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Greetings, people of interest. Today was a little odd, waking up this morning, and realizing that seven years ago, I was already in French class by the time I had rolled out of bed this morning, and thus would remain unaware of the thing that happened while I was studying nouns, verbs, and the rest. Naturally, no day goes unnoticed by the opinionaries. Such is life, and a lot’s happened since then. For one thing, the voice I know of for Detroit baseball games is dying of cancer, and the baseball world will definitely miss him when he’s gone.
Also, though, the surviving Pythonites will be back together for a bit to take some questions after a documentary screening about them. So there’s good things and bad. And photographs with excellent timing in sport, of course.
And there are brilliant children who understand the event so very well.
To turn to vibrant things, check out these sonosheet covers.
For those in the library field looking for work, well, try not to despair, but even unofficial research makes things look not that great.
Internationally speaking, it should not take 19 convictions for DUI to result in a life sentence. Elsewhere, Libya attempted to put a resolution calling for the dissolution of Switzerland on a UN agenda, but the measure was insta-rejected because it contradicted the UN charter, the United Kingdom officially apologized for the treatment it gave to Alan Turing, famed mathematicist, because of his homosexuality, a Japanese female broadcaster is fired because a picture of her holding a box of condoms appeared, and the implication that she was having sex and enjoying it was considered too damaging to the housewife demographic that watches her show. Which makes me wonder what’s wrong with the Japanese housewife’s sex life.
Domestically, well, a big thing happened - the President gave an address to a joint session of Congress about health care plans. During that speech, though, something else happened - a Congresscritter, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-SC, called the President a liar when the President said there would be no insurance for illegal immigrants in his health care reform plan. This, despite explicit language in the leading bill that states there will be no aid for illegal immigrants. Since that point, the Congresscritter has apologized for being uncivil, but not for being wrong, and the President has accepted his apology. The Democratic challenger to Mr. Wilson, Mr. Miller, has raised more than $500,000 USD since the outburst.
Elsewhere in the country, a coalition to keep marriage sacred - by outlawing divorce and yet another affair-outing by a Republican who runs on family-values platforms, with the characteristic denial accompanying that anything wrong was actualy done, a juxtaposition where a school district passed on broadcasting President Obama and happens to be bussing students, with permission, to hear former President Bush. Unintentional, we’re sure, but close enough to be mentionable.
Continuing in the theme of “people who handle your money are looking for as many ways as possibly to get you to part with it”, The NYT devotes an article to all the ways that your debit card can come back to sting you, especially if they charge you multiple times for insufficient funds and only inform you they have done so afterward on your statement, instead of doing any sort of declination or alert message to tell you you’re overdrawn. They’d rather you pay the $34 fee multiple times, and may rearrange your transactions to ensure this. Thus, we add in the Slacktivist telling us why symbols like crucifixes are supposed to repel vampires, and why it isn’t working quite as well as it used to.
The rest? Drunkards flinging jellyfish at others and people crashing cars into stores so as to steal one sex toy.
Ah, but there’s a good story, too - the chaplain of an Atlanta airport, who gets the mission he has and the commands he was given by God.
In the opinions, Mr. Henninger says the PResident should abandon attemtps to reform health care, focus on the economy, and then perhaps revisit his wish list in two years, after the midterm elections, because economic perception, unemployment, and the like are hurting him and the Democrats more. Ms. Strassel says that tort reform is the thing Democrats have to do on health reform and aren't, because they’re too in thrall to the lawyers that fund their campaigns. And capping the section with the worst of the lot, Mr. Turd Blossom says the Obama Administration is asking Democrats to risk their seats to ram through an unpopular government takeover of medicine, that spends too much and takes too much control. His sensible solution is for the President to be more bipartisan, which means sitting on his hands, doing nothing, pushing nothing, and waiting for the best “consensus” policy to form. If the opposition wants consensus, they’d better get cracking on providing sensible alternatives and ideas, instead of contniuing to push, even subtly, that health care reform is a plot to kill old people (or Republicans, or babies, or whatever). Or, for that matter, that the presence of teh public option will force doctors and other health-care workers to join unions, which are, of course, Democratic strongholds, every one of them, and will turn into all sorts of people being harmed and/or dying when the unions decide to strike or put pressure on their bosses.
Instead, do as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bradhicks does, and outline your reasons why you think the President's plan is bad, and propose alternatives and evidence why your plkan would be better.
Mr. Ferrara says the stimulus hasn't worked and the economic theory behind it has been discredited for decades en route to declaring that while everyone else recovers from the recession, we're just going to spin our wheels and get further into a recession.
Most odd, Mr. Podhoretz opines why he's confused that Jews continue to vote in large liberal blocks, despite their affluence, the social issue contradictions between teh laws of the religion and the current popular opinion, and Mr. Obama's anti-Israel stance.
Last out, an opinion in favor of Iraq obtaining an air force and missile defence capabilities. Which mentions the possibility that the United States needs to shfit gears and start behaving as if Iran has and will use nuclear weapons.
In science and technology, TMBG's Latest, entitled "Science is Real". With that title, one can guess immediately how many TMBG fans they had will vanish, and how many more they might gain.
Additionally, a carrier pigeon outperformed South African DSL, a robot to help the elderly with their exercises, Microsoft's Bing turning out to be an excellent aid for those looking for free pornography, and the company’s response to finding out Bing was a featured ad when searching Google for pornography, a solar panel that uses human hair as a conductor, with commenters claiming it’s a hoax and that hair is an insulator, not a conductor,
Last for tonight, Mr. Ellis does a little brain-scarring by pointing out that the little chatterbox creatures that pop out of an alien's mouth? They have a real-world analogue, Google's MMO real-world Monopoly game, and to close out, Facebook plays a practical joke on TechCrunch... by delivering them a feature that only they can see.
Also, though, the surviving Pythonites will be back together for a bit to take some questions after a documentary screening about them. So there’s good things and bad. And photographs with excellent timing in sport, of course.
And there are brilliant children who understand the event so very well.
To turn to vibrant things, check out these sonosheet covers.
For those in the library field looking for work, well, try not to despair, but even unofficial research makes things look not that great.
Internationally speaking, it should not take 19 convictions for DUI to result in a life sentence. Elsewhere, Libya attempted to put a resolution calling for the dissolution of Switzerland on a UN agenda, but the measure was insta-rejected because it contradicted the UN charter, the United Kingdom officially apologized for the treatment it gave to Alan Turing, famed mathematicist, because of his homosexuality, a Japanese female broadcaster is fired because a picture of her holding a box of condoms appeared, and the implication that she was having sex and enjoying it was considered too damaging to the housewife demographic that watches her show. Which makes me wonder what’s wrong with the Japanese housewife’s sex life.
Domestically, well, a big thing happened - the President gave an address to a joint session of Congress about health care plans. During that speech, though, something else happened - a Congresscritter, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-SC, called the President a liar when the President said there would be no insurance for illegal immigrants in his health care reform plan. This, despite explicit language in the leading bill that states there will be no aid for illegal immigrants. Since that point, the Congresscritter has apologized for being uncivil, but not for being wrong, and the President has accepted his apology. The Democratic challenger to Mr. Wilson, Mr. Miller, has raised more than $500,000 USD since the outburst.
Elsewhere in the country, a coalition to keep marriage sacred - by outlawing divorce and yet another affair-outing by a Republican who runs on family-values platforms, with the characteristic denial accompanying that anything wrong was actualy done, a juxtaposition where a school district passed on broadcasting President Obama and happens to be bussing students, with permission, to hear former President Bush. Unintentional, we’re sure, but close enough to be mentionable.
Continuing in the theme of “people who handle your money are looking for as many ways as possibly to get you to part with it”, The NYT devotes an article to all the ways that your debit card can come back to sting you, especially if they charge you multiple times for insufficient funds and only inform you they have done so afterward on your statement, instead of doing any sort of declination or alert message to tell you you’re overdrawn. They’d rather you pay the $34 fee multiple times, and may rearrange your transactions to ensure this. Thus, we add in the Slacktivist telling us why symbols like crucifixes are supposed to repel vampires, and why it isn’t working quite as well as it used to.
The rest? Drunkards flinging jellyfish at others and people crashing cars into stores so as to steal one sex toy.
Ah, but there’s a good story, too - the chaplain of an Atlanta airport, who gets the mission he has and the commands he was given by God.
In the opinions, Mr. Henninger says the PResident should abandon attemtps to reform health care, focus on the economy, and then perhaps revisit his wish list in two years, after the midterm elections, because economic perception, unemployment, and the like are hurting him and the Democrats more. Ms. Strassel says that tort reform is the thing Democrats have to do on health reform and aren't, because they’re too in thrall to the lawyers that fund their campaigns. And capping the section with the worst of the lot, Mr. Turd Blossom says the Obama Administration is asking Democrats to risk their seats to ram through an unpopular government takeover of medicine, that spends too much and takes too much control. His sensible solution is for the President to be more bipartisan, which means sitting on his hands, doing nothing, pushing nothing, and waiting for the best “consensus” policy to form. If the opposition wants consensus, they’d better get cracking on providing sensible alternatives and ideas, instead of contniuing to push, even subtly, that health care reform is a plot to kill old people (or Republicans, or babies, or whatever). Or, for that matter, that the presence of teh public option will force doctors and other health-care workers to join unions, which are, of course, Democratic strongholds, every one of them, and will turn into all sorts of people being harmed and/or dying when the unions decide to strike or put pressure on their bosses.
Instead, do as
bradhicks does, and outline your reasons why you think the President's plan is bad, and propose alternatives and evidence why your plkan would be better.Mr. Ferrara says the stimulus hasn't worked and the economic theory behind it has been discredited for decades en route to declaring that while everyone else recovers from the recession, we're just going to spin our wheels and get further into a recession.
Most odd, Mr. Podhoretz opines why he's confused that Jews continue to vote in large liberal blocks, despite their affluence, the social issue contradictions between teh laws of the religion and the current popular opinion, and Mr. Obama's anti-Israel stance.
Last out, an opinion in favor of Iraq obtaining an air force and missile defence capabilities. Which mentions the possibility that the United States needs to shfit gears and start behaving as if Iran has and will use nuclear weapons.
In science and technology, TMBG's Latest, entitled "Science is Real". With that title, one can guess immediately how many TMBG fans they had will vanish, and how many more they might gain.
Additionally, a carrier pigeon outperformed South African DSL, a robot to help the elderly with their exercises, Microsoft's Bing turning out to be an excellent aid for those looking for free pornography, and the company’s response to finding out Bing was a featured ad when searching Google for pornography, a solar panel that uses human hair as a conductor, with commenters claiming it’s a hoax and that hair is an insulator, not a conductor,
Last for tonight, Mr. Ellis does a little brain-scarring by pointing out that the little chatterbox creatures that pop out of an alien's mouth? They have a real-world analogue, Google's MMO real-world Monopoly game, and to close out, Facebook plays a practical joke on TechCrunch... by delivering them a feature that only they can see.
