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Been away from the web for a while, mostly because of work and other things doing their very best to get in the way of everything. We’ll still try to make this a non super-sized event, though. Media diet, like anything else, can get very fattening if given in too big of portions containing mostly empty calories. Braaaaaaains, arrrrr. And the occasional 1000Hz tone.
Also, check it out - the past through those nice thin Victorian girls would become hulking Amazons by 2000. Going from size 3 to size 7 to size 11 in 2000, complete with 6 feet height and battle armor.
The Dead Pool claims Irving Kristol, The Dead pool claims Mary Travers, and the Dead Pool claims Henry Gibson.
Internationally, squatters repair the road in Fiji after it deteriorates too much for them to get to their residences, Tolkien and others trained for the United Kingdom government as spies, codebreakers, or other roles when Germany declared war, Russia scrapped plans to put missiles near Poland after the United States scrapped missile defense plans in the area in favor of putting more short-range interceptors near Iran, and Ahmaninejad continues to be a Holocaust denier, and continues to take great flack for it.
In domestic affairs, former CIA directors are asking the President to not investigate them for what are clearly breaches of the law, because morale will suffer, or it will be seen as witch-hunting, or that the President doesn’t support their efforts, or any other bullshit excuse you want to insert there, because the Attorney General has a duty to investigate these things, to their fullest extent (and not this little “only if they exceeded the already illegal guidelines” similar bullshit) if we want to be seen as a nation that actually respects the rule of law and the treaties we are a signatory to.
There really is no reason not to pass something akin to single payer, if even Bill'O supports the public option for other people. Seriously. Michelle Obama is campaigning for reform that will help women - remember, pregnancy or sposual abuse might be considered a pre-existing condition, and not every insurance plan will help with brith control. Even so, if you can convince one of the leading conservative blowhards that the public option is a good idea, Senators and Representatives should be a cakewalk. Or... maybe not. New Jersey residents polled found out that about half of them are Birthers or Birther-Curious on the right, and about half are Truther or Truther-Curious on the left, and about 30-35% of the conservatives think Obama is the Antichrist or arent't sure. And there’s the continuing isue of the frothing group that says good health care will cover those who trespass into the country, and they are completely undeserving of it, and must suffer the costs of paying in full for their treatments. So maybe it will take a bit more to convince them. Maybe something like a general strike, but we haven't had one of those in 75 years. Or perhaps, something will sink in, as the Slacktivist notes, when they finally think about the prayer they're saying that talks about forgiving us as we forgive others.
After all of this, here's a comparative graphic (with printable option) to discuss the merits and demerits of the various plans.
Additionally, in the *facepalm* department, when given 10 randomly selected questions from the citizenship exam, Oaklahoma high school seniors did best on the geography and failed out miserably on the civics, politics, and history parts. Even the geography answer only got 61 percent correct. Clearly, things are not right in the state of our education. And our media outlets aren’t helping, when they continue to report the difference between fantasy and reality as if it were merely a squabble of opinion between two political points of view.
Speaking of children, conditional love and acceptance is a quick way to raising kids with issues, who might resent their parents and take no real joy in doing what is asked (or told) of them, and then resulting in possibly worse situations where they might not be able to feel that anyone loves them unconditionally (and thus, the therapist has work to do).
Keeping in this vein, the anti-government services tea party protesters have sent a letter of compmlaint that the government-funded Metro public transit service in Washington D.C. was insufficiently able to carry them to their destinations. The headliner of the letter is a Congresscritter who has voted against increasing funding for the Metro system. Even the WSJ has to stand, jaw agape at this one.
Yeah. Seriously. Also, some background information on Mr. Skousen, whom Mr. Beck draws inspiriation from in his own machinations, and a response from CNN to the accusations that only Fox News was covering the 9/12 protests. The other question is whether any news organization aside from Fox would want to cover the presence of a few tens of thousands.
And now, on the latest affront to Unabashed Feminism, petition circulating in Florida that will make it illegal to prevent the impantation of a fertilized egg, calling it murder, by defining such an egg as a person, and potentially outlawing the entirety of birth control in the state. It will need signatures to get on the ballot. I will also need people to vote for it. I hope there are lots of women who can point out the obvious consequence of such a bill - support it, and there will be no sex, because there is no desire for children. This may be more effective than all the feminism and control arguments (all valid, mind you) that could and should be brought in addition.
Did we also mention the ACLU is suing the state of Mississippi for including blatantly religious messages in their state-sponsored abstinence event? Church-state separation issues, and remember, Abstinence Doesn’t Work, statistically speaking. Here’s some evidence - the more religiously conservative a state is, the more it has teen pregnancies. And guess who tops the list? Mississippi, the state pushing that religious conservatism on its teenagers.
And then there’s also the anti-women stance of those claiming the Susan G. Komen foundation, to help with breast cancer, is a "menace to women", because they do things like give money to Planned Parenthood to help low-income women get mammograms, and the supposed connection between abortions and breast cancer, which doesn’t exist. This rather stupid position is taken to logical conclusions by both The Pandagon and gains a rather useful illustration about children being formed in breasts thanks to Unabashed Feminism Chief![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ldragoon.
And then, a good dose of racism to cover our bases, with the white man who beat a black mother in front of her child while he said racial epithets, all because she told him to be careful of how he opened a door, because he almost hit the child going into the establishment. The beater alleges she spit on him, but even if that’s the case, the reaction is wholly unwarranted and probably more severe because she was black.
Last, uh, a flippant *headpiano*, but one nonethless - Battleship the game is now Battleship the movie.
Music royalty collections gunning to collect mroe royalties even from 30 second song previews, helping the perception that the recording industry are a very greedy cabal that want all your money and for you to have to deal with it on their terms.
There is one bit of good news, though - although if you were not a regular fan of the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC, you might not know about it at all - Operation Iraqi Baseball is a success - the Iraqi baseball team, thanks to the generous donations of American sport companies, is now properly outfitted to compete in their international leagues.
In opinions, Ms. Blanchard joins the people believing we've made it to Orwell's dystopia, although a bit later than the year in the title. When the President supports renewing provisions of USAPATRIOT that make it easier to spy on your own citizens, the Big Brother angle continues to look better. And for more evidence that the Government is the pawns of the corporations, Mr. Greenwald on how profitable it is for conservatives to use ACORN as a smokescreen of rage and froth while pointedly ignoring the giant influence and control corporations have over the regular populace.
Rana Kelley encourages the playing of the race card, because we need to talk more about race and race relations in the country. Sweeping it under the rug doesn’t help.
In sciences, gene therapy permtis colorblind monkeys to see in full color, the instruction manual for life and happiness, the worry that we're creating crises that we don't have the ability to fix, or mroe colloquially, we’re writing checks that our collective ass can’t cash, new net neutrality rules set for announcement, and how text-to-speech on iPhone or standard computers is helping those with speech disorders feel more normal instead of stigmatized.
Last for tonight, turn your brain to deciphering the clever symbols created by Japanese towns that make it relatively easy to remember or figure out what they are. Assuming you have a good working knowledge of Japanese script, that is. If that’s not your thing, lots of pretty lights make a dancer.
Also, check it out - the past through those nice thin Victorian girls would become hulking Amazons by 2000. Going from size 3 to size 7 to size 11 in 2000, complete with 6 feet height and battle armor.
The Dead Pool claims Irving Kristol, The Dead pool claims Mary Travers, and the Dead Pool claims Henry Gibson.
Internationally, squatters repair the road in Fiji after it deteriorates too much for them to get to their residences, Tolkien and others trained for the United Kingdom government as spies, codebreakers, or other roles when Germany declared war, Russia scrapped plans to put missiles near Poland after the United States scrapped missile defense plans in the area in favor of putting more short-range interceptors near Iran, and Ahmaninejad continues to be a Holocaust denier, and continues to take great flack for it.
In domestic affairs, former CIA directors are asking the President to not investigate them for what are clearly breaches of the law, because morale will suffer, or it will be seen as witch-hunting, or that the President doesn’t support their efforts, or any other bullshit excuse you want to insert there, because the Attorney General has a duty to investigate these things, to their fullest extent (and not this little “only if they exceeded the already illegal guidelines” similar bullshit) if we want to be seen as a nation that actually respects the rule of law and the treaties we are a signatory to.
There really is no reason not to pass something akin to single payer, if even Bill'O supports the public option for other people. Seriously. Michelle Obama is campaigning for reform that will help women - remember, pregnancy or sposual abuse might be considered a pre-existing condition, and not every insurance plan will help with brith control. Even so, if you can convince one of the leading conservative blowhards that the public option is a good idea, Senators and Representatives should be a cakewalk. Or... maybe not. New Jersey residents polled found out that about half of them are Birthers or Birther-Curious on the right, and about half are Truther or Truther-Curious on the left, and about 30-35% of the conservatives think Obama is the Antichrist or arent't sure. And there’s the continuing isue of the frothing group that says good health care will cover those who trespass into the country, and they are completely undeserving of it, and must suffer the costs of paying in full for their treatments. So maybe it will take a bit more to convince them. Maybe something like a general strike, but we haven't had one of those in 75 years. Or perhaps, something will sink in, as the Slacktivist notes, when they finally think about the prayer they're saying that talks about forgiving us as we forgive others.
After all of this, here's a comparative graphic (with printable option) to discuss the merits and demerits of the various plans.
Additionally, in the *facepalm* department, when given 10 randomly selected questions from the citizenship exam, Oaklahoma high school seniors did best on the geography and failed out miserably on the civics, politics, and history parts. Even the geography answer only got 61 percent correct. Clearly, things are not right in the state of our education. And our media outlets aren’t helping, when they continue to report the difference between fantasy and reality as if it were merely a squabble of opinion between two political points of view.
Speaking of children, conditional love and acceptance is a quick way to raising kids with issues, who might resent their parents and take no real joy in doing what is asked (or told) of them, and then resulting in possibly worse situations where they might not be able to feel that anyone loves them unconditionally (and thus, the therapist has work to do).
Keeping in this vein, the anti-government services tea party protesters have sent a letter of compmlaint that the government-funded Metro public transit service in Washington D.C. was insufficiently able to carry them to their destinations. The headliner of the letter is a Congresscritter who has voted against increasing funding for the Metro system. Even the WSJ has to stand, jaw agape at this one.
Rep. Kevin Brady asked for an explanation of why the government-run subway system didn’t, in his view, adequately prepare for this past weekends rally to protest government spending and government services.
Seriously.
Yeah. Seriously. Also, some background information on Mr. Skousen, whom Mr. Beck draws inspiriation from in his own machinations, and a response from CNN to the accusations that only Fox News was covering the 9/12 protests. The other question is whether any news organization aside from Fox would want to cover the presence of a few tens of thousands.
And now, on the latest affront to Unabashed Feminism, petition circulating in Florida that will make it illegal to prevent the impantation of a fertilized egg, calling it murder, by defining such an egg as a person, and potentially outlawing the entirety of birth control in the state. It will need signatures to get on the ballot. I will also need people to vote for it. I hope there are lots of women who can point out the obvious consequence of such a bill - support it, and there will be no sex, because there is no desire for children. This may be more effective than all the feminism and control arguments (all valid, mind you) that could and should be brought in addition.
Did we also mention the ACLU is suing the state of Mississippi for including blatantly religious messages in their state-sponsored abstinence event? Church-state separation issues, and remember, Abstinence Doesn’t Work, statistically speaking. Here’s some evidence - the more religiously conservative a state is, the more it has teen pregnancies. And guess who tops the list? Mississippi, the state pushing that religious conservatism on its teenagers.
And then there’s also the anti-women stance of those claiming the Susan G. Komen foundation, to help with breast cancer, is a "menace to women", because they do things like give money to Planned Parenthood to help low-income women get mammograms, and the supposed connection between abortions and breast cancer, which doesn’t exist. This rather stupid position is taken to logical conclusions by both The Pandagon and gains a rather useful illustration about children being formed in breasts thanks to Unabashed Feminism Chief
ldragoon.And then, a good dose of racism to cover our bases, with the white man who beat a black mother in front of her child while he said racial epithets, all because she told him to be careful of how he opened a door, because he almost hit the child going into the establishment. The beater alleges she spit on him, but even if that’s the case, the reaction is wholly unwarranted and probably more severe because she was black.
Last, uh, a flippant *headpiano*, but one nonethless - Battleship the game is now Battleship the movie.
Music royalty collections gunning to collect mroe royalties even from 30 second song previews, helping the perception that the recording industry are a very greedy cabal that want all your money and for you to have to deal with it on their terms.
There is one bit of good news, though - although if you were not a regular fan of the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC, you might not know about it at all - Operation Iraqi Baseball is a success - the Iraqi baseball team, thanks to the generous donations of American sport companies, is now properly outfitted to compete in their international leagues.
In opinions, Ms. Blanchard joins the people believing we've made it to Orwell's dystopia, although a bit later than the year in the title. When the President supports renewing provisions of USAPATRIOT that make it easier to spy on your own citizens, the Big Brother angle continues to look better. And for more evidence that the Government is the pawns of the corporations, Mr. Greenwald on how profitable it is for conservatives to use ACORN as a smokescreen of rage and froth while pointedly ignoring the giant influence and control corporations have over the regular populace.
Rana Kelley encourages the playing of the race card, because we need to talk more about race and race relations in the country. Sweeping it under the rug doesn’t help.
In sciences, gene therapy permtis colorblind monkeys to see in full color, the instruction manual for life and happiness, the worry that we're creating crises that we don't have the ability to fix, or mroe colloquially, we’re writing checks that our collective ass can’t cash, new net neutrality rules set for announcement, and how text-to-speech on iPhone or standard computers is helping those with speech disorders feel more normal instead of stigmatized.
Last for tonight, turn your brain to deciphering the clever symbols created by Japanese towns that make it relatively easy to remember or figure out what they are. Assuming you have a good working knowledge of Japanese script, that is. If that’s not your thing, lots of pretty lights make a dancer.
