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Variations on a link - 18 March 2009
Mar. 19th, 2009 12:28 amYesterday, the water fountain at the White House had a definite green shade, as the First Lady sought to recreate a tradition of Chicago in Washington. I believe “Don’t drink the water” will suffice at this point and we’ll move on to...
Illusions of the tactile variety, good for trying on your friends. There’s also the Ghille suit, which lets you blend into natural surroundings. Hey, speaking of illusions, guess who’s caught in a big one? If you said, “The Pope”, then you’ve already seen the article where the former head of the inquisition says that condomds don't stop HIV/AIDS, instead, they spread it. Just in case you wondered whether the Catholic Church really cared about your life, they’d rather you got a degenerative immunological disease from unprotected sex than to keep your health but also forego the chance of getting pregnant. Stupid, stupid pontiff. Clearly, the Pope is the winner of the Slacktivist's outrage, beyond even AIG. Although the columnist describing the girl he bagged in as shameful (to her) terms as possible runs a pretty close second. A very close second.
In Australia, linking to a site on the blacklist will net you a fine of about $11,000 a day. The fact that there are blacklists says lots about what those countries think of their populous. Libraries there may have to maintain information in book form on all the topics prohibited from the web, or something.
In Canada, first the science minister said that he wouldn't say whether he believed in evolution or not, considering it a religious question and not a science one (that should have been a crozier offense right there, but...), but after a bit, he said he did believe in the existence of evolution, at least in people adapting to their environment. Others said that a belief in evolution is not a requirement to be the science minister (crozier offense number two). I want to know when belief in evolution became a religious question instead of one supported by science, and thus, a scientific question utterly appropriate for the sciecne minister to answer.
Out in Russia, the president has called for a rearmament of forces, including nuclear possibilities, because NATO is knocking too close to his doorstep. The United States president says this declaration is not a cause for alarm, as NATO is defensive and no active threat to Russia. What may raise more eyes, well, if you’re interested in the One World Government that supposedly happens before the End of Days, is a proposal, unlikely to be adopted, of a single reserve currency to be used by international banking organizations, suggested by Russia, home of the Godless Commies.
The President of the U.N. General Assembly criticized the United States's rhetoric on Iran, the ICC for their arrest warrant against the Sudeanese president, and mentioned that the conditions in Palestine are looking like apartheid, in his opinion. Expect the firestorm to arrive with lots of “Well, who needs the UN anyway? They’re just a bunch of leftists with no grasp on reality”.
Realizing that he’s a sitting duck if he does, the previous administrator refused to criticize his successor at his speaking engagement in Canada. A pretty bright move, unlike his Vice President’s decision to lay into the new group.
Here in America, ever want to hear Bill'sO narrate his own audiobook, complete with sexual situations? Well, if not, I wouldn’t go looking for the audiobook mentioned in the link.
A quick flashback and whatever happened to the program where the FBI deuptized businesses and fed them secret information in return for secret information from them? And moving forward, for as much as there has been a comittment to open and transparent government, the negotiations on a potentially harsher and likely unconstitutional treaty regarding copyrighted works has been anything but.
Pfizer accused of deliberate misleading and fixing the science on their drug Neurontin to quash the very real problems it had, so that it could make money on it, much like how Zyprexa, an antispychotic, got concealed and then marketed for off-label use, like as a treatment for ADHD.
Five very lucky children each survived a fall from a 75-foot cliff, sliding one after another in an attempt to rescue the previous one gone over.
The cost of universal-type health care may be double-to-triple what has been initially put down, according to the Lewin Group. It’s a generational cost to get everyone insured, which makes numbers that much more important, but I can see this as ammunition about how we can’t afford the Obama agenda, or at least until the economy picks up again. Mr. Obama continues to defend the idea that Presidents and the country can and should walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s also rolled out a website for people to take a pledge to support this idea. And thus, incoming opinions. Criticisms say the Obama administration should behave more like Delaware, the most business-friendly, pro-corporate, and a low-tax state, instead of California, which has high taxes and higher deficits. Mr. Rahn defends the idea of putting one's money in an offshore account so as to avoid paying United States taxes on it, so that it can be collected and then reinvested in the United States on capital projects, and because United States taxes are clearly too punitive and onerous. The simple solution is to, of course, reduce the taxes and treat everyone investing in the country with the same lax rules as people are looking for in those offshore accounts. Mr. Rehbein slams the still only-a-proposal to look into possibly requiring veterans to carry some private insurance along with their VA coverage.
Cryptogon says that the outrage at AIG's bonuses is a con game to get people mad at millions while billions disappear.
The WSJ seems almost delighted to comment on the linguistic changes that remove the word enemy combatant while preserving basically all of the justifications and prerogatives asserted by the last administration on detaining them. They certainly like the ability to claim that President Obama is just like his predecessor in all ways, and that the liberal left has to either experience cognitive dissonance, criticize their God, Obama, or admit that they didn’t like them just because they were Mr. Bush’s policies. Ms. Meister takes this theme and runs with it, providing facetious phrases for replacing the forbidden enemy combatants while accusing the President of having no stones on security at all.
Mr. Prelutsky goes one step further, declaring Mr. Obama a socialist, a cheat, and a liar.
The Mexican ambassador to the United States accuses the U.S. of not respecting NAFTA in its latest protectionist scheme to keep Mexican trucks off American roads.
Mr. Gaubatz sees Muslim terrorists of Somali origin in Nashville, with a terrorist bent based on his analysis of the material and teachings inside a mosque. His attempts to contact law enforcement and say that there are terrorists in their backyard was rebuffed, with the requirement of “hard evidence” cited as the reason, as well as a disinclination to go raiding without it because of the sue-happy Americans. Sorry, Mr. Gaubatz, “innocent until proven guilty” strikes again. The ACLU agrees, with complaints about an intelligence-type memo that used CAIR as an example in how pro-terror groups are finding and building sympathetic networks of Muslims in the United States. There’s also a broader claim of discrimination against Muslims in the ACLU report, because encouraging law enforcement officials to think of all Muslims as terrorists has definite disadvantages, akin to Driving While Black.
The runner-up for today’s flaming quiche is Mr. Sowell, mostly for declaring Ronald Reagan to be God Himself for Republicans, Boss Limbaugh to be factual and analytical, Ms. Coulter to be articulate and intelligent, and Governor Palin to be the best thing for the Republican Party, but also for saying that Republicans have been unwilling to make the argument that blacks have been hurt most by liberals because of teacher’s unions, environmental concerns, and the ACLU, resulting in bad education and worse ghettos for the minority population. He considers Mr. Steele, Mr. McCain, and most especially Ms. McCain, current firebrand for a more moderate Republicanism, as being inconsistent, inarticulate, and more interested in being accepted by the elite than in sticking to the conservative principles of Republicanism, leading them to distance themselves from their best assets. Who are, again, Boss Limbaugh, Ms. Coulter, and Governor Palin. It can’t quite win Worst Person honors, however, because...
Our quiche winner for domestic opinions is Mr. Paulson, who suggests that Rand hero John Galt's idea of the richest of the rich going on strike until they get what they want is the right way to go here. The thing he wants - a flat tax and a reversal of hte socialism slide he sees. Which would neatly let the rich keep their riches (mostly) while punishing the poorer by requiring they pay a larget portion of their income into taxation. Not to mention those riches would die and dwindle very quickly if the rich went on strike.
In technology, pillows for working late, so that no matter how you fall asleep, you might still look like you’re working behind the monitor, a lost finger replaced with a prosthetic that doubles as a USB drive, new organisms existing in the stratosphere, all of which are highly radiation-resistant, using living walls to hold up the buildings, using DNA cages to guide nanoparticle assembly, slimmer nanorods of copper, good for new chips, the beginnings of memristor chip experimentation,
And last for tonight, a bat hitched a ride on the space shuttle, and happy birthday (yesterday) to William Gibson, who coined a phrase people still like to use today.
Illusions of the tactile variety, good for trying on your friends. There’s also the Ghille suit, which lets you blend into natural surroundings. Hey, speaking of illusions, guess who’s caught in a big one? If you said, “The Pope”, then you’ve already seen the article where the former head of the inquisition says that condomds don't stop HIV/AIDS, instead, they spread it. Just in case you wondered whether the Catholic Church really cared about your life, they’d rather you got a degenerative immunological disease from unprotected sex than to keep your health but also forego the chance of getting pregnant. Stupid, stupid pontiff. Clearly, the Pope is the winner of the Slacktivist's outrage, beyond even AIG. Although the columnist describing the girl he bagged in as shameful (to her) terms as possible runs a pretty close second. A very close second.
In Australia, linking to a site on the blacklist will net you a fine of about $11,000 a day. The fact that there are blacklists says lots about what those countries think of their populous. Libraries there may have to maintain information in book form on all the topics prohibited from the web, or something.
In Canada, first the science minister said that he wouldn't say whether he believed in evolution or not, considering it a religious question and not a science one (that should have been a crozier offense right there, but...), but after a bit, he said he did believe in the existence of evolution, at least in people adapting to their environment. Others said that a belief in evolution is not a requirement to be the science minister (crozier offense number two). I want to know when belief in evolution became a religious question instead of one supported by science, and thus, a scientific question utterly appropriate for the sciecne minister to answer.
Out in Russia, the president has called for a rearmament of forces, including nuclear possibilities, because NATO is knocking too close to his doorstep. The United States president says this declaration is not a cause for alarm, as NATO is defensive and no active threat to Russia. What may raise more eyes, well, if you’re interested in the One World Government that supposedly happens before the End of Days, is a proposal, unlikely to be adopted, of a single reserve currency to be used by international banking organizations, suggested by Russia, home of the Godless Commies.
The President of the U.N. General Assembly criticized the United States's rhetoric on Iran, the ICC for their arrest warrant against the Sudeanese president, and mentioned that the conditions in Palestine are looking like apartheid, in his opinion. Expect the firestorm to arrive with lots of “Well, who needs the UN anyway? They’re just a bunch of leftists with no grasp on reality”.
Realizing that he’s a sitting duck if he does, the previous administrator refused to criticize his successor at his speaking engagement in Canada. A pretty bright move, unlike his Vice President’s decision to lay into the new group.
Here in America, ever want to hear Bill'sO narrate his own audiobook, complete with sexual situations? Well, if not, I wouldn’t go looking for the audiobook mentioned in the link.
A quick flashback and whatever happened to the program where the FBI deuptized businesses and fed them secret information in return for secret information from them? And moving forward, for as much as there has been a comittment to open and transparent government, the negotiations on a potentially harsher and likely unconstitutional treaty regarding copyrighted works has been anything but.
Pfizer accused of deliberate misleading and fixing the science on their drug Neurontin to quash the very real problems it had, so that it could make money on it, much like how Zyprexa, an antispychotic, got concealed and then marketed for off-label use, like as a treatment for ADHD.
Five very lucky children each survived a fall from a 75-foot cliff, sliding one after another in an attempt to rescue the previous one gone over.
The cost of universal-type health care may be double-to-triple what has been initially put down, according to the Lewin Group. It’s a generational cost to get everyone insured, which makes numbers that much more important, but I can see this as ammunition about how we can’t afford the Obama agenda, or at least until the economy picks up again. Mr. Obama continues to defend the idea that Presidents and the country can and should walk and chew gum at the same time. He’s also rolled out a website for people to take a pledge to support this idea. And thus, incoming opinions. Criticisms say the Obama administration should behave more like Delaware, the most business-friendly, pro-corporate, and a low-tax state, instead of California, which has high taxes and higher deficits. Mr. Rahn defends the idea of putting one's money in an offshore account so as to avoid paying United States taxes on it, so that it can be collected and then reinvested in the United States on capital projects, and because United States taxes are clearly too punitive and onerous. The simple solution is to, of course, reduce the taxes and treat everyone investing in the country with the same lax rules as people are looking for in those offshore accounts. Mr. Rehbein slams the still only-a-proposal to look into possibly requiring veterans to carry some private insurance along with their VA coverage.
Cryptogon says that the outrage at AIG's bonuses is a con game to get people mad at millions while billions disappear.
The WSJ seems almost delighted to comment on the linguistic changes that remove the word enemy combatant while preserving basically all of the justifications and prerogatives asserted by the last administration on detaining them. They certainly like the ability to claim that President Obama is just like his predecessor in all ways, and that the liberal left has to either experience cognitive dissonance, criticize their God, Obama, or admit that they didn’t like them just because they were Mr. Bush’s policies. Ms. Meister takes this theme and runs with it, providing facetious phrases for replacing the forbidden enemy combatants while accusing the President of having no stones on security at all.
Mr. Prelutsky goes one step further, declaring Mr. Obama a socialist, a cheat, and a liar.
The Mexican ambassador to the United States accuses the U.S. of not respecting NAFTA in its latest protectionist scheme to keep Mexican trucks off American roads.
Mr. Gaubatz sees Muslim terrorists of Somali origin in Nashville, with a terrorist bent based on his analysis of the material and teachings inside a mosque. His attempts to contact law enforcement and say that there are terrorists in their backyard was rebuffed, with the requirement of “hard evidence” cited as the reason, as well as a disinclination to go raiding without it because of the sue-happy Americans. Sorry, Mr. Gaubatz, “innocent until proven guilty” strikes again. The ACLU agrees, with complaints about an intelligence-type memo that used CAIR as an example in how pro-terror groups are finding and building sympathetic networks of Muslims in the United States. There’s also a broader claim of discrimination against Muslims in the ACLU report, because encouraging law enforcement officials to think of all Muslims as terrorists has definite disadvantages, akin to Driving While Black.
The runner-up for today’s flaming quiche is Mr. Sowell, mostly for declaring Ronald Reagan to be God Himself for Republicans, Boss Limbaugh to be factual and analytical, Ms. Coulter to be articulate and intelligent, and Governor Palin to be the best thing for the Republican Party, but also for saying that Republicans have been unwilling to make the argument that blacks have been hurt most by liberals because of teacher’s unions, environmental concerns, and the ACLU, resulting in bad education and worse ghettos for the minority population. He considers Mr. Steele, Mr. McCain, and most especially Ms. McCain, current firebrand for a more moderate Republicanism, as being inconsistent, inarticulate, and more interested in being accepted by the elite than in sticking to the conservative principles of Republicanism, leading them to distance themselves from their best assets. Who are, again, Boss Limbaugh, Ms. Coulter, and Governor Palin. It can’t quite win Worst Person honors, however, because...
Our quiche winner for domestic opinions is Mr. Paulson, who suggests that Rand hero John Galt's idea of the richest of the rich going on strike until they get what they want is the right way to go here. The thing he wants - a flat tax and a reversal of hte socialism slide he sees. Which would neatly let the rich keep their riches (mostly) while punishing the poorer by requiring they pay a larget portion of their income into taxation. Not to mention those riches would die and dwindle very quickly if the rich went on strike.
In technology, pillows for working late, so that no matter how you fall asleep, you might still look like you’re working behind the monitor, a lost finger replaced with a prosthetic that doubles as a USB drive, new organisms existing in the stratosphere, all of which are highly radiation-resistant, using living walls to hold up the buildings, using DNA cages to guide nanoparticle assembly, slimmer nanorods of copper, good for new chips, the beginnings of memristor chip experimentation,
And last for tonight, a bat hitched a ride on the space shuttle, and happy birthday (yesterday) to William Gibson, who coined a phrase people still like to use today.
