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Up top today, enjoy the tapestry woven by spiders. That's right, completely woven together by spiders. The piece itself is on display at the American Museum of Natural History.
Internationally, Iran discloses the bunker-like nature of the new nuclear site, perhaps as a goad or a dare to the West to try and blow it up. On the matter, Mr. Cohen says we've come down to the choice of overthrowing Iran and destroying their nuclear capability, or accepting that Iran will become a nuclear power, with all the implied threats to Israel, Europe, and the U.S. that accomplishes. It's the kind of topsy-turvy world where the WSJ expresses shock and surprise that the French president is more serious about Iran than the American one. What a difference a few years makes. Perhaps we are now at war with Eurasia, after all.
On economics, the head of the World Bank suggested the United States dollar may not continue to be the world's reserve currency, with the Euro and the Chinese Renminbi as possible currencies to take the place of the U.S. Dollar.
Domestically, A reminder that having a spotter who can pull up your weight in case of an emergency is essential.
The Senate Finance Committee continues to be the bastard child in terms of having a public option in its bills, as admendments to introduce such were defeated today in debate and voting. That was with significant factlessness from the Republican faction and the chairman saying "My job is to get a bill that will become law." Wrong, sir. Your job is to produce the very best bill you can, and then convince your colleagues to vote for it.
The State of Pennsylvania ordered the club that told an African-American day camp that minorities weren't welcome to pay a 50,000 USD fine to the state - as well as revealing the names of some of the persons who make comments like "I'm afraid those black kids will do something to my child." One of them was a teacher. On this incident, the General laments how the teacher will have to start showing equality and caring about the black children, instead of being able to retreat to her safe, white bubble. Additionally against the club, when recruiting, the club sent missives and postcards into mostly-white areas and passed over minority-heavy areas entirely. One can guess what some of the reactions are, but comments have been turned off in the article linked to because of those reactions.
A person accused of desecrating a flag by settign it alight was given the options of the police, a one-on-one with a war veteran, or being duct-taped to the pole and have children paraded in front of him as punishment. He chose the duct-taping, providing another incident where shaming instead of incarceration seems to be the punishment of the day. I'm sure those children were deliberately paraded in front of him and were told about what a bad, bad man he was.
New York health workers were apparently split over the new mandatory vaccination decree. Health workers. Said they wanted to choose whether they were vaccinated against flu strains. Anyone else see the problem here?
On scaring the populace into thinking terrorists are everywhere, You know you've lost when even CNS points out that fewer cases or terrorism are going to trial, usually for lack of evidence. Despite that, the DoJ says that their terrorist-spotting skills are as good as ever and several incidents have been prevented, even if people didn't go to trial over them.
In the opinions, Senator Kerry says we need a good strategy before we send more troops to Afghanistan. The right wing will likely be more focused on General McChrystal's admission he's met with the President once since he was given command of the Afghanistan operation, either to declare that the President is stalling or to declare that the President is uninterested in Afghanistan, and thus weak on security, both at home and abroad, and The Pakistani president's declaration that leaving Afghanistan would be a mistake.
At the very end of this, Mr. Stephens says neoconservatism is "back" because Kim Jong-Il, Ahmadinejad, and others never went away, and are now preying upon the Obama Administration's policy and stance toward the world (while also throwing in a cheap attack about the administrations apparent narcissism).
A columnist suggests that a gentle military coup is the right solution to "The Obama Problem", while also ranting about how Obama is going to make the country Marxist and is destroying it at the same time. Nevermind the possible implications of advocating the overthrow of the lawfully elected government, but the langauge used invokes the spectre of "the Jewish Problem" of years past, as well as the racist past of the United States. In other words, stupid, stupid conservative columnist.
Ms. O'Grady still does not understand why the United States continues to oppose the deposing of Mr. Zelaya, a process she considers entirely constitutional, and the U.S.'s continued stance against free elections for President of the country. She thinks it has something to do with courting the leftists of Latin America. The part where the Honduran government probably acted in haste against something that was probably constitutional doesn't figure into it.
Messrs. Fisher and Rosenblum rail against the Too Big To Fail organizations that are blocking monetary policy from doing its job, by sucking up resources that would be better spent on smaller competitors to help them grow and challenge, and by jacking up their interest rates while the Fed was lowering its own. In other words, the things too big to fail need to fail so they can make way for the competition, or at least get transparent enough as to be manageable and more predictable and less tied up in highly complex things.
Ms. Baker lays out her reasoning why she no longer wants to be thought of as African-American, citing African-American-ness is anti-American, because it's all Nation of Islam, Black Power Movement, and other things she doesn't ally herself with, and that her first and foremost allegiance is to YHWH as a Christian. So, instead of making the point she wants to, about how labels should fade away and everyone should be an American, instead of holding to philosophies she finds distateful and divisive, she says, "I am a Christian-American, instead." and defeats the purpose.
Mr. McGurn sees upcoming governors races as the point where it becomes fashionable and good to run against Democrats as "Obama Democrats", like how it was fashionable to run against "Bush Republicans".
The WSJ also complains that the FHA's policies regarding repayment and low down payments are putting them in a bubble-popping, crash and foreclosure-inducing problem, where they won't have enough capital cushion to meet their mandates.
On health care, how funny - the populace seems to be distrustful and doesn't like the health care plan floated out at the moment, perhaps because the Baucus bill is the only one getting any play, and it's the worst of the lor so far. Rasmussen wants to make it seem like the things conservatives are championing are the real causes, of course, for which the Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics department has more than a few counterpointy things ready. The WSJ decries the individual mandate as a tax on the people, whether they get the insurance or pay the penalties, as well as showing their serious distate for the Baucus bill, which, remember, is the only real bill, according to the media narrative, and not any of the other bills in the House, other Senate committees, or proposed by other Congresscritters. At the end of this, Messrs. Leavitt, Hubbard, and Hennessey say the way things are going now, young people will be forced to subsidize the cost of old people, and will thus pay higher premiums for insurance than they have to. Which is, if I recall correctyly, the way insurances work - the healthy pay in as well as the sick, and there's enough money for the sick to receive care and have it paid for, whomever gets sick. With a large enough risk pool, like, say, the entire country, one could probably keep those premiums down to something reasonable for everyone.
Last for tonight, a life-size statue of Tetsujin 28-go is complete, and it looks awesome. Additionally, silhouettes of monsters from the Ultraman series show up on electric transformer boxes, proving that infrastructure can still look pretty.
Oh, yes, and Alan Moore's Marvelman will be printed by Marvel, sparking off yet another discussion about whether Alan Moore is God or The Demon of comics.
Internationally, Iran discloses the bunker-like nature of the new nuclear site, perhaps as a goad or a dare to the West to try and blow it up. On the matter, Mr. Cohen says we've come down to the choice of overthrowing Iran and destroying their nuclear capability, or accepting that Iran will become a nuclear power, with all the implied threats to Israel, Europe, and the U.S. that accomplishes. It's the kind of topsy-turvy world where the WSJ expresses shock and surprise that the French president is more serious about Iran than the American one. What a difference a few years makes. Perhaps we are now at war with Eurasia, after all.
On economics, the head of the World Bank suggested the United States dollar may not continue to be the world's reserve currency, with the Euro and the Chinese Renminbi as possible currencies to take the place of the U.S. Dollar.
Domestically, A reminder that having a spotter who can pull up your weight in case of an emergency is essential.
The Senate Finance Committee continues to be the bastard child in terms of having a public option in its bills, as admendments to introduce such were defeated today in debate and voting. That was with significant factlessness from the Republican faction and the chairman saying "My job is to get a bill that will become law." Wrong, sir. Your job is to produce the very best bill you can, and then convince your colleagues to vote for it.
The State of Pennsylvania ordered the club that told an African-American day camp that minorities weren't welcome to pay a 50,000 USD fine to the state - as well as revealing the names of some of the persons who make comments like "I'm afraid those black kids will do something to my child." One of them was a teacher. On this incident, the General laments how the teacher will have to start showing equality and caring about the black children, instead of being able to retreat to her safe, white bubble. Additionally against the club, when recruiting, the club sent missives and postcards into mostly-white areas and passed over minority-heavy areas entirely. One can guess what some of the reactions are, but comments have been turned off in the article linked to because of those reactions.
A person accused of desecrating a flag by settign it alight was given the options of the police, a one-on-one with a war veteran, or being duct-taped to the pole and have children paraded in front of him as punishment. He chose the duct-taping, providing another incident where shaming instead of incarceration seems to be the punishment of the day. I'm sure those children were deliberately paraded in front of him and were told about what a bad, bad man he was.
New York health workers were apparently split over the new mandatory vaccination decree. Health workers. Said they wanted to choose whether they were vaccinated against flu strains. Anyone else see the problem here?
On scaring the populace into thinking terrorists are everywhere, You know you've lost when even CNS points out that fewer cases or terrorism are going to trial, usually for lack of evidence. Despite that, the DoJ says that their terrorist-spotting skills are as good as ever and several incidents have been prevented, even if people didn't go to trial over them.
In the opinions, Senator Kerry says we need a good strategy before we send more troops to Afghanistan. The right wing will likely be more focused on General McChrystal's admission he's met with the President once since he was given command of the Afghanistan operation, either to declare that the President is stalling or to declare that the President is uninterested in Afghanistan, and thus weak on security, both at home and abroad, and The Pakistani president's declaration that leaving Afghanistan would be a mistake.
At the very end of this, Mr. Stephens says neoconservatism is "back" because Kim Jong-Il, Ahmadinejad, and others never went away, and are now preying upon the Obama Administration's policy and stance toward the world (while also throwing in a cheap attack about the administrations apparent narcissism).
A columnist suggests that a gentle military coup is the right solution to "The Obama Problem", while also ranting about how Obama is going to make the country Marxist and is destroying it at the same time. Nevermind the possible implications of advocating the overthrow of the lawfully elected government, but the langauge used invokes the spectre of "the Jewish Problem" of years past, as well as the racist past of the United States. In other words, stupid, stupid conservative columnist.
Ms. O'Grady still does not understand why the United States continues to oppose the deposing of Mr. Zelaya, a process she considers entirely constitutional, and the U.S.'s continued stance against free elections for President of the country. She thinks it has something to do with courting the leftists of Latin America. The part where the Honduran government probably acted in haste against something that was probably constitutional doesn't figure into it.
Messrs. Fisher and Rosenblum rail against the Too Big To Fail organizations that are blocking monetary policy from doing its job, by sucking up resources that would be better spent on smaller competitors to help them grow and challenge, and by jacking up their interest rates while the Fed was lowering its own. In other words, the things too big to fail need to fail so they can make way for the competition, or at least get transparent enough as to be manageable and more predictable and less tied up in highly complex things.
Ms. Baker lays out her reasoning why she no longer wants to be thought of as African-American, citing African-American-ness is anti-American, because it's all Nation of Islam, Black Power Movement, and other things she doesn't ally herself with, and that her first and foremost allegiance is to YHWH as a Christian. So, instead of making the point she wants to, about how labels should fade away and everyone should be an American, instead of holding to philosophies she finds distateful and divisive, she says, "I am a Christian-American, instead." and defeats the purpose.
Mr. McGurn sees upcoming governors races as the point where it becomes fashionable and good to run against Democrats as "Obama Democrats", like how it was fashionable to run against "Bush Republicans".
The WSJ also complains that the FHA's policies regarding repayment and low down payments are putting them in a bubble-popping, crash and foreclosure-inducing problem, where they won't have enough capital cushion to meet their mandates.
On health care, how funny - the populace seems to be distrustful and doesn't like the health care plan floated out at the moment, perhaps because the Baucus bill is the only one getting any play, and it's the worst of the lor so far. Rasmussen wants to make it seem like the things conservatives are championing are the real causes, of course, for which the Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics department has more than a few counterpointy things ready. The WSJ decries the individual mandate as a tax on the people, whether they get the insurance or pay the penalties, as well as showing their serious distate for the Baucus bill, which, remember, is the only real bill, according to the media narrative, and not any of the other bills in the House, other Senate committees, or proposed by other Congresscritters. At the end of this, Messrs. Leavitt, Hubbard, and Hennessey say the way things are going now, young people will be forced to subsidize the cost of old people, and will thus pay higher premiums for insurance than they have to. Which is, if I recall correctyly, the way insurances work - the healthy pay in as well as the sick, and there's enough money for the sick to receive care and have it paid for, whomever gets sick. With a large enough risk pool, like, say, the entire country, one could probably keep those premiums down to something reasonable for everyone.
Last for tonight, a life-size statue of Tetsujin 28-go is complete, and it looks awesome. Additionally, silhouettes of monsters from the Ultraman series show up on electric transformer boxes, proving that infrastructure can still look pretty.
Oh, yes, and Alan Moore's Marvelman will be printed by Marvel, sparking off yet another discussion about whether Alan Moore is God or The Demon of comics.
