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Mar. 17th, 2009 01:19 amAnd we’re up and running again. We’ve met an apt illustration on the necessity of correct spelling, someone who apparently found marijuana on the side of a highway, decided to keep it to grow and sell, and then told the police as much when they raided him, and an ultra-nationalist party utilizing a foreign plane in their advertisements about how excellent the domestic military was.
And that’s before the real news. A different prelate in the Vatican has denounced the excommunication decision in Brazil, at least for the doctors, because they were saving the girl's life. He also said that rushes to excommunication judgment hurt the Church’s image and do not adequately convey things the church should be offering, like mercy. He did not go so far as to say the rule about abortions was wrong, however. So, at least for showing that the Catholic Church is not a monolith, good. Arizona’s House, however, is going to get crushed by the Unabashed Feminism Department, passing a new series of abortion restrictions that mandate a 24-hour waiting period and a lecture about child support and alternative services, like adoption and care assistance. The bill also makes it legal for any professional to both refuse to perform or assist an in abortion or to prescribe/fill/sell any “morning-after” contraception, even to a rape survivor, and without having to tell them where they can get such medication. The worst part of it is state Rep. Frank Antenori, who claimed the legislature had “a duty to protect either our wives or our daughters from making decisions that may come back to haunt them further down the road in their lives”. Because nobody going in to get an abortion hasn’t thought about it several times and needs to wait and be told about all the alternatives before they make that kind of decision. Stupid, stupid legislator.
United States troops will stay on in insecure areas with withdrawals supposedly needing to be negotiatied with the Iraqi government, perhaps in conjunction with rethinking doctrine about only needing to fight two wars at a time, Pakistan's recently-fired chief justice will be reinstated, and Osama bin Laden urging Arab leaders to join on with his jihad instead of allying themselves with the rest of the world.
In Sudan, the Sudanese president has declared that he wants international aid groups to stop operating in his country, accusing them of working with the International Criminal Court to indict him for war crimes. The Christian Science Monitor wonders whether or not kidnapping and then releasing aid workers is part of the strategy to get them to leave so that Darfur suffers even more.
Domestically, a composite attempt to explain why things suck so bad economically - the confluence of Bad Things all come together in a crash. It’s also not helping, once it happened, that AIG continues to insist on giving out bonuses to the executives that brought them to failure and bailout. They certainly aren’t based on merit or performance, and it’s taxpayer money, too. Am beginning to think the only way to get the point across is to walk away from AIG and let them crash. President Obama might even be friendly to the idea, with his reaction to the bonus news. Might help out with the sound fundamentals of the economy that the President claims we have - workers, capital, and technology by freeing all three of them to go to places that will manage themselves better.
Bad economics means good gardening, however, as more people are growing their own vegetables to avoid paying for them.
On the heels of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer announcing that it will end its 146 year run of print newspapers, the major thread of conversation is ":The model of print newspapers is going to fail, but we're not sure yet what will replace it". Of course, when that happens, there won’t be quite as many places to stick all the oddball news.
In the opinions, Mr. Kripal on why Aldous Huxley may be more relevant to our lives now than before, considering how well we seem to be running toward his futures.
An unexpected effect of the economic collapse, is the power of moral scolds and culture warriors has dropped out sharply as people concentrate on their pay instead of what a preacher is telling them to think about stem cells or abortions. This is following a historical precedent, and it may cut the last remaining leg of Republicanism out and leave the party in collapse for a while. Ms. Zito doesn't believe this is the case, and that the President’s actions will remake the Republicans on the strength of their social conservatism. On the other hand, when the previous Vice President's best argument is that the current President is using the downturn as cover for expanding federal authority, including believing that the economic crisis and the health care industry are somehow not linked where trying to reform one might help the other (oh, and saying that the country’s less safe because the new President is reversing the old President’s stuff), and Mr. Beck pulls out an X-Files episode to claim there are secret FEMA concentration camps, it really doesn’t help the image of the conservative. Mr. Steele (not the RNC chair) notes that compared to liberals appearing to do stuff about minorities, conservatism's message of personal discipline falls short and flat. The most telling sign that things are falling apart, thoguh, might be the discourse within conservatism saying that the chair of the RNC (the other Mr. Steele) needs to be recalled for being insufficiently socially conservative.
Perhaps the best hope for the Republicans would be to let Megan McCain rise through the ranks into a position of power and let her rework the party by jettisoning all the Old White Men and telling the set-in-their ways conservatives to adapt or die. Possibly with a few “kiss-my-ass” remarks along the way. Who knows? Maybe Ms. McCain can even topple Boss Limbaugh.
Mr. McCullough has the poll numbers that say Persident Obama is a dismal failure, because everyone is worried that his policies will have the opposite effect of those intended, or will reward irresponsible people, because: corporations pass on additional tax costs to their consumers to protect their precious profits, a statement BillO echoes in complaining about how he will be paying higher taxes, the stimulus doesn’t actually create jobs, and our international diplomacy consists of insulting people who we should be friends with and befriending those people who laugh at us and insult us. The Morris-McGann combination thinks the President has no idea what he's doing, so now he’s radical, socialist, and incompetent. Adding in Mr. Bialosky's belief that the President is also hiding his true agenda, excepting at points when he speaks the truth and it’s a mess, isn’t it? Because, in less than two months in office, the Dow hasn’t jumped back up to 14,000 and everybody isn’t employed and making income that’s les than their payments. Mr. Barone believes that because of this, Mr. Obama should put aside the rest of his agenda and focus solely on bringing the economy back. The populace aren’t helping this much - we're getting into our own depressions, trying to fix them with medication, guns, gold coins, removing money from the bank, and other no-confidence issues. Perhaps the true tragedy is the shortening of our economic attention span.
Dan Gillmor notes that while economic recessions drive people to entrepreneurship because there are no other jobs, there are a lot of people who won't be joining that force, because they can't get health care. The premiums either become ruinous, they get denied because of their age or “pre-existing conditions”, and even if they do manage it, the health industry has a marked interest to keep collecting premiums and deny any claim they can. So a lot of older people won’t be joining entrepreneurship until there’s some sort of universal coverage.
Mr. Cline speaks about Employee Free Choice and how it's not socialism, and how much unions bring some amount of power, wealth, and democratic control of the company back to the workers, which is the real reasons conservatives want it destroyed. The comment squad points out that unions can be co-opted into making things worse for he workers under the guise of making things better, and that the people who really want egalitarianism and worker power are communists, not socialists. Regardless, The WSJ disapproves, and considers EFCA as making unions the vanguard of greater changes, like keeping Mexican shipping trucks out of the United States as a protectionist measure to favor unions.
Mr. Anderson says the best thing the Obama administration can do for Native Americans is to ease federal control and place reservation lands and people under the jurisdiction of the state.
Just before the science section, The WSJ on how everyone hates ethanol and how Congress should stop subsidizing it, and Drs. Schwartz, Holtorf and Brownstein on how it's safer for women to take bioidentical natural hormones rather than rely on synthetics.
In science and technology, a blogger in Liberia who uses his mobile to receive information and a blackboard to display it, the difficulties of dodging space debris, our behaviors help to keep us disease free, possibly including very abstract concepts like patriotism as part of our behavioral immunity, where we get xenophobic when we worry about foreign things infecting us, graphics card promising the ability to raytrace in realtime, capacitors that can hold lots and discharge their power very quickly, an idol in a hazmat suit as an advertisement for computer protection services. Makin a hazmat suit look hot has to be one of those things that can launch or make your career bigger. Kind of like managing to make modesty garments look sexy. Perhaps the fashion model robot will be able to duplicate the feat.
And last, recapturing your happiness and play by doing things to wreck your serious image. Stuff I do on a regular basis, I guess. An example: declaring that the cake is a lie in a bakery, causing a Thud resident to complaint about the deceptive desserts. Did we mention that supposedly, our biological mental abilities start declining as early as 27?
And that’s before the real news. A different prelate in the Vatican has denounced the excommunication decision in Brazil, at least for the doctors, because they were saving the girl's life. He also said that rushes to excommunication judgment hurt the Church’s image and do not adequately convey things the church should be offering, like mercy. He did not go so far as to say the rule about abortions was wrong, however. So, at least for showing that the Catholic Church is not a monolith, good. Arizona’s House, however, is going to get crushed by the Unabashed Feminism Department, passing a new series of abortion restrictions that mandate a 24-hour waiting period and a lecture about child support and alternative services, like adoption and care assistance. The bill also makes it legal for any professional to both refuse to perform or assist an in abortion or to prescribe/fill/sell any “morning-after” contraception, even to a rape survivor, and without having to tell them where they can get such medication. The worst part of it is state Rep. Frank Antenori, who claimed the legislature had “a duty to protect either our wives or our daughters from making decisions that may come back to haunt them further down the road in their lives”. Because nobody going in to get an abortion hasn’t thought about it several times and needs to wait and be told about all the alternatives before they make that kind of decision. Stupid, stupid legislator.
United States troops will stay on in insecure areas with withdrawals supposedly needing to be negotiatied with the Iraqi government, perhaps in conjunction with rethinking doctrine about only needing to fight two wars at a time, Pakistan's recently-fired chief justice will be reinstated, and Osama bin Laden urging Arab leaders to join on with his jihad instead of allying themselves with the rest of the world.
In Sudan, the Sudanese president has declared that he wants international aid groups to stop operating in his country, accusing them of working with the International Criminal Court to indict him for war crimes. The Christian Science Monitor wonders whether or not kidnapping and then releasing aid workers is part of the strategy to get them to leave so that Darfur suffers even more.
Domestically, a composite attempt to explain why things suck so bad economically - the confluence of Bad Things all come together in a crash. It’s also not helping, once it happened, that AIG continues to insist on giving out bonuses to the executives that brought them to failure and bailout. They certainly aren’t based on merit or performance, and it’s taxpayer money, too. Am beginning to think the only way to get the point across is to walk away from AIG and let them crash. President Obama might even be friendly to the idea, with his reaction to the bonus news. Might help out with the sound fundamentals of the economy that the President claims we have - workers, capital, and technology by freeing all three of them to go to places that will manage themselves better.
Bad economics means good gardening, however, as more people are growing their own vegetables to avoid paying for them.
On the heels of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer announcing that it will end its 146 year run of print newspapers, the major thread of conversation is ":The model of print newspapers is going to fail, but we're not sure yet what will replace it". Of course, when that happens, there won’t be quite as many places to stick all the oddball news.
In the opinions, Mr. Kripal on why Aldous Huxley may be more relevant to our lives now than before, considering how well we seem to be running toward his futures.
An unexpected effect of the economic collapse, is the power of moral scolds and culture warriors has dropped out sharply as people concentrate on their pay instead of what a preacher is telling them to think about stem cells or abortions. This is following a historical precedent, and it may cut the last remaining leg of Republicanism out and leave the party in collapse for a while. Ms. Zito doesn't believe this is the case, and that the President’s actions will remake the Republicans on the strength of their social conservatism. On the other hand, when the previous Vice President's best argument is that the current President is using the downturn as cover for expanding federal authority, including believing that the economic crisis and the health care industry are somehow not linked where trying to reform one might help the other (oh, and saying that the country’s less safe because the new President is reversing the old President’s stuff), and Mr. Beck pulls out an X-Files episode to claim there are secret FEMA concentration camps, it really doesn’t help the image of the conservative. Mr. Steele (not the RNC chair) notes that compared to liberals appearing to do stuff about minorities, conservatism's message of personal discipline falls short and flat. The most telling sign that things are falling apart, thoguh, might be the discourse within conservatism saying that the chair of the RNC (the other Mr. Steele) needs to be recalled for being insufficiently socially conservative.
Perhaps the best hope for the Republicans would be to let Megan McCain rise through the ranks into a position of power and let her rework the party by jettisoning all the Old White Men and telling the set-in-their ways conservatives to adapt or die. Possibly with a few “kiss-my-ass” remarks along the way. Who knows? Maybe Ms. McCain can even topple Boss Limbaugh.
Mr. McCullough has the poll numbers that say Persident Obama is a dismal failure, because everyone is worried that his policies will have the opposite effect of those intended, or will reward irresponsible people, because: corporations pass on additional tax costs to their consumers to protect their precious profits, a statement BillO echoes in complaining about how he will be paying higher taxes, the stimulus doesn’t actually create jobs, and our international diplomacy consists of insulting people who we should be friends with and befriending those people who laugh at us and insult us. The Morris-McGann combination thinks the President has no idea what he's doing, so now he’s radical, socialist, and incompetent. Adding in Mr. Bialosky's belief that the President is also hiding his true agenda, excepting at points when he speaks the truth and it’s a mess, isn’t it? Because, in less than two months in office, the Dow hasn’t jumped back up to 14,000 and everybody isn’t employed and making income that’s les than their payments. Mr. Barone believes that because of this, Mr. Obama should put aside the rest of his agenda and focus solely on bringing the economy back. The populace aren’t helping this much - we're getting into our own depressions, trying to fix them with medication, guns, gold coins, removing money from the bank, and other no-confidence issues. Perhaps the true tragedy is the shortening of our economic attention span.
Dan Gillmor notes that while economic recessions drive people to entrepreneurship because there are no other jobs, there are a lot of people who won't be joining that force, because they can't get health care. The premiums either become ruinous, they get denied because of their age or “pre-existing conditions”, and even if they do manage it, the health industry has a marked interest to keep collecting premiums and deny any claim they can. So a lot of older people won’t be joining entrepreneurship until there’s some sort of universal coverage.
Mr. Cline speaks about Employee Free Choice and how it's not socialism, and how much unions bring some amount of power, wealth, and democratic control of the company back to the workers, which is the real reasons conservatives want it destroyed. The comment squad points out that unions can be co-opted into making things worse for he workers under the guise of making things better, and that the people who really want egalitarianism and worker power are communists, not socialists. Regardless, The WSJ disapproves, and considers EFCA as making unions the vanguard of greater changes, like keeping Mexican shipping trucks out of the United States as a protectionist measure to favor unions.
Mr. Anderson says the best thing the Obama administration can do for Native Americans is to ease federal control and place reservation lands and people under the jurisdiction of the state.
Just before the science section, The WSJ on how everyone hates ethanol and how Congress should stop subsidizing it, and Drs. Schwartz, Holtorf and Brownstein on how it's safer for women to take bioidentical natural hormones rather than rely on synthetics.
In science and technology, a blogger in Liberia who uses his mobile to receive information and a blackboard to display it, the difficulties of dodging space debris, our behaviors help to keep us disease free, possibly including very abstract concepts like patriotism as part of our behavioral immunity, where we get xenophobic when we worry about foreign things infecting us, graphics card promising the ability to raytrace in realtime, capacitors that can hold lots and discharge their power very quickly, an idol in a hazmat suit as an advertisement for computer protection services. Makin a hazmat suit look hot has to be one of those things that can launch or make your career bigger. Kind of like managing to make modesty garments look sexy. Perhaps the fashion model robot will be able to duplicate the feat.
And last, recapturing your happiness and play by doing things to wreck your serious image. Stuff I do on a regular basis, I guess. An example: declaring that the cake is a lie in a bakery, causing a Thud resident to complaint about the deceptive desserts. Did we mention that supposedly, our biological mental abilities start declining as early as 27?
