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Late on posting - 30 April 2009
May. 1st, 2009 01:04 pmUp top for tonight, children want to grow up so fast... what would they look like if they dressed and looked like little adults? For those already at adulthood, the pictures probably provide all the portrait we need to want to keep them there in childhood as long as possible.
Across the nations, in an attempt to undercut the drug cartel wars going on in the country, and to free up resources to fight the violence from those cartels the Mexican Senate okayed a bill to legalize the possession of several drugs in small quantities.
If you're wearing a mask because of the flu, consider, perhaps, a stylish mask that gives the others more than just blue to look at. Assuming that you haven't already totally paniced over the raising of the risk level to imminent pandemic risk.
The United States may soon be signing on to the International Criminal Court, after the previous administration withdrew their signature because they were worried that United States personnel might be prosecuted for their actions in Iraq. Such a signature would then have to be approved by the Congresscritters.
Domestically, one might say, "Finally." The President rejected "the ends justifies the means" reasoning on torture, considering the cost too much and calling the techniques used "torture". No word yet as to whether the President will then take that designation seriously and lean hard on the Attorney General to do his Conventional duty and investigate. This declaration among other things at his 100th day press conference. Time attempts to analyze these first 100 days and render places of interest.
Speaking of torture, Fox News says that there were only five waterboardings, not 183, but that water was poured 183 times over the five sessions. So, yes, still tortured, but only five times, instead of 183. That makes it all better, doesn't it? Uh, no. I think the count is correct - every time the water was poured should count as a separate incident of waterboarding, regardless of how concentrated or spread out the sessions are.
Want to see some scary stuff? Think Orson Scott Card advocating for the overthrow of the government, institution of religious law, and recriminalization of homosexuality (and anything else that doesn't fit his personal beliefs). Here's you chaser - or perhaps the cause for such a frothing rant - Maine's senate just passed a legalization of homosexual marriage. C'mon, home state and other home state! Get with the program! (Technically, home state is, somewhat, and is probably going to end in a spot where it's basically the same but for the word.)
In opinions, Mr. Krugman says we should be worried that bankers seem to be returning to practices that helped cause the crash.
The Rasmussen Corporation produces a report saying that most people in America like their free-market economy. Duh. And I'll bet most of those 77% also think that the country is not sliding into some nefarious totalitarian regime where the government plans and runs everything, too. If you dig into the numbers, which they do a paragraph down, you find that the peopel are about evenly split on the need for more regulation. So no, they don't favor leaving the throttle wide-open, either. But I'm sure there will be some partisan comments about this matter somewhere along the line. Truthfully, the really interesting spot is further down, when we find out that in a general sense, the populace hates both bug business and the government, and rightly concludes that the two often collude to help each other and freeze out anyone else.
Andie Collier thinks that the Democrats are taking advantage of swine flu to continue pushing a liberal agenda. Which is true - liberals like funding scientific research, being prepared for outbreaks, and putting directors in at the office of Health and Human Services. Clearly partisn things, these.
Winning the "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics" dishonor for today, the Washington Post editorializes that the President is the second least-popular president...at this point in his office, facing down a sharply partisan opposition, a set of crises that don't seem to be going away at any point soon, and the fact taht people thought he was a moderate when they elected him. The Post places the blame for this "low" approval rating on Mr. Obama himself, calling him more partisan and divisive than Richard Nixon. Uh, takes two to tango, y'know, but that's not going to get in the way of this editorial, or Mr. Goldberg declaring that the signature thing from this current administration's 100 days has been liberal arrogance, for which the piper will eventually be paid. Taking the line further, and dragging other people into it, Mr. Toomey says Senator Specter's decision to go Democratic means he's signing on board with making the United States into a welfare-state economy, and that the Senator can't be trusted to uphold any sort of principle, liberal or conservative. Mr. Toomey woudl have been Mr. Specter's opponent in the Pennsylvania GOP primary. But it's not just him - Mr. Thomas says that conservatives and republicans are quite glad to see Mr. Specter go, because Mr. Specter was always a Democrat who became a Republican out of convenience and has now switched back. Mr. Thomas says the Republicans should continue the purge of RINOs and liberal Republicans so they can rebuild their power base and start doing what works, and play for keeps, so they can get back into power. Paradoxically, while welcoming the removal of Mr. Specter, Mr. Thomas says going on an idoelgoical purge isn't the right way to go. Yet, without those differing voices, ideological purity will soon be the coin of the realm.
Mr. Brietbart tells gay rights activists to police people like Perez Hilton, lest people reverse their decision that homosexuals are okay and go back to the hate line. Oh, and those gay rights activists need to talk more about how the Muslim fanatics are against homosexuality, and then go after the President for being Christians and against gay marriage too. Otherwise, sit down and shut up. Do what we want you to, he says, not what you want to do. *sigh* Tell you what. They'll silence Perez Hilton when you muzzle the firebrand preachers and conservatives that go fire and brimstone every week at their pulpits about how evil, unnatural, and blasphemous homosexuality is. Sound like a compromise? Both sides will nerf their most outspoken members and the rest of us will just let the issue simmer underneath the surface until it explodes again with some other riot or big outspoken act. Then we can finger-point about who's not controlling whom and re-agree to do nothing about it again. Sound good?
In science, Anarctic ice is breaking off the shelf, plastic solar cells gaining efficiency improvements, more precise plant genetic engineering, smart infrastructure, which networks sensors together and uses algorithms to process the data and make changes, like raising toll prices or changing the utility grid such that it runs more efficiently (perhaps by requesting appliances wait before turning on), which could then also utilize telecontrolled robots to gain further efficiencies on the end that is using the electricity, touch screens that also incorporate the ability to create physically pushable buttons, and using search queries to track pandemic spreads, a small portion of using the real-time feed of what people are searching for to predict new trends and the future.
Last for tonight, Toy Voyagers, which works on the same principle of freeing books - tag it, set it out, see where people take it. And the apartment that has been turned into a cave of wonders, full of blue crystals.
Across the nations, in an attempt to undercut the drug cartel wars going on in the country, and to free up resources to fight the violence from those cartels the Mexican Senate okayed a bill to legalize the possession of several drugs in small quantities.
If you're wearing a mask because of the flu, consider, perhaps, a stylish mask that gives the others more than just blue to look at. Assuming that you haven't already totally paniced over the raising of the risk level to imminent pandemic risk.
The United States may soon be signing on to the International Criminal Court, after the previous administration withdrew their signature because they were worried that United States personnel might be prosecuted for their actions in Iraq. Such a signature would then have to be approved by the Congresscritters.
Domestically, one might say, "Finally." The President rejected "the ends justifies the means" reasoning on torture, considering the cost too much and calling the techniques used "torture". No word yet as to whether the President will then take that designation seriously and lean hard on the Attorney General to do his Conventional duty and investigate. This declaration among other things at his 100th day press conference. Time attempts to analyze these first 100 days and render places of interest.
Speaking of torture, Fox News says that there were only five waterboardings, not 183, but that water was poured 183 times over the five sessions. So, yes, still tortured, but only five times, instead of 183. That makes it all better, doesn't it? Uh, no. I think the count is correct - every time the water was poured should count as a separate incident of waterboarding, regardless of how concentrated or spread out the sessions are.
Want to see some scary stuff? Think Orson Scott Card advocating for the overthrow of the government, institution of religious law, and recriminalization of homosexuality (and anything else that doesn't fit his personal beliefs). Here's you chaser - or perhaps the cause for such a frothing rant - Maine's senate just passed a legalization of homosexual marriage. C'mon, home state and other home state! Get with the program! (Technically, home state is, somewhat, and is probably going to end in a spot where it's basically the same but for the word.)
In opinions, Mr. Krugman says we should be worried that bankers seem to be returning to practices that helped cause the crash.
The Rasmussen Corporation produces a report saying that most people in America like their free-market economy. Duh. And I'll bet most of those 77% also think that the country is not sliding into some nefarious totalitarian regime where the government plans and runs everything, too. If you dig into the numbers, which they do a paragraph down, you find that the peopel are about evenly split on the need for more regulation. So no, they don't favor leaving the throttle wide-open, either. But I'm sure there will be some partisan comments about this matter somewhere along the line. Truthfully, the really interesting spot is further down, when we find out that in a general sense, the populace hates both bug business and the government, and rightly concludes that the two often collude to help each other and freeze out anyone else.
Andie Collier thinks that the Democrats are taking advantage of swine flu to continue pushing a liberal agenda. Which is true - liberals like funding scientific research, being prepared for outbreaks, and putting directors in at the office of Health and Human Services. Clearly partisn things, these.
Winning the "Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics" dishonor for today, the Washington Post editorializes that the President is the second least-popular president...at this point in his office, facing down a sharply partisan opposition, a set of crises that don't seem to be going away at any point soon, and the fact taht people thought he was a moderate when they elected him. The Post places the blame for this "low" approval rating on Mr. Obama himself, calling him more partisan and divisive than Richard Nixon. Uh, takes two to tango, y'know, but that's not going to get in the way of this editorial, or Mr. Goldberg declaring that the signature thing from this current administration's 100 days has been liberal arrogance, for which the piper will eventually be paid. Taking the line further, and dragging other people into it, Mr. Toomey says Senator Specter's decision to go Democratic means he's signing on board with making the United States into a welfare-state economy, and that the Senator can't be trusted to uphold any sort of principle, liberal or conservative. Mr. Toomey woudl have been Mr. Specter's opponent in the Pennsylvania GOP primary. But it's not just him - Mr. Thomas says that conservatives and republicans are quite glad to see Mr. Specter go, because Mr. Specter was always a Democrat who became a Republican out of convenience and has now switched back. Mr. Thomas says the Republicans should continue the purge of RINOs and liberal Republicans so they can rebuild their power base and start doing what works, and play for keeps, so they can get back into power. Paradoxically, while welcoming the removal of Mr. Specter, Mr. Thomas says going on an idoelgoical purge isn't the right way to go. Yet, without those differing voices, ideological purity will soon be the coin of the realm.
Mr. Brietbart tells gay rights activists to police people like Perez Hilton, lest people reverse their decision that homosexuals are okay and go back to the hate line. Oh, and those gay rights activists need to talk more about how the Muslim fanatics are against homosexuality, and then go after the President for being Christians and against gay marriage too. Otherwise, sit down and shut up. Do what we want you to, he says, not what you want to do. *sigh* Tell you what. They'll silence Perez Hilton when you muzzle the firebrand preachers and conservatives that go fire and brimstone every week at their pulpits about how evil, unnatural, and blasphemous homosexuality is. Sound like a compromise? Both sides will nerf their most outspoken members and the rest of us will just let the issue simmer underneath the surface until it explodes again with some other riot or big outspoken act. Then we can finger-point about who's not controlling whom and re-agree to do nothing about it again. Sound good?
In science, Anarctic ice is breaking off the shelf, plastic solar cells gaining efficiency improvements, more precise plant genetic engineering, smart infrastructure, which networks sensors together and uses algorithms to process the data and make changes, like raising toll prices or changing the utility grid such that it runs more efficiently (perhaps by requesting appliances wait before turning on), which could then also utilize telecontrolled robots to gain further efficiencies on the end that is using the electricity, touch screens that also incorporate the ability to create physically pushable buttons, and using search queries to track pandemic spreads, a small portion of using the real-time feed of what people are searching for to predict new trends and the future.
Last for tonight, Toy Voyagers, which works on the same principle of freeing books - tag it, set it out, see where people take it. And the apartment that has been turned into a cave of wonders, full of blue crystals.
