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Much more to be seen - 24 March 2009
Mar. 25th, 2009 12:33 amAt the beginning of today’s inspiring news, a dedication to the two librarians killed in an accident on the way to the airport in Denver some time ago.
In the world, A Taliban commander killed in Afghanistan. I wonder if it will be like all the al-Qaeda commanders that we keep killing at stretches. Considering they're being painted as a resilient opponent, I’m betting on a lot of commanders dying.
An aid worker was shot in the Darfur region of Sudan, continuing on the current policy to expel all aid workers from the country... or making an unfortunate coincidence where a robbery is seen as part of a greater plan. A member of Fatah was killed in Lebanon. Could we have a day or two where all the killing just stops? Where we could dedicate our efforts to things like fixing sanitation issues in the slums of the world?
A conference intended on bringing together Nobel laureates to discuss how football can bring peace to nations was postponed after South Africa refused to let the Dalai Lama take part. South Africa denies that pressure from Beijing played a part in their decisions, but it’s hard not to see China’s shadow looming over any visit by the Tibetan leader.
Domestically, following on from yesterday - those companies that are buying up water for use? They're doing it before the farmers and the agribusiness can, which could mean they choke the food industry to make the oil that would transport it.
CNS wants you to believe that no good excepting higher prices can come from the cap-and-trade system, and that Democrats are gunning for it, even accepting the higher prices, because the environment is of that much concern. Everyone admits everywhere that the consumers are going to be paying for it. The American Thinker uses it and other objects as proof that the President has already broken his pledge not to increase taxes on the poorest. So they’re all in agreement - this will be a tax on the poorest of the poor because companies will not pay anything more than they have to in taxes.
Why hasn’t anyone actually looked at that and asked whether it had to be that way? While windfall profits are being hidden for fear of rousing the populace’s anger again, there still has to be some in reserve somewhere that could be used to pay for all of this without passing too much of cost onto the consumer, if any at all. CNS also wants you to think that the Obama administration has no care for deficit reduction, as they prioritize recovery of the economy, even pushing forth with the budget that's been told it will bankrupt the country.
Welcome to the party, Reuters. You're late on how much of the populace is resisting Obama plans, whether because they think it will bankrupt the country or they’re reluctant to continue shoveling dollars at corporations that are predisposed to mismanage it or use it for purposes the taxpayer doesn’t like. Politico has already gone on to commenting on how even the liberal media don't like the way the President is running things, probably because those plans are still predicated on corporations behaving honestly and not spending the money on other things, which will only fuel the populist rage more.
With American newspapers falling down and failing, where do all the displaced newspaper people go? Other jobs, it looks like, where they may be happier, but almost universally they’re poorer for it. Speaking of the papers, Gonzo Mehum and the Thoughtscream smell the R.O.U.S. when it comes to the collapse of journalism, because the newspapers falling down seems to be a unique product to America. Perhaps it is not the medium that’s failing, but the way they’re being run in America. Arr.
They’re not nearly as despicable as The Oklahoma Legislature, which having tried twice to pass resolutions censuring the speech of Richard Dawkins, is now investigating the university that hosted him, although not for any stated reason that the writer can divine. Glad to know that there aren’t any bigger priorities for the legislature than to investigate a university for hosting someone whom the legislators find unpalatable.
The winners of the worsts, though, may be the school that required a strip search of one of the female students based on hearsay about her carrying prescription ibuprofen. To the point of showing basically everything to the women who were doing the search, just to be sure. And when talking to the paper, the administrator presumes that she’s guilty, despite having been found innocent, and just didn’t get caught this time. I’m really not liking that schools are “Constitution-free” zones, and using the War on (Some) Drugs as justification for this kind of humiliation absed on hearsay is just adding to the severe irritation. There may be outrage on this one, but I’d almost lay a bet down on the fact that it’s ibuprofen. Were they looking for weed or stronger material, the populace would likely be siding with the school.
In a bit more fluffy news, the Secretary of State has embraced digital followings, updates, and interactivity, with a slew of information waiting for those wanting to follow her every move.
CNS covers the swath of people who think Representative Murtha should be pilloried rather than recognized for his work in the Congress assisting (or detracting and slandering, depending) the Navy.
In the opinions, The General thinks he's found a way of getting Bill'O, of checkered past regarding women himself, to speak at a rape survivors' event without the chance that it will be picketed.
Mr. Moyo says that it would be better for the West to cut off African aid than to continue, so as to stop the cycle of corruption, force African countries to build themselves up, and to free up resources currently allocated to debt repayment into things like health care.
Mr. Mirken wants marijuana legalized, so as to cut out the main source of funding for Mexican drug cartel wars.
Mr. Hanson starts the more domesticated opinions by expounding on what he sees as the causes of the national looking-over-our-shoulders, starting with ruinous spending and going through a lack of trust in what anyone says and landing solidly in home court, the lack of JudeoChristian values and direction that the country so desperately needs, as well as the informality of the person supposed to be the leader and the fact that nobody knows how to actually create tangible objects. He’d find support in W. Thomas Smith Jr, who feels the country doesn't respect the Medal of Honor winners enough and praising a stunt by a flight attendant that offered a free drink coupon to someone who could name a recipient for post 9/11 action as opposed to all the people who knew various American Idol winners. Ms. Liebau takes up the theme, deciding that a President who looks, talks, and shows himself to be a regular guy isn't what the country nees right now. Congratulations, you’ve come to the conclusion liberals had eight years ago, when one of the running strengths of the last administrator was that he was “someone you could have a beer with” as opposed to the elitist Democrats.
Mr. Boortz declares we're all dupes, distracted by things like AIG bonuses when we should be concentrating on how the President is spending the country into ruin, the Congress is passing bills of attainder, and the populace is being controlled and told what to be angry about. Instead of exercising our “rudimentary” thinking skills, y’know. We have to be worried that our currency is going to stay strong during this time, because otherwise we’ll devalue and it’ll all go to hell. The Heritage Foundation analyzes the spending to a negative conclusion, slipping in parts about how much the Obama Administration is doing what the Bush Administration was doing and more, btu ultimately deciding ti’s Carter he’s trying to duplicate, and concluding that the only ways to make it all work are tax increases, because spending cuts aren’t going to happen. In all of this, The Bad Astronomer says that we should keep up mandated research funding, including missions like Kepler, to discover if we’re alone in the universe or not, that don’t seem to have practical use for right now.
To cleanse the palate of politics (although it might leave a taste in a different way), Someone's going forward with publishing Twilight fanfic, based on the claim that each of the individual elements in Twilight are not copyrightable, and thus can be used. There’s an utterly false claim that the characters aren’t copyrighted if they haven’t been drawn (which, based on the movie, I suspect would render that point moot...), and what will likly be a bit of drama ending in the person publishing the fanfic being told in no uncertain terms to cease and desist.
And one last hit before the end - the Slacktivist on how much the public will never support an unjust war, to the point that if you feel you have to hide the bodies of the dead as they arrive, you’ve got an unjust war.
In science and tech, neutron tracks providing hope that cold fusion is possible, myelin coating as an indicator of intelligence - and which is an heritable trait that could theoretically be selected for in the future, a brainwave pattern that can indicate when we're about to make a mistake - I wonder if that could be used as a way of deciding when grunts need to take breaks - a study indicating consuming lots of red and processed meats results in a modest increase in cancer risk, the discovery of an aqueduct that stretched from Syria to Palestine, and an e-reader from Fujitsu that displays color.
Last for tonight, baby monkey. And testing out space-age underwear, of the type that was referred to some time ago in a different scitech posting, and a giant phallus painted on a roof that stayed there for a year before the parents found out.
In the world, A Taliban commander killed in Afghanistan. I wonder if it will be like all the al-Qaeda commanders that we keep killing at stretches. Considering they're being painted as a resilient opponent, I’m betting on a lot of commanders dying.
An aid worker was shot in the Darfur region of Sudan, continuing on the current policy to expel all aid workers from the country... or making an unfortunate coincidence where a robbery is seen as part of a greater plan. A member of Fatah was killed in Lebanon. Could we have a day or two where all the killing just stops? Where we could dedicate our efforts to things like fixing sanitation issues in the slums of the world?
A conference intended on bringing together Nobel laureates to discuss how football can bring peace to nations was postponed after South Africa refused to let the Dalai Lama take part. South Africa denies that pressure from Beijing played a part in their decisions, but it’s hard not to see China’s shadow looming over any visit by the Tibetan leader.
Domestically, following on from yesterday - those companies that are buying up water for use? They're doing it before the farmers and the agribusiness can, which could mean they choke the food industry to make the oil that would transport it.
CNS wants you to believe that no good excepting higher prices can come from the cap-and-trade system, and that Democrats are gunning for it, even accepting the higher prices, because the environment is of that much concern. Everyone admits everywhere that the consumers are going to be paying for it. The American Thinker uses it and other objects as proof that the President has already broken his pledge not to increase taxes on the poorest. So they’re all in agreement - this will be a tax on the poorest of the poor because companies will not pay anything more than they have to in taxes.
Why hasn’t anyone actually looked at that and asked whether it had to be that way? While windfall profits are being hidden for fear of rousing the populace’s anger again, there still has to be some in reserve somewhere that could be used to pay for all of this without passing too much of cost onto the consumer, if any at all. CNS also wants you to think that the Obama administration has no care for deficit reduction, as they prioritize recovery of the economy, even pushing forth with the budget that's been told it will bankrupt the country.
Welcome to the party, Reuters. You're late on how much of the populace is resisting Obama plans, whether because they think it will bankrupt the country or they’re reluctant to continue shoveling dollars at corporations that are predisposed to mismanage it or use it for purposes the taxpayer doesn’t like. Politico has already gone on to commenting on how even the liberal media don't like the way the President is running things, probably because those plans are still predicated on corporations behaving honestly and not spending the money on other things, which will only fuel the populist rage more.
With American newspapers falling down and failing, where do all the displaced newspaper people go? Other jobs, it looks like, where they may be happier, but almost universally they’re poorer for it. Speaking of the papers, Gonzo Mehum and the Thoughtscream smell the R.O.U.S. when it comes to the collapse of journalism, because the newspapers falling down seems to be a unique product to America. Perhaps it is not the medium that’s failing, but the way they’re being run in America. Arr.
They’re not nearly as despicable as The Oklahoma Legislature, which having tried twice to pass resolutions censuring the speech of Richard Dawkins, is now investigating the university that hosted him, although not for any stated reason that the writer can divine. Glad to know that there aren’t any bigger priorities for the legislature than to investigate a university for hosting someone whom the legislators find unpalatable.
The winners of the worsts, though, may be the school that required a strip search of one of the female students based on hearsay about her carrying prescription ibuprofen. To the point of showing basically everything to the women who were doing the search, just to be sure. And when talking to the paper, the administrator presumes that she’s guilty, despite having been found innocent, and just didn’t get caught this time. I’m really not liking that schools are “Constitution-free” zones, and using the War on (Some) Drugs as justification for this kind of humiliation absed on hearsay is just adding to the severe irritation. There may be outrage on this one, but I’d almost lay a bet down on the fact that it’s ibuprofen. Were they looking for weed or stronger material, the populace would likely be siding with the school.
In a bit more fluffy news, the Secretary of State has embraced digital followings, updates, and interactivity, with a slew of information waiting for those wanting to follow her every move.
CNS covers the swath of people who think Representative Murtha should be pilloried rather than recognized for his work in the Congress assisting (or detracting and slandering, depending) the Navy.
In the opinions, The General thinks he's found a way of getting Bill'O, of checkered past regarding women himself, to speak at a rape survivors' event without the chance that it will be picketed.
Mr. Moyo says that it would be better for the West to cut off African aid than to continue, so as to stop the cycle of corruption, force African countries to build themselves up, and to free up resources currently allocated to debt repayment into things like health care.
Mr. Mirken wants marijuana legalized, so as to cut out the main source of funding for Mexican drug cartel wars.
Mr. Hanson starts the more domesticated opinions by expounding on what he sees as the causes of the national looking-over-our-shoulders, starting with ruinous spending and going through a lack of trust in what anyone says and landing solidly in home court, the lack of JudeoChristian values and direction that the country so desperately needs, as well as the informality of the person supposed to be the leader and the fact that nobody knows how to actually create tangible objects. He’d find support in W. Thomas Smith Jr, who feels the country doesn't respect the Medal of Honor winners enough and praising a stunt by a flight attendant that offered a free drink coupon to someone who could name a recipient for post 9/11 action as opposed to all the people who knew various American Idol winners. Ms. Liebau takes up the theme, deciding that a President who looks, talks, and shows himself to be a regular guy isn't what the country nees right now. Congratulations, you’ve come to the conclusion liberals had eight years ago, when one of the running strengths of the last administrator was that he was “someone you could have a beer with” as opposed to the elitist Democrats.
Mr. Boortz declares we're all dupes, distracted by things like AIG bonuses when we should be concentrating on how the President is spending the country into ruin, the Congress is passing bills of attainder, and the populace is being controlled and told what to be angry about. Instead of exercising our “rudimentary” thinking skills, y’know. We have to be worried that our currency is going to stay strong during this time, because otherwise we’ll devalue and it’ll all go to hell. The Heritage Foundation analyzes the spending to a negative conclusion, slipping in parts about how much the Obama Administration is doing what the Bush Administration was doing and more, btu ultimately deciding ti’s Carter he’s trying to duplicate, and concluding that the only ways to make it all work are tax increases, because spending cuts aren’t going to happen. In all of this, The Bad Astronomer says that we should keep up mandated research funding, including missions like Kepler, to discover if we’re alone in the universe or not, that don’t seem to have practical use for right now.
To cleanse the palate of politics (although it might leave a taste in a different way), Someone's going forward with publishing Twilight fanfic, based on the claim that each of the individual elements in Twilight are not copyrightable, and thus can be used. There’s an utterly false claim that the characters aren’t copyrighted if they haven’t been drawn (which, based on the movie, I suspect would render that point moot...), and what will likly be a bit of drama ending in the person publishing the fanfic being told in no uncertain terms to cease and desist.
And one last hit before the end - the Slacktivist on how much the public will never support an unjust war, to the point that if you feel you have to hide the bodies of the dead as they arrive, you’ve got an unjust war.
In science and tech, neutron tracks providing hope that cold fusion is possible, myelin coating as an indicator of intelligence - and which is an heritable trait that could theoretically be selected for in the future, a brainwave pattern that can indicate when we're about to make a mistake - I wonder if that could be used as a way of deciding when grunts need to take breaks - a study indicating consuming lots of red and processed meats results in a modest increase in cancer risk, the discovery of an aqueduct that stretched from Syria to Palestine, and an e-reader from Fujitsu that displays color.
Last for tonight, baby monkey. And testing out space-age underwear, of the type that was referred to some time ago in a different scitech posting, and a giant phallus painted on a roof that stayed there for a year before the parents found out.
