the end of this political section, the obvious - while conservatism may fall down and make an windows-rattling THUMP as it hits the canvas, they're not down and out, and they're not going anywhere. And, now that it’s over, we’ll get to see what went down in the campaigns that was kept secret and that might have had profound influence on the voters. Including Senator Obama apparently dropping an F-bomb.
Of course, prejudice isn’t just based on race, religion, or orientation. Weight and body shape often are a source of still-tolerated prejudices, because the assumption is that those who are big are lazy, have no control, and could magically fix themselves with effort.
Fred Phelps hates lots of things, his son included, to the point of violence, according to the account of Nate Phelps, the son. And his sister (or someone with the name that can speak appropriately like her) shows up as the first comment to condemn him. Throwing stones at the adulterers is the job of the sinless, as I recall.
Elsewhere in the news, rapist shot when he attempts to repeat the crime.
In science and technology, fibromyalgia may be a neurological condition, rather than a physical one, pictures of keys can be used to create duplicates of them that work, mice cloned after 16 years of being frozen, can mate and produce offspring, the stuff behind the holographic interview system at work last night on CNN, the possibility of dark matter proof, a healthy skinny pill, cheap, self-assembling optics, and a cardboard office.
Last, and to bring some joy back into the matter, if you voted and have a Babeland store near you, bring in your proof or your word of honor that you voted and receive a free sex toy. Because politics and sexuality are actually pretty linked, according to history. And, have some Noir-style posters for more modern movies.
