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Weekend Jam - 28 Febuary-1 March 2009
Mar. 1st, 2009 04:54 pmFirst off, before the news, the Dead Pool claims another. Paul Harvey, known for his distinctive style of radio storytelling, died at 90 years of age. And now we know the rest of the story.
Up in international skies and radio waves, the German chancellor has rejected multibillions of Euros in bailouts for banks and countries across the eurozone, even as dissastified persons start torching expensive vehicles in protest at the worsening of the economy, and others worry that Eastern Europe is going to drag others down with them.
The plans for Iraq's troop shift begin to take shape. The budget in Iraq falls based on oil prices continuing to drop.
In an attempt to quell fighting in the country, Somalis's president acceded to the imposition of a very non-strict form of Sharia on the country.
However, a guy won a bet that with the help of Viagra, he could satisfy women for twelve hours straight. He died of heart failure soon afterward. And it was likely the drugs that killed him, not the sex. Oh, and, um, it appears that consumers of 18+ entertainment in "Red" states according to political preference do much more consumption on-line than those in "Blue" states - which makes sense - the Internet offers anonymity and anonymizing services that cannot be obtained by frequenting the local cabaret or store, where one runs into the uncomfortable possibility of meeting someone you know or having someone see you entering, leaving, or being in the neighborhood of places that nobody goes to yet manage to stay comfortably in business.
Domestically, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
theawyne predicted, Microsoft has dropped their repayment demand on the overpaid severance.
Also, Vivid Pictures offered the mother of octuplets $1 million USD to appear in a pornographic picture. Said offer included a year's worth of health care for her and her children as well as the money. As far as we know, no response, one way or another.
James Dobson resigns as chair of Focus on the Family, but will not be leaving the organization totally, still using it as his microphone for the Westboro-friendly messages he has. As far as I know, though, he hasn't declared that Muslims will invade Israel on horseback as part of the end times.
A copyright infringement suit against John McCain and the RNC moves forward, as a judge dismisses the claim from McCain that he was an unwitting dupe of his party and had no knowledge of their actions or ads. On the "Really?" side of lawsuits, two food court restaurants are suing each other so as to stop the other from serving rice.
Morgue worker appears to have gotten his jollies off on the corpses. Reminds me of a relatively offensive joke told about a brothel. Clint Eastwood, though, says nobody would find it funny, because political correctness has sucked out our sense of humor. If that's so, I don't think Jeff Dunham would be in business.
And in politics, passing a bill is only one part of the plan - making it actually work is totally different.
In the opinions, a satirical suggestion that the credit and joblessness crises could be solved by removing all women from the work force and giving men their jobs. Far more seriously, the Slacktivist has picture evidence of all the "giant mansions" that are being foreclosed on because greedy people bought way too much house. You know, all those nice one-story, 1000 sq-ft behemoths. The ones that Rick Santelli thinks should be foreclosed on, instead of letting judges or courts rewrite their terms so that they can actually be paid off.
Austin Cline gives the Obama administration an earful for continuing to believe that once someone is convicted, if new evidence or better methods for testing appear, the state has no obligation to let the defense or the convicted see that evidence or attempt to use it for proving the convicted's innocence. Justice is beginning to look more and more like a holdover with cosmetics - this may change, though - he has four years to clean things up.
Mr. Rubin beleives the Fourth Amendment should be selectively applied, with civil penalites, rather than dismissal of criminal cases, as the way to rein in police misconduct, because the alternative, according to him, is higher crime rates, which nobody wants.
The WSJ makes it seem like forced praise when it applauds the way Mr. Obama has apparently reversed himself on Iraq, by acknowledging that success was beyond expectations and by deciding to leave plenty of troops in Iraq past the first withdrawal date, all things that the WSJ takes as praise for his predecessor and his methods. Mr. Kengor would like him to take a more serious position on Iran, perhaps through shunning Mr. Ahmadinejad and/or bombing his nuclear power plant into nonexistence before Iran inevitably uses it to attack people and hold them in terror.
Mr. Neumayr is convinced that Mr. Obama is a tyrant, who will make us all poor by bloating the government and crash the country, robbing us blind. And we'll praise him for it every step of the way, apparently. Unless Mr. Kotkin is right, and the party fractures over the wealthy and the populist factions, and tears itself apart like Republicanism has done. Until then, though, we'll be listening to Mr. Hill telling us that we're all going to be welfare recipients, something we should resist, because we should be asahmed of taking welfare and ashamed that our government is going to give welfare to people who should be suffering the consequences of their own decisions, a sentiment echoed by Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, calling the President an enabler of bad decisions, Mr. Krauthammer telling us that while Mr. Obama may not be able to achieve socialism on his own watch, he's dedicated to setting it in motion, through health care, green energy, and more credits and cuts for education, Ms. Chavez feeling that its the utopian hubris that Mr. Obama firmly believes in that's driving this ruinous set of decisions, and Mr. Lambro predicting that the end result of all this will be economic collapse. It all sort of culminates in comedian David Limbaugh's histrionics about the Socialists taking over, as it touches on all of these points in brief.
Last out, the WSJ gives voice to those who are going to refuse federal stimulus money because they feel the states will be left holding the bag at the end, while praising their own ability to come out ahead, as county executives, because they made "tough decisions" on the budget.
In technology, insight into how professional athletes dose and experiment on themselves with performance-enhancements, pictures of professional darkrooms, a concept drawing of a hovercar, using gerbils to combat bubonic plague, and fitting a decently-powered computer onto a credit card-sized module.
And last for tonight... the Beard Head.
Up in international skies and radio waves, the German chancellor has rejected multibillions of Euros in bailouts for banks and countries across the eurozone, even as dissastified persons start torching expensive vehicles in protest at the worsening of the economy, and others worry that Eastern Europe is going to drag others down with them.
The plans for Iraq's troop shift begin to take shape. The budget in Iraq falls based on oil prices continuing to drop.
In an attempt to quell fighting in the country, Somalis's president acceded to the imposition of a very non-strict form of Sharia on the country.
However, a guy won a bet that with the help of Viagra, he could satisfy women for twelve hours straight. He died of heart failure soon afterward. And it was likely the drugs that killed him, not the sex. Oh, and, um, it appears that consumers of 18+ entertainment in "Red" states according to political preference do much more consumption on-line than those in "Blue" states - which makes sense - the Internet offers anonymity and anonymizing services that cannot be obtained by frequenting the local cabaret or store, where one runs into the uncomfortable possibility of meeting someone you know or having someone see you entering, leaving, or being in the neighborhood of places that nobody goes to yet manage to stay comfortably in business.
Domestically, as
theawyne predicted, Microsoft has dropped their repayment demand on the overpaid severance. Also, Vivid Pictures offered the mother of octuplets $1 million USD to appear in a pornographic picture. Said offer included a year's worth of health care for her and her children as well as the money. As far as we know, no response, one way or another.
James Dobson resigns as chair of Focus on the Family, but will not be leaving the organization totally, still using it as his microphone for the Westboro-friendly messages he has. As far as I know, though, he hasn't declared that Muslims will invade Israel on horseback as part of the end times.
A copyright infringement suit against John McCain and the RNC moves forward, as a judge dismisses the claim from McCain that he was an unwitting dupe of his party and had no knowledge of their actions or ads. On the "Really?" side of lawsuits, two food court restaurants are suing each other so as to stop the other from serving rice.
Morgue worker appears to have gotten his jollies off on the corpses. Reminds me of a relatively offensive joke told about a brothel. Clint Eastwood, though, says nobody would find it funny, because political correctness has sucked out our sense of humor. If that's so, I don't think Jeff Dunham would be in business.
And in politics, passing a bill is only one part of the plan - making it actually work is totally different.
In the opinions, a satirical suggestion that the credit and joblessness crises could be solved by removing all women from the work force and giving men their jobs. Far more seriously, the Slacktivist has picture evidence of all the "giant mansions" that are being foreclosed on because greedy people bought way too much house. You know, all those nice one-story, 1000 sq-ft behemoths. The ones that Rick Santelli thinks should be foreclosed on, instead of letting judges or courts rewrite their terms so that they can actually be paid off.
Austin Cline gives the Obama administration an earful for continuing to believe that once someone is convicted, if new evidence or better methods for testing appear, the state has no obligation to let the defense or the convicted see that evidence or attempt to use it for proving the convicted's innocence. Justice is beginning to look more and more like a holdover with cosmetics - this may change, though - he has four years to clean things up.
Mr. Rubin beleives the Fourth Amendment should be selectively applied, with civil penalites, rather than dismissal of criminal cases, as the way to rein in police misconduct, because the alternative, according to him, is higher crime rates, which nobody wants.
The WSJ makes it seem like forced praise when it applauds the way Mr. Obama has apparently reversed himself on Iraq, by acknowledging that success was beyond expectations and by deciding to leave plenty of troops in Iraq past the first withdrawal date, all things that the WSJ takes as praise for his predecessor and his methods. Mr. Kengor would like him to take a more serious position on Iran, perhaps through shunning Mr. Ahmadinejad and/or bombing his nuclear power plant into nonexistence before Iran inevitably uses it to attack people and hold them in terror.
Mr. Neumayr is convinced that Mr. Obama is a tyrant, who will make us all poor by bloating the government and crash the country, robbing us blind. And we'll praise him for it every step of the way, apparently. Unless Mr. Kotkin is right, and the party fractures over the wealthy and the populist factions, and tears itself apart like Republicanism has done. Until then, though, we'll be listening to Mr. Hill telling us that we're all going to be welfare recipients, something we should resist, because we should be asahmed of taking welfare and ashamed that our government is going to give welfare to people who should be suffering the consequences of their own decisions, a sentiment echoed by Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, calling the President an enabler of bad decisions, Mr. Krauthammer telling us that while Mr. Obama may not be able to achieve socialism on his own watch, he's dedicated to setting it in motion, through health care, green energy, and more credits and cuts for education, Ms. Chavez feeling that its the utopian hubris that Mr. Obama firmly believes in that's driving this ruinous set of decisions, and Mr. Lambro predicting that the end result of all this will be economic collapse. It all sort of culminates in comedian David Limbaugh's histrionics about the Socialists taking over, as it touches on all of these points in brief.
Last out, the WSJ gives voice to those who are going to refuse federal stimulus money because they feel the states will be left holding the bag at the end, while praising their own ability to come out ahead, as county executives, because they made "tough decisions" on the budget.
In technology, insight into how professional athletes dose and experiment on themselves with performance-enhancements, pictures of professional darkrooms, a concept drawing of a hovercar, using gerbils to combat bubonic plague, and fitting a decently-powered computer onto a credit card-sized module.
And last for tonight... the Beard Head.
