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Keep rolling along - 7 April 2009
Apr. 8th, 2009 12:13 amWell, congratulations to the University of North Carolina, defeating Michigan State University to win the 2009 College Basketball tournament. From the way they played, it looked like they had the Ultimate Combo already in hand.
Also, Spinal Tap will be playing a world tour to coincide with their 25th anniversary - at one location, on one date. I think the renowed tree artists will be sketching some of it as the concert carries on the wind worldwide.
And onward. Recall, as always, You and I are terrorists and that some state legislators have no qualms with displaying a Judeo-Christian monument on legislative grounds.
In response to that, Vermont legislators overrode the governor's veto and voted in marriage for homosexuals, making themselves the first state to not have it by a court decision.
Internationally, a Saudi petition to ban film screenings is apparently finding followers, as a review is underway on the new Afghan law that critics claim legalizes marital rape.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says he's willing to press the reset button on relations between his country and the United States, if we're willing to do the same. I don’t know what he’ll do about that, but The President definitely wants to make it clear that the United States is not at war with Muslims.
President Obama has said he will continue with a msisile shield in the Czech Republic conditional on Iran's continued ambitions for nuclear weapons. So Russia can be offended and point some of their missiles at the shield. The President is hoping for a nuclear-weapon-free world, still, though.
a strong earthquake in Italy killed more than 150 so far, with ten times as many wounded and plenty of rubble to still dig through.
An original copy of Oskar Schindler's list has been found in Australia.
Domestically, Walgreens has pulled the "Chia Obama" Chia Pet from their store shelves, citing complaints about racism. Shameless marketing of a Presidential likeness is probably more like it.
The ban on seeing the dead returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan is lifted, which may make these wars a little more personal.
The New York Times Company has threatened the closure of the Boston Globe if the labor union representing the employees doesn't capitulate to lower wages and the cessation of the pension system. Although I don’t think it will lead to locking up the bosses, in France, there wouldn't be that many disapproving of it.
In attempting to explain why they should be paid large amounts of money, bank CEOs hit a brick wall in the Obama administration, according to Politico, who also indicated that the government wasn’t necessarily ready to accept TARP repayment yet, not having sufficient confidence in the capital of the companies themselves.
In the opinions, Gonzo Mehum lays out a plan to save the print newsmedia business - go hyperlocal and find a way of tapping the crowd that reads the paper, like through IRC. Not by menacing people who will be using your services. Perhaps the new look will be something like Vook, combining Twitter, fiction, and video all into one narrative stream.
Kevin Carson speaks to the benefits of organic, small-scale farming as being able to likely produce more and better crop per acre than the standard agribusiness practices we have today. Perhaps that would create more Blue Zones.
North Korea has apparently increased their bargaining ability with the missile launch on Monday, according to the AP, the WSJ, Mr. Chang, and hawk extraordinaire, Mr. John Bolton, who beleives that letting this missile launch lie means that Iran will be emboldened to launch their own straight at Israel, a position mirrored by the WSJ. Assuming Israel doesn't launch first. Mr. Stephens tells the President to get real about all these issues,
Mr. Willis fires back after being comically insulted over his position that conservatives have been inspiring people to kill police officers with their “The President will take away your guns” rhetoric. The General takes it one step further by indicating that many people who are supposedly against all of these issues end up not doing a whole lot about them, other than electing conservative politicians who don't do much about them, either.
Another Obama-looks-an-awful-lot-like-Hitler comparison, for which the snap response is to invoke Godwin’s Law, but that’s not really helpful. More helpful is to say that the American populace will probably not roll over as much as we think it will, if things do start looking awful. Even with a successful strike, like in Little Brother, there will be all sorts of people who fight back - it may take them being personally inconvenienced beyond their tolerance, but they will strike back. Seems more like people want accountability and transparency, some working school systems, and some economic stability, and have no idea where to direct their energies toward raging at those who did us wrong and how to bring it back about. Instead, they get Two Minutes Hate from a faction that blames the current President as architect and fully responsible for all of it. Besides, it would be more likely that the populace would turn on minorities, instead of WASPs. Mr. Hanson thinks the mob mentality is disquieting and ruinous at best.
As opposed to the faction that believes questions over the President's eligibility will be used as one of many pretexts for martial law. Or, perhaps, the faction that believes the new G-20 Financial Stability Board now has control over the world's economies and will let Europe force America to become just like them through regulation. Meaning.... SOCIALISM! (ohnoez.) And aid to Latin America is keeping it poor, much like welfare aid in America keeps the poor lazy and poor, instead of being entrepreneurial to make money, and the U.S. seeking a seat on the HRC gives it legitimacy it shouldn't have, because it needs more reform than the U.S. can achieve. No doubt pointing at the resolution passed last week on religious defamation.
Ah, and the faction that thinks the President is going too far to apologize to everyone, to the point of spinelessness. (Ms. Charen also thinks that the idea of the previous administrator as a militarist and xenophobe is libel. If not him, his party has certainly been hard at work promoting that.)
Forbes runs a hit job on government taxes by pointing out the states where people are taxed the most and then smugly hopes for a layoff round of tax collectors thanks to the economic depression. Mr. Olivastro sets states against each other by mentioning their relative Tax Freedom Days, all within the month of April, some earlier, some later. The WSJ thinks, based on proposals for additional taxes on high incomes, we may all be considered rich enough to tax more soon. The WSJ also mocks Mr. Summers, suggesting that in solidarity, he pay the taxes on his earnings at Obama-era levels instead of Bush-era levels.
The WSJ believes that the current administration is not really for improving education, because the D.C. charter school voucher program that works is being killed, even as the Education secretary speaks in favor of mayorial control of public schools elsewhere, something else that has worked. Just those dang teachers unions in the way, that’s all, because giving people money so they can go from overcrowded, test-intensive, has-to-take everyone public schools to manageable class sizes and facilities that are well-stocked and can afford to devote time to things other than standardized testing and can choose not to take someone that they don’t think will measure up.
Ms. Small says single parenting is not what nature intended, and while there’s the word “evolutionist” in the opinion, instead of stauchnly defending traditional marriage, she comes to the more sensible conclusion that it takes the villagers to raise a child.
Last out of the opinions, Mr. Hanson says that the President is acting exactly according to his beliefs, so this should make sense - it’s just that his beliefs are all wrong.
In technology, the robot aiming to become a two year-old has been learning steadily, some thought on whether Wikipedia can become the ultimate encyclopedia, looking for ways to interact with computers that are more natural than keyboards and mice, amino acids taht might be common across all universal life, going smaller and cheaper, instead of bigger and denser, when it comes to computers and chips, big structures in the galaxy, the first successful tracking of shooting star to impact point, matching the object that crashed down to an observed atmospheric fireball, some words that have come from science fiction instead of science - although they forgot R.U.R., which makes all the robot purists unhappy, the best computer interfaces of past, present, and future, photographs of now-extinct species, looking to restrict tourism to Anarctica so as to preserve the environment there as much as possible, and the possibility that Joss Whedon's Dollhouse will no longer be fiction.
Last out for tonight, a space shuttle mission almost exploded in failure because the astronauts were required to send encrypted images - which made the resolution so horrible that actual heat shield tile damage was dismissed as shadows and lights.
And something that requires, well, no words. Barack the Barbarian, a story of a story. Some available with the variant Red Sarah cover, which, if he knew about it, would no doubt provoke a response from The General.
Also, Spinal Tap will be playing a world tour to coincide with their 25th anniversary - at one location, on one date. I think the renowed tree artists will be sketching some of it as the concert carries on the wind worldwide.
And onward. Recall, as always, You and I are terrorists and that some state legislators have no qualms with displaying a Judeo-Christian monument on legislative grounds.
In response to that, Vermont legislators overrode the governor's veto and voted in marriage for homosexuals, making themselves the first state to not have it by a court decision.
Internationally, a Saudi petition to ban film screenings is apparently finding followers, as a review is underway on the new Afghan law that critics claim legalizes marital rape.
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says he's willing to press the reset button on relations between his country and the United States, if we're willing to do the same. I don’t know what he’ll do about that, but The President definitely wants to make it clear that the United States is not at war with Muslims.
President Obama has said he will continue with a msisile shield in the Czech Republic conditional on Iran's continued ambitions for nuclear weapons. So Russia can be offended and point some of their missiles at the shield. The President is hoping for a nuclear-weapon-free world, still, though.
a strong earthquake in Italy killed more than 150 so far, with ten times as many wounded and plenty of rubble to still dig through.
An original copy of Oskar Schindler's list has been found in Australia.
Domestically, Walgreens has pulled the "Chia Obama" Chia Pet from their store shelves, citing complaints about racism. Shameless marketing of a Presidential likeness is probably more like it.
The ban on seeing the dead returning from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan is lifted, which may make these wars a little more personal.
The New York Times Company has threatened the closure of the Boston Globe if the labor union representing the employees doesn't capitulate to lower wages and the cessation of the pension system. Although I don’t think it will lead to locking up the bosses, in France, there wouldn't be that many disapproving of it.
In attempting to explain why they should be paid large amounts of money, bank CEOs hit a brick wall in the Obama administration, according to Politico, who also indicated that the government wasn’t necessarily ready to accept TARP repayment yet, not having sufficient confidence in the capital of the companies themselves.
In the opinions, Gonzo Mehum lays out a plan to save the print newsmedia business - go hyperlocal and find a way of tapping the crowd that reads the paper, like through IRC. Not by menacing people who will be using your services. Perhaps the new look will be something like Vook, combining Twitter, fiction, and video all into one narrative stream.
Kevin Carson speaks to the benefits of organic, small-scale farming as being able to likely produce more and better crop per acre than the standard agribusiness practices we have today. Perhaps that would create more Blue Zones.
North Korea has apparently increased their bargaining ability with the missile launch on Monday, according to the AP, the WSJ, Mr. Chang, and hawk extraordinaire, Mr. John Bolton, who beleives that letting this missile launch lie means that Iran will be emboldened to launch their own straight at Israel, a position mirrored by the WSJ. Assuming Israel doesn't launch first. Mr. Stephens tells the President to get real about all these issues,
Mr. Willis fires back after being comically insulted over his position that conservatives have been inspiring people to kill police officers with their “The President will take away your guns” rhetoric. The General takes it one step further by indicating that many people who are supposedly against all of these issues end up not doing a whole lot about them, other than electing conservative politicians who don't do much about them, either.
Another Obama-looks-an-awful-lot-like-Hitler comparison, for which the snap response is to invoke Godwin’s Law, but that’s not really helpful. More helpful is to say that the American populace will probably not roll over as much as we think it will, if things do start looking awful. Even with a successful strike, like in Little Brother, there will be all sorts of people who fight back - it may take them being personally inconvenienced beyond their tolerance, but they will strike back. Seems more like people want accountability and transparency, some working school systems, and some economic stability, and have no idea where to direct their energies toward raging at those who did us wrong and how to bring it back about. Instead, they get Two Minutes Hate from a faction that blames the current President as architect and fully responsible for all of it. Besides, it would be more likely that the populace would turn on minorities, instead of WASPs. Mr. Hanson thinks the mob mentality is disquieting and ruinous at best.
As opposed to the faction that believes questions over the President's eligibility will be used as one of many pretexts for martial law. Or, perhaps, the faction that believes the new G-20 Financial Stability Board now has control over the world's economies and will let Europe force America to become just like them through regulation. Meaning.... SOCIALISM! (ohnoez.) And aid to Latin America is keeping it poor, much like welfare aid in America keeps the poor lazy and poor, instead of being entrepreneurial to make money, and the U.S. seeking a seat on the HRC gives it legitimacy it shouldn't have, because it needs more reform than the U.S. can achieve. No doubt pointing at the resolution passed last week on religious defamation.
Ah, and the faction that thinks the President is going too far to apologize to everyone, to the point of spinelessness. (Ms. Charen also thinks that the idea of the previous administrator as a militarist and xenophobe is libel. If not him, his party has certainly been hard at work promoting that.)
Forbes runs a hit job on government taxes by pointing out the states where people are taxed the most and then smugly hopes for a layoff round of tax collectors thanks to the economic depression. Mr. Olivastro sets states against each other by mentioning their relative Tax Freedom Days, all within the month of April, some earlier, some later. The WSJ thinks, based on proposals for additional taxes on high incomes, we may all be considered rich enough to tax more soon. The WSJ also mocks Mr. Summers, suggesting that in solidarity, he pay the taxes on his earnings at Obama-era levels instead of Bush-era levels.
The WSJ believes that the current administration is not really for improving education, because the D.C. charter school voucher program that works is being killed, even as the Education secretary speaks in favor of mayorial control of public schools elsewhere, something else that has worked. Just those dang teachers unions in the way, that’s all, because giving people money so they can go from overcrowded, test-intensive, has-to-take everyone public schools to manageable class sizes and facilities that are well-stocked and can afford to devote time to things other than standardized testing and can choose not to take someone that they don’t think will measure up.
Ms. Small says single parenting is not what nature intended, and while there’s the word “evolutionist” in the opinion, instead of stauchnly defending traditional marriage, she comes to the more sensible conclusion that it takes the villagers to raise a child.
Last out of the opinions, Mr. Hanson says that the President is acting exactly according to his beliefs, so this should make sense - it’s just that his beliefs are all wrong.
In technology, the robot aiming to become a two year-old has been learning steadily, some thought on whether Wikipedia can become the ultimate encyclopedia, looking for ways to interact with computers that are more natural than keyboards and mice, amino acids taht might be common across all universal life, going smaller and cheaper, instead of bigger and denser, when it comes to computers and chips, big structures in the galaxy, the first successful tracking of shooting star to impact point, matching the object that crashed down to an observed atmospheric fireball, some words that have come from science fiction instead of science - although they forgot R.U.R., which makes all the robot purists unhappy, the best computer interfaces of past, present, and future, photographs of now-extinct species, looking to restrict tourism to Anarctica so as to preserve the environment there as much as possible, and the possibility that Joss Whedon's Dollhouse will no longer be fiction.
Last out for tonight, a space shuttle mission almost exploded in failure because the astronauts were required to send encrypted images - which made the resolution so horrible that actual heat shield tile damage was dismissed as shadows and lights.
And something that requires, well, no words. Barack the Barbarian, a story of a story. Some available with the variant Red Sarah cover, which, if he knew about it, would no doubt provoke a response from The General.
