We’re going onward from or start point. So here we go. The Dow continues to sink. And you know what that means, right? Shopping malls are in danger of having to close.
So, hey, remember that whole part about the membership list of a far-right English party getting published and now being available on the Internet? Yeah, well, those on the list are a bit afraid at their outing. Perhaps they learned about how Glenn Beck was treated at a truck stop and fear the same for themselves. (Don’t take my word for it on Beck, either. Read some transcripts yourselves.)
Then again, this membership isn’t all that strange. There are a personal site for Ayn Rand supporters, people turning a man versus environment sport into a competitive exercise, an arrest made of a person who had his genitalia in a pasta jar, and the ability to use a single SQL query to generate a Mandelbrot Set.
More seriously, Iran has enough uranium to make nuclear weapons... if they refine it and them manage to build the weapon in the first place. Iran’s not looking good as a place, as one of the chief architects of the blogging explosion in Iran was just arrested and accused of spying for Israel. And Pakistan is complaining pretty hard about how we keep violating their borders in our pursuit of terrorists. We’ve even got al-Qaeda higher-ups hurling racial taunts at the President-elect.
Domestically, apparently nothing interesting has happened enough that the AP is reduced to speculating on what President Obama will do to the White House, in decoration and/or in greening. And CNN mentionins that the management of GM and Ford have said no to the Iacocca deal, refusing the $1 salary in exchange for some money to prop up the business.
Did we mention it was a slow news day? People are finding Obama chairs on World of Warcraft, and a rumor that the President-elect is aware of AYBABTU, and Monty Python is going on Youtube.
In the opinions, we’ll draw in the Slacktivist on why asking anyone whether Obama is a Christian is a question well above your pay grade
Walter E. Williams on why socialism is evil - it forces someone to be used to ends they didn't agree to, even if there’s intermediaries like paying one’s taxes into government coffers to be distributed ag... wait a second. Calling us all thieves who rob Peter to pay Paul, but then managing to slip in the idea that the grand majority of taxes and spending is actually socialism? Niiiice. That’s quite the indictment of the last few decades. If you were aiming squarely for the President-elect, though, as your target, I’d say you might have winged him, but you probably killed a lot of other people in the process.
Newt Gingrich on why President-elect Obama's tax plans aren't really tax cuts, but welfare. You’re late, Newt. That ground’s already been covered. Another classic error: assuming that someone else's presented health care plan is President-elect Obama's health care plan. A much better perspective is a healthy skepticism of the Treasury Secretary's motives during the bailout process. And further suspicion of whether he's had any effect. And, perhaps, of Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Putin, and Dmitri Medvedev, all who want to be on the President-elect’s good side.
Michael Slaughter on why bailing out the Big Three would be really bad for the American auto industry and the country in general, not only because it encourages protectionism, but because it will cause asset drops as well. And the WSJ keeps thinking that President-elect Obama should indicate in some way that he believes in free markets, and that people should invest, rather than get bailed out, or Wall Street will continue to tumble. Mitt Romney also hammers on Detroit, saying it should fail.
But the best for tonight, in a “he didn’t really just say that, did he?” is Daniel Henninger linking the economic crisis to the increasing secularization of society. That’s right - because the country apparently doesn’t want to say “Merry Christmas” to each other, it indicates a lack of moral fiber and being, and that is what allowed the whole thing to happen. Oookay. So let’s talk to the I Drew This crowd, who have a good reason why the idea that all morality comes from a deity figure isn't really healthy for society.
In science and tech, robots that looks like baby seals begin migration to hospitals, where they will be used theraputically by the patients, progress made on reproducing the visual system on a computer, data on how Google's app for the iPhone can hear you speak, the search for a really powerful computer (possibly to put this all together), a $10 million price tag for regenerating the wooly mammoth from extinction, the European Union's response to Google Book Search, and the possible detection of dark matter? Oh, and low doses of marijuana, below the point of getting high, might be memory aids .
Last for tonight, steampunk not as a way of trying to recapture the past, but as a way of reimagining it and using it to comment about the future. And the 10th Transgender Rememberance Day, recalling all those transgender killed throguh hate, ignorance, or fear.
So, hey, remember that whole part about the membership list of a far-right English party getting published and now being available on the Internet? Yeah, well, those on the list are a bit afraid at their outing. Perhaps they learned about how Glenn Beck was treated at a truck stop and fear the same for themselves. (Don’t take my word for it on Beck, either. Read some transcripts yourselves.)
Then again, this membership isn’t all that strange. There are a personal site for Ayn Rand supporters, people turning a man versus environment sport into a competitive exercise, an arrest made of a person who had his genitalia in a pasta jar, and the ability to use a single SQL query to generate a Mandelbrot Set.
More seriously, Iran has enough uranium to make nuclear weapons... if they refine it and them manage to build the weapon in the first place. Iran’s not looking good as a place, as one of the chief architects of the blogging explosion in Iran was just arrested and accused of spying for Israel. And Pakistan is complaining pretty hard about how we keep violating their borders in our pursuit of terrorists. We’ve even got al-Qaeda higher-ups hurling racial taunts at the President-elect.
Domestically, apparently nothing interesting has happened enough that the AP is reduced to speculating on what President Obama will do to the White House, in decoration and/or in greening. And CNN mentionins that the management of GM and Ford have said no to the Iacocca deal, refusing the $1 salary in exchange for some money to prop up the business.
Did we mention it was a slow news day? People are finding Obama chairs on World of Warcraft, and a rumor that the President-elect is aware of AYBABTU, and Monty Python is going on Youtube.
In the opinions, we’ll draw in the Slacktivist on why asking anyone whether Obama is a Christian is a question well above your pay grade
Walter E. Williams on why socialism is evil - it forces someone to be used to ends they didn't agree to, even if there’s intermediaries like paying one’s taxes into government coffers to be distributed ag... wait a second. Calling us all thieves who rob Peter to pay Paul, but then managing to slip in the idea that the grand majority of taxes and spending is actually socialism? Niiiice. That’s quite the indictment of the last few decades. If you were aiming squarely for the President-elect, though, as your target, I’d say you might have winged him, but you probably killed a lot of other people in the process.
Newt Gingrich on why President-elect Obama's tax plans aren't really tax cuts, but welfare. You’re late, Newt. That ground’s already been covered. Another classic error: assuming that someone else's presented health care plan is President-elect Obama's health care plan. A much better perspective is a healthy skepticism of the Treasury Secretary's motives during the bailout process. And further suspicion of whether he's had any effect. And, perhaps, of Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Putin, and Dmitri Medvedev, all who want to be on the President-elect’s good side.
Michael Slaughter on why bailing out the Big Three would be really bad for the American auto industry and the country in general, not only because it encourages protectionism, but because it will cause asset drops as well. And the WSJ keeps thinking that President-elect Obama should indicate in some way that he believes in free markets, and that people should invest, rather than get bailed out, or Wall Street will continue to tumble. Mitt Romney also hammers on Detroit, saying it should fail.
But the best for tonight, in a “he didn’t really just say that, did he?” is Daniel Henninger linking the economic crisis to the increasing secularization of society. That’s right - because the country apparently doesn’t want to say “Merry Christmas” to each other, it indicates a lack of moral fiber and being, and that is what allowed the whole thing to happen. Oookay. So let’s talk to the I Drew This crowd, who have a good reason why the idea that all morality comes from a deity figure isn't really healthy for society.
In science and tech, robots that looks like baby seals begin migration to hospitals, where they will be used theraputically by the patients, progress made on reproducing the visual system on a computer, data on how Google's app for the iPhone can hear you speak, the search for a really powerful computer (possibly to put this all together), a $10 million price tag for regenerating the wooly mammoth from extinction, the European Union's response to Google Book Search, and the possible detection of dark matter? Oh, and low doses of marijuana, below the point of getting high, might be memory aids .
Last for tonight, steampunk not as a way of trying to recapture the past, but as a way of reimagining it and using it to comment about the future. And the 10th Transgender Rememberance Day, recalling all those transgender killed throguh hate, ignorance, or fear.