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Greetings, everyone! We begin tonight with the Dumb Criminal who updated his Facebook page from the computer of the hosue he was burglarizing... and then forgot to log off. Sounds like he could use some reading - how about 12 ideas that could change the world, but Wired thinks might shock some people along the way.
From there, we go to a morgue with lax enough security that the general public could possibly come in and take a body with them, without having to show identification.
And just in case it turns out to be true that the foretold Raputuring of persons bodily into heaven, which seems to be a fairly popular position to take at the moment, and some of my audience leaves, congratulations on achieving Paradise, please spare a thought for us down below, and we'll see you on the other side of the tribulations. There would also be no more updates from the General, as he would obviously be Raptured, assuming it's today.
Internationally, A Russian envoy suggested that President Obama had a Cold War mentality in deciding to scrap the long-range missile defense plan, claiming that the decision was really about Russia and not about Iran at all.
Additionally, a female teacher gets caught in a stat rape case for having sexual relations with a female student. Despite the young girl initiating, and apparently, a pretty good relationship between the two women. 15 months was the sentence, so one could theoretically wonder whether the relationnship will resume when she comes out... because then the daughter is of legal age. But, no guarantees. After all, teenagers are flighty.
On the domestic front, yet another success of the government capturing suspected terrorists without having to resort to extraordinary measures.
The decision by President Obama to abandon long-range missile defense in favor of shorter-range defenses is apparently supported by evidence that medium-range threats from Iran were more advanced than previously thought.
An appeals court overturned the limit on individual giving to nonprofit corporations, paving the way for politically active nonprofits to obtain and utilize a lot more money to advance their agendas.
finally, nannies are back to being the status symbol, but this time it's Tibetan nannies. Remember how we consider trophy wives to be a bad thing? Yeah, claiming that one ethnicity or race is better than another for child care is asking for bees to strike you when you're wearing traditional undergarments at a kilt festival. Over at Jezebel, someone witht he interesting experience of being a child-care provider for a child-care provider relates her experiences and all the bee-rage-inducing things that she learned about.
In opinions, Mr. Cline gets top billing with a slew of examples of "The more a conservative is obsessed with something, the more they hate it. But the more they hate something, the more they are obsessed with it", from feminism to homosexuality to sexual behavior among consenting adults.
Mr. Pillar questions the wisdom of continuing to try and deny physical havens to terror groups, considering that globalization and interconnected technology makes it very possible for great things to be done by small groups of people. On that same matter, the WSJ triese to drive a wedge between the Speaker and the President by constructing their remarks to sound opposite of each other, when the Speaker simply said the President would not necessarily find a lot of help in the Democrats if he wanted to continue.
Ah, and speaking of terror, Mr. Stephens attemtps to instill some in us by making it sound like the Obama administration is speeding Israel toward attacking Iran, because of the way the U.S. is handling Iran and its nukes. This is, apparently, Bad, and the President should "take the wheel" again on Iran so that Israel doesn't pop off and blast Iran.
The WSJ also raises the spectre of trade wars and protecionism because the President has been playing with some tariffs, which the inevitable threat of bad will, bad omens, and the United States suddenly having to deal with revenge actions against their goods. They also focus on carbon tariffs (which we already know they don't like) and say that labor unions (whom the President is beholden to) are the force behind this anti-free trade drive, because organized labor frankly hates outsourcing to people as fractions of the wages and none of the benefits or protections.
Finally, we get to talk health care. Mr. Napolitano says any government regulation of health care or insurance is unconstitutional, because of the Tenth Amendment, and because the Commerce Clause doesn't apply in this case. More telling, he says "The president and his colleagues want to reward their supporters with 'free' health care that the rest of us will end up paying for." Because only some people pay taxes, like FICA, sales taxes, withholding taxes, and the like. Plus, wouldn't insurance sales be something quite possibly interstate-regulated, especially with a public option, and with exchanges that would make it so people could buy things, regardless of state?
Anyway, Mr. Darwall regales us with the latest "Tales from the NHS"l, trying to convince us that yes, the President's health care place is exactly like the NHS, and is thus a secret plot to kill old people. Not only that, but the doctors know that people get better when they're not actively trying to kill old people. So clearly, benefits and tax cuts are superior when it comes to ensuring everyone gets quality service. Assuming, of course, you can make the initial outlays for your coverage. And, because the U.S. spends so very much, we're very god about new treatment and diffusion thereof, so if we become socialized, then innovation across the whole world stagnates and dies! DOOOOOOOOOOM!
After that, then Mr. Harrington starts his piece by telling us that only people who lie on their insurance applications get unceremoniously dropped for pre-existing conditions or when they get seriously ill, and gets worse from there. He then says the examples the President used weren't true, and that there are plenty of ways to adopt better controls regarding the ability of insurers to remove people from their rolls than to adopt "the president's agenda for federal control of health insurance, or the creation of a government health insurer", and that the President's referral to Alabama, where one insurer dominates the market, is misguided because that insurer, a nonprofit, has excellent customer satisfaction and low costs thus dominating by being better than everyone else, no need for government help or to fix private insurance. That's right, the non-profit is the best of the bunch. Which helps to build a case that a government-run nonprofit would probably be just as good everywhere, and thus save costs for everyone. So maybe the President picked some bad examples. If Mr. Harrington listened around to what other normal people had in terms of health care horror stories, he might realize that the norm is much different than the ideal happy customers who pay their premiums and have all their claims paid in full (minus co-pays and deductibles, of course).
Hitting the technological stride, telecope generates the need for exaflop computing with exabyte storage, peering in at the potential beginnings of the universe, discovery that even those in a vegetative state can learn things, and thus demonstrate they're still there in some ways, making spinal-cord injured rats walk again, a finding indicating a quick manual test for stroke is more accurate and effective than a complex MRI, meaning stroke checks got a lot cheaper, ridges and mountains discovered in Saturn's rings, and some very artistic data visualization. Oh, and microbloggers are boring. (Hey, bud, you try being interesting in 140 characters or less, says the Twitterverse.)
Last for tonight, NetFlix pays out on its $1 million USD prize to a group developing software that works better than its own, who beat their competitor group by about 20 minutes to capture the prize, and research suggesting compassion and generosity spread and cause others to also become generous and compassionate.
From there, we go to a morgue with lax enough security that the general public could possibly come in and take a body with them, without having to show identification.
And just in case it turns out to be true that the foretold Raputuring of persons bodily into heaven, which seems to be a fairly popular position to take at the moment, and some of my audience leaves, congratulations on achieving Paradise, please spare a thought for us down below, and we'll see you on the other side of the tribulations. There would also be no more updates from the General, as he would obviously be Raptured, assuming it's today.
Internationally, A Russian envoy suggested that President Obama had a Cold War mentality in deciding to scrap the long-range missile defense plan, claiming that the decision was really about Russia and not about Iran at all.
Additionally, a female teacher gets caught in a stat rape case for having sexual relations with a female student. Despite the young girl initiating, and apparently, a pretty good relationship between the two women. 15 months was the sentence, so one could theoretically wonder whether the relationnship will resume when she comes out... because then the daughter is of legal age. But, no guarantees. After all, teenagers are flighty.
On the domestic front, yet another success of the government capturing suspected terrorists without having to resort to extraordinary measures.
The decision by President Obama to abandon long-range missile defense in favor of shorter-range defenses is apparently supported by evidence that medium-range threats from Iran were more advanced than previously thought.
An appeals court overturned the limit on individual giving to nonprofit corporations, paving the way for politically active nonprofits to obtain and utilize a lot more money to advance their agendas.
finally, nannies are back to being the status symbol, but this time it's Tibetan nannies. Remember how we consider trophy wives to be a bad thing? Yeah, claiming that one ethnicity or race is better than another for child care is asking for bees to strike you when you're wearing traditional undergarments at a kilt festival. Over at Jezebel, someone witht he interesting experience of being a child-care provider for a child-care provider relates her experiences and all the bee-rage-inducing things that she learned about.
In opinions, Mr. Cline gets top billing with a slew of examples of "The more a conservative is obsessed with something, the more they hate it. But the more they hate something, the more they are obsessed with it", from feminism to homosexuality to sexual behavior among consenting adults.
Mr. Pillar questions the wisdom of continuing to try and deny physical havens to terror groups, considering that globalization and interconnected technology makes it very possible for great things to be done by small groups of people. On that same matter, the WSJ triese to drive a wedge between the Speaker and the President by constructing their remarks to sound opposite of each other, when the Speaker simply said the President would not necessarily find a lot of help in the Democrats if he wanted to continue.
Ah, and speaking of terror, Mr. Stephens attemtps to instill some in us by making it sound like the Obama administration is speeding Israel toward attacking Iran, because of the way the U.S. is handling Iran and its nukes. This is, apparently, Bad, and the President should "take the wheel" again on Iran so that Israel doesn't pop off and blast Iran.
The WSJ also raises the spectre of trade wars and protecionism because the President has been playing with some tariffs, which the inevitable threat of bad will, bad omens, and the United States suddenly having to deal with revenge actions against their goods. They also focus on carbon tariffs (which we already know they don't like) and say that labor unions (whom the President is beholden to) are the force behind this anti-free trade drive, because organized labor frankly hates outsourcing to people as fractions of the wages and none of the benefits or protections.
Finally, we get to talk health care. Mr. Napolitano says any government regulation of health care or insurance is unconstitutional, because of the Tenth Amendment, and because the Commerce Clause doesn't apply in this case. More telling, he says "The president and his colleagues want to reward their supporters with 'free' health care that the rest of us will end up paying for." Because only some people pay taxes, like FICA, sales taxes, withholding taxes, and the like. Plus, wouldn't insurance sales be something quite possibly interstate-regulated, especially with a public option, and with exchanges that would make it so people could buy things, regardless of state?
Anyway, Mr. Darwall regales us with the latest "Tales from the NHS"l, trying to convince us that yes, the President's health care place is exactly like the NHS, and is thus a secret plot to kill old people. Not only that, but the doctors know that people get better when they're not actively trying to kill old people. So clearly, benefits and tax cuts are superior when it comes to ensuring everyone gets quality service. Assuming, of course, you can make the initial outlays for your coverage. And, because the U.S. spends so very much, we're very god about new treatment and diffusion thereof, so if we become socialized, then innovation across the whole world stagnates and dies! DOOOOOOOOOOM!
After that, then Mr. Harrington starts his piece by telling us that only people who lie on their insurance applications get unceremoniously dropped for pre-existing conditions or when they get seriously ill, and gets worse from there. He then says the examples the President used weren't true, and that there are plenty of ways to adopt better controls regarding the ability of insurers to remove people from their rolls than to adopt "the president's agenda for federal control of health insurance, or the creation of a government health insurer", and that the President's referral to Alabama, where one insurer dominates the market, is misguided because that insurer, a nonprofit, has excellent customer satisfaction and low costs thus dominating by being better than everyone else, no need for government help or to fix private insurance. That's right, the non-profit is the best of the bunch. Which helps to build a case that a government-run nonprofit would probably be just as good everywhere, and thus save costs for everyone. So maybe the President picked some bad examples. If Mr. Harrington listened around to what other normal people had in terms of health care horror stories, he might realize that the norm is much different than the ideal happy customers who pay their premiums and have all their claims paid in full (minus co-pays and deductibles, of course).
Hitting the technological stride, telecope generates the need for exaflop computing with exabyte storage, peering in at the potential beginnings of the universe, discovery that even those in a vegetative state can learn things, and thus demonstrate they're still there in some ways, making spinal-cord injured rats walk again, a finding indicating a quick manual test for stroke is more accurate and effective than a complex MRI, meaning stroke checks got a lot cheaper, ridges and mountains discovered in Saturn's rings, and some very artistic data visualization. Oh, and microbloggers are boring. (Hey, bud, you try being interesting in 140 characters or less, says the Twitterverse.)
Last for tonight, NetFlix pays out on its $1 million USD prize to a group developing software that works better than its own, who beat their competitor group by about 20 minutes to capture the prize, and research suggesting compassion and generosity spread and cause others to also become generous and compassionate.
