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Up top, we know that it’s tough to find a job these days, but you may not want to reveal too much on your Twitter, or it’ll be much harder to get that job. Unless, perhaps, you want to be a humorist/cartoonist for the Treasury Department's Bureau of Public Debt. Then, having a sense of humor might get you hired!
Before the news, Mr. Buzz Aldrin says we're thinking too small in trying to get back to Luna - our real mission should be to build a sustainable colony on Mars and its moons.
That, and Hastur, Hastur, Has*urrrk*! Or, rather, a big blob that nobody really knows what it is, yet.
On the international desk, The Taliban opposition in Afghanistan is killing sympathizers as a way of trying to fight the additional United States troop presence - by trying to make it too dangerous a prospect to ally with the Americans. Some of that and some misinformation may be working, if the locals start believing some of the NATO troops are supporting the Taliban.
Luckily, here in this country, we’re more concerned with the various pitching arms of the previous and current administrators.
Domestically, and seriously, small business owners aligned with the Republican faction expressed concern that they would be hit by the new health-care playing surtaxes from the Democratic bill, claiming layoffs would be the result of their having to pay extra taxes on their income. The WSJ puts an unsigned opinion to the same effect, adding up all the tax rates, including state tax rates, to declare that taxes will be higher for them than it was under President Clinton. They also then admit to and point out the great game with taxes - the more they are levied, the more the people who should be paying more suddenly report less taxable income so they don’t pay more. In other words, cheating goes up with the tax rates. That would be something the IRS would be interested in, I would think.
Speaking of stuff the IRS would be interested in, the opinions begin with The WSJ complaining that the IRS's demands for the records of offshore tax shelterers and evaders are harming our relationships with friendly countries.
Finally, the President spoke to the NAACP, telling them that education and parenting are barriers to equality, and that continuing to work solely on discrimination and prejudice reinforces the idea that black people don't amount to as much as white people. With some of his rhetoric, I could hear a charismatic preacher addressing his congregation.
In the opinions, Mr. Stephens starts by complimenting the President on his realistic policy toward Africa, and then wonders why he doesn't apply those ideas to his own country, in approving free-trade agreements, stopping the stimulus spending, and standing against tax increases (ignobly compared to bribes) for the health care bill.
Mr. Zuckerman saying that unemployment numbers are worse than we're being told, because there were assumptions on trends, people are being told to take unpaid leave (which doesn’t count), people who hadn’t looked for work in the month before the survey weren’t counted, full-timers slip to part-timers, we’re unemployed longer, no wage gains, and the like. So we’re worse off than the official numbers, he says. The chairman of United Parcel Services says businesspeople need to speak up more against protectionist measures, because those measures kill jobs and trade. And, last on economics, Mr. Kessler says that while the Fed and Treasury have done their best to make the worst manageable, they have to step aside and let the economy take over.
Dr. Szasz says we can't achieve universal health care without accepting poor quality care everywhere, because we’ll have to insure against all sorts of things and risks that we should be just trying to avoid in our lifestyle. The better pursuit, he says, is to advance everyone’s economic interests and education - better education and wages, so they can buy good healthy food and then purchase inexpensive insurance that assumes they’re going to try and live healthy and only need protection against catastrophe.
To attack the quiche, Mr. McGurn finds himself in the running after wondering why Samuel Alito's Catholicism was important and Sonia Sotomayor's is not. McGurn concludes that it’s because the Dems think that Sotomayor’s not really a staunch Catholic and will thus rule in favor of things her church deems immoral. Thus, the Alito-worried Democrats are hypocrites for not raising that spectre in the hearings, for the candidate they favor. Because it is the job of the party that like her to talk about all the things that make them nervous about her. If you really want to play that game, I’m sure we could find some things...like, say, the WASP man accusing the Latina nominee of being a racist in her decisions.
Yeah. When he tried that tack on Ms. Maddow, she expressed her displeasure and disagreement in rather strong terms. To borrow her preferred bowdlerization, what Buchanan said was bullpucky. There's plenty of resentment from white men - at Buchanan claiming to speak for them while spewing all sorts of material about the evil affirmative action. The one, he claimed, that places less-qualified minority candidates in positions that should have gone to white people, and that got Sonia Sotomayor good grades, a job and her promotions all the way up to this point - he called her the “affirmative action” candidate, as did several conservatives in the blogosphere when Sonia’s name first appeared. So the ABA’s recognition of her as a “well-qualified” candidate meant, what, bullpucky? Pat, there’s a reason we left you behind. You’re doing an excellent job of being the token stupid conservative to get beaten up on, but you’re not doing it satirically, like Colbert. Time to move on.
In technology, IE6 must DIE. Only then can HTML 5 and the Web move forward, steampunk art, the revenge, the Evil Futurists' Guide to World Domination - how to be successful, famous... and wrong, of which Mr. Stirling notes that what's been described there is most religions, Google's plant that uses no chillers at all, which relies more on the weather cooperating to keep them up and running, and a social netowrking site for researchers.
And last out, some unusual food found only at your local state fair. If you’re looking for something to wash that down with, Pint Price will tell you the price of beer in multiple countries. Says nothing about quality, drinkability, and whether you will have ill effects afterward.
Before the news, Mr. Buzz Aldrin says we're thinking too small in trying to get back to Luna - our real mission should be to build a sustainable colony on Mars and its moons.
That, and Hastur, Hastur, Has*urrrk*! Or, rather, a big blob that nobody really knows what it is, yet.
On the international desk, The Taliban opposition in Afghanistan is killing sympathizers as a way of trying to fight the additional United States troop presence - by trying to make it too dangerous a prospect to ally with the Americans. Some of that and some misinformation may be working, if the locals start believing some of the NATO troops are supporting the Taliban.
Luckily, here in this country, we’re more concerned with the various pitching arms of the previous and current administrators.
Domestically, and seriously, small business owners aligned with the Republican faction expressed concern that they would be hit by the new health-care playing surtaxes from the Democratic bill, claiming layoffs would be the result of their having to pay extra taxes on their income. The WSJ puts an unsigned opinion to the same effect, adding up all the tax rates, including state tax rates, to declare that taxes will be higher for them than it was under President Clinton. They also then admit to and point out the great game with taxes - the more they are levied, the more the people who should be paying more suddenly report less taxable income so they don’t pay more. In other words, cheating goes up with the tax rates. That would be something the IRS would be interested in, I would think.
Speaking of stuff the IRS would be interested in, the opinions begin with The WSJ complaining that the IRS's demands for the records of offshore tax shelterers and evaders are harming our relationships with friendly countries.
Finally, the President spoke to the NAACP, telling them that education and parenting are barriers to equality, and that continuing to work solely on discrimination and prejudice reinforces the idea that black people don't amount to as much as white people. With some of his rhetoric, I could hear a charismatic preacher addressing his congregation.
In the opinions, Mr. Stephens starts by complimenting the President on his realistic policy toward Africa, and then wonders why he doesn't apply those ideas to his own country, in approving free-trade agreements, stopping the stimulus spending, and standing against tax increases (ignobly compared to bribes) for the health care bill.
Mr. Zuckerman saying that unemployment numbers are worse than we're being told, because there were assumptions on trends, people are being told to take unpaid leave (which doesn’t count), people who hadn’t looked for work in the month before the survey weren’t counted, full-timers slip to part-timers, we’re unemployed longer, no wage gains, and the like. So we’re worse off than the official numbers, he says. The chairman of United Parcel Services says businesspeople need to speak up more against protectionist measures, because those measures kill jobs and trade. And, last on economics, Mr. Kessler says that while the Fed and Treasury have done their best to make the worst manageable, they have to step aside and let the economy take over.
Dr. Szasz says we can't achieve universal health care without accepting poor quality care everywhere, because we’ll have to insure against all sorts of things and risks that we should be just trying to avoid in our lifestyle. The better pursuit, he says, is to advance everyone’s economic interests and education - better education and wages, so they can buy good healthy food and then purchase inexpensive insurance that assumes they’re going to try and live healthy and only need protection against catastrophe.
To attack the quiche, Mr. McGurn finds himself in the running after wondering why Samuel Alito's Catholicism was important and Sonia Sotomayor's is not. McGurn concludes that it’s because the Dems think that Sotomayor’s not really a staunch Catholic and will thus rule in favor of things her church deems immoral. Thus, the Alito-worried Democrats are hypocrites for not raising that spectre in the hearings, for the candidate they favor. Because it is the job of the party that like her to talk about all the things that make them nervous about her. If you really want to play that game, I’m sure we could find some things...like, say, the WASP man accusing the Latina nominee of being a racist in her decisions.
Yeah. When he tried that tack on Ms. Maddow, she expressed her displeasure and disagreement in rather strong terms. To borrow her preferred bowdlerization, what Buchanan said was bullpucky. There's plenty of resentment from white men - at Buchanan claiming to speak for them while spewing all sorts of material about the evil affirmative action. The one, he claimed, that places less-qualified minority candidates in positions that should have gone to white people, and that got Sonia Sotomayor good grades, a job and her promotions all the way up to this point - he called her the “affirmative action” candidate, as did several conservatives in the blogosphere when Sonia’s name first appeared. So the ABA’s recognition of her as a “well-qualified” candidate meant, what, bullpucky? Pat, there’s a reason we left you behind. You’re doing an excellent job of being the token stupid conservative to get beaten up on, but you’re not doing it satirically, like Colbert. Time to move on.
In technology, IE6 must DIE. Only then can HTML 5 and the Web move forward, steampunk art, the revenge, the Evil Futurists' Guide to World Domination - how to be successful, famous... and wrong, of which Mr. Stirling notes that what's been described there is most religions, Google's plant that uses no chillers at all, which relies more on the weather cooperating to keep them up and running, and a social netowrking site for researchers.
And last out, some unusual food found only at your local state fair. If you’re looking for something to wash that down with, Pint Price will tell you the price of beer in multiple countries. Says nothing about quality, drinkability, and whether you will have ill effects afterward.
