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Up at the top, former President Jimmy Carter tells the Southern Baptist Convention and any other philosophy or religion that discriminates against women and justifies it with their (selectively read) texts to go to hell. Go President Carter. Perhaps some people who are also venerable leaders in their respective religious organizations can answer the call to make their women equal and exert their influence to make the changes desperately needed?
Out in the world, the U.S. papers say that the U.S. Vice President is courting the Ukraine to strengthen their ties with them, the Secretary-General of the United States is urging Israel to stop settlement development, and the United States Secretary of State is pressuring North Korea to adopt a policy and practice of complete disarmament.
Domestic news - the Senate narrowly rejected requiring all states to honor concealed carry permits issued by other states.
California has fixed their budget woes, cutting spending without raising taxes, considered “victory” for conservatives in the state. 9 billion USD cut from the educational system, and another billion-plus from the state health care system. Wonder what the costs of that will be.
A lawyer, after being found in contempt, was released once it became clear that he would not be paying the money ordered by the court to his ex-wife. The original contempt holding was fourteen years ago.
An independent investigator thinks there may be evidence that Governor Palin acted unethically, trading on her position to generate donors to a fund to pay for the fees associated with the ethics probes. There’s got to be some sort of neverending circle and/or Mobius strip that can be generated from this. Governor Palin denied the charges, saying the report was "misguided" and "factually in error".
Airline employees, while on duty swings, often save money by living in a motor home in the parking lot of the airport, with LAX boasting a collection of more than 100 homes.
Do corporate conglomerates own the smaller organic brands you like and use? Check and see if your favorite organic is a small arm of something bigger.
And remember, there's still shenanigans going on in West Bend - now with the new board members, a new challenge may be in order.
And last out, recall that if you're pulled over for a traffic stop, admitting to stat rape is probably not going to help you any.
In the opinions, The chairman of the Federal Reserve outlines the various controls the Fed has to prevent inflation when the economy recovers, attempting to reassure the populace that renewed prosperity does not equate to runaway inflation when the time comes. In a different sector of the economy, The WSJ hopes to be able to demonstrate that private capital can save banks (or bankruptcy can be done gracefully privately) so that the government will stop issuing taxpayer-backed debt to anyone that wants it and start calling in the loans it has given to others. (Not conicidentally, the named enterprise is GE Capital, parent company of NBC and its spinoff networks, including MSNBC, usually cited as the liberal wing compared to Fox News and say, the Wall Street Journal editorial page.)
Mr. Stephens expresses his irritation at the fascination United States residents have with celebrities, making a person who invented a dance move a household name, while the person who did actual moon walking lives in relative privacy. MR. stephens chalks it up to a certain amount of “Right Stuff” that the moon walker had and put to service for his country, and seems uncertain as to whether anyone of the current generation has that Right Stuff. Modernity is always in a state of decline, according to those who pine for a Golden Age of the past. The WSJ takes a different tack, saying America is in decline because in eight years, we managed a moon landing then, but eight years from a different then, we haven't even rebuilt the World Trade Center site, and then going back to the space bit and saying we need more national investment in space.
Playing for pastry, The WSJ returns to the health care carp, telling us that we're not geting to keep our coverage because the people who can self-insure will be subjected to a bureaucrat who has final say on whether their plans are acceptable, inevitably leading to more generous benefits for everyone, a lack of variance in plans, and several employers simply abandoning their insurance plans and dumping employees on the public option. Because the bureaucrat, apparently, will have no imagination nor appreciation for clever ideas and will monotonously insist that their standard is the only way to do things. Yeah, we don’t think so. A minimum standard will likely be minimum enough that most plans will already meet it - no need to renegotiate. And there will probably always be variant perks on top of that that keep competitiveness going.
Up one level from there, Mr. McGurn accuses the President of failing on his promise to be bipartisan, based on the legislation he's signed and the Democrats have written, without votes from the Republicans. Well, Mr. McGurn’s statements are probably not contra-factual, but he is missing a major point of context - the opposition has not exactly been forthcoming with plans, ideas, and a general attitude of wanting to work with the President. The Party of NO moniker was not crafted on a whim, and when the Party’s own documents advocate for the delay tactic as the sole response to a proposal, they cannot claim they’re contributing to a culture of bipartisanship. You cannot incorporate ideas from the opposition if the opposition is not presenting any ideas to incorporate. Of what ideas have been offered, hey are usually the antithesis of the proposed plan, and thus could not be incorporated in if they wanted to, thus what’s left is the original bill, the “partisan” operation. It’s a “fragged if you do, fragged if you don’t” situation. That’s playing dirty pool.
But at the top of the heap, wow. Mr. Dhume decides to elevate hotels to the status of the iconic thing ideological terrorists want to strike at, because they don’t gender-segregate, they welcome everyone equally, and they show what The Market (all praise to its name) can provide for a mostly poor and rural populace. I’m more inclined to believe the earlier parts about how they’re less secure, their ncie news targets, it’s almost guaranteed there will be people hurt, and that their American brand names make it a nice symbol of attack. Ascribing deeper ideological meaning to it makes Occam scream with night terrors.
Technologically, as promised, video of the eclipse that happened yesterday, the UK possibly ponying up cash and people to generate a space agency and a manned Mars mission, tripping the fear factors of the anti-Gattacas by suggesting prenatal screening and genetic selection could result in abandoning natural conception entirely, or rather, making sure all the pitfalls are avoided and the better genes between parents get expressed, a green light given to research into whether we can engineer the climate to our liking, a thirty-meter telescope to be built in Hawaii, doping DNA with dye and then spinning it into fibers so... it can emit light, an attachment that turns a cell phone into a fluorescent microscope, by combining a camera phone with microscope optics, Apple's problem with keeping up with demand for its products, popular enough that a worker will commit suicide when confronted with a prototype gone missing, and AT&T and Barnes & Noble have decided to follow the Kindle idea and market their own tethered e-book reader, despite the very nice Amazon demonstration of why tethered readers are a bad idea.
Last for tonight, another fashion robot debut, but this time in a bridal gown, Gainax marketing at its finest, roller coaster. In-line skates. Perfect match, and One hundred things that will likely pass away with this generation, and if you want to go very old-school, check out the emulator for the Apollo Mission Guidance Computer - that’s the kind and gentle introduction. those wanting to dive right in can see the AGC project in all the details as well.
Out in the world, the U.S. papers say that the U.S. Vice President is courting the Ukraine to strengthen their ties with them, the Secretary-General of the United States is urging Israel to stop settlement development, and the United States Secretary of State is pressuring North Korea to adopt a policy and practice of complete disarmament.
Domestic news - the Senate narrowly rejected requiring all states to honor concealed carry permits issued by other states.
California has fixed their budget woes, cutting spending without raising taxes, considered “victory” for conservatives in the state. 9 billion USD cut from the educational system, and another billion-plus from the state health care system. Wonder what the costs of that will be.
A lawyer, after being found in contempt, was released once it became clear that he would not be paying the money ordered by the court to his ex-wife. The original contempt holding was fourteen years ago.
An independent investigator thinks there may be evidence that Governor Palin acted unethically, trading on her position to generate donors to a fund to pay for the fees associated with the ethics probes. There’s got to be some sort of neverending circle and/or Mobius strip that can be generated from this. Governor Palin denied the charges, saying the report was "misguided" and "factually in error".
Airline employees, while on duty swings, often save money by living in a motor home in the parking lot of the airport, with LAX boasting a collection of more than 100 homes.
Do corporate conglomerates own the smaller organic brands you like and use? Check and see if your favorite organic is a small arm of something bigger.
And remember, there's still shenanigans going on in West Bend - now with the new board members, a new challenge may be in order.
And last out, recall that if you're pulled over for a traffic stop, admitting to stat rape is probably not going to help you any.
In the opinions, The chairman of the Federal Reserve outlines the various controls the Fed has to prevent inflation when the economy recovers, attempting to reassure the populace that renewed prosperity does not equate to runaway inflation when the time comes. In a different sector of the economy, The WSJ hopes to be able to demonstrate that private capital can save banks (or bankruptcy can be done gracefully privately) so that the government will stop issuing taxpayer-backed debt to anyone that wants it and start calling in the loans it has given to others. (Not conicidentally, the named enterprise is GE Capital, parent company of NBC and its spinoff networks, including MSNBC, usually cited as the liberal wing compared to Fox News and say, the Wall Street Journal editorial page.)
Mr. Stephens expresses his irritation at the fascination United States residents have with celebrities, making a person who invented a dance move a household name, while the person who did actual moon walking lives in relative privacy. MR. stephens chalks it up to a certain amount of “Right Stuff” that the moon walker had and put to service for his country, and seems uncertain as to whether anyone of the current generation has that Right Stuff. Modernity is always in a state of decline, according to those who pine for a Golden Age of the past. The WSJ takes a different tack, saying America is in decline because in eight years, we managed a moon landing then, but eight years from a different then, we haven't even rebuilt the World Trade Center site, and then going back to the space bit and saying we need more national investment in space.
Playing for pastry, The WSJ returns to the health care carp, telling us that we're not geting to keep our coverage because the people who can self-insure will be subjected to a bureaucrat who has final say on whether their plans are acceptable, inevitably leading to more generous benefits for everyone, a lack of variance in plans, and several employers simply abandoning their insurance plans and dumping employees on the public option. Because the bureaucrat, apparently, will have no imagination nor appreciation for clever ideas and will monotonously insist that their standard is the only way to do things. Yeah, we don’t think so. A minimum standard will likely be minimum enough that most plans will already meet it - no need to renegotiate. And there will probably always be variant perks on top of that that keep competitiveness going.
Up one level from there, Mr. McGurn accuses the President of failing on his promise to be bipartisan, based on the legislation he's signed and the Democrats have written, without votes from the Republicans. Well, Mr. McGurn’s statements are probably not contra-factual, but he is missing a major point of context - the opposition has not exactly been forthcoming with plans, ideas, and a general attitude of wanting to work with the President. The Party of NO moniker was not crafted on a whim, and when the Party’s own documents advocate for the delay tactic as the sole response to a proposal, they cannot claim they’re contributing to a culture of bipartisanship. You cannot incorporate ideas from the opposition if the opposition is not presenting any ideas to incorporate. Of what ideas have been offered, hey are usually the antithesis of the proposed plan, and thus could not be incorporated in if they wanted to, thus what’s left is the original bill, the “partisan” operation. It’s a “fragged if you do, fragged if you don’t” situation. That’s playing dirty pool.
But at the top of the heap, wow. Mr. Dhume decides to elevate hotels to the status of the iconic thing ideological terrorists want to strike at, because they don’t gender-segregate, they welcome everyone equally, and they show what The Market (all praise to its name) can provide for a mostly poor and rural populace. I’m more inclined to believe the earlier parts about how they’re less secure, their ncie news targets, it’s almost guaranteed there will be people hurt, and that their American brand names make it a nice symbol of attack. Ascribing deeper ideological meaning to it makes Occam scream with night terrors.
Technologically, as promised, video of the eclipse that happened yesterday, the UK possibly ponying up cash and people to generate a space agency and a manned Mars mission, tripping the fear factors of the anti-Gattacas by suggesting prenatal screening and genetic selection could result in abandoning natural conception entirely, or rather, making sure all the pitfalls are avoided and the better genes between parents get expressed, a green light given to research into whether we can engineer the climate to our liking, a thirty-meter telescope to be built in Hawaii, doping DNA with dye and then spinning it into fibers so... it can emit light, an attachment that turns a cell phone into a fluorescent microscope, by combining a camera phone with microscope optics, Apple's problem with keeping up with demand for its products, popular enough that a worker will commit suicide when confronted with a prototype gone missing, and AT&T and Barnes & Noble have decided to follow the Kindle idea and market their own tethered e-book reader, despite the very nice Amazon demonstration of why tethered readers are a bad idea.
Last for tonight, another fashion robot debut, but this time in a bridal gown, Gainax marketing at its finest, roller coaster. In-line skates. Perfect match, and One hundred things that will likely pass away with this generation, and if you want to go very old-school, check out the emulator for the Apollo Mission Guidance Computer - that’s the kind and gentle introduction. those wanting to dive right in can see the AGC project in all the details as well.
