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Loading into higher processes... passing by someone's idea of Cosplay Hell, a slice of life where two sides of the same purpose meet, having a quick gandering in at the original resolution intended to say "C. Richard Dawkins, Will You Please Go Now?", a significantly more creationist screed, noting there are some in North Dakota that do not believe in human-cyborg relations, having already expressed their distate for members of the same gender forming lasting legal relationships, and bouncing well away from the Vatican defending the mass excommunication ordered by a Brazillian bishop, excommunicating everyone who helped a 9 year-old girl pregnant with twins get an abortion, except the girl herself and the rapist who triggered the situation. Furthermore, the Vatican placed abortion as a more heinous crime than rape, and even child rape, in its heirarchy. The institution of Catholicism is not making a strong showing as to why anyone would want to subscribe to it or join the priesthood.
International-like, Israel hurriedly admits Iran has nuclear weapon capabilities, despite the attempts to seem languid. Prologue has begun. North Korea warns of dire consequences if their launch is messed with, while saying they can't guarantee the safety of air traffic near their launch zone. (Although there may be a leader change soon.) The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe did not implicate foul play in the accident that injured him and claimed his wife. Iraq's Prime Minister says the awarding of parliamentary seats based on religious sect or ethnic affiliation should stop, the Palestinian prime minster resigns, the president of Afghanistan hopes that moderate elements of the Taliban choose to join up with the government, following Mr. Obama's consideration that co-opting might be better than conquering, a strategy that his predecessor played out to what many see as a satisfactory end. And close to home, The current administrator believes that relations with Cuba could stand to warm some.
Domestically, Mr. Obama has deleted the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. Expect the “He’z killin’ babiez!” rhetoric to appear soon.
The grey wolf will be leaving the endangered species list.
Be careful when selling on eBay as well as buying - especially with Paypal.
Still plenty of money being pushed out the door to help our banking overlords, even though the situation on the ground doesn’t seem to be improving at all. Nationalization, even temporarily, is gaining support in some circles and complete opposition, like from an executive of Bank of America, in others.
Republicans are calling for GM to go bankrupt and for the government to stop supporting them. If that’s the case, can they pull the plug on AIG and all the other firms that are currently propped up by government cash? And then there are the "tea parties", where spending lots on war and foreign matters is okay, but spending lots on domestic requirements is just too much, apparently.
An act in the government that would require even farmer's market growers to register and submit to random inspection by a federal agency? All, of course, in the name of making sure that our food is safe. One might think that would mean turning a baleful eye to large manufacturers and focusing on them, instead of potentially harrassing farmer’s market growers. It would be consistent, at least, if everyone had to sign on.
A pastor gets shot during his morning services. Very little on details of the why someone was shooting up the churchman.
But that’s not what the wingers at WND are looking at. No, they complain that anyone trying to add information about Obama's birth status and/or associations with Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers gets their material scrubbed and tempbanned.
In opinions, Austin Cline on why Rush Limbaugh as the leader fo the Republican Party, real or perceived, is a big benefit to liberals. Plus, it makes for creative remixing to get the message across. I don’t think Rush ever would have thought he’s find himself in an image with Osama bin Laden.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti tells the Globe and Mail that anyone expecting visionary radicalness from President Obama will be disappointed, as the people elected a centrist that will do centrist things. So if people want to have a revolution, they should probably, like, make one and be the political people they claim to be. Medical marijuana legalization might be the place to start. Or, if they’re for transparency, they could be pawns directed by the WSJ to rail against his warrantless wiretapping stand, which they point out is so very Bush/Cheney-like that liberals should be having fits! They might be too busy laughing that the guy who authorized torture is trying to tell the country that the security policies adopted on his recommendations are sound and should be followed, lest we be attacked again.
Mr. Stokes considers Mr. Obama's plans to be the descendents of President Johnson, with the same failure as the conclusion, Mr. Hanson declares there's no confidence in the economy or in the ability of people to keep the money they earn, Mr. McCullough declares that the Obama administration is stalling on solving the problems so they can implement their agenda properly, using our misery and the prolonged problems as the catalysts for changing us into what they want us to be, under the idea that a good crisis should not be wasted. Mr. Krauthammer, while not accusing Mr. Obama of stalling, does say that there has been conflation of the real causes of teh crisis and the agenda the President wants to push through. Mr. Goldberg accusses the President of being two-faced in his actions compared to his campaign promises. and The WSJ believes that we should be following New Zealand's lead in how we try for recovery (and not coincidentally because he holds many of the same views they do), and points to a hole in Brooklyn as their proof that government can't do anything right and on budget, and Mr. Steyn thinks the Obama snub of Mr. Brown is reflective of a greater desire for Europe to stay out of his way as he remakes the American economy, when all they were asking for is for America’s economic engine to pull them out of the quagmire everyone’s in.
The WSJ in Asia believes that strong human-rights diplomacy on Tibet is the right way to go after China, citing results from the last administration. Mr. Hamid wants us to start blaming Islam for the reprehensible things that it teaches. Mr. Boehner beleives that the Congress doesn't care about schoolchildren, because they’ll nix a voucher program in D.C. as the poison pill of the omnibus spending package, a position that Ms. Fields ascribes to the President as well, after a rather long and non-sequitorial way of getting there.
Mr. Driessen calls global warming arguments "bait-and-switch" tactics, in his attempt to make people believe there’s still controversy over the matter of anthropogenic climate change, with the support of a very vocal minority (and some bait-and-switch of his own - there’s 650+ who are deniers, but there’s this 32,000 group that say they believe the debate isn’t settled yet). Or perhaps he believes that global warming can't be happening - look at all that cold! On a different topic, The Culture and Media Institute says the study about red staters, and thus conservatives, are the bigger pr0n consumers is fuzzy math and single-sourced propaganda touted as a real study, with those disputing... all being columnists for right-wing leaning material and not much for the academic credentials one might expect for someone disputing it. Floyd and Mary Beth Brown continue to accuse the media of being propagandists and shills for liberalism and the Obama administration, so bias and accusations all around.
I think the most vitriol of the session, though, goes to Burt Prelutsky, who cannot understand why anyone still has any respect left for Mr. Obama, based on many of the reasons above, as well as his own politically incorrect views about race relations via the Attorney General. The title even makes me wonder whether he wants to say “He’s not my President”, but he realizes that, well, he doesn’t have a small margin of error to claim a stolen election with, plus he wouldn’t want to sully himself by lowering his standards and rhetoric to that of the liberals who went around saying that about Mr. Obama’s predecessor.
Last out, the Girl with a One-Track Mind talks about how it's considered societally acceptable to comment on a woman's food selection, and how stupid it makes someone sound when they do, especially out of ignorance.
In technology, apparently, "smelling fear" is no longer merely a metaphor, the chimps will soon be making a bid to dominate us, thought-controlled wheelchairs, stem cells possibly helping recovery from stroke, a well-networked array of sensors telling us about the planetary skin, analyzing protiens while still in their cells, trying to find the scientific balance between selfish genes and behaviors that run counter to that idea, many of them involved in fitness decisions.
and an engine that intends to return correct answers to factual queries, no guessing involved.
And last for today, Groceteria, charting and tracking the rise and expansion of the supermarket in America. Or possibly a swarm of plushie rats that would require a pied piper to fix. What may be the most disturbing, however, is a dodecahedral version of the Rubik's Cube.
Loading into higher processes... passing by someone's idea of Cosplay Hell, a slice of life where two sides of the same purpose meet, having a quick gandering in at the original resolution intended to say "C. Richard Dawkins, Will You Please Go Now?", a significantly more creationist screed, noting there are some in North Dakota that do not believe in human-cyborg relations, having already expressed their distate for members of the same gender forming lasting legal relationships, and bouncing well away from the Vatican defending the mass excommunication ordered by a Brazillian bishop, excommunicating everyone who helped a 9 year-old girl pregnant with twins get an abortion, except the girl herself and the rapist who triggered the situation. Furthermore, the Vatican placed abortion as a more heinous crime than rape, and even child rape, in its heirarchy. The institution of Catholicism is not making a strong showing as to why anyone would want to subscribe to it or join the priesthood.
International-like, Israel hurriedly admits Iran has nuclear weapon capabilities, despite the attempts to seem languid. Prologue has begun. North Korea warns of dire consequences if their launch is messed with, while saying they can't guarantee the safety of air traffic near their launch zone. (Although there may be a leader change soon.) The Prime Minister of Zimbabwe did not implicate foul play in the accident that injured him and claimed his wife. Iraq's Prime Minister says the awarding of parliamentary seats based on religious sect or ethnic affiliation should stop, the Palestinian prime minster resigns, the president of Afghanistan hopes that moderate elements of the Taliban choose to join up with the government, following Mr. Obama's consideration that co-opting might be better than conquering, a strategy that his predecessor played out to what many see as a satisfactory end. And close to home, The current administrator believes that relations with Cuba could stand to warm some.
Domestically, Mr. Obama has deleted the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. Expect the “He’z killin’ babiez!” rhetoric to appear soon.
The grey wolf will be leaving the endangered species list.
Be careful when selling on eBay as well as buying - especially with Paypal.
Still plenty of money being pushed out the door to help our banking overlords, even though the situation on the ground doesn’t seem to be improving at all. Nationalization, even temporarily, is gaining support in some circles and complete opposition, like from an executive of Bank of America, in others.
Republicans are calling for GM to go bankrupt and for the government to stop supporting them. If that’s the case, can they pull the plug on AIG and all the other firms that are currently propped up by government cash? And then there are the "tea parties", where spending lots on war and foreign matters is okay, but spending lots on domestic requirements is just too much, apparently.
An act in the government that would require even farmer's market growers to register and submit to random inspection by a federal agency? All, of course, in the name of making sure that our food is safe. One might think that would mean turning a baleful eye to large manufacturers and focusing on them, instead of potentially harrassing farmer’s market growers. It would be consistent, at least, if everyone had to sign on.
A pastor gets shot during his morning services. Very little on details of the why someone was shooting up the churchman.
But that’s not what the wingers at WND are looking at. No, they complain that anyone trying to add information about Obama's birth status and/or associations with Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers gets their material scrubbed and tempbanned.
In opinions, Austin Cline on why Rush Limbaugh as the leader fo the Republican Party, real or perceived, is a big benefit to liberals. Plus, it makes for creative remixing to get the message across. I don’t think Rush ever would have thought he’s find himself in an image with Osama bin Laden.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti tells the Globe and Mail that anyone expecting visionary radicalness from President Obama will be disappointed, as the people elected a centrist that will do centrist things. So if people want to have a revolution, they should probably, like, make one and be the political people they claim to be. Medical marijuana legalization might be the place to start. Or, if they’re for transparency, they could be pawns directed by the WSJ to rail against his warrantless wiretapping stand, which they point out is so very Bush/Cheney-like that liberals should be having fits! They might be too busy laughing that the guy who authorized torture is trying to tell the country that the security policies adopted on his recommendations are sound and should be followed, lest we be attacked again.
Mr. Stokes considers Mr. Obama's plans to be the descendents of President Johnson, with the same failure as the conclusion, Mr. Hanson declares there's no confidence in the economy or in the ability of people to keep the money they earn, Mr. McCullough declares that the Obama administration is stalling on solving the problems so they can implement their agenda properly, using our misery and the prolonged problems as the catalysts for changing us into what they want us to be, under the idea that a good crisis should not be wasted. Mr. Krauthammer, while not accusing Mr. Obama of stalling, does say that there has been conflation of the real causes of teh crisis and the agenda the President wants to push through. Mr. Goldberg accusses the President of being two-faced in his actions compared to his campaign promises. and The WSJ believes that we should be following New Zealand's lead in how we try for recovery (and not coincidentally because he holds many of the same views they do), and points to a hole in Brooklyn as their proof that government can't do anything right and on budget, and Mr. Steyn thinks the Obama snub of Mr. Brown is reflective of a greater desire for Europe to stay out of his way as he remakes the American economy, when all they were asking for is for America’s economic engine to pull them out of the quagmire everyone’s in.
The WSJ in Asia believes that strong human-rights diplomacy on Tibet is the right way to go after China, citing results from the last administration. Mr. Hamid wants us to start blaming Islam for the reprehensible things that it teaches. Mr. Boehner beleives that the Congress doesn't care about schoolchildren, because they’ll nix a voucher program in D.C. as the poison pill of the omnibus spending package, a position that Ms. Fields ascribes to the President as well, after a rather long and non-sequitorial way of getting there.
Mr. Driessen calls global warming arguments "bait-and-switch" tactics, in his attempt to make people believe there’s still controversy over the matter of anthropogenic climate change, with the support of a very vocal minority (and some bait-and-switch of his own - there’s 650+ who are deniers, but there’s this 32,000 group that say they believe the debate isn’t settled yet). Or perhaps he believes that global warming can't be happening - look at all that cold! On a different topic, The Culture and Media Institute says the study about red staters, and thus conservatives, are the bigger pr0n consumers is fuzzy math and single-sourced propaganda touted as a real study, with those disputing... all being columnists for right-wing leaning material and not much for the academic credentials one might expect for someone disputing it. Floyd and Mary Beth Brown continue to accuse the media of being propagandists and shills for liberalism and the Obama administration, so bias and accusations all around.
I think the most vitriol of the session, though, goes to Burt Prelutsky, who cannot understand why anyone still has any respect left for Mr. Obama, based on many of the reasons above, as well as his own politically incorrect views about race relations via the Attorney General. The title even makes me wonder whether he wants to say “He’s not my President”, but he realizes that, well, he doesn’t have a small margin of error to claim a stolen election with, plus he wouldn’t want to sully himself by lowering his standards and rhetoric to that of the liberals who went around saying that about Mr. Obama’s predecessor.
Last out, the Girl with a One-Track Mind talks about how it's considered societally acceptable to comment on a woman's food selection, and how stupid it makes someone sound when they do, especially out of ignorance.
In technology, apparently, "smelling fear" is no longer merely a metaphor, the chimps will soon be making a bid to dominate us, thought-controlled wheelchairs, stem cells possibly helping recovery from stroke, a well-networked array of sensors telling us about the planetary skin, analyzing protiens while still in their cells, trying to find the scientific balance between selfish genes and behaviors that run counter to that idea, many of them involved in fitness decisions.
and an engine that intends to return correct answers to factual queries, no guessing involved.
And last for today, Groceteria, charting and tracking the rise and expansion of the supermarket in America. Or possibly a swarm of plushie rats that would require a pied piper to fix. What may be the most disturbing, however, is a dodecahedral version of the Rubik's Cube.
