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Right, then - 5 April 2009
Apr. 5th, 2009 11:52 pmWelcome aboard, everyone.
Internationally, two steps forward, one step back on some things. Even as we had legalizations, in Iraq, some people are on death row for being homosexuals.
North Korea went ahead with their planned launch - the rocket apparently fizzled and died in the Pacific, but it sent much of the UN scrambling to figure out what to do about it. President Obama would still like to see a world without nuclear weapons, a position for which the WSJ criticizes him, and is annoyed that he’s not down with keeping the arsenal up in tip-top condition.
Training the new Afghan forces is going to take time and effort, and measures like training small groups of amred militias might be stopgaps until the grand plan goes into motion. NATO allies will help with the training, but not so much with the troops.
Scottish GPs are miffed by new rules that will let normal pregnancies be handled by midwives instead of by them, with the option to go to doctors if the woman objects to midwives or there are complications that require a doctor’s assistance.
Domestically, it would have been nice to know this last week - the ACLU is suing on behalf of the girls threatened with sex offender felonies for posting nude pictures of themselves. So there are some people working to put sense into this situation.
An Egyptian student was found not guilty of carrying explosive items, of the sort that could build bombs and commit terror (and so the article tells us several times), but were apparently not placed there by him, but by a friend, including a short video downloaded to his computer about terrorist training.
In the columnists, Bill'O praises the further investigations of ACORN, a group that he seems convinced is corrupt and tied to the administration in bad ways, Mr. Will wants the administration to cut GM loose, so they can break their ties to the UAW and the preferences of the people can be heard, buying large armored tanks that get almost no fuel efficiency but generate lots of profit for the company. Mr. Hill thinks the President is trying to be the "moral alternative" to capitalism, with “...and he will fail at it, because he’s not smarter than The Market, blessed be its name.” tacked on to the end, a sentiment that Ms. Cushman agrees with, comparing Obama to Carter and expecting similar results. The WSJ complains the government jobs are the only sector that have had growth, and it’s only because that government money being taxed and spent is taking away from the private investors who know how to use it better than them, blessed be The Market’s name. Mr. Varney sees the government wanting to control the financial sector outright, through forcing TARP money on banks and then passing laws that give them total control of those banks, with the obvious next step being the firing of bank CEOs to follow the automaker ones.
Mr. Stokes compares the current crop of terrorists to the Communists of generations past, and expecting the same result - they'll lie to us until they can kill us or take us over, and then the true colors will come out, and we’ll lament “Oh no! If only we hadn’t believed their lies, then we wouldn’t be under the rule of fanatics!” Assuming, of course, that Ms. Malkin isn't right, and all the illegal immigrants now being counted by the Census don't take over themselves. Either way, not using the War on a Concept phrasing is at best, political gamesmanship, or so we’re told.
I’m sure most of the columnists are horrified by the assertion that the President is not interested in placing America above everyone else, but instead wants us to mix things up and collaborate with others. As Mr. Krauthammer puts it, "fairness" is the overriding agenda of the President, so those on the higher end of fair can continue to look forward to being used as ragdolls.
Mr. Tucker criticizes Mr. Holder for continuing to assert, against the Office of Legal Counsel, that a bill to give the District of Columbia representation in Congress would be constitutional. Ms. Bandes considers this the sign that the Obama administrarion is all in favor of politicizing the Justice Department, and Comedian Limbaugh turns it into a Constitution-destroying liberal plot to give themselves more power, while gratuitously adding on the law-based Bush decisions like warrantless wiretapping and enhanced interrogation that are clarly okay, with the liberals who want impeachment or war crimes trials for them all just off their rockers.
Mr. Chapman hopes another city gets the Olymic games of 2016, so that Chicago doesn't spend a lot of money for no benefit.
Don’t expect the MSM to report on any of this, though, as they're all too busy fawning over Michelle Obama, leaving it to Mr. Lambro to tell us that the cap-and-trade carbon taxes will probably die off the budget resolution.
Into the science spots - electricity pylons that look more like martian invaders, debate on whether or not to introduce new genetic material into a Michigan population of wolves so as to remove the bone deformities now happening due to inbreeding,
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bradhicks would agree with it, but he certainly seems ready to say we're doomed, to put it charitably, based on what’s likely to happen from here on out.
Internationally, two steps forward, one step back on some things. Even as we had legalizations, in Iraq, some people are on death row for being homosexuals.
North Korea went ahead with their planned launch - the rocket apparently fizzled and died in the Pacific, but it sent much of the UN scrambling to figure out what to do about it. President Obama would still like to see a world without nuclear weapons, a position for which the WSJ criticizes him, and is annoyed that he’s not down with keeping the arsenal up in tip-top condition.
Training the new Afghan forces is going to take time and effort, and measures like training small groups of amred militias might be stopgaps until the grand plan goes into motion. NATO allies will help with the training, but not so much with the troops.
Scottish GPs are miffed by new rules that will let normal pregnancies be handled by midwives instead of by them, with the option to go to doctors if the woman objects to midwives or there are complications that require a doctor’s assistance.
Domestically, it would have been nice to know this last week - the ACLU is suing on behalf of the girls threatened with sex offender felonies for posting nude pictures of themselves. So there are some people working to put sense into this situation.
An Egyptian student was found not guilty of carrying explosive items, of the sort that could build bombs and commit terror (and so the article tells us several times), but were apparently not placed there by him, but by a friend, including a short video downloaded to his computer about terrorist training.
In the columnists, Bill'O praises the further investigations of ACORN, a group that he seems convinced is corrupt and tied to the administration in bad ways, Mr. Will wants the administration to cut GM loose, so they can break their ties to the UAW and the preferences of the people can be heard, buying large armored tanks that get almost no fuel efficiency but generate lots of profit for the company. Mr. Hill thinks the President is trying to be the "moral alternative" to capitalism, with “...and he will fail at it, because he’s not smarter than The Market, blessed be its name.” tacked on to the end, a sentiment that Ms. Cushman agrees with, comparing Obama to Carter and expecting similar results. The WSJ complains the government jobs are the only sector that have had growth, and it’s only because that government money being taxed and spent is taking away from the private investors who know how to use it better than them, blessed be The Market’s name. Mr. Varney sees the government wanting to control the financial sector outright, through forcing TARP money on banks and then passing laws that give them total control of those banks, with the obvious next step being the firing of bank CEOs to follow the automaker ones.
Mr. Stokes compares the current crop of terrorists to the Communists of generations past, and expecting the same result - they'll lie to us until they can kill us or take us over, and then the true colors will come out, and we’ll lament “Oh no! If only we hadn’t believed their lies, then we wouldn’t be under the rule of fanatics!” Assuming, of course, that Ms. Malkin isn't right, and all the illegal immigrants now being counted by the Census don't take over themselves. Either way, not using the War on a Concept phrasing is at best, political gamesmanship, or so we’re told.
I’m sure most of the columnists are horrified by the assertion that the President is not interested in placing America above everyone else, but instead wants us to mix things up and collaborate with others. As Mr. Krauthammer puts it, "fairness" is the overriding agenda of the President, so those on the higher end of fair can continue to look forward to being used as ragdolls.
Mr. Tucker criticizes Mr. Holder for continuing to assert, against the Office of Legal Counsel, that a bill to give the District of Columbia representation in Congress would be constitutional. Ms. Bandes considers this the sign that the Obama administrarion is all in favor of politicizing the Justice Department, and Comedian Limbaugh turns it into a Constitution-destroying liberal plot to give themselves more power, while gratuitously adding on the law-based Bush decisions like warrantless wiretapping and enhanced interrogation that are clarly okay, with the liberals who want impeachment or war crimes trials for them all just off their rockers.
Mr. Chapman hopes another city gets the Olymic games of 2016, so that Chicago doesn't spend a lot of money for no benefit.
Don’t expect the MSM to report on any of this, though, as they're all too busy fawning over Michelle Obama, leaving it to Mr. Lambro to tell us that the cap-and-trade carbon taxes will probably die off the budget resolution.
Into the science spots - electricity pylons that look more like martian invaders, debate on whether or not to introduce new genetic material into a Michigan population of wolves so as to remove the bone deformities now happening due to inbreeding,
Last for tonight, Atlas Shrugged might be a movie soon. I don’t think that
bradhicks would agree with it, but he certainly seems ready to say we're doomed, to put it charitably, based on what’s likely to happen from here on out.
