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Good evening, everyone. The Warhol statement about fifteen minutes of fame applies to us all. I think I butny mine already, and at such a young age, too. And not for anything cool like being photographed fighting Taliban while in your boxers and flip-flops because there wasn’t time to get all of your combat dress on. Or getting lots of people to send you pictures of various characters with their left arm in a sling.
Elsewhere, Israel's Prime Minister met with the American Congress to discuss matters of Iran and nuclear technology, after talking with the American President earlier in his trip, for which Mr. Obama urged him to accept a two-state solution with significant concessions by Israel to what would be Palestine, the Chairman of the Join Chiefs of Staff in the United States was hopeful that new strategy in Afghanistan could produce good results in the next year or two, although he may be barking up the wrong tree, if a new book and research that indicates the presence of an occupier is the thing driving terrorism, not necessarily the ideology behind it, is true. Which could mean the idea of drawing down conventional troops and pushing up more mobile and black-ops troops might work, in a twisted sort of way.
Domestically, C-3PO echoes in my head whenever homeowners talk about their problems keeping the house. Yep. “We’re doomed.”
A father called the police through 911 on his son when the son got agitated about cleaning his room. The son is 28 and serves on the school board, the father says he “overreacted”. The cops did show up. I do believe there’s an “F” grade to be handed out all around on this one. Luckily, it’s harmless. The man charged with poking out, eating, and mutilating his 4 year-old son's eyes isn't.
Continuing with the educational theme, there may be a Muslim college in America soon, which is only news if your country still fears people of another religion - it’s not like we don’t already have plenty of religious colleges already. And plenty of people finding religious images in snack foods.
Critics of a bill that would give the Attorney General power to ban gun sales to known terrorists claim that the bill would infringe on Second Amendment rights, expecting the government to extend the people on the terror list to include politcial foes and other legitimate citizens, thus depriving them of constitutional rights without a trial.
President Obama and automakers also announced a plan to curb carbon emissions from automobiles, while also claiming that the changes will cut oil consumption.
Additionally, from the White House, the transcript of the President's address to the Notre Dame graduating class of 2009.
Health insurance companies claim the President overstated their efforts to cut costs by accelerating their timeline for savings and indicating specifics in savings they didn't say. Optimistic President, or a helpful nudge for those companies to get it in gear?
Details of call logs from Rod Blagojevich indicate he called current Whtie House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, possibly to attempt an extortion - trading school grant money for a fundraiser for the governor to be put on by Mr. Emanuel's brother.
Chairman Steele and other conservatives believe Dick Cheney has actually influenced the President with his critiques, and so they willingly defend his continued appearances and haranguing of the current President on security issues. Chairman Steele may have other problems to deal with, as the salaries of some of his staffers are much higher than their predecessors were, or that would seem appropriate for helping run the national political party.
In the opinions, a reminder that pharmaceuticals are not a sign of weakness, especially if they help you pull out of severe depression, despite the current mentality that suggests anyone on pharmaceutical drugs is either weak-minded or addicted. See what you’ve done, Rush Limbaugh?
Mr. Blankley beleives the two-state solution is a mirage, and that even if it could be done according to the Obama will, the people there wouldn't accept it. Mr. Mowbray says that the people here will stop President Obama from pushing Israel around, so I guess we can expect nothing to change, without even having to resotr to shadowy cabals or Jews pulling strings (which is one of the worst conspiracy theories ever, might I add, ever since it became Christian to lend money at usurious rates).
Mr. Ambrose calls out Mr. Gore on hypocrisy regarding climate, the environment, and the money he stands to make on cap-and-trade, considering those things to cancel out any sort of argument Mr. Gore might have in favor of his agenda.
Mr. Steyn attacks Speaker Pelosi on her apparent flip-flop on whether torture is legal and whether she helped to authorize it, which is making one point at the expense of another - finding out who’s involved is a sideshow as to whether or not someone has the nuts to begin prosecutions for the violation of the law. I don’t care who gets dragged down with the perpetrators, I want to see justice done. And I don’t want to hear bullshit about how intelligence capacity and agencies are under siege from the current President. He hasn’t been releasing classified information willy-nilly, nor has he been blowing the lid on other sensitive matters, nor is he talking at all about ongoing and current operations, or anything hat is legal, as best I can tell. We’re talking about the past, things that have happened, are illegal, and deserve investigation. If that means that intelligence feels it is under siege, it should rethink its methods so that when impropriety is unearthed, they can cooperate, disavow, and excise the cancer, instead of trying to cover it up.
On another running point across the opinions, Mr. Bartlett expects a sharp tax increase to pay for promised entitlement benefits, to the order of 81%, because neither party will cut their promised benefits. Further on that, according to Ms. Platt-Liebau, California is the canary dying to tell us that liberalism's way of government can't last. Do I mention the Republican in the Governor’s office now or later? Anyway, she apparently believes that California only works for those who are on the dole and unions. Yes, that’s right, only welfare recipients and unions. And of course, for everyone else, things have only gone downhill as their services died and their taxes went up. So naturally, this means that trying to be everything to everyone doesn’t work, and we should abandon any support for our socialist president trying to replicate California nationwide.
Ms. Zito, telling us confidently that anti-war voices have lost their steam, now that they don't have George Bush to kick around. While acknowledging that they’re probably just biding their time to see how the new boss does in turning out the lights in Iraq and bringing Af-Pak to an endgame situation, and there’s this economy thing that’s a bit of a concern. To say they’re gone or hold no influence is to be naive. What she’s seeing is that much of the populace does support engaging in Afghanistan on the mission intended - find and defeat Osama bin Laden and the Taliban that gave him shelter. Now that Iraq is winding down, the protests over that can as well. I think much of the anti-war left is also fairly confident that President Obama will not start wars capriciously.
Competing for the Dishonors of the Worsts, Republican representative says that the ACLU is "tearing down the United States", by opposing military comissions and the decision to withhold photos of abuses, and “constantly attacking the United States”. Because if nobody tries to hold you accountable to your own laws, then mysteriously everything becomes okay? If the Emperor rectifies himself, then everyone else follows his suit? The Representative also denied that any torture took place, and said the American civilan and legal system is unsuited to handle Guantanamo Bay detainee trials. Considering he’s an elected official, he should get more demerits, but perhaps happily, he’s outclassed.
Take Mr. Hewitt, for example, who is certain the "government option" will become the only option, because companies will dump their own plans for the government one, we will turn into a single-payer system, and will live out the nightmares of...Canada? Waaaait. Canada is a nightmare of health costs? Add in the scares about long wait lines for “elective” procedures, which will of course be necessary ones like cardiac surgery that beancounters have declared to be elevtice, “everyone knows”, an inability to choose one’s doctor, instead having one assigned to you (like that’s any different than the mishmash of in-network and out-of-network we have now), doctors deciding not to accept the government option, fracturing the country into health care for the wealthy and everyone else, and...less people attending medical school (ah, yes, because they won’t make phenomenal amounts of money), and you have full-blown F.U.D. It’s an impressive fearscape, I have to admit. So, would those who live under the nightmare Canadian, or any other single-payer system tell us how much of a worry it really is?
Losing, however, in grand fashion, is the guest blogger for this month's Townhall magazine, who rants off about how everyone should pull themselves up by their bootstraps without the government taking care of anything for them, the family unit has been raped by said government, modern men are spineless pussies, and anyone accepting any help from the government is making themselves into a slave. The blowhard says that only he should be responsible for all his decisions, including health care, employment, the raising, housing, and feeding of his children, and that all of his gains and losses are due solely to his own actions and nobody else. Everyone else, he says, is lazy, blames everyone else for their failures, and has no work ethic because they accept government help, and the family unit is in tatters because single women are raising children, which is clearly a travesty and a poor environment because there’s no man there. I’m surprised he didn’t go off on homosexuals, to be honest. While railing against daycare, I suspect he would also rail against children being left to themselves because both parents have to work. Oh, wait, I’d bet he thinks it’s solely the man’s responsibility to find work enough to pay for his family, so his wife can raise the children with good liberty-loving, government-hating values. I don’t think that gently pointing out all the government services that he takes advantage of withotu knowing it, including the roads he drives on, the post that mails him his paycheck, and all of those other niceities will make any difference, so we do it the harder way - eat quiche.
In technology, a proposal to use the GPS function of many phones to alert them as to whether they crossed paths with someone infected with a disease, perhaps as a warning for them to check for symptoms, but I really wonder how effective this will be, because it only works when someone has been identified as a carrier - the point of potential infection has already passed. And then possibly passed on to someone else. More useful, likely is the more than ten thousand people enroling in the Personal Genome Project. Additionally, games that computers are planning on whomping us at, if they aren't already, and taking a peek inside DARPA projects, whose leavings often advance our own technology several paces.
Last for tonight, The Field Guide to Freeway Interchanges, Part One and Part Two. After all that heavy reading, amuse yourself with amusingly defaced street signs: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. And, if you must, shell cash out for a transforming USB stick.
Elsewhere, Israel's Prime Minister met with the American Congress to discuss matters of Iran and nuclear technology, after talking with the American President earlier in his trip, for which Mr. Obama urged him to accept a two-state solution with significant concessions by Israel to what would be Palestine, the Chairman of the Join Chiefs of Staff in the United States was hopeful that new strategy in Afghanistan could produce good results in the next year or two, although he may be barking up the wrong tree, if a new book and research that indicates the presence of an occupier is the thing driving terrorism, not necessarily the ideology behind it, is true. Which could mean the idea of drawing down conventional troops and pushing up more mobile and black-ops troops might work, in a twisted sort of way.
Domestically, C-3PO echoes in my head whenever homeowners talk about their problems keeping the house. Yep. “We’re doomed.”
A father called the police through 911 on his son when the son got agitated about cleaning his room. The son is 28 and serves on the school board, the father says he “overreacted”. The cops did show up. I do believe there’s an “F” grade to be handed out all around on this one. Luckily, it’s harmless. The man charged with poking out, eating, and mutilating his 4 year-old son's eyes isn't.
Continuing with the educational theme, there may be a Muslim college in America soon, which is only news if your country still fears people of another religion - it’s not like we don’t already have plenty of religious colleges already. And plenty of people finding religious images in snack foods.
Critics of a bill that would give the Attorney General power to ban gun sales to known terrorists claim that the bill would infringe on Second Amendment rights, expecting the government to extend the people on the terror list to include politcial foes and other legitimate citizens, thus depriving them of constitutional rights without a trial.
President Obama and automakers also announced a plan to curb carbon emissions from automobiles, while also claiming that the changes will cut oil consumption.
Additionally, from the White House, the transcript of the President's address to the Notre Dame graduating class of 2009.
Health insurance companies claim the President overstated their efforts to cut costs by accelerating their timeline for savings and indicating specifics in savings they didn't say. Optimistic President, or a helpful nudge for those companies to get it in gear?
Details of call logs from Rod Blagojevich indicate he called current Whtie House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, possibly to attempt an extortion - trading school grant money for a fundraiser for the governor to be put on by Mr. Emanuel's brother.
Chairman Steele and other conservatives believe Dick Cheney has actually influenced the President with his critiques, and so they willingly defend his continued appearances and haranguing of the current President on security issues. Chairman Steele may have other problems to deal with, as the salaries of some of his staffers are much higher than their predecessors were, or that would seem appropriate for helping run the national political party.
In the opinions, a reminder that pharmaceuticals are not a sign of weakness, especially if they help you pull out of severe depression, despite the current mentality that suggests anyone on pharmaceutical drugs is either weak-minded or addicted. See what you’ve done, Rush Limbaugh?
Mr. Blankley beleives the two-state solution is a mirage, and that even if it could be done according to the Obama will, the people there wouldn't accept it. Mr. Mowbray says that the people here will stop President Obama from pushing Israel around, so I guess we can expect nothing to change, without even having to resotr to shadowy cabals or Jews pulling strings (which is one of the worst conspiracy theories ever, might I add, ever since it became Christian to lend money at usurious rates).
Mr. Ambrose calls out Mr. Gore on hypocrisy regarding climate, the environment, and the money he stands to make on cap-and-trade, considering those things to cancel out any sort of argument Mr. Gore might have in favor of his agenda.
Mr. Steyn attacks Speaker Pelosi on her apparent flip-flop on whether torture is legal and whether she helped to authorize it, which is making one point at the expense of another - finding out who’s involved is a sideshow as to whether or not someone has the nuts to begin prosecutions for the violation of the law. I don’t care who gets dragged down with the perpetrators, I want to see justice done. And I don’t want to hear bullshit about how intelligence capacity and agencies are under siege from the current President. He hasn’t been releasing classified information willy-nilly, nor has he been blowing the lid on other sensitive matters, nor is he talking at all about ongoing and current operations, or anything hat is legal, as best I can tell. We’re talking about the past, things that have happened, are illegal, and deserve investigation. If that means that intelligence feels it is under siege, it should rethink its methods so that when impropriety is unearthed, they can cooperate, disavow, and excise the cancer, instead of trying to cover it up.
On another running point across the opinions, Mr. Bartlett expects a sharp tax increase to pay for promised entitlement benefits, to the order of 81%, because neither party will cut their promised benefits. Further on that, according to Ms. Platt-Liebau, California is the canary dying to tell us that liberalism's way of government can't last. Do I mention the Republican in the Governor’s office now or later? Anyway, she apparently believes that California only works for those who are on the dole and unions. Yes, that’s right, only welfare recipients and unions. And of course, for everyone else, things have only gone downhill as their services died and their taxes went up. So naturally, this means that trying to be everything to everyone doesn’t work, and we should abandon any support for our socialist president trying to replicate California nationwide.
Ms. Zito, telling us confidently that anti-war voices have lost their steam, now that they don't have George Bush to kick around. While acknowledging that they’re probably just biding their time to see how the new boss does in turning out the lights in Iraq and bringing Af-Pak to an endgame situation, and there’s this economy thing that’s a bit of a concern. To say they’re gone or hold no influence is to be naive. What she’s seeing is that much of the populace does support engaging in Afghanistan on the mission intended - find and defeat Osama bin Laden and the Taliban that gave him shelter. Now that Iraq is winding down, the protests over that can as well. I think much of the anti-war left is also fairly confident that President Obama will not start wars capriciously.
Competing for the Dishonors of the Worsts, Republican representative says that the ACLU is "tearing down the United States", by opposing military comissions and the decision to withhold photos of abuses, and “constantly attacking the United States”. Because if nobody tries to hold you accountable to your own laws, then mysteriously everything becomes okay? If the Emperor rectifies himself, then everyone else follows his suit? The Representative also denied that any torture took place, and said the American civilan and legal system is unsuited to handle Guantanamo Bay detainee trials. Considering he’s an elected official, he should get more demerits, but perhaps happily, he’s outclassed.
Take Mr. Hewitt, for example, who is certain the "government option" will become the only option, because companies will dump their own plans for the government one, we will turn into a single-payer system, and will live out the nightmares of...Canada? Waaaait. Canada is a nightmare of health costs? Add in the scares about long wait lines for “elective” procedures, which will of course be necessary ones like cardiac surgery that beancounters have declared to be elevtice, “everyone knows”, an inability to choose one’s doctor, instead having one assigned to you (like that’s any different than the mishmash of in-network and out-of-network we have now), doctors deciding not to accept the government option, fracturing the country into health care for the wealthy and everyone else, and...less people attending medical school (ah, yes, because they won’t make phenomenal amounts of money), and you have full-blown F.U.D. It’s an impressive fearscape, I have to admit. So, would those who live under the nightmare Canadian, or any other single-payer system tell us how much of a worry it really is?
Losing, however, in grand fashion, is the guest blogger for this month's Townhall magazine, who rants off about how everyone should pull themselves up by their bootstraps without the government taking care of anything for them, the family unit has been raped by said government, modern men are spineless pussies, and anyone accepting any help from the government is making themselves into a slave. The blowhard says that only he should be responsible for all his decisions, including health care, employment, the raising, housing, and feeding of his children, and that all of his gains and losses are due solely to his own actions and nobody else. Everyone else, he says, is lazy, blames everyone else for their failures, and has no work ethic because they accept government help, and the family unit is in tatters because single women are raising children, which is clearly a travesty and a poor environment because there’s no man there. I’m surprised he didn’t go off on homosexuals, to be honest. While railing against daycare, I suspect he would also rail against children being left to themselves because both parents have to work. Oh, wait, I’d bet he thinks it’s solely the man’s responsibility to find work enough to pay for his family, so his wife can raise the children with good liberty-loving, government-hating values. I don’t think that gently pointing out all the government services that he takes advantage of withotu knowing it, including the roads he drives on, the post that mails him his paycheck, and all of those other niceities will make any difference, so we do it the harder way - eat quiche.
In technology, a proposal to use the GPS function of many phones to alert them as to whether they crossed paths with someone infected with a disease, perhaps as a warning for them to check for symptoms, but I really wonder how effective this will be, because it only works when someone has been identified as a carrier - the point of potential infection has already passed. And then possibly passed on to someone else. More useful, likely is the more than ten thousand people enroling in the Personal Genome Project. Additionally, games that computers are planning on whomping us at, if they aren't already, and taking a peek inside DARPA projects, whose leavings often advance our own technology several paces.
Last for tonight, The Field Guide to Freeway Interchanges, Part One and Part Two. After all that heavy reading, amuse yourself with amusingly defaced street signs: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. And, if you must, shell cash out for a transforming USB stick.
