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Starting up top, Rep. Bernie Sanders says that we need less anme-calling and more serious learning about whether or not to choose democratic socialism for ourselves, considering that it has good records in Europe. He’s also rather annoyed that the opposition likes to mix socialism witih other, more totalitarian forms of government and present them as indistinguishable from each other. You go, sir.
And now, to squick you out totally - doctors in Australia had to be creative in figuring out how to remove a leech from an eyeball. Their solution? Saline solution on the eye. Leech took to the salt and rolled right off.
Then, to wash that image out of your mind, a school bus retrofitted to be a drag racer.
Later on, a futurist predicts that the university as we know it will be obsolete by 2020, as people take their own learning through iPods and other distributed digital methods and get their certifications and credentials through the same. Campuses will likely vanish, then, in the digital morass, even though the institutions will still be able to make money on credit-hours and certifications.
Hey, look, it’s a bright world. Except for the New York man charged with financing Taliban operations.
Domestically, a school in Oregon is under investigation based on allegations that they were abusing their special education students, and is also involved in a SCOTUS case as to whether parents can sue for tuition reimbursement for special ed if they haven't tried public school special ed first. Think CF of epic proportions. The case itself, however, will not be passing judgment on whether or not the school’s techniques are appropriate or effective, but just looking at whether a parent can skip trying public schooling before moving on to private ones.
A Senate report linked the CIA memos directly to the torture techniques employed at military installations worldwide, making it much more systematic than “a few bad apples”, or rather, putting those bad apples very high in the chain of command, all the way up to and possibly including the previous President.. And just when things were getting bad, the post-act justification for torture just arrived. Another memo, released today, indicates that torture techniques yielded "high-value information", giving us “the ends justified the means” as the argument of the day. This no doubt makes the WSJ happy, because now they can run with this argument, and try to convince the rest of us that the torturers stopped many other plots with the information they gathered. Desperately not-funny comedian David Limbaugh argues that our national security is compromised now because we released information that brought results, and thus future terrorists will be resistant to those same techniques, rendering them ineffective. This is misdirection, trying to get you away from the central point that torture, no matter how effective, is illegal by treaty and morally repugnant. No matter how much intelligence was gained, if the law was broken in its gathering, those responsible for it should be tried. Those that provided cover for it by making it seem legal should also be tried. Those that knew torture was going on and gave it their blessing should be tried.
Speaking of trials, The President indicated that presidential opinion on prosecution for torture is just that - opinion, and that he was leaving the decision to prosecute the people who provided cover for those using the “just following orders” defense and “the ends justify the means” defense squarely in the hands of the Attorney General, who may call for a special prosecutor or not.
All in all, we clearly need to see all of this. Declassify as much as possible, release as much as possible. Let the public know what has been and will be done in their name.
Not on torture, the battle lines are setting up for the climate-change legislation coming to the House soon.
A D.C. NBC affiliate got punk'd, running the protest to the Tea Parties as if it were protests by the Tea Parties. Clearly, someone was lazy on this. Incompetence, not malice, of course, unless you’re predisposed to read it as malice.
In the opinions, Mr. Hanson returns to the "words have power" argument, indicating that he thinks the President is trying to look like he’s not fighting a global war on terror while fighting a global war on terror, with bad results, Ms. Rabinowitz claims that the recent apology tour and continued insistence that the current administration is morally better than the last will touch off resentment and anger in the populace, which then could taint his presidency, and Mr. Greenberg reverses the position, declaring that words mean nothing and the only successful nuclear nonproliferation deterrents are active violence carried out against those who are trying to develop nuclear technology.
Mr. Sowell takes the martyr's position on "right-wing extremists", trying to convince you that the mere fact that the DHS report mentioned single-issue peopel and veterans as people to watch out for means the President wants to demonize all of them, forgetting the brave sacrifice of the veterans and further proving that Barack Obama Hates America. Ms. Marsden thinks that Barack Obama is more European than Europe will tolerate, because he’s still a socialist of the enthusiastic kind...while he reluctantly enters the waters on sinking Somali pirates and the like. She wants to make the point that the French President is more American than the American one, playing on a joke about how ineffectual the French are on everything.
Last for tonight, Ms. Byrd feels the need to educate us about what tea party protestors were really about, because the media grossly misinterpreted, mischaracterised, and denigrated them without paying any attention to what they were doing. So, apparently, it’s all about how liberals hate the use of freedom of speech when it’s turned on them, the country doesn’t believe in the change the liberal president is bringing because they don’t like the tax revenues being spent the way they are, that the tea party people were totally grassroots with no corporate, political, or Fox News interests assisting them (and the media doesn’t cover it when liberal unions bring in extra protesters to make themselves look bigger), the coverage was clearly media bias in action, everywhere, except for Fox News, and that liberals are afraid of this true grassroots movement, not knowing what to do with a series of people who were well-groomed, non-violent, and non-odiferous. Ms. Byrd? There’s quiche all over you. You might want to clean up. And we might note that the “teabagging” commentary? Not started by the evul librul media, just picked up by them once enough people started referring to themselves as such. Kind of like the “2M4M” movement.
In tech, hey, look, another almost Earthsize planet, a mere 1.9 Earthsize, cracking down on Brazillian civilian use of American military satellites as their own CBs, through a quick technology hack that lets them take ordinary civilian equipment and boost it up into the military range, the possible use of techniques designed to produce specific yeasts in a more general way to produce biological circuitry, more warnings of possible solar storm disruptions,
Last out - there are some things that should never be repeated. take heed from those who survived it as to why.
And now, to squick you out totally - doctors in Australia had to be creative in figuring out how to remove a leech from an eyeball. Their solution? Saline solution on the eye. Leech took to the salt and rolled right off.
Then, to wash that image out of your mind, a school bus retrofitted to be a drag racer.
Later on, a futurist predicts that the university as we know it will be obsolete by 2020, as people take their own learning through iPods and other distributed digital methods and get their certifications and credentials through the same. Campuses will likely vanish, then, in the digital morass, even though the institutions will still be able to make money on credit-hours and certifications.
Hey, look, it’s a bright world. Except for the New York man charged with financing Taliban operations.
Domestically, a school in Oregon is under investigation based on allegations that they were abusing their special education students, and is also involved in a SCOTUS case as to whether parents can sue for tuition reimbursement for special ed if they haven't tried public school special ed first. Think CF of epic proportions. The case itself, however, will not be passing judgment on whether or not the school’s techniques are appropriate or effective, but just looking at whether a parent can skip trying public schooling before moving on to private ones.
A Senate report linked the CIA memos directly to the torture techniques employed at military installations worldwide, making it much more systematic than “a few bad apples”, or rather, putting those bad apples very high in the chain of command, all the way up to and possibly including the previous President.. And just when things were getting bad, the post-act justification for torture just arrived. Another memo, released today, indicates that torture techniques yielded "high-value information", giving us “the ends justified the means” as the argument of the day. This no doubt makes the WSJ happy, because now they can run with this argument, and try to convince the rest of us that the torturers stopped many other plots with the information they gathered. Desperately not-funny comedian David Limbaugh argues that our national security is compromised now because we released information that brought results, and thus future terrorists will be resistant to those same techniques, rendering them ineffective. This is misdirection, trying to get you away from the central point that torture, no matter how effective, is illegal by treaty and morally repugnant. No matter how much intelligence was gained, if the law was broken in its gathering, those responsible for it should be tried. Those that provided cover for it by making it seem legal should also be tried. Those that knew torture was going on and gave it their blessing should be tried.
Speaking of trials, The President indicated that presidential opinion on prosecution for torture is just that - opinion, and that he was leaving the decision to prosecute the people who provided cover for those using the “just following orders” defense and “the ends justify the means” defense squarely in the hands of the Attorney General, who may call for a special prosecutor or not.
All in all, we clearly need to see all of this. Declassify as much as possible, release as much as possible. Let the public know what has been and will be done in their name.
Not on torture, the battle lines are setting up for the climate-change legislation coming to the House soon.
A D.C. NBC affiliate got punk'd, running the protest to the Tea Parties as if it were protests by the Tea Parties. Clearly, someone was lazy on this. Incompetence, not malice, of course, unless you’re predisposed to read it as malice.
In the opinions, Mr. Hanson returns to the "words have power" argument, indicating that he thinks the President is trying to look like he’s not fighting a global war on terror while fighting a global war on terror, with bad results, Ms. Rabinowitz claims that the recent apology tour and continued insistence that the current administration is morally better than the last will touch off resentment and anger in the populace, which then could taint his presidency, and Mr. Greenberg reverses the position, declaring that words mean nothing and the only successful nuclear nonproliferation deterrents are active violence carried out against those who are trying to develop nuclear technology.
Mr. Sowell takes the martyr's position on "right-wing extremists", trying to convince you that the mere fact that the DHS report mentioned single-issue peopel and veterans as people to watch out for means the President wants to demonize all of them, forgetting the brave sacrifice of the veterans and further proving that Barack Obama Hates America. Ms. Marsden thinks that Barack Obama is more European than Europe will tolerate, because he’s still a socialist of the enthusiastic kind...while he reluctantly enters the waters on sinking Somali pirates and the like. She wants to make the point that the French President is more American than the American one, playing on a joke about how ineffectual the French are on everything.
Last for tonight, Ms. Byrd feels the need to educate us about what tea party protestors were really about, because the media grossly misinterpreted, mischaracterised, and denigrated them without paying any attention to what they were doing. So, apparently, it’s all about how liberals hate the use of freedom of speech when it’s turned on them, the country doesn’t believe in the change the liberal president is bringing because they don’t like the tax revenues being spent the way they are, that the tea party people were totally grassroots with no corporate, political, or Fox News interests assisting them (and the media doesn’t cover it when liberal unions bring in extra protesters to make themselves look bigger), the coverage was clearly media bias in action, everywhere, except for Fox News, and that liberals are afraid of this true grassroots movement, not knowing what to do with a series of people who were well-groomed, non-violent, and non-odiferous. Ms. Byrd? There’s quiche all over you. You might want to clean up. And we might note that the “teabagging” commentary? Not started by the evul librul media, just picked up by them once enough people started referring to themselves as such. Kind of like the “2M4M” movement.
In tech, hey, look, another almost Earthsize planet, a mere 1.9 Earthsize, cracking down on Brazillian civilian use of American military satellites as their own CBs, through a quick technology hack that lets them take ordinary civilian equipment and boost it up into the military range, the possible use of techniques designed to produce specific yeasts in a more general way to produce biological circuitry, more warnings of possible solar storm disruptions,
Last out - there are some things that should never be repeated. take heed from those who survived it as to why.
