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G'morning, everyone. Before continuing, please stop and read the following article all the way through. Most people have been living with a socialist institution for most of their lives - the public library. We're pretty well guilty of just about every satirical allegation thrown our way. Yet our danger is not in that we are socialists, it is that an even bigger form of free sharing of data, the Internet, is making people believe they have all of what we have, and our expertise to boot. For a visual example of what this looks like to us, please look at the picture of this privacy snuggie for your laptop. When you say that it's all on the Internet and you don't need libraries, you look like this.
Also of importance, certain Tylenol products are under recall because an inactive ingredient, in raw form, tested positive for a bad bacteria. The company maintains no traces of the bacteria have been found in the finished products, but they're reecalling the materials anyway. This information was apparently not very visible or findable on the website for the products.
Our history people peer into the past to tell us about the only woman in the French Foreign Legion, who, had she lived, would be celebrating 100 years fo existence this year.
Our culture people recommend you stop by and peer in at the Japanese monsters through peepholes.
At the United Nations, President Obama said the United States does not recognize the legitimacy of Israeli settlements and called on Palestinians to stop inciting Israel. Naturally, the Israel statement makes the bigger ehadline, especially because of the tradition that makes the United States and Israel seem like husband and wife on lots of policies and alliances. The order, though, is the Palestinian call first, and then the Israelis.
Exceprts available from the interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, on his Holocaust remarks and other situations around his back yard.
Domestically, Sears is not punished for not telling their consumers that joining a particular community would download a Trojan that captured personal information about them and send it to Sears's corporate offices.
Also of importance, bullet manufacturers cannot keep up with demand for their product, primarily because of persons worried that President Obama will take away their right to have weapons and shoot them. Despite the President having done nothing so far to make that sentiment warranted. Apparently, his Democratic affiliation is sufficient cause, plus or minus, probably, any socialist or statist accusations that are sticking in the minds of the buyers. So there are a lot more people worried things will come to armed revolution or the government attempting to force the people to give up their weapons. Makes me wonder what might set them off.
The Obama Administration has created a new office to assist start-up companies in transforming their ideas into products and services.
In opinions, The General's Inner Frenchman provides a picture worth the thousand words it would take to describe how a hanged man was probably killed by demagogues proclaiming how the government is the people's enemy.
Speaking of speechmaking, Mr. Gainor considers the President a narcissist because he has mentioned himself approximately 1,200 times in 41 speechees to the nation so far. Apparently, the interview count is way too high, too, compared to the last two Presidents. So very me-focused, apparently. Would that be before or after the populace has been conditioned to believe the President can magically do everything, and the last administrator took it as far out to the edge as he could? Plus, how complex are the proposals being put before Congress? How much explanation do they need? And who's the best person to be explaining them?
Not that actions by the President would receive any better praise - Mr. Stephens complains about the President's desire for nuclear disarmament, the G-20 summit, and the increasing amounts of debt in the world. Mr. Baker suggests the recent missile shield decisions were all wrongheaded and made politically instead of strategically. And it appears that Senator Inhofe will be assembling a team of his own to go to the UN panel on climate change to directly contradict the official position of the country on the matter. First, "You Lie!" and now "We're Lying!" The opposition party is not exactly greaing up for a triumphant return to power, here, even if it does happen because of bigger dissatisfaction with the party in power.
In health care, the WSJ believes Baucus is bullying a corporation that sent a mailer to its subscribers describing what they expected to happen if the Baucus bill passed, and wants to make them into the example of what will happen to the rest of insurers if the bill passes. Interesting that the Baucus bill, probably the worst fo the lot, is suddenly the bill that everyone believes is the best of the lot, and thus can use in their screeds against health care.
And on the favorite football of the right, Mr. Fund says that Mr. Obama has very deep ties to ACORN, that ACORN is a rotten nut to the core, and thus by extension, Mr. Obama has been involved in lots of dirty deeds which the manistream media is sweeping under the rug. (Their second-favorite football, Representative Murtha's "Airport for No One" also got a mention) What's missing from this discussion, especially in light of the recent Defund ACORN bill, are the calls to defund Blackwater and other military contractors, not just because they fall under the purview of the bill, but because of the acts they have committed and documented in Iraq and elsewhere that should give any government pause in employing them.
Mr. Laffer, of the Laffer curve, criticizes the monetary policy of the Fed, using the Depression as the historical example of what happened and will likely happen again if taxes get raised and the dollar devalues.
Mr. Robinson criticizes international law for making it impossible for a country to use force against planned attacks without violating the self-defense portion, and that Israel has been hit with this many times for striking before actually attacked.
Last out before the cliff drops, Mr. McGurn snipes at Mr. Latimer's book, trying to show off how big of a failure Mr. Latimer was at his job and how disillusioned he was so as to discredit anything he has to say.
Falling down the face of the mountain, although doing so in a manner that will save face, Mr. Stossel explains that all media is biased, but that nobody in the media (possbily excepting Fox, where he is going) admits to their biases (excepting, perhaps, him). Even simply calling the stimulus act stimulus is bias, he says, because plenty of economists believe government spending can't stimulate the economy. Those economists don't get airtime because of the bias of the media. A few bumps and scratches, but Mr. Stossel survives mostly intact at the bottom.
Getting banged up more significantly on the way down is Gary DeMar, making an analogy of the current political thinking to the V.I.K.I. robot from the movie I, Robot, where politicians believe they know better than us peons and thus need us to follow their thinking. All opposition or objection must be re-educated or erased from the discourse to build the proper population that entrusts its politicians to take care of them. A representative government is supposed to elect the very best people, who do know better than the average person, to lead them and make good decisions for them. It does also demand the populace do their homework on whether those decisions were for the best or whether the politician made bad decisions, so there is some obligation, fast being kicked out of the populace through factors like insufficient schooling, on the people, but the founders were not interested in mob rule nor in the average idiot being able to wield power. Mr. DeMar is also an originalist, believing solely in the enumerated powers, and also believing that God was involved in the creation of the country and its founding documents, and resists the idea that a government and its documents should be able to evolve to meet thr future, because it inevitably leads to sheep electing wolves to lead them. (which, by the way, is a far better analogue than that movie which claims itself to be descended from teh lineage of Asimov.)
Facefaulting and hitting every rock on the way down, however, is Mr. Williams, who takes it on himself to prepare a pre-emptive defense of the next Michael Moore film, defending cpitalism against charges that it doesn't take care of the poor (because our poor are so much better off than anyone else's poor), that capitalism is inherently superior because people naturally gravitate towards it and the wealth it creates (as opposed to the equalizing socialist systems that never really had a chance because they couldn't achieve critical mass - the socialist experiment can only really be tested if the whole world participates in it.) and that the crisis is the fault of the government, not of capitalism itself, because the government guaranteed risky loans and riskier derivatives and then bailed out the companies that made them when they crashed. Had the government let those crashes go through, I'm sure he would be howling at how the government let the financial system collapse and create a long-lasting depression. As someone who has seen Mr. Moore's work on occasion, Mr. Williams appears to have not, because Mr. Moore generally pokes at the government responsible, the corporations that encourage, and the people who perpetuate something that is crushing to their very existence, while showing off what the effects of that crush are, and some places where that crush has been either averted or structures are in place to hold it off. Oh, and Mr. Williams' counterargument about the poor? Rubbish. While our poor may appear to be greater than the rest of the world's poor, the point is that they are still poor and struggling to keep their heads above the point that would make them much more like the rest of the world's poor, with no home, no work, no food, and no way of getting away from it.
It does, however, get worse that this. Swan diving into the Grand Canyon with no parachute is Chuck Norris, who recommends hoisting revolutionary flags instead of the standard one, or, if one must fly the regular flag, make it a tea-stained flag... in violation of the rules for displaying one's flag, of course. Bet nobody objects to this like they would object to people wrapping themselves in the flag or burning it.
At the very bottom, though, be careful of Representative Steve King plummeting from low earth orbit for his remarks that marriage between homosexuals is a purely socialist concept, by way of not being able to ban group marriages, and apparently validating Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum's theories about how letting gays marry will lead to both incest and bestiality, but more commonly, people could get married not for love or lust, but for benefits and tax avoidance...like many people do already! It all leads down to a society where everyone can access the pools of resources provided, whether heterosexual, homosexual, or otherwise. Clearly, homosexual marriage is a secret plot to enact socialism. Did we mention that 92 percent of Iowa residents polled said having homosexual marriage did not bring real change to their lives?
Technology says officially, Luna has water, eyeballs with wifi that can be used to see what we don't, trying to figure out the specifics fo the uncanny valley, a retinal implant camera that can restore some amount of sight to the blind, planning and attempting to construct defenses against large space junk touching down on Terra, and Google Sidewiki, a way of annotating the web as you encounter it.
And last for tonight, beauty even in a choking dust storm. And the 419 letter that sparked Mr. Baggins' fateful journey.
Also of importance, certain Tylenol products are under recall because an inactive ingredient, in raw form, tested positive for a bad bacteria. The company maintains no traces of the bacteria have been found in the finished products, but they're reecalling the materials anyway. This information was apparently not very visible or findable on the website for the products.
Our history people peer into the past to tell us about the only woman in the French Foreign Legion, who, had she lived, would be celebrating 100 years fo existence this year.
Our culture people recommend you stop by and peer in at the Japanese monsters through peepholes.
At the United Nations, President Obama said the United States does not recognize the legitimacy of Israeli settlements and called on Palestinians to stop inciting Israel. Naturally, the Israel statement makes the bigger ehadline, especially because of the tradition that makes the United States and Israel seem like husband and wife on lots of policies and alliances. The order, though, is the Palestinian call first, and then the Israelis.
Exceprts available from the interview with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, on his Holocaust remarks and other situations around his back yard.
Domestically, Sears is not punished for not telling their consumers that joining a particular community would download a Trojan that captured personal information about them and send it to Sears's corporate offices.
Also of importance, bullet manufacturers cannot keep up with demand for their product, primarily because of persons worried that President Obama will take away their right to have weapons and shoot them. Despite the President having done nothing so far to make that sentiment warranted. Apparently, his Democratic affiliation is sufficient cause, plus or minus, probably, any socialist or statist accusations that are sticking in the minds of the buyers. So there are a lot more people worried things will come to armed revolution or the government attempting to force the people to give up their weapons. Makes me wonder what might set them off.
The Obama Administration has created a new office to assist start-up companies in transforming their ideas into products and services.
In opinions, The General's Inner Frenchman provides a picture worth the thousand words it would take to describe how a hanged man was probably killed by demagogues proclaiming how the government is the people's enemy.
Speaking of speechmaking, Mr. Gainor considers the President a narcissist because he has mentioned himself approximately 1,200 times in 41 speechees to the nation so far. Apparently, the interview count is way too high, too, compared to the last two Presidents. So very me-focused, apparently. Would that be before or after the populace has been conditioned to believe the President can magically do everything, and the last administrator took it as far out to the edge as he could? Plus, how complex are the proposals being put before Congress? How much explanation do they need? And who's the best person to be explaining them?
Not that actions by the President would receive any better praise - Mr. Stephens complains about the President's desire for nuclear disarmament, the G-20 summit, and the increasing amounts of debt in the world. Mr. Baker suggests the recent missile shield decisions were all wrongheaded and made politically instead of strategically. And it appears that Senator Inhofe will be assembling a team of his own to go to the UN panel on climate change to directly contradict the official position of the country on the matter. First, "You Lie!" and now "We're Lying!" The opposition party is not exactly greaing up for a triumphant return to power, here, even if it does happen because of bigger dissatisfaction with the party in power.
In health care, the WSJ believes Baucus is bullying a corporation that sent a mailer to its subscribers describing what they expected to happen if the Baucus bill passed, and wants to make them into the example of what will happen to the rest of insurers if the bill passes. Interesting that the Baucus bill, probably the worst fo the lot, is suddenly the bill that everyone believes is the best of the lot, and thus can use in their screeds against health care.
And on the favorite football of the right, Mr. Fund says that Mr. Obama has very deep ties to ACORN, that ACORN is a rotten nut to the core, and thus by extension, Mr. Obama has been involved in lots of dirty deeds which the manistream media is sweeping under the rug. (Their second-favorite football, Representative Murtha's "Airport for No One" also got a mention) What's missing from this discussion, especially in light of the recent Defund ACORN bill, are the calls to defund Blackwater and other military contractors, not just because they fall under the purview of the bill, but because of the acts they have committed and documented in Iraq and elsewhere that should give any government pause in employing them.
Mr. Laffer, of the Laffer curve, criticizes the monetary policy of the Fed, using the Depression as the historical example of what happened and will likely happen again if taxes get raised and the dollar devalues.
Mr. Robinson criticizes international law for making it impossible for a country to use force against planned attacks without violating the self-defense portion, and that Israel has been hit with this many times for striking before actually attacked.
Last out before the cliff drops, Mr. McGurn snipes at Mr. Latimer's book, trying to show off how big of a failure Mr. Latimer was at his job and how disillusioned he was so as to discredit anything he has to say.
Falling down the face of the mountain, although doing so in a manner that will save face, Mr. Stossel explains that all media is biased, but that nobody in the media (possbily excepting Fox, where he is going) admits to their biases (excepting, perhaps, him). Even simply calling the stimulus act stimulus is bias, he says, because plenty of economists believe government spending can't stimulate the economy. Those economists don't get airtime because of the bias of the media. A few bumps and scratches, but Mr. Stossel survives mostly intact at the bottom.
Getting banged up more significantly on the way down is Gary DeMar, making an analogy of the current political thinking to the V.I.K.I. robot from the movie I, Robot, where politicians believe they know better than us peons and thus need us to follow their thinking. All opposition or objection must be re-educated or erased from the discourse to build the proper population that entrusts its politicians to take care of them. A representative government is supposed to elect the very best people, who do know better than the average person, to lead them and make good decisions for them. It does also demand the populace do their homework on whether those decisions were for the best or whether the politician made bad decisions, so there is some obligation, fast being kicked out of the populace through factors like insufficient schooling, on the people, but the founders were not interested in mob rule nor in the average idiot being able to wield power. Mr. DeMar is also an originalist, believing solely in the enumerated powers, and also believing that God was involved in the creation of the country and its founding documents, and resists the idea that a government and its documents should be able to evolve to meet thr future, because it inevitably leads to sheep electing wolves to lead them. (which, by the way, is a far better analogue than that movie which claims itself to be descended from teh lineage of Asimov.)
Facefaulting and hitting every rock on the way down, however, is Mr. Williams, who takes it on himself to prepare a pre-emptive defense of the next Michael Moore film, defending cpitalism against charges that it doesn't take care of the poor (because our poor are so much better off than anyone else's poor), that capitalism is inherently superior because people naturally gravitate towards it and the wealth it creates (as opposed to the equalizing socialist systems that never really had a chance because they couldn't achieve critical mass - the socialist experiment can only really be tested if the whole world participates in it.) and that the crisis is the fault of the government, not of capitalism itself, because the government guaranteed risky loans and riskier derivatives and then bailed out the companies that made them when they crashed. Had the government let those crashes go through, I'm sure he would be howling at how the government let the financial system collapse and create a long-lasting depression. As someone who has seen Mr. Moore's work on occasion, Mr. Williams appears to have not, because Mr. Moore generally pokes at the government responsible, the corporations that encourage, and the people who perpetuate something that is crushing to their very existence, while showing off what the effects of that crush are, and some places where that crush has been either averted or structures are in place to hold it off. Oh, and Mr. Williams' counterargument about the poor? Rubbish. While our poor may appear to be greater than the rest of the world's poor, the point is that they are still poor and struggling to keep their heads above the point that would make them much more like the rest of the world's poor, with no home, no work, no food, and no way of getting away from it.
It does, however, get worse that this. Swan diving into the Grand Canyon with no parachute is Chuck Norris, who recommends hoisting revolutionary flags instead of the standard one, or, if one must fly the regular flag, make it a tea-stained flag... in violation of the rules for displaying one's flag, of course. Bet nobody objects to this like they would object to people wrapping themselves in the flag or burning it.
At the very bottom, though, be careful of Representative Steve King plummeting from low earth orbit for his remarks that marriage between homosexuals is a purely socialist concept, by way of not being able to ban group marriages, and apparently validating Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum's theories about how letting gays marry will lead to both incest and bestiality, but more commonly, people could get married not for love or lust, but for benefits and tax avoidance...like many people do already! It all leads down to a society where everyone can access the pools of resources provided, whether heterosexual, homosexual, or otherwise. Clearly, homosexual marriage is a secret plot to enact socialism. Did we mention that 92 percent of Iowa residents polled said having homosexual marriage did not bring real change to their lives?
Technology says officially, Luna has water, eyeballs with wifi that can be used to see what we don't, trying to figure out the specifics fo the uncanny valley, a retinal implant camera that can restore some amount of sight to the blind, planning and attempting to construct defenses against large space junk touching down on Terra, and Google Sidewiki, a way of annotating the web as you encounter it.
And last for tonight, beauty even in a choking dust storm. And the 419 letter that sparked Mr. Baggins' fateful journey.
