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Hooray for this - 14 May 2009
May. 15th, 2009 01:49 amGood day to all of you. Before getting into the realities of the adult world, return to your roots with 10 can't-miss childhood moments and 10 more can't-miss childhood moments. Then, ponder the situation where God gave me cookies and see what results.
Out in the world, Russia admits that the coming wars will likely be over energy reserves, a phantom claims he was never captured, despite Iraqi authorities saying they had him, and a woman was arrested in the United Kingdom for having excessively noisy sex, after she had been slapped with an anti-social behavior order about her loud escapades. Methinks the neighbors got jealous.
So, today, a group that wanted to protest being designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center... behaved like a hate group in protesting it.
More seriously, New Hampshire is set to become the next state to approve of same-sex marriages, with the sensibile exception that those who do not want to officiate or participate with clergy in such don’t have to.
The AP does some fact-checking on Vice-President Biden's picture of the economy, claiming he’s painting a rosy picture, and The WSJ points out that stimulus cash is not moving as fast as it could be in some parts of the country.
The President decides against releasing more photos of alleged military abuse, considering the photos to have already done their job and that their further release would only inflame more anti-American sentiment and possibly endanger soldiers abroad, a position for which the WSJ praises his commitment to secrecy, while declaring that liberals want things to be released so that the country has a harder time defending itself.
...what? I can accept the “it will make it ahrder for us to do our peace mission” argument, but the country’s reputation is already in the doghouse on what has been released. It would probably be better to get it all out in a block for digestion, and then we can work from there to rebuild, if reputation was the sole driving factor involved. No, I think we’re more interested in finding out how deep the rabbit hole goes, so perhaps, if lucky, we can cut the cancer out at its root.
Other things the Administration is considering include indefinite trial-less detentions of current Guantanamo Bay residents on American soil, which we reported on before by including an opinion about the likely NIMBY response to that, bringing about the end to the War on (Some) Drugs through leses incarceration and mroe treatment (and hopefully, perhaps in the future, some decriminalization, too, but not from this drug czar), the possibility that income thresholds for the new highest tax rates will be increased, so that you have to make a bit more than you do now to get soaked, although now the rumors start again about health care benefits being taxed and/or taxing soda and sugary sweets to help with the health care reform.
The DHS head, apparently not moving fast enough for some, has declared the report that named veterans and others as possible recruitment targets for right-wing extremism has been pulled and is being redone. Maybe now people will stop complaining about the fact that people who have training in arms and other weapons are people terror groups would want to recruit.
Close to one in four overseas voter did not have their ballot counted for the 2008 election, because of deadlines or requirements or bad mail that made their ballot not delivered or not received in time to count the vote.
In the opinions, the creative power of Star Trek and its ability to change lives, as a way of noting that even with reimaginings, Trek remains what it is, and those who grouse about the new stuff are doing so because of the reverence they have for the old.
Time speculates some on why the normally secretive Richard Cheney has decided to come out with a full-bore attack on the current President. He and Mr. Turd Blossom, who hits his one-note attack about how Congress should go down with previous administration officials on torture, if prosecutions ever happen have been working to spin the damage of “a previous President authorized techniques that are torture” by adding on, “but it worked and we’re safer because of it”. Mr. Sowell helps out, by telling us all that we would behave the same way is someone dear to us were in terrorist clutches, so we can't claim any sort of moral high ground on being against it, as well as being worried that our all-style President doesn’t seem to understand it in his continued attacks on America. Because they are Evil Men, of course, they are except from any sort fo morality or mercy, and only received what they deserved, and what we should do to those Evil Men every time.
The WSJ looks with apprehension at new antitrust rulings against Intel, believing them to stem from a model that is more concerned about making sure the competition is even instead of making sure the competition is best for the consumer.
Mr. York finds himself and others flabbergasted to explain the amounts of money the Obama administration is slinging around, as well as complaining Mr. Obama is changing the subject when he equates proper economic recovery with health care reform and urges Congress to pass such quickly. Mr. Henninger takes up the complaints about how much money the federal government is spending, especially through earmarks, and Mr. Lechleiter takes up the cry that a government-run program stifles the necessary innovation that makes our medicine great, because (as “everyone knows”)government programs mean rationed care and discouragement of new treatments.
Mr. Malanga tells us unions, and especially unions of public and government-sector workers, have become the premier political force int he country, and thus too strong, because of the way they can hold the taxpayers hostage until their demands get met (pfft, right) or the taxpayers pay more so they can enjot even cushier salaries and benefits (thffft).
Mrs. McCain urges the conutry to go help the situation in the DRC, as Mr. London believes the United States just surrendered on Iran getting a nuclear weapon to use against Israel, and that Israel now has to face a tough choice as to whether to glass Iran before it has the capability or sit tight and hope they don’t get it used against them. Unfortunately, it finishes just outside the pastry considerations.
Taking the bronze medal for flaming quiche to the face is Ms. Herzog, who believes that professors teaching socialism and class warfare should try it out, where the professor declares the grade of the students will be the same, and those in minorities will receive extra points for being what they are, and see how long the class and the professor last. She uses this strawman as her argument that “everyone knows” the country and the clasroom are based on the merit of the people in it, which disproves the idea that America has classes that work against the success of people and that socialism is in any sort of way a good system of government, because it produces lazy, uninspired people without any drive and that prefer to be victims rather than fix their situation. Lazy would describe her research, I suspect, because there isn’t a person in the classroom that says social class is wholly deterministic of one’s fate, but they will ascribe more or less influence to it on how easy it is for you to succeed in society and to make a good living for yourself. We’d reformulate her classroom example to be more like “Okay, everyone here is getting a D- at minimum, so you won’t fail. Anything you want to do on top of that is up to you.” For those students that are okay with D- living, they were going to do that much work anyway. For the A types, though, they’ll be working just as hard - they just will know that if things go poorly for them, they won’t fail and have to retake. That’s your classroom socialism.
Our runner-up tonight in the quiche competition is paranoid and desperately unfunny comedian David Limbaugh, warning us about the upcoming war on conservative talk radio as well as the current war being waged by the administration against all the fronts conservatives should be defending - abortion, fiscal responsibility, cap and trade, prosecution of torturers, equating homosexuals with pedophiles (because of the new hate crimes legislation, y’know), unions, the unquestioned supremacy of America that needs no apology, nationalized health care, and all the rest. But all of this is apparently small fries to the FCC postulating that more stations should be in minority hands, whereby they will carry more liberal shows, and thus the administration wages war on conservative talk radio withotu having to institute the Fairness Doctrine. It’s quite the paranoid rant.
But it’s been bested. Have we got a winner for the Flaming Quiche competition. Yes, someone did top the perenially-awful unfunny comedian Limbaugh. Mr. Prager says that socialism and secularism over the last few decades have drained Europe's ability to be creative and/or entrepreneurial, because socialism removes the drive to innovate (every European is lazy, knowing they have guaranteed vacation and government support, “everyone knows”), and religion is the chief backing for making art, and especially great art in the service of God and the positive outlook on life it provides. Yeah. America is supreme in innovation and art because we’re uber-religious and because we don’t do democratic socialism. Mr. Prager, please accept this lovingly backed quiche full of all-American ingredients with our scorn and derision. Perhaps if you chose to get out of the country and look around for a bit, you might find the innovators that your own bubble is sealing you off from.
In technology and various sciences, meditation makes the brain grow bigger?, the Wolfram Alpha "computational knowledge engine" will debut tomorrow to the public, using cloaking devices to make one object look like another, a possible set of reactions that may have led to RNA, and then eventaully hu-mons, a hyopthesis that says the H1N1 virus escaped from a laboratory, where it was created as a way of trying to make more effective flu vaccines, a declaration that overeating alone is responsible for obesity, Atlantis catches the Hubble, begins repairs, and a discussion of the future where human brains are augmented by technological computing, possibly generating another “haves” and “have-nots” divide in humanity.
Last for tonight, watch as someone builds an AR-15 out of mostly wood. And some photographs of swimming pools with their water drained out.
And one last bit for tonight - do you know what's in your air?
Out in the world, Russia admits that the coming wars will likely be over energy reserves, a phantom claims he was never captured, despite Iraqi authorities saying they had him, and a woman was arrested in the United Kingdom for having excessively noisy sex, after she had been slapped with an anti-social behavior order about her loud escapades. Methinks the neighbors got jealous.
So, today, a group that wanted to protest being designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center... behaved like a hate group in protesting it.
More seriously, New Hampshire is set to become the next state to approve of same-sex marriages, with the sensibile exception that those who do not want to officiate or participate with clergy in such don’t have to.
The AP does some fact-checking on Vice-President Biden's picture of the economy, claiming he’s painting a rosy picture, and The WSJ points out that stimulus cash is not moving as fast as it could be in some parts of the country.
The President decides against releasing more photos of alleged military abuse, considering the photos to have already done their job and that their further release would only inflame more anti-American sentiment and possibly endanger soldiers abroad, a position for which the WSJ praises his commitment to secrecy, while declaring that liberals want things to be released so that the country has a harder time defending itself.
...what? I can accept the “it will make it ahrder for us to do our peace mission” argument, but the country’s reputation is already in the doghouse on what has been released. It would probably be better to get it all out in a block for digestion, and then we can work from there to rebuild, if reputation was the sole driving factor involved. No, I think we’re more interested in finding out how deep the rabbit hole goes, so perhaps, if lucky, we can cut the cancer out at its root.
Other things the Administration is considering include indefinite trial-less detentions of current Guantanamo Bay residents on American soil, which we reported on before by including an opinion about the likely NIMBY response to that, bringing about the end to the War on (Some) Drugs through leses incarceration and mroe treatment (and hopefully, perhaps in the future, some decriminalization, too, but not from this drug czar), the possibility that income thresholds for the new highest tax rates will be increased, so that you have to make a bit more than you do now to get soaked, although now the rumors start again about health care benefits being taxed and/or taxing soda and sugary sweets to help with the health care reform.
The DHS head, apparently not moving fast enough for some, has declared the report that named veterans and others as possible recruitment targets for right-wing extremism has been pulled and is being redone. Maybe now people will stop complaining about the fact that people who have training in arms and other weapons are people terror groups would want to recruit.
Close to one in four overseas voter did not have their ballot counted for the 2008 election, because of deadlines or requirements or bad mail that made their ballot not delivered or not received in time to count the vote.
In the opinions, the creative power of Star Trek and its ability to change lives, as a way of noting that even with reimaginings, Trek remains what it is, and those who grouse about the new stuff are doing so because of the reverence they have for the old.
Time speculates some on why the normally secretive Richard Cheney has decided to come out with a full-bore attack on the current President. He and Mr. Turd Blossom, who hits his one-note attack about how Congress should go down with previous administration officials on torture, if prosecutions ever happen have been working to spin the damage of “a previous President authorized techniques that are torture” by adding on, “but it worked and we’re safer because of it”. Mr. Sowell helps out, by telling us all that we would behave the same way is someone dear to us were in terrorist clutches, so we can't claim any sort of moral high ground on being against it, as well as being worried that our all-style President doesn’t seem to understand it in his continued attacks on America. Because they are Evil Men, of course, they are except from any sort fo morality or mercy, and only received what they deserved, and what we should do to those Evil Men every time.
The WSJ looks with apprehension at new antitrust rulings against Intel, believing them to stem from a model that is more concerned about making sure the competition is even instead of making sure the competition is best for the consumer.
Mr. York finds himself and others flabbergasted to explain the amounts of money the Obama administration is slinging around, as well as complaining Mr. Obama is changing the subject when he equates proper economic recovery with health care reform and urges Congress to pass such quickly. Mr. Henninger takes up the complaints about how much money the federal government is spending, especially through earmarks, and Mr. Lechleiter takes up the cry that a government-run program stifles the necessary innovation that makes our medicine great, because (as “everyone knows”)government programs mean rationed care and discouragement of new treatments.
Mr. Malanga tells us unions, and especially unions of public and government-sector workers, have become the premier political force int he country, and thus too strong, because of the way they can hold the taxpayers hostage until their demands get met (pfft, right) or the taxpayers pay more so they can enjot even cushier salaries and benefits (thffft).
Mrs. McCain urges the conutry to go help the situation in the DRC, as Mr. London believes the United States just surrendered on Iran getting a nuclear weapon to use against Israel, and that Israel now has to face a tough choice as to whether to glass Iran before it has the capability or sit tight and hope they don’t get it used against them. Unfortunately, it finishes just outside the pastry considerations.
Taking the bronze medal for flaming quiche to the face is Ms. Herzog, who believes that professors teaching socialism and class warfare should try it out, where the professor declares the grade of the students will be the same, and those in minorities will receive extra points for being what they are, and see how long the class and the professor last. She uses this strawman as her argument that “everyone knows” the country and the clasroom are based on the merit of the people in it, which disproves the idea that America has classes that work against the success of people and that socialism is in any sort of way a good system of government, because it produces lazy, uninspired people without any drive and that prefer to be victims rather than fix their situation. Lazy would describe her research, I suspect, because there isn’t a person in the classroom that says social class is wholly deterministic of one’s fate, but they will ascribe more or less influence to it on how easy it is for you to succeed in society and to make a good living for yourself. We’d reformulate her classroom example to be more like “Okay, everyone here is getting a D- at minimum, so you won’t fail. Anything you want to do on top of that is up to you.” For those students that are okay with D- living, they were going to do that much work anyway. For the A types, though, they’ll be working just as hard - they just will know that if things go poorly for them, they won’t fail and have to retake. That’s your classroom socialism.
Our runner-up tonight in the quiche competition is paranoid and desperately unfunny comedian David Limbaugh, warning us about the upcoming war on conservative talk radio as well as the current war being waged by the administration against all the fronts conservatives should be defending - abortion, fiscal responsibility, cap and trade, prosecution of torturers, equating homosexuals with pedophiles (because of the new hate crimes legislation, y’know), unions, the unquestioned supremacy of America that needs no apology, nationalized health care, and all the rest. But all of this is apparently small fries to the FCC postulating that more stations should be in minority hands, whereby they will carry more liberal shows, and thus the administration wages war on conservative talk radio withotu having to institute the Fairness Doctrine. It’s quite the paranoid rant.
But it’s been bested. Have we got a winner for the Flaming Quiche competition. Yes, someone did top the perenially-awful unfunny comedian Limbaugh. Mr. Prager says that socialism and secularism over the last few decades have drained Europe's ability to be creative and/or entrepreneurial, because socialism removes the drive to innovate (every European is lazy, knowing they have guaranteed vacation and government support, “everyone knows”), and religion is the chief backing for making art, and especially great art in the service of God and the positive outlook on life it provides. Yeah. America is supreme in innovation and art because we’re uber-religious and because we don’t do democratic socialism. Mr. Prager, please accept this lovingly backed quiche full of all-American ingredients with our scorn and derision. Perhaps if you chose to get out of the country and look around for a bit, you might find the innovators that your own bubble is sealing you off from.
In technology and various sciences, meditation makes the brain grow bigger?, the Wolfram Alpha "computational knowledge engine" will debut tomorrow to the public, using cloaking devices to make one object look like another, a possible set of reactions that may have led to RNA, and then eventaully hu-mons, a hyopthesis that says the H1N1 virus escaped from a laboratory, where it was created as a way of trying to make more effective flu vaccines, a declaration that overeating alone is responsible for obesity, Atlantis catches the Hubble, begins repairs, and a discussion of the future where human brains are augmented by technological computing, possibly generating another “haves” and “have-nots” divide in humanity.
Last for tonight, watch as someone builds an AR-15 out of mostly wood. And some photographs of swimming pools with their water drained out.
And one last bit for tonight - do you know what's in your air?
