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Apr. 9th, 2009 12:08 amAnd we have another day, and another entry. Hapy 40th Birthday, R.F.C. 1, from which things like the Internet flowed.
The Unabashed Feminism and Save Our Schools from Stupidity Departments will both take an interest in the zero-tolerance drug policy in a Farifax school that generated a two-week suspension and expulsion recommendation for a student who had and took a birth-control pill while in school. This is the same disciplinary reaction to bringing a gun to school, for comparison. Had she been discovered under the influence of banned substances, but with none in her possession, the suspension would have been a mere five days.
Internationally, The United States and China have joined in shutting down a network of fradulent names and front companies funneling money to Iran's nuclear program, more pirate problems in Somalia, and the President gives a green light to putting up more spy satellites.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus gave their support to ending the decades-old embargo on trade and people entering Cuba.
The death toll in Italy from a major earthquake has risen up to more than 250.
And last from this section, a man was convicted of murder and aggravated sexual assault for knowingly infecting women with HIV through having unprotected sex with them and denying that he was HIV-positive in contravention of disclosure law.
Domestically, as before when depressed, some communities are printing their own scrip for use as a local currency, one that you can buy for less than face value and then use in that community. Have a look at pictures of these currencies. Others are taking a mroe commodity-based tack to their alternatives, with an example being the American Open Currency Standard, which believes firmly in gold and silver as the only real money and the paper being worthless debt. Elsewhere, urban delivery by bicycle in Portland, which will probably generate some very strong-legged people. On a bigger scale, mortgage-backed securities aren't being generated or traded at the moment.
Thinking about cutting back on your meat consumption? The Minimalist will show you how to make filling and healthy meals with a little less meat in them.
Last before opinions, analyzing the president's TV consumption? Seriously? Nothing better to do? Also of similar, no wait, this might mean something to someone, Pew research says the president has the biggest partisan gap in his approval ratings, up even more than his predecessor. You can thank the party of NO for that.
In the opinions, Gawker seems to have Matt Drudge pegged as a repressing homosexual, based on reports about him and an interview with the New Yorker. As is custom, the General leaps to Mr. Drudge's defense.
In matters slightly more serious, Ms. Byrd champions the Tea Party movement, believing it to be a wonderfully grassroots conservative movement that will sweep the nation, and that liberals will be on the losing end of the 2010 elections if they don’t start respecting the movement and the ideas behind it. More sensibly, Mr. Jenkins profiles a banker who has taken the motto of "Be in business the next day" as his own, and has been spared most of the financial turmoil.
Doctors Shaywitz and Stossel try to explain that the pharmaceutical industry is a necessary part of bringing research to treatment fruition, and people who scold academics for partnering with them are shooting out of ignorance. A better place they might watn to turn is toward quality metrics, which sounds suspiciously like it wants to do to doctors what No Child Left Behind did to schools.
The WSJ feels that negotiating fees with private attorneys that have contributed to campaigns to do State business is unethical at best. Similarly, they feel that a Spanish judge indicting United States officials for giving legal advice should make the curretn administration staunchly defend their national sovereignty.
Mr. Sowell provides a concise summation of conservative opinion of the President in his random thoughts, including how many mistakes they believe he’s making, how we’re all deluding ourselves on everything from economics to terrorism, and that nobody wants to do anything, preferring the government to take care of them all the time. For his honesty, he is spared from hot pastry doom.
The bronze effort for firey quiche is the WSJ's twisting of President Obama's statemtents in Iraq to indicate that he's completely in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan now, despite the President saying on Iraq: “I opposed this, but I have a responsibility to ensure that it ends safely and without widespread bloodshed and death” and praising the troops for doing the job they were assigned to do in the country.
The silver for tonight’s quiche is a split ticket between the zero-intelligence suspension mentioned at the beginning and Ms. Schlafly, shilling for Mr. Horowitz's book about the Marxism indoctrination in universities, with the worst professors being (naturally) Californians and lesbians, and the worst America-hating departments are women’s studies, black studies, and peace studies, because they all have the audacity to challenge the partriarchy, capitalism, and Europe and America’s aggressive militarism and imperialsm in their histories. Socialists and uppity women are the only things coming out of our universities today, apparently, and that just has to be stopped.
The winner is worst because it’s true. Psychologists in the Army, according to a conversation taped by a patient, are under serious pressure not to diagnose PTSD in returning veterans. Mostly because that obligates the Army and the VA to provide benefits and care, which are expensive. Considering the returning soldiers are not reintegrating well by any standard, committing increased amounts of violence against themselves and the women in their lives (for which there appears not to be much for admitting it happens, much less laying down serious consequences for those that do commit crimes and providing the help that the returning veterans need), this is not a situation that can continue. So, even as Mr. Lippold laments the budget cuts upcoming in the military, believing that cutting spending will leave them unprepared to fight the wars of tomorrow (and I didn’t see much on there about helping the people coming back). If they really need that much money to buy weapons of destruction, they can have an Army bake sale. It’s what the schools have been doing for years now. Mr. Donnelly says the current priorities of spending are also in need of overhaul, regardless of the amount of money gotten, but he’s also focused on weapons. And two seniors at Harvard University say that it's time that the ROTC returns to campus and is supported fully by the school, because the military deserves Harvard-educated officers. Assuming that training doesn’t then strip them of all that useful Harvard education. If you want to give money to teh military, give them all they need to rehabilitate the soldiers coming back. And then more to figure out ways of not needing them or war in the future. Other than that, if the boys want their toys, they can go out and earn the money for ‘em.
In technology, spies and hackers in the electrical grid, apparently looking to leave behind trojans and other malware, a computer that can derive natural laws, attempting to obtain a complete picture of what the ground underneath the United States looks like, driving software that could save on fuel costs, but it’s currently only useful when there aren’t that many cars around, peering at single RNA molecules, a scare where ingested rabbit poison pellets combined with water to generate deadly gases, which then escaped while the medics were trying to save the man, putting them at risk from the gas.
Last for tonight, the P.U.M.A., a two-seat collaboration between GM and Segway intended for urban use.
And another contribution to Hello Kitty Hell.
The Unabashed Feminism and Save Our Schools from Stupidity Departments will both take an interest in the zero-tolerance drug policy in a Farifax school that generated a two-week suspension and expulsion recommendation for a student who had and took a birth-control pill while in school. This is the same disciplinary reaction to bringing a gun to school, for comparison. Had she been discovered under the influence of banned substances, but with none in her possession, the suspension would have been a mere five days.
Internationally, The United States and China have joined in shutting down a network of fradulent names and front companies funneling money to Iran's nuclear program, more pirate problems in Somalia, and the President gives a green light to putting up more spy satellites.
Members of the Congressional Black Caucus gave their support to ending the decades-old embargo on trade and people entering Cuba.
The death toll in Italy from a major earthquake has risen up to more than 250.
And last from this section, a man was convicted of murder and aggravated sexual assault for knowingly infecting women with HIV through having unprotected sex with them and denying that he was HIV-positive in contravention of disclosure law.
Domestically, as before when depressed, some communities are printing their own scrip for use as a local currency, one that you can buy for less than face value and then use in that community. Have a look at pictures of these currencies. Others are taking a mroe commodity-based tack to their alternatives, with an example being the American Open Currency Standard, which believes firmly in gold and silver as the only real money and the paper being worthless debt. Elsewhere, urban delivery by bicycle in Portland, which will probably generate some very strong-legged people. On a bigger scale, mortgage-backed securities aren't being generated or traded at the moment.
Thinking about cutting back on your meat consumption? The Minimalist will show you how to make filling and healthy meals with a little less meat in them.
Last before opinions, analyzing the president's TV consumption? Seriously? Nothing better to do? Also of similar, no wait, this might mean something to someone, Pew research says the president has the biggest partisan gap in his approval ratings, up even more than his predecessor. You can thank the party of NO for that.
In the opinions, Gawker seems to have Matt Drudge pegged as a repressing homosexual, based on reports about him and an interview with the New Yorker. As is custom, the General leaps to Mr. Drudge's defense.
In matters slightly more serious, Ms. Byrd champions the Tea Party movement, believing it to be a wonderfully grassroots conservative movement that will sweep the nation, and that liberals will be on the losing end of the 2010 elections if they don’t start respecting the movement and the ideas behind it. More sensibly, Mr. Jenkins profiles a banker who has taken the motto of "Be in business the next day" as his own, and has been spared most of the financial turmoil.
Doctors Shaywitz and Stossel try to explain that the pharmaceutical industry is a necessary part of bringing research to treatment fruition, and people who scold academics for partnering with them are shooting out of ignorance. A better place they might watn to turn is toward quality metrics, which sounds suspiciously like it wants to do to doctors what No Child Left Behind did to schools.
The WSJ feels that negotiating fees with private attorneys that have contributed to campaigns to do State business is unethical at best. Similarly, they feel that a Spanish judge indicting United States officials for giving legal advice should make the curretn administration staunchly defend their national sovereignty.
Mr. Sowell provides a concise summation of conservative opinion of the President in his random thoughts, including how many mistakes they believe he’s making, how we’re all deluding ourselves on everything from economics to terrorism, and that nobody wants to do anything, preferring the government to take care of them all the time. For his honesty, he is spared from hot pastry doom.
The bronze effort for firey quiche is the WSJ's twisting of President Obama's statemtents in Iraq to indicate that he's completely in support of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan now, despite the President saying on Iraq: “I opposed this, but I have a responsibility to ensure that it ends safely and without widespread bloodshed and death” and praising the troops for doing the job they were assigned to do in the country.
The silver for tonight’s quiche is a split ticket between the zero-intelligence suspension mentioned at the beginning and Ms. Schlafly, shilling for Mr. Horowitz's book about the Marxism indoctrination in universities, with the worst professors being (naturally) Californians and lesbians, and the worst America-hating departments are women’s studies, black studies, and peace studies, because they all have the audacity to challenge the partriarchy, capitalism, and Europe and America’s aggressive militarism and imperialsm in their histories. Socialists and uppity women are the only things coming out of our universities today, apparently, and that just has to be stopped.
The winner is worst because it’s true. Psychologists in the Army, according to a conversation taped by a patient, are under serious pressure not to diagnose PTSD in returning veterans. Mostly because that obligates the Army and the VA to provide benefits and care, which are expensive. Considering the returning soldiers are not reintegrating well by any standard, committing increased amounts of violence against themselves and the women in their lives (for which there appears not to be much for admitting it happens, much less laying down serious consequences for those that do commit crimes and providing the help that the returning veterans need), this is not a situation that can continue. So, even as Mr. Lippold laments the budget cuts upcoming in the military, believing that cutting spending will leave them unprepared to fight the wars of tomorrow (and I didn’t see much on there about helping the people coming back). If they really need that much money to buy weapons of destruction, they can have an Army bake sale. It’s what the schools have been doing for years now. Mr. Donnelly says the current priorities of spending are also in need of overhaul, regardless of the amount of money gotten, but he’s also focused on weapons. And two seniors at Harvard University say that it's time that the ROTC returns to campus and is supported fully by the school, because the military deserves Harvard-educated officers. Assuming that training doesn’t then strip them of all that useful Harvard education. If you want to give money to teh military, give them all they need to rehabilitate the soldiers coming back. And then more to figure out ways of not needing them or war in the future. Other than that, if the boys want their toys, they can go out and earn the money for ‘em.
In technology, spies and hackers in the electrical grid, apparently looking to leave behind trojans and other malware, a computer that can derive natural laws, attempting to obtain a complete picture of what the ground underneath the United States looks like, driving software that could save on fuel costs, but it’s currently only useful when there aren’t that many cars around, peering at single RNA molecules, a scare where ingested rabbit poison pellets combined with water to generate deadly gases, which then escaped while the medics were trying to save the man, putting them at risk from the gas.
Last for tonight, the P.U.M.A., a two-seat collaboration between GM and Segway intended for urban use.
And another contribution to Hello Kitty Hell.
