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Welcome again, to the now-in-two-places Daily News Post. After poking about in the bug reports and feature suggestions of the Dreamwidth service, they’re working on improvements that I would like to see and think would be really awesome. So they’re not ready in yet, but when they are, I should have a much easier time of being able to read all the protected stuff and friendslists from other services from DW, as opposed to having to feed all of you in indicidually and not have access to locked posts. So we’ll sit on our hands and hope for a release of something like that soon.
In the meanime, here’s news, including a senior citizen on the receiving end of a Taser during a routine traffic stop, apparently for refusing to sign the ticket.
And before we begin, remember, confirmation bias exists, meaning people choose their news based on how well it meshes with what they already believe.
Outside the United States, more U.S. troops continue to arrive in Afghanistan, meaning the infrastructure already in place needs to be built up quickly, Pakistani citizens are attacking Taliban militants in revenge for a bombing in a mosque, the chief jailer of the Khmer Rouge talked about the official policy on killing children so they would not be able to take revenge at their parents' deaths, and Stephen Colbert took his show on the road.
Domestically, a glitch in an optical scanner resulted in way too many votes being recorded for an election - a manual audit did catch it, and they did manage to get everything sorted out eventually. This is why you keep seperate paper records that are not machine-generated. On other voting matters, Mr. Van Spakovsy accuses the Attorney General of playing politics with his decisions on voter cases, letting intimidation pass, killing registration checks and fighting with the requirement to have states regularly keep their voter rolls up to date.
The Matthew Shepard Bill currently under consideration in Congress may have a provision put into it that would allow for concealed carry across state lines, under the reasoning that minorities or other potentially vulnerable groups should be allowed to carry their weapons and be licensed for them no matter where they are.
Unemployment is worse than expected, prompting the President to suggest that the second half of the stimulus cash be released soon. Bring on the further attacks that the Preisdent's jobs numbers are made up out of whole cloth, and the mainstream media is willingly buyign them without investigating.
In the opinion realms - An opinion on why monogamous relationships, and especially the idea of love and marriage for the rest of one's life, don't and probably won't work for a significant segment of the populace. There’s not that many people willing to tell monogamy to find someone else to screw, though. On the other end, the Coolidge effect, where biologically, animals do not want to have just one partner and will be aroused by new partners, of which there is a moral judgment laced in that this biological impulse is bad and that commited (mongamous?) relationships are far superior to sleeping around.
Dr. Carhart likeend the tactics of antiabortion crusaders to that of the KKK and other historical disasters, an association that has likely been underneath the surface of the debate, but has not been brought up fully into the light. Additionally, proof that terrorism works - the clinic that Dr. Tiller was operating in Kansas is closing.
Representative Sanders lays it out for the populace - health care is a right, not a privilege, because lack of health-care access impacts so many areas of life and quality of life that we shouldn’t ever be without it. Not to mention, he says, if we had the public option, we’d have better care and spend less on it per person. Senator Kennedy is thinking all employers would have to pay for health care, so that everyone was covered, with subsidies for the poor, so that’s one alternative. The President suggests higher taxes on the wealthy, instead. Another one, being pushed hard by oppoenets, is that we should do nothing, or in fact make the average health consumer pay mroe of their care costs, because the President is lying to us about costs, and we will inevitably lead to rationing of care, which is bad and leads to people dying on waitlists where they would have been seen immediately.
MoveOn and actual liberal groups are hoping for a much stronger climate caps bill than the one currently making its way in Congress, because the current bill might create jobs, but all in highly-polluting industries, instead of going with renewables or nuclear power (still generates wasts, but it’s different waste).
Governor Huckabee claims Prop 8 wouldn't have passed if it weren't for all the prayer warriors going out and supplicating G-d. And Newt is apparently at war with “secular fanatics”. The General enthusiastically endorses Mr. Huckabee and suggests an idea to replace military service and FEMA with a prayer corps, to great savings and likely greater effectiveness, by the Huckabee logic. And all that saved money can of course go tot he top 1%, who will spend it wisely and possibly build some “stadium churches” to make the prayer that much better.
Rumors about conservatives suggest a boycott of "Government Motors" as a way of sticking it to President Obama's decision. As The Weirdo (and just about every Michigan native or import) knows, that's not sticking it to the man, that's cutting your nose off to spite your face. And not just because of all the union-employed people at the car plants that are hearing conservatives say “Yes, we want you unemployed and having to spend the money you may have saved, without health care or possibly any way of meeting your bills.” The easiest way to get GM out of government hands would be to invest private capital in it and bring it back up to a functional company. It seems, however, that making the point that things would fail is more important - and I continue to note that it’s the latecomers that are getting this - banks that are “too big to fail” getting bailed out are beyond reproach, apparently (even as they scramble to pay back their TARP funds while they complain about the TARP being used for automakers). Thus, making an example out of Citigroup sounds like an appearling option. It really does sound more like “If it’s Obama, we want it to fail” without thinking about the consequences thereof. and with no real Republican leadership to step up and tell them to go to hell, we’re going to continue believing that silence means assent. Perhaps some transparency of thinking processes would be in order?
Also, some lawmakers are asking the President to tell GM and Chrysler to not close dealerships, because those ones are profitable, apparently.
This is rumor mill department, as CNS is reporting on it, btu they claim to have obtained a copy of a 1981 memo from Sonia Sotomayor declaring the death penatly to be racist, and that the justice-nominee omitted such a memo on her questionnaire asking her to disclose all the memos and policy statement she’s made. More on this, if it develops.
Almost last out, somewhere on the Internet, someone thinks the country is sliding into significant parts of Atlas Shrugged, as if it were a prophetic book. That’s not great.
But worst of the bunch, Mr. Steyn passes on the President's speech in Cairo, considering it several declarations of American weakness and a surrender to the idea that Islam should control the world, expand everywhere, and be beyond reproach, while the Jews and Christians must stay where they are and bow, make apologetic noises, and otherwise not offend the Muslims. If someone really believes that the rest of the world will simply roll over if that happens, I have a bridge to sell you in Tacoma. If, for no other reason, I’m certain persons like you, Mr. Steyn, will rise up and do something to overthrow the oppressive Muslim yoke. When it gets to the point that you intend on doing something, anyway.
Bring it on - video footage of the weird science experiments conducted by JAXA, that we covered before.
At the end, continuing on the cute, Zooborns, a blog about baby animals.
Plus, recipes for ginger ales.
In the meanime, here’s news, including a senior citizen on the receiving end of a Taser during a routine traffic stop, apparently for refusing to sign the ticket.
And before we begin, remember, confirmation bias exists, meaning people choose their news based on how well it meshes with what they already believe.
Outside the United States, more U.S. troops continue to arrive in Afghanistan, meaning the infrastructure already in place needs to be built up quickly, Pakistani citizens are attacking Taliban militants in revenge for a bombing in a mosque, the chief jailer of the Khmer Rouge talked about the official policy on killing children so they would not be able to take revenge at their parents' deaths, and Stephen Colbert took his show on the road.
Domestically, a glitch in an optical scanner resulted in way too many votes being recorded for an election - a manual audit did catch it, and they did manage to get everything sorted out eventually. This is why you keep seperate paper records that are not machine-generated. On other voting matters, Mr. Van Spakovsy accuses the Attorney General of playing politics with his decisions on voter cases, letting intimidation pass, killing registration checks and fighting with the requirement to have states regularly keep their voter rolls up to date.
The Matthew Shepard Bill currently under consideration in Congress may have a provision put into it that would allow for concealed carry across state lines, under the reasoning that minorities or other potentially vulnerable groups should be allowed to carry their weapons and be licensed for them no matter where they are.
Unemployment is worse than expected, prompting the President to suggest that the second half of the stimulus cash be released soon. Bring on the further attacks that the Preisdent's jobs numbers are made up out of whole cloth, and the mainstream media is willingly buyign them without investigating.
In the opinion realms - An opinion on why monogamous relationships, and especially the idea of love and marriage for the rest of one's life, don't and probably won't work for a significant segment of the populace. There’s not that many people willing to tell monogamy to find someone else to screw, though. On the other end, the Coolidge effect, where biologically, animals do not want to have just one partner and will be aroused by new partners, of which there is a moral judgment laced in that this biological impulse is bad and that commited (mongamous?) relationships are far superior to sleeping around.
Dr. Carhart likeend the tactics of antiabortion crusaders to that of the KKK and other historical disasters, an association that has likely been underneath the surface of the debate, but has not been brought up fully into the light. Additionally, proof that terrorism works - the clinic that Dr. Tiller was operating in Kansas is closing.
Representative Sanders lays it out for the populace - health care is a right, not a privilege, because lack of health-care access impacts so many areas of life and quality of life that we shouldn’t ever be without it. Not to mention, he says, if we had the public option, we’d have better care and spend less on it per person. Senator Kennedy is thinking all employers would have to pay for health care, so that everyone was covered, with subsidies for the poor, so that’s one alternative. The President suggests higher taxes on the wealthy, instead. Another one, being pushed hard by oppoenets, is that we should do nothing, or in fact make the average health consumer pay mroe of their care costs, because the President is lying to us about costs, and we will inevitably lead to rationing of care, which is bad and leads to people dying on waitlists where they would have been seen immediately.
MoveOn and actual liberal groups are hoping for a much stronger climate caps bill than the one currently making its way in Congress, because the current bill might create jobs, but all in highly-polluting industries, instead of going with renewables or nuclear power (still generates wasts, but it’s different waste).
Governor Huckabee claims Prop 8 wouldn't have passed if it weren't for all the prayer warriors going out and supplicating G-d. And Newt is apparently at war with “secular fanatics”. The General enthusiastically endorses Mr. Huckabee and suggests an idea to replace military service and FEMA with a prayer corps, to great savings and likely greater effectiveness, by the Huckabee logic. And all that saved money can of course go tot he top 1%, who will spend it wisely and possibly build some “stadium churches” to make the prayer that much better.
Rumors about conservatives suggest a boycott of "Government Motors" as a way of sticking it to President Obama's decision. As The Weirdo (and just about every Michigan native or import) knows, that's not sticking it to the man, that's cutting your nose off to spite your face. And not just because of all the union-employed people at the car plants that are hearing conservatives say “Yes, we want you unemployed and having to spend the money you may have saved, without health care or possibly any way of meeting your bills.” The easiest way to get GM out of government hands would be to invest private capital in it and bring it back up to a functional company. It seems, however, that making the point that things would fail is more important - and I continue to note that it’s the latecomers that are getting this - banks that are “too big to fail” getting bailed out are beyond reproach, apparently (even as they scramble to pay back their TARP funds while they complain about the TARP being used for automakers). Thus, making an example out of Citigroup sounds like an appearling option. It really does sound more like “If it’s Obama, we want it to fail” without thinking about the consequences thereof. and with no real Republican leadership to step up and tell them to go to hell, we’re going to continue believing that silence means assent. Perhaps some transparency of thinking processes would be in order?
Also, some lawmakers are asking the President to tell GM and Chrysler to not close dealerships, because those ones are profitable, apparently.
This is rumor mill department, as CNS is reporting on it, btu they claim to have obtained a copy of a 1981 memo from Sonia Sotomayor declaring the death penatly to be racist, and that the justice-nominee omitted such a memo on her questionnaire asking her to disclose all the memos and policy statement she’s made. More on this, if it develops.
Almost last out, somewhere on the Internet, someone thinks the country is sliding into significant parts of Atlas Shrugged, as if it were a prophetic book. That’s not great.
But worst of the bunch, Mr. Steyn passes on the President's speech in Cairo, considering it several declarations of American weakness and a surrender to the idea that Islam should control the world, expand everywhere, and be beyond reproach, while the Jews and Christians must stay where they are and bow, make apologetic noises, and otherwise not offend the Muslims. If someone really believes that the rest of the world will simply roll over if that happens, I have a bridge to sell you in Tacoma. If, for no other reason, I’m certain persons like you, Mr. Steyn, will rise up and do something to overthrow the oppressive Muslim yoke. When it gets to the point that you intend on doing something, anyway.
Bring it on - video footage of the weird science experiments conducted by JAXA, that we covered before.
At the end, continuing on the cute, Zooborns, a blog about baby animals.
Plus, recipes for ginger ales.
