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New president today - 20 January 2008
Jan. 21st, 2009 07:38 amToday, without incident, The fourty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, took the oath of office and delivered his inaugural address to America. Before this, Bishop Robinson gave his benediction, as did Pastor Warren, who laid it on a bit thick, I think. Bishop Robinson’s invocation continued to draw scorn from those who protested the presence of homosexuals at the event at all, for which The General praises this staunch defense as only he can.
Did we mention that it's kind of hard for a Washington Republican to find a job now? Does this mean they get to experience firsthand what the rest of the populace has been experiencing for years?
The 19th paid tribute to two important events. One was a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, which, in some ways says the populace still does care about race because we’re not properly, err, cavalier about the matter. There’s still a lot of things that we care about race for that are not positively-consequenced, either. Although Kenneth Libby suggests the call to universal service is how Democrats will strike out the liberal spirit of most young people, by inculcating them with fear of terror or military attack, while hiding behind the message of Dr. King, which increasingly was anti-military as time went on.
There was also The 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth. After taking a quick biographical tour, and then paying one's respects with cognac and roses, one can settle in with some of the man's works. Just be careful of ravens.
Elsewhere in the world, two gents survived on the ocean for twenty-five days in an icebox, drinking rainwater and eating bits of fish.
A conference in Qatar for young Muslims shows that there are elements that prefer to get along rather than fight with the rest of the world. Which is good, especially if Iran is continuing to behave as if it is seeking the ability to build a nuclear weapon.
The Dalai Lama spoke well of the outgoing administrator, citing a good chord struck between themselves, as he admitted to the difficulty of fighting terrorism with non-violence, due to the closed-minded nature of terrorism.
The guy in the robot suit in 'Lost in Space' has died at 69.
A former head of faith-based programs in the state of Ohio was arrested on solicitation of prostitution. Well, all people are sinners, even those tasked with faith-based help. Elsewhere, MJS believes that through the Watchmaker analogy of ID, we can reasonably conclude that God is dead, because no person has seen the designer in a very long time.
This is rich. An anti-choice nurse claims to have "accidentally" removed a woman's IUD, and then after the accident, refused to reimplant the device. Naturally, lawsuits ahoy. And worse, this is the first time this nurse has pulled out an IUD. She’s personally against them, because she thinks they’re abortion-causing, although she seems okay with other forms of birth control. Um, refusing to fix your own mistake and claiming the woman is better off for it? That’s so not doing your job. It’s a wonder that this nurse hasn’t been unemployed for these repeated “accidents”.
The General reviews a book about raising Christians that' all about spanking six month-old children and ambush-startling them into compliance by being afraid that Mom is going to scare you and hit you. No doubt this mother would be scandalized at statues of the virgin Mary where she has, like, actual breasts. And must be totally shocked that children read The Handmaid’s Tale in class, like the dad who complained about the language, anti-Christian sentiment, and the way it treats women in the book, as well as taking a cheap shot by saying that if the book were anti-Islam, the Canadaian authorities would be falling all over themselves to prevent it from being in the classroom. The best part, however? His son opts out of the Handmaid’s Tale and is assigned... Brave New World.
With the last time that he had, the former president commuted the sentences of two Border Patrol Agents convicted of shooting someone they claimed was a drug dealer.
Bad economy? Join the military for your three hots and a cot... and people are, despite or perhaps because of the high probability that new recruits will be sent out to the front lines to help fight an asymmetrical war on a concept. Speaking of, there will be a memorial for Flight 93, the plane that the passengers drove into the ground before it could reach the intended target.
Austin Cline opens opinions with the continued freefall of conservative credibility, this time using Joe the War Correspondent as his example of silly things done in seriousness to avoid later satire. He might also find a good example in Nathan Tabor's extrapolation of USA Today's rejection of a faith-based message to the president into USA Today being biased against Christians... or maybe this was just supposed to be an example of the rampant media bias. Star Parker says the because Obama supports abortion, he's no Lincoln, and that he can't fix the economy. Scott Gottlieb feels any medicine reform or health care will put cost as the sacred thing, not effectiveness of treatment.
Hopefully, we’re finished with the retrospectives of President 43, but Marc Thiessen compares him to Truman, calling Iraq better than the Korea Truman left behind, and thus claiming that history will be similarly fond of President 43. William McGurn agrees, saying that the victory in Iraq was the biggest reason why people hate President 43. The WSJ says that the best thing President Obama can do is to be just like the former administrator, and Gabriel Schoenfeld thinks President Obama has enough in common with the neocons that he might get them to work with him. Debra J. Saunders judges the previous president well based on his response to 11 September, and poorly on the other problems that he could have prevented. The WSJ says the presidency was a success because of the 11 September yardstick. Still, most people think it was a failure.
Actually providing some useful advice, Nicholas Eberstadt suggests that the new president take time to focus on Asia and its difficulties. Egil Krogh imparts the lessons he learned from his time as a Nixon appointee, insisting that the public must both trust and verify President Obama and the government if anything good is to happen in this quadrennium.
Bret Stephens is disappointed that the Gaza conflict has ended without Hamas being ground into dust, and thinks that decision will haunt Israel in the years to come.
The WSJ gets after the feds for forcing a bank they bought a stake in to take on bad assets that the company didn't want, once they found out the assets were bad, anyway. But a bailout is a bailout.
In technology, it’s the future and then some! It's a world of fifth-dimension treatment, where new antibacterial families are discovered, really sensitive telescopes are designed, nanoscale grippers for moving molecules, aided by cheap ways of producing sensors, possibly accompanying teeny tiny miniature robots, plants get modified to produce entirely new compounds, more flexible electronic compounds appear, a camera that can fit on the end of a fingertip to help people see, female gorillas get ovary surgery to remove tumors, memory-enchancing pills could be available soon (I might get some of those), and scientists travel to what they believe will be ice shelves collapsing.
Last for tonight, everything is better with cheese. Excepting, perhaps, the end of the world.
Video Games Are Good For You. Admit it, and pick up the Wiimote without guilt, okay?
And be sure to Appreciate a Dragon. I’m lax in remembering it, so you can be late in appreciating. And if one were so inclined, someone's doing a survey/census of the furry community, so participate or not, as you like.
Did we mention that it's kind of hard for a Washington Republican to find a job now? Does this mean they get to experience firsthand what the rest of the populace has been experiencing for years?
The 19th paid tribute to two important events. One was a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, which, in some ways says the populace still does care about race because we’re not properly, err, cavalier about the matter. There’s still a lot of things that we care about race for that are not positively-consequenced, either. Although Kenneth Libby suggests the call to universal service is how Democrats will strike out the liberal spirit of most young people, by inculcating them with fear of terror or military attack, while hiding behind the message of Dr. King, which increasingly was anti-military as time went on.
There was also The 200th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth. After taking a quick biographical tour, and then paying one's respects with cognac and roses, one can settle in with some of the man's works. Just be careful of ravens.
Elsewhere in the world, two gents survived on the ocean for twenty-five days in an icebox, drinking rainwater and eating bits of fish.
A conference in Qatar for young Muslims shows that there are elements that prefer to get along rather than fight with the rest of the world. Which is good, especially if Iran is continuing to behave as if it is seeking the ability to build a nuclear weapon.
The Dalai Lama spoke well of the outgoing administrator, citing a good chord struck between themselves, as he admitted to the difficulty of fighting terrorism with non-violence, due to the closed-minded nature of terrorism.
The guy in the robot suit in 'Lost in Space' has died at 69.
A former head of faith-based programs in the state of Ohio was arrested on solicitation of prostitution. Well, all people are sinners, even those tasked with faith-based help. Elsewhere, MJS believes that through the Watchmaker analogy of ID, we can reasonably conclude that God is dead, because no person has seen the designer in a very long time.
This is rich. An anti-choice nurse claims to have "accidentally" removed a woman's IUD, and then after the accident, refused to reimplant the device. Naturally, lawsuits ahoy. And worse, this is the first time this nurse has pulled out an IUD. She’s personally against them, because she thinks they’re abortion-causing, although she seems okay with other forms of birth control. Um, refusing to fix your own mistake and claiming the woman is better off for it? That’s so not doing your job. It’s a wonder that this nurse hasn’t been unemployed for these repeated “accidents”.
The General reviews a book about raising Christians that' all about spanking six month-old children and ambush-startling them into compliance by being afraid that Mom is going to scare you and hit you. No doubt this mother would be scandalized at statues of the virgin Mary where she has, like, actual breasts. And must be totally shocked that children read The Handmaid’s Tale in class, like the dad who complained about the language, anti-Christian sentiment, and the way it treats women in the book, as well as taking a cheap shot by saying that if the book were anti-Islam, the Canadaian authorities would be falling all over themselves to prevent it from being in the classroom. The best part, however? His son opts out of the Handmaid’s Tale and is assigned... Brave New World.
With the last time that he had, the former president commuted the sentences of two Border Patrol Agents convicted of shooting someone they claimed was a drug dealer.
Bad economy? Join the military for your three hots and a cot... and people are, despite or perhaps because of the high probability that new recruits will be sent out to the front lines to help fight an asymmetrical war on a concept. Speaking of, there will be a memorial for Flight 93, the plane that the passengers drove into the ground before it could reach the intended target.
Austin Cline opens opinions with the continued freefall of conservative credibility, this time using Joe the War Correspondent as his example of silly things done in seriousness to avoid later satire. He might also find a good example in Nathan Tabor's extrapolation of USA Today's rejection of a faith-based message to the president into USA Today being biased against Christians... or maybe this was just supposed to be an example of the rampant media bias. Star Parker says the because Obama supports abortion, he's no Lincoln, and that he can't fix the economy. Scott Gottlieb feels any medicine reform or health care will put cost as the sacred thing, not effectiveness of treatment.
Hopefully, we’re finished with the retrospectives of President 43, but Marc Thiessen compares him to Truman, calling Iraq better than the Korea Truman left behind, and thus claiming that history will be similarly fond of President 43. William McGurn agrees, saying that the victory in Iraq was the biggest reason why people hate President 43. The WSJ says that the best thing President Obama can do is to be just like the former administrator, and Gabriel Schoenfeld thinks President Obama has enough in common with the neocons that he might get them to work with him. Debra J. Saunders judges the previous president well based on his response to 11 September, and poorly on the other problems that he could have prevented. The WSJ says the presidency was a success because of the 11 September yardstick. Still, most people think it was a failure.
Actually providing some useful advice, Nicholas Eberstadt suggests that the new president take time to focus on Asia and its difficulties. Egil Krogh imparts the lessons he learned from his time as a Nixon appointee, insisting that the public must both trust and verify President Obama and the government if anything good is to happen in this quadrennium.
Bret Stephens is disappointed that the Gaza conflict has ended without Hamas being ground into dust, and thinks that decision will haunt Israel in the years to come.
The WSJ gets after the feds for forcing a bank they bought a stake in to take on bad assets that the company didn't want, once they found out the assets were bad, anyway. But a bailout is a bailout.
In technology, it’s the future and then some! It's a world of fifth-dimension treatment, where new antibacterial families are discovered, really sensitive telescopes are designed, nanoscale grippers for moving molecules, aided by cheap ways of producing sensors, possibly accompanying teeny tiny miniature robots, plants get modified to produce entirely new compounds, more flexible electronic compounds appear, a camera that can fit on the end of a fingertip to help people see, female gorillas get ovary surgery to remove tumors, memory-enchancing pills could be available soon (I might get some of those), and scientists travel to what they believe will be ice shelves collapsing.
Last for tonight, everything is better with cheese. Excepting, perhaps, the end of the world.
Video Games Are Good For You. Admit it, and pick up the Wiimote without guilt, okay?
And be sure to Appreciate a Dragon. I’m lax in remembering it, so you can be late in appreciating. And if one were so inclined, someone's doing a survey/census of the furry community, so participate or not, as you like.
