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More than we bargained for - 21 July 2009
Jul. 22nd, 2009 12:50 amOooh, eclipse. And camera footage thereof.
Thanks to Justice-ACE for this juxtaposition - toku show with "ancient" women that follows the Rule of Inverse Clothing, directed by the person that brought us Machine Girl and RoboGeisha.
Up top for sanity and points, this is how you win a war, especially one classified as being of "hearts and minds". You build schools and educate the people, especially the women. The educated don’t recruit well to kill themselves - they have other plans on making their lives better.
And two more for the road - a collection of cards, whether one wishes to be Pope, Messiah, Saint, Tsar, or just to Get Out of Hell, Free, and the stores of 826 National, ensuring adequate supplies for all sorts of unique individuals - pirates, superheroes, space travelers, crptyids, robots, and [REDACTED].
Internationally, just one thing from my sources - more troops for the Army, as well as the main story about casualty levels in Afghanistan.
Domestically, what would the Sotomayor hearings have been like if she was a witch? More seriously, her committee confirmation vote has been delayed for a week. Considering it supposedly would take a meltdown to not confirm her, why the delay?
The General finds that there's more in common with Islam and Christianity than some of the Christians would have you believe.
More seriously, two police officers are alleged to have repeatedly tasered three boys at a shelter, a deputy is alleged to have threatened one of them with sodomy, and a 17 year-old girl attemtping to intervene to stop the attack was allegedly bodily removed, choked, and left to vomit in a closet. The police were responding to a call to subdue two other children who were misbehaving. The police also deny any wrongdoing by their officers and deputies. (the Raw Story article says 4 July 2008 as the time of the incident, but the news story is only being posted now, 20 July 2009, indicating the possibility of a serious typographical error on Raw Story, a matter confirmed by looking at the sources. 4 July 2009 is the date of the incident.) No criminal charges have been filed against the officers. I would hope it’s not the case, but that sounds like “Who would believe shelter trash over uniformed police officers? We couldn’t make a case.” There should be plenty of body evidence about the use of stun guns that would warrant investigation.
The Treasury sent a bill to Congress hoping to strengthen conflict-of-interest and disclosure rules regarding credit rating agencies. I’m guessing this has some importance, even if it seems like a small piece of the puzzle.
In opinions, The President spoke about health care reform and the way the plan currently available in the Congress is a good step. He also spoke about why it was a good thing the Senate stripped several billions of dollars for F-22 jets out of the budget. (according to the CNN article, it’s so more resources can be devoted to the F-35.) Unofrtunately, the President gets no help from the Mayo Clinic, saying that the Democratic bill currently under consideration means well, but misses the mark, a point that Republicans then seized upon, with RNC chairman Steele resurrecting an old meme, calling the plan a “dangerous experiment” and “socialism”. Mr. DeMint considered it a potential Waterloo for the President if the Republicans can stay the party of NO long enough to make it to the august recess of the Congress.
The WSJ complains that the United States is doing nothing about free trade agreements with South Korea, to Europe's profit and our detriment, and blames unions and protectionist ideas as the cause for the holdup.
Messrs. Scott and Taylor remind us why transparency in things like securities and derivatives is essential - if it's too complex to understand, it creates problems that are not easily fixed or even identified when things go south.
Ms. O'Grady comments on Honduras by saying if we do things that Hugo Chavez approves of, or that would induce Hugo Chavez to call the U.S. for support, we're clearly doing the wrong things and sending the wrong signals to Central America. Simplistic analysis, and based on lot on the person. Bronze it and move on.
The WSJ thinks card check is still in the new organization and union bill, when even by their own description, it is not. The continued complaints there are much the same as from the card check provisions, though - employees don’t want unions (really?), binding arbitration would give unions greater power, and unions can strongarm people to join by stalking them away from their workplace, whereas employers can only talk against unions while at work. Good enough to make silver today.
Gold quiche goes, however, to Mr. Barnes, declaring the President stuck in a bind now because he outsourced his bills to the Democrats, who shunned Republican support and compromise, thus dooming the bills to failure and the defecit to balooning, which they are doing right now. The stimulus, cap-and-trade, and now, the health care bill are suffering because of the “rookie” mistakes of playing hardball and making promises that don’t deliver. Mr. Barnes, who has a philosophical ally in Mr. DeMint, feels delay hurts the President because of his tactics of quickly producing bills and getting them passed. Well, if the Republicans were offering real alternatives to some of those bills, then there could have been debate and compromise, but the Republicans have been fairly lax about numbers and real plans, preferring, it seems, to be the party of NO instead of the Loyal Opposition, and proposing tax cuts and lowered spending as the solution to everything, justifying it, it often seems, by saying “Reagan did it, and he’s the greatest President ever, so you should do it, too.” I’m sure the media will be happy to debate the merits of an actual plan, once it appears, as opposed to having a Democrat say “This is our plan.” and a Republican say “You support Socialism and Spending! TAX CUTS is the only way!” in rebuttal. Hell, if I recall correctly, Ron Paul had a more complete solution than that.
In technology, implantable sensors for continuous cancer monitoring, focused ultrasound as a way of performing accurate brain surgery without needing to cut open the skull, and more evidence of brain plasticity, where a girl with half a brain can still see normally out of one eye. As a bonus, GeekDad has his reasons why he thinks the moon landing was awesome.
Last for tonight, the history of Nalanda, a Buddhist institution that figures in several Journeys to the West, paired with art that kind of looks like writing, but isn't. All with the purpose, kind of like CARET designs and crop circles, to get us to stop and appreciate them because we stopped and tried to interpret them.
Thanks to Justice-ACE for this juxtaposition - toku show with "ancient" women that follows the Rule of Inverse Clothing, directed by the person that brought us Machine Girl and RoboGeisha.
Up top for sanity and points, this is how you win a war, especially one classified as being of "hearts and minds". You build schools and educate the people, especially the women. The educated don’t recruit well to kill themselves - they have other plans on making their lives better.
And two more for the road - a collection of cards, whether one wishes to be Pope, Messiah, Saint, Tsar, or just to Get Out of Hell, Free, and the stores of 826 National, ensuring adequate supplies for all sorts of unique individuals - pirates, superheroes, space travelers, crptyids, robots, and [REDACTED].
Internationally, just one thing from my sources - more troops for the Army, as well as the main story about casualty levels in Afghanistan.
Domestically, what would the Sotomayor hearings have been like if she was a witch? More seriously, her committee confirmation vote has been delayed for a week. Considering it supposedly would take a meltdown to not confirm her, why the delay?
The General finds that there's more in common with Islam and Christianity than some of the Christians would have you believe.
More seriously, two police officers are alleged to have repeatedly tasered three boys at a shelter, a deputy is alleged to have threatened one of them with sodomy, and a 17 year-old girl attemtping to intervene to stop the attack was allegedly bodily removed, choked, and left to vomit in a closet. The police were responding to a call to subdue two other children who were misbehaving. The police also deny any wrongdoing by their officers and deputies. (the Raw Story article says 4 July 2008 as the time of the incident, but the news story is only being posted now, 20 July 2009, indicating the possibility of a serious typographical error on Raw Story, a matter confirmed by looking at the sources. 4 July 2009 is the date of the incident.) No criminal charges have been filed against the officers. I would hope it’s not the case, but that sounds like “Who would believe shelter trash over uniformed police officers? We couldn’t make a case.” There should be plenty of body evidence about the use of stun guns that would warrant investigation.
The Treasury sent a bill to Congress hoping to strengthen conflict-of-interest and disclosure rules regarding credit rating agencies. I’m guessing this has some importance, even if it seems like a small piece of the puzzle.
In opinions, The President spoke about health care reform and the way the plan currently available in the Congress is a good step. He also spoke about why it was a good thing the Senate stripped several billions of dollars for F-22 jets out of the budget. (according to the CNN article, it’s so more resources can be devoted to the F-35.) Unofrtunately, the President gets no help from the Mayo Clinic, saying that the Democratic bill currently under consideration means well, but misses the mark, a point that Republicans then seized upon, with RNC chairman Steele resurrecting an old meme, calling the plan a “dangerous experiment” and “socialism”. Mr. DeMint considered it a potential Waterloo for the President if the Republicans can stay the party of NO long enough to make it to the august recess of the Congress.
The WSJ complains that the United States is doing nothing about free trade agreements with South Korea, to Europe's profit and our detriment, and blames unions and protectionist ideas as the cause for the holdup.
Messrs. Scott and Taylor remind us why transparency in things like securities and derivatives is essential - if it's too complex to understand, it creates problems that are not easily fixed or even identified when things go south.
Ms. O'Grady comments on Honduras by saying if we do things that Hugo Chavez approves of, or that would induce Hugo Chavez to call the U.S. for support, we're clearly doing the wrong things and sending the wrong signals to Central America. Simplistic analysis, and based on lot on the person. Bronze it and move on.
The WSJ thinks card check is still in the new organization and union bill, when even by their own description, it is not. The continued complaints there are much the same as from the card check provisions, though - employees don’t want unions (really?), binding arbitration would give unions greater power, and unions can strongarm people to join by stalking them away from their workplace, whereas employers can only talk against unions while at work. Good enough to make silver today.
Gold quiche goes, however, to Mr. Barnes, declaring the President stuck in a bind now because he outsourced his bills to the Democrats, who shunned Republican support and compromise, thus dooming the bills to failure and the defecit to balooning, which they are doing right now. The stimulus, cap-and-trade, and now, the health care bill are suffering because of the “rookie” mistakes of playing hardball and making promises that don’t deliver. Mr. Barnes, who has a philosophical ally in Mr. DeMint, feels delay hurts the President because of his tactics of quickly producing bills and getting them passed. Well, if the Republicans were offering real alternatives to some of those bills, then there could have been debate and compromise, but the Republicans have been fairly lax about numbers and real plans, preferring, it seems, to be the party of NO instead of the Loyal Opposition, and proposing tax cuts and lowered spending as the solution to everything, justifying it, it often seems, by saying “Reagan did it, and he’s the greatest President ever, so you should do it, too.” I’m sure the media will be happy to debate the merits of an actual plan, once it appears, as opposed to having a Democrat say “This is our plan.” and a Republican say “You support Socialism and Spending! TAX CUTS is the only way!” in rebuttal. Hell, if I recall correctly, Ron Paul had a more complete solution than that.
In technology, implantable sensors for continuous cancer monitoring, focused ultrasound as a way of performing accurate brain surgery without needing to cut open the skull, and more evidence of brain plasticity, where a girl with half a brain can still see normally out of one eye. As a bonus, GeekDad has his reasons why he thinks the moon landing was awesome.
Last for tonight, the history of Nalanda, a Buddhist institution that figures in several Journeys to the West, paired with art that kind of looks like writing, but isn't. All with the purpose, kind of like CARET designs and crop circles, to get us to stop and appreciate them because we stopped and tried to interpret them.
