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Later than it should be - 4 September 2009
Sep. 5th, 2009 02:52 amGood morning, persons of great power and importance. enjoy that we live in a world where IBM hs no policy problem at all with workers having virtual avatars of the opposite gender, we have sufficient skills to make food look entirely different than what it is when we cook it, and attractive women can make men utilize far too much of their cognitive resources trying to impress her, to the point of sometimes not even being able to remember their own address.
Be aware, however, that we also live in a world where other people will slap your young child to shut them up because they're irritated with the sound the child is making, and a university designs a library where all the materials inside are electronic and there will be no physical books anywhere in the library.
And, no matter how much we might want to deny it, our world contains persons continuing to attempt to pass of forgeries of birth certificates as real in a demented plot to get the President to resign or be declared ineligible for office. Taitz wasn’t trying all that hard this time - even WND debunked the latest one.
Out in the world today, North Korea claims it is nearing th efinal stage of enriching uranium, which would potentially give it access to nuclear weapons from another method. I’m beginning to wonder whether atomic power is a Seldon crisis, myself, considering how many people will want to use it, and then possibly want to weaponize it.
The United States pentagon chief, Robert Gates, begs for time from the public to see whether the new strategy and commanders will produce success. In a sort of weird way, Gates may be able to take advantage of the patience the populace had regarding the Iraq “surge” that had been touted as successful to attempt to buy sufficient time for the Afghani version. Of course, the left may also be able to use that as saying the last eight years were a waste and pin blame on the previous administrator for a lot of current problems. That said, strikes on abandoned fuel that end up killing lots of civilians are probably not the way to win hearts and minds. (Mr. Boot also makes the case for more boots on the ground in the country, instead of remote attacks, by invoking the specter of 9/11 and saying remote is what led to it. The WSJ says we need to spend time, troops, and real effort in the country to win in it, like we did in Iraq.)
Han Chinese continued to protest in Urumqi against attacks alleged to have been carried out by Uighurs. Civil unrest with racial reasons... ick. We’ve done thigns like this before here, and it doesn’t turn out well.
Domestically, the White House has decided to reverse position and start posting on-line the logs of visitors to the White House.
That, and Al Franken may have won himself another term just from this - he acknowledged teabaggers for having spirit, which calmed them down, and then they had a civilized discussion. Nice going, Senator!
In our opinions, a suggestion that the Fermi Paradox about the lack of alien civilization contact is BS, because all thr variables have to line up just right for us to detect intelligent wireless signals, so there’s a big possibility life exists elsewhere in the universe, it’s just too far away for Humes to pick up on in our species lifetime.
The editors of the WSJ provide an unsigned indicating that if the EPA is deargting special ules to get around the requirements of regulating most of the economy, the laws and decisions that would give it that control are clearly in the wrong.
Mr. Stossel continues the economic theme by calling a "Cash for Appliances" program to improve energy efficiency a bigger waste of money than the Cash for Clunkers program was, because Cash For Clunkers destroyed cars, which meant less work for mechanics and parts places, as well as taking those cars off the used market for poorer people to buy, and increased federal borrowing, so clearly the effects that we see are overshadowed by the damage we’re doing in the long term.
Last out, Mr. Turd Blossom coments on the state of the President's popularity, pointing out, perhaps unintentionally, that people are sheep and can be scared by the basest of lies, as he confidently predicts that the President will run into a serious storm, either in jettisoning any hope of bipartisanship or in jettisoning significant support from his own party by getting rid of the items the progressive caucus sees as essential to reforms.
In technology, evidence of boulders moving on the lunar surface, big chunks of debris coming fairly close to the space station, the question on whether it would be ethical to engineer cows that would feel no pain when they were butchered, chimps clearly demonstrating they can use specialized tools to achieve their ends, a very old computer being sent to the shop so they can put it back in working order, a microprocesing device that performs calculations using air, commenting on how Wikipedia will likely "fail" at its original plan in order to save its own credibility, some promise from antibodies that look to block HIV from attaching to white blood cells, which could result in a vaccine many years down the road, and a new hypothesis on the origins of life on Terra.
Last for tonight, we spin the clock backwards to another time, a time when persons believed that they would have to spend significant portions of their lives weaing gas masks. Just remember, people, that hallucinations used to be part of the experience of life, so while we may wonder what the people in our past were thinking, we’ve got plenty of our own crazy to go through, too.
Be aware, however, that we also live in a world where other people will slap your young child to shut them up because they're irritated with the sound the child is making, and a university designs a library where all the materials inside are electronic and there will be no physical books anywhere in the library.
And, no matter how much we might want to deny it, our world contains persons continuing to attempt to pass of forgeries of birth certificates as real in a demented plot to get the President to resign or be declared ineligible for office. Taitz wasn’t trying all that hard this time - even WND debunked the latest one.
Out in the world today, North Korea claims it is nearing th efinal stage of enriching uranium, which would potentially give it access to nuclear weapons from another method. I’m beginning to wonder whether atomic power is a Seldon crisis, myself, considering how many people will want to use it, and then possibly want to weaponize it.
The United States pentagon chief, Robert Gates, begs for time from the public to see whether the new strategy and commanders will produce success. In a sort of weird way, Gates may be able to take advantage of the patience the populace had regarding the Iraq “surge” that had been touted as successful to attempt to buy sufficient time for the Afghani version. Of course, the left may also be able to use that as saying the last eight years were a waste and pin blame on the previous administrator for a lot of current problems. That said, strikes on abandoned fuel that end up killing lots of civilians are probably not the way to win hearts and minds. (Mr. Boot also makes the case for more boots on the ground in the country, instead of remote attacks, by invoking the specter of 9/11 and saying remote is what led to it. The WSJ says we need to spend time, troops, and real effort in the country to win in it, like we did in Iraq.)
Han Chinese continued to protest in Urumqi against attacks alleged to have been carried out by Uighurs. Civil unrest with racial reasons... ick. We’ve done thigns like this before here, and it doesn’t turn out well.
Domestically, the White House has decided to reverse position and start posting on-line the logs of visitors to the White House.
That, and Al Franken may have won himself another term just from this - he acknowledged teabaggers for having spirit, which calmed them down, and then they had a civilized discussion. Nice going, Senator!
In our opinions, a suggestion that the Fermi Paradox about the lack of alien civilization contact is BS, because all thr variables have to line up just right for us to detect intelligent wireless signals, so there’s a big possibility life exists elsewhere in the universe, it’s just too far away for Humes to pick up on in our species lifetime.
The editors of the WSJ provide an unsigned indicating that if the EPA is deargting special ules to get around the requirements of regulating most of the economy, the laws and decisions that would give it that control are clearly in the wrong.
Mr. Stossel continues the economic theme by calling a "Cash for Appliances" program to improve energy efficiency a bigger waste of money than the Cash for Clunkers program was, because Cash For Clunkers destroyed cars, which meant less work for mechanics and parts places, as well as taking those cars off the used market for poorer people to buy, and increased federal borrowing, so clearly the effects that we see are overshadowed by the damage we’re doing in the long term.
Last out, Mr. Turd Blossom coments on the state of the President's popularity, pointing out, perhaps unintentionally, that people are sheep and can be scared by the basest of lies, as he confidently predicts that the President will run into a serious storm, either in jettisoning any hope of bipartisanship or in jettisoning significant support from his own party by getting rid of the items the progressive caucus sees as essential to reforms.
In technology, evidence of boulders moving on the lunar surface, big chunks of debris coming fairly close to the space station, the question on whether it would be ethical to engineer cows that would feel no pain when they were butchered, chimps clearly demonstrating they can use specialized tools to achieve their ends, a very old computer being sent to the shop so they can put it back in working order, a microprocesing device that performs calculations using air, commenting on how Wikipedia will likely "fail" at its original plan in order to save its own credibility, some promise from antibodies that look to block HIV from attaching to white blood cells, which could result in a vaccine many years down the road, and a new hypothesis on the origins of life on Terra.
Last for tonight, we spin the clock backwards to another time, a time when persons believed that they would have to spend significant portions of their lives weaing gas masks. Just remember, people, that hallucinations used to be part of the experience of life, so while we may wonder what the people in our past were thinking, we’ve got plenty of our own crazy to go through, too.
