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Getting top billing tonight, a cadre of women who have better fighting technique and spirit than most, including proficiency in weapons as well as pugilism. Would not want to make the mistake of giving them offense.
Starting worldwide, more U.S. troops for Afghanistan, Israel is doing their best to sabotage Iran's nuclear program (tell me something I didn’t already know), as Iran claims to have made an unmanned aircraft with good range, Britain will deport a radical cleric to Jordan despite his fears that he will be tortured when he arrives in Jordanian custody,
On the domestic desk, we have some pretty interesting people - a gent who kidnapped a woman, handcuffed her to a bed, put her in an adult diaper, and read Bible passages to her for three days straight, for example. Far more headdesk-inducing is the homosexually-oriented Republican state senator voting against a bill that would gender-neuter marriage language, making it so he and his partner could enjoy the benefits of marriage, apparently because Minnesota has bigger problems than that. The General agrees, and provides some examples of the more important problems that have been voted on, like commendations for private citizens and attempting to make English the official language of the state.
Woman mauled by "pet" chimpanzee, still in critical condition. An apt demonstration of how much more powerful than Humes the chimps are, despite people thinking they’re not. It took stabbings and shootings to get the chimp to stop. Mr. de Wall points out that keeping other primates as pets is at best a dangerous exercise, considering how unsuited to domestication even small monkeys are.
On economics, some GOP Congresscritters are fighting to get cash from the stimulus plan they voted against. Perhaps proving that they were really only interested in the facade and looking like they opposed it, while they were charting how to spend it. More on appearances and Republicans in a paragraph. They may run into difficulties, though, if the Republican governors of a handful of states decide to turn down the stimulus money, which would make the governors more substantive in their ideology than the Senators. Perhaps less intelligent, but they’re sticking to their guns.
For those with long memories and good associative skills, California’s latest popular measure brings back spectres of the past. Namely, Prop Eight, where the people overruled the courts, makes echoes of 1966, where a court decision forbade being a racist in housing was overturned by a popular initiative. And in there, there was a young politician by the name of Ronald Reagan, who had already opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He said, “If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house, he has a right to do so.” Makes me wonder if the reason why so many conservatives are against the President as being all hat and no cattle is that they’re determined not to be fooled again, and to be forced to defend someone who has great image as some sort of conservative god, when he might have done much better were he cut loose. Perhaps conservatives are trying to do the liberals a favor and remind them of what happens when you get carried away by image over substance.
And on economic matters, I don’t know if they have a spin, but Stimulus Watch purports to be tracking the “Shovel-ready” projects not mentioned in the stimulus bill but that will be eligible for the block grants given by such. They also offer options for the populace to vote on those that they like and demean those they don’t.
Getting into opinions, Mr. Greider is concerned that under the bait of bipartisanship, Congress and the President will agree to loot Social Security and make the promises to pay back the money disappear or die without being honored as tax cuts happen for wealthy interests. Instead, he suggests the creation of a national pension plan, to be run as an overseen non-profit, funded by the people’s pension taxes, to be phased in as the economy recovers. That way, everyone is saving for their retirement, whether they want to or not, and will enjoy that when they do retire and find they have the money there to do it with.
ddjango is significantly more pessimistic about things, considering the current administrator to be a shill and puppet for Our Elite Overlords, burying any hope of actual investigation or change from the thuggish way things are done now - gansters in the Cabinet, no actual progress on openness, despite promises of change, et cetera. We should be rioting, but we’re scared of what the police and military will do to us if we do.
Slightly less apocalyptic and potentially more self-serving, Lorie Byrd exhorts the Republicans not to let the media-assisted President Obama use his image to win over the populace, to instead challenge them with “the facts” and appeal to the idea that most people say they’re conservatives by pointing out all the liberal things that the President is doing or planning. Mr. Blankley plays on this by trying to paint Mr. Obama as either uninformed, uninterested, or incompetent in teh way he's managed his big issues so far. Comedian David Limbaugh makes as many negative links between FDR and Obama as he can, describing them as frightening parallels. Mr. Sowell joins in, believing that all the rush is there to keep us from noticing that the market will recover on its own, and thus we would have no need for expensive stimulus bills or for more government interference. Mr. Williams takes it down to a baser segment, declaring that private greed and the market is the most efficient method of allocating resources, and that we’re most happy with those institutions that are for-profit greedy, so we should be encouraging this, instead of believing that government and bureaucrats can govern the economy better than it can police itself.
Mr. Stossel, at the end of this segment, declares that the stimulus does not create wealth, but destroys it by making work for people at pointless tasks, like building and repairing infrastructure, instead of creating consumer goods...that nobody will buy because they don’t have jobs. As an alternate perspective,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bradhicks is really hoping that the President manages to cut to the heart of the matter and do something that will actually let the people do some recovery of their own by changing the terms of their housing debt to actually be payable and avoiding any sort of “public-private partnership” as if it were plague-infested. He's cautiously optimistic about it after hearing the President speak, and after doing some digging, it looks like Obama's foudn a winner, and he has the leverage to make it stick, mostly through potentially strongarming companies into doing what he wants them to do, but with them making it look “voluntary”.
Mr. Jenkins, Jr. says that the worst mistake made so far of the economic crunch is letting politicians get involved in it, and that had thigns just been kept quiet and in-house at the Fed and Treasury, the problem could be solved without nearly as big of a problem happening, because it wouldn’t have panicked the investors. Mr. Faber faults bad policy at those institutions and in government as the reason why things went south, so I think the two of them might have had a hashing-out if they got together on that issue. Mr. Faber gets support from Mr. Sowell who declares that government meddling made deals that people couldn't actually do and forced banks to take those deals on.
On a more micro level, The WSJ snickers at California's attemtps to get themselves out of a giant shortfall, declaring that any solution that involves taxation is inherently wrong.
Mr. Dubowitz and Ms. Bonazzi declare that the media stations al-Manar and al-Aqsa should stop being braodcast in Europe, considering they are media wings of Hamas and Hezbollah, and thus deserve no place at all on the broadcast spectrum of Europe, even on satellites owned by Saudi Arabian companies. And there’s no reason at all why that might run hard into problems - even with bans on broadcasts that incite hatred by European satellite providers, there’s nothing in precedent that I can tell that restricts satellites owned by non-European countries. But no, because they’re terrorist channels, it’s obvious everyone should work to make them cease broadcasting. It’s that simple, isn’t it?
Last out, because ridiculousness deserves ridicule - Mr. Grip declares that George Bush should have had Ron Paul arrested under the USAPATRIOT and held as a terrorist, based on how much damage he did to the Republican Party.
In science and technology, a dream fulfilled, and visible in the heavens at the right time, microbial organisms as a rich bed for interesting purposes, like energy generation or environmental cleanup, brain exercise as a way of stopping memory loss (um, duh?), looking at robots as a way of helping ASD children develop good social skills (infinite patience, ability to be repetitive without tiring... yeah, I can see that), musings on whether prosthetics will become fashion accessories, to the point of people dupming biology to be cybernetic, some applications of science that seemed odd at the time, the curious case of magenta's nonexistence on the visible light spectrum, and the NYT catching on that applications for cell phones are one of the waves of the future - something I suspect the Japanese have figured out easily and well before us. Although, the NYT is talking about using maps as the metaphor, which sounds like a stage one toward something even more likely, like ARGs.
Last for tonight, burdening one's cat with the onerous requirements of EULAs, instead of taking it on oneself. Plus, the wonderful world of Brian McCarty, and jewelry that lets you show off the molecules your beloved inspires (or that you like best). And one very scary story of how language leads to paying a lot more than expected for product, with no way of reviewing what was about to happen before the credit card was charged.
Starting worldwide, more U.S. troops for Afghanistan, Israel is doing their best to sabotage Iran's nuclear program (tell me something I didn’t already know), as Iran claims to have made an unmanned aircraft with good range, Britain will deport a radical cleric to Jordan despite his fears that he will be tortured when he arrives in Jordanian custody,
On the domestic desk, we have some pretty interesting people - a gent who kidnapped a woman, handcuffed her to a bed, put her in an adult diaper, and read Bible passages to her for three days straight, for example. Far more headdesk-inducing is the homosexually-oriented Republican state senator voting against a bill that would gender-neuter marriage language, making it so he and his partner could enjoy the benefits of marriage, apparently because Minnesota has bigger problems than that. The General agrees, and provides some examples of the more important problems that have been voted on, like commendations for private citizens and attempting to make English the official language of the state.
Woman mauled by "pet" chimpanzee, still in critical condition. An apt demonstration of how much more powerful than Humes the chimps are, despite people thinking they’re not. It took stabbings and shootings to get the chimp to stop. Mr. de Wall points out that keeping other primates as pets is at best a dangerous exercise, considering how unsuited to domestication even small monkeys are.
On economics, some GOP Congresscritters are fighting to get cash from the stimulus plan they voted against. Perhaps proving that they were really only interested in the facade and looking like they opposed it, while they were charting how to spend it. More on appearances and Republicans in a paragraph. They may run into difficulties, though, if the Republican governors of a handful of states decide to turn down the stimulus money, which would make the governors more substantive in their ideology than the Senators. Perhaps less intelligent, but they’re sticking to their guns.
For those with long memories and good associative skills, California’s latest popular measure brings back spectres of the past. Namely, Prop Eight, where the people overruled the courts, makes echoes of 1966, where a court decision forbade being a racist in housing was overturned by a popular initiative. And in there, there was a young politician by the name of Ronald Reagan, who had already opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He said, “If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house, he has a right to do so.” Makes me wonder if the reason why so many conservatives are against the President as being all hat and no cattle is that they’re determined not to be fooled again, and to be forced to defend someone who has great image as some sort of conservative god, when he might have done much better were he cut loose. Perhaps conservatives are trying to do the liberals a favor and remind them of what happens when you get carried away by image over substance.
And on economic matters, I don’t know if they have a spin, but Stimulus Watch purports to be tracking the “Shovel-ready” projects not mentioned in the stimulus bill but that will be eligible for the block grants given by such. They also offer options for the populace to vote on those that they like and demean those they don’t.
Getting into opinions, Mr. Greider is concerned that under the bait of bipartisanship, Congress and the President will agree to loot Social Security and make the promises to pay back the money disappear or die without being honored as tax cuts happen for wealthy interests. Instead, he suggests the creation of a national pension plan, to be run as an overseen non-profit, funded by the people’s pension taxes, to be phased in as the economy recovers. That way, everyone is saving for their retirement, whether they want to or not, and will enjoy that when they do retire and find they have the money there to do it with.
ddjango is significantly more pessimistic about things, considering the current administrator to be a shill and puppet for Our Elite Overlords, burying any hope of actual investigation or change from the thuggish way things are done now - gansters in the Cabinet, no actual progress on openness, despite promises of change, et cetera. We should be rioting, but we’re scared of what the police and military will do to us if we do.
Slightly less apocalyptic and potentially more self-serving, Lorie Byrd exhorts the Republicans not to let the media-assisted President Obama use his image to win over the populace, to instead challenge them with “the facts” and appeal to the idea that most people say they’re conservatives by pointing out all the liberal things that the President is doing or planning. Mr. Blankley plays on this by trying to paint Mr. Obama as either uninformed, uninterested, or incompetent in teh way he's managed his big issues so far. Comedian David Limbaugh makes as many negative links between FDR and Obama as he can, describing them as frightening parallels. Mr. Sowell joins in, believing that all the rush is there to keep us from noticing that the market will recover on its own, and thus we would have no need for expensive stimulus bills or for more government interference. Mr. Williams takes it down to a baser segment, declaring that private greed and the market is the most efficient method of allocating resources, and that we’re most happy with those institutions that are for-profit greedy, so we should be encouraging this, instead of believing that government and bureaucrats can govern the economy better than it can police itself.
Mr. Stossel, at the end of this segment, declares that the stimulus does not create wealth, but destroys it by making work for people at pointless tasks, like building and repairing infrastructure, instead of creating consumer goods...that nobody will buy because they don’t have jobs. As an alternate perspective,
bradhicks is really hoping that the President manages to cut to the heart of the matter and do something that will actually let the people do some recovery of their own by changing the terms of their housing debt to actually be payable and avoiding any sort of “public-private partnership” as if it were plague-infested. He's cautiously optimistic about it after hearing the President speak, and after doing some digging, it looks like Obama's foudn a winner, and he has the leverage to make it stick, mostly through potentially strongarming companies into doing what he wants them to do, but with them making it look “voluntary”.Mr. Jenkins, Jr. says that the worst mistake made so far of the economic crunch is letting politicians get involved in it, and that had thigns just been kept quiet and in-house at the Fed and Treasury, the problem could be solved without nearly as big of a problem happening, because it wouldn’t have panicked the investors. Mr. Faber faults bad policy at those institutions and in government as the reason why things went south, so I think the two of them might have had a hashing-out if they got together on that issue. Mr. Faber gets support from Mr. Sowell who declares that government meddling made deals that people couldn't actually do and forced banks to take those deals on.
On a more micro level, The WSJ snickers at California's attemtps to get themselves out of a giant shortfall, declaring that any solution that involves taxation is inherently wrong.
Mr. Dubowitz and Ms. Bonazzi declare that the media stations al-Manar and al-Aqsa should stop being braodcast in Europe, considering they are media wings of Hamas and Hezbollah, and thus deserve no place at all on the broadcast spectrum of Europe, even on satellites owned by Saudi Arabian companies. And there’s no reason at all why that might run hard into problems - even with bans on broadcasts that incite hatred by European satellite providers, there’s nothing in precedent that I can tell that restricts satellites owned by non-European countries. But no, because they’re terrorist channels, it’s obvious everyone should work to make them cease broadcasting. It’s that simple, isn’t it?
Last out, because ridiculousness deserves ridicule - Mr. Grip declares that George Bush should have had Ron Paul arrested under the USAPATRIOT and held as a terrorist, based on how much damage he did to the Republican Party.
In science and technology, a dream fulfilled, and visible in the heavens at the right time, microbial organisms as a rich bed for interesting purposes, like energy generation or environmental cleanup, brain exercise as a way of stopping memory loss (um, duh?), looking at robots as a way of helping ASD children develop good social skills (infinite patience, ability to be repetitive without tiring... yeah, I can see that), musings on whether prosthetics will become fashion accessories, to the point of people dupming biology to be cybernetic, some applications of science that seemed odd at the time, the curious case of magenta's nonexistence on the visible light spectrum, and the NYT catching on that applications for cell phones are one of the waves of the future - something I suspect the Japanese have figured out easily and well before us. Although, the NYT is talking about using maps as the metaphor, which sounds like a stage one toward something even more likely, like ARGs.
Last for tonight, burdening one's cat with the onerous requirements of EULAs, instead of taking it on oneself. Plus, the wonderful world of Brian McCarty, and jewelry that lets you show off the molecules your beloved inspires (or that you like best). And one very scary story of how language leads to paying a lot more than expected for product, with no way of reviewing what was about to happen before the credit card was charged.
