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A little weekend stuff - 4 October 2009
Oct. 6th, 2009 09:56 amSince it's October, and I just watched the Clone Wars movie (is that before or after the series?), so we get to see Toddler-size Princess Leia costumes.
It's also October, which means we get to dust off the vampire hunting kits and bring them out for display.
Before the depressing news, an oncologist shares how to spot good husbands - they'll hold their wife's purse in the cancer clinic.
Object lesson in clueless person who doesn't understand libraries at all - Meet Constantine Xinos, who is quite happy that Oak Brook fired all the public librarians. Prime quotes, extended, after an 11 year-old had taken the podium to try and push to keep and fund the library:
And the possibility of the Teamsters certifying the workers? "Xinos says he speaks for Oak Brook's view of the Teamsters when he says, 'Nobody here likes those kind of people.'"
Well, nobody here likes you, either. Suggest you get a clue, perhaps by taking some time outside your gated community, somewhere that's not nearly as full of rich folk. Go spend some time at the public library somewhere else and see just how useful it is to the community. Or, have someone remind you of your position on libraries when you complain about how expensive thigns are, like books or CDs or DVDs or the like. Repeatedly.
In the world, on his trip to Copenhagen to lobby for the Olympics, President Obama met and conferred with General McChrystal on the Afgthanistan issue. Not too soon after, Militants attacked an outpost and killed 8 United States soldiers.
Because of recent religion-motivated attacks and slightly more extreme government, Christians feel increasingly insecure in mostly-Muslim Pakistan.
ICANN will become more world-based and less United States-based, ending much of the United States dominance over the Intarwebs. Of course, this means some will shot "Anarchy! Censorship! No control!" because it's no longer strictly under United States control.
Rio de Janerio is selected for the 2016 Olympic Games, with the American city, Chicago, eliminated in the first round of balloting. This is much to the delight of the right wing, with the WSJ trying to kep their squee to an acceptable area, rather than the more general glee exploded out by Boss Limbaugh and Lonesome Rhodes Beck.
Domestically, how's that recovery, again? 263,000 more jobs lost in September. The WSJ is quick to blame things - the minimum wage hike is blamed for the lack of young people being employed, for example.
The Senate Finance Committee is nearing pasing out a complete bill to the floor. Still without a public option, but then it goes to the floor where all things are possible.
In the opinions, Mr. Wolff explains what's wrong with Mr. Murdoch's strategy on the web - making people pay and not keeping up with the trends.
Mr. Cline notes the dangers of the Newsmax column talking about a coup, and how worrying it is that we might soon hear this talk going on openly without apology or takedown.
Mr. Morris and Ms. McGann sing the praises of Medicare Advantage and say that Mr. Obama plans to cut it because the AARP wants more money and because Mr. Obama, of course, hates private programs that work. Mr. Fund believes the Senate Finance Committee is in favor of insurance fraud and waste, because they rejected an amendment to require immigrants to show identification to get medical benefits. The bill itself, as I recall, still says that no illegal immigrants would get coverage. So adding on explicit amendments is a bit of overkill, innit?
Mr. Ingrassia complains that unions killed Saturn, because the unions fought all the great reforms Saturn did in being as non-union as possible.
Bill'O says that President Obama is under siege from the left, and that if he does actually listen to them, not only does the country suffer, so does his re-election chances. Mr. O is thankful, however, that there aren't really a lot of people who want "radical leftist" change, so if the President decides to throw the left under the bus, it won't be a problem.
And last out for tonight, the things the American media wants you to belive are true about Iran, but aren't. It's all part of engendering the great culture of fear that makes it possible for the government to take over and do what they want with you.
Science and technology says ."d00d! We dug up Nero's dining room!", a gigantic hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, that ziggurats were musical instruments to a rain god, and "d00d! We Found Stonehenge's little sister".
And the end of all this, WTF changes name to TFW to avoid WTF jokes. Perhaps they should also build some DIY LED incapacitators for anyone who tries to make the WTF joke. It would certainly be more effective than providing brassiers that double as gas masks.
It's also October, which means we get to dust off the vampire hunting kits and bring them out for display.
Before the depressing news, an oncologist shares how to spot good husbands - they'll hold their wife's purse in the cancer clinic.
Object lesson in clueless person who doesn't understand libraries at all - Meet Constantine Xinos, who is quite happy that Oak Brook fired all the public librarians. Prime quotes, extended, after an 11 year-old had taken the podium to try and push to keep and fund the library:
"Don't cry crocodile tears about people who are making $100,000 a year wiping tables and putting the books back on the shelves," Xinos smirked, apparently referencing the fired head librarian, who has advanced degrees and made $98,676 a year. He said Oak Brook had to "stop indulging people in their hobbies" and "their little, personal, private wants." Xinos also said that the people should stop "whining" about the missing services. He has no remorse for his position, either. "I wanted that kid to lose sleep that night," a grinning Xinos says Wednesday, as he invites me for a nearly two-hour interview in his Mercedes-Benz in the gated Oak Brook community where he lives. "This is the real world and the lesson, you folks who brought your kids here, is if you want something, pay for it."..."I understand that my philosophy is conservative," Xinos says, adding that government just needs to catch bad guys, put out fires, fix the streets and make sure buildings are sturdy. He campaigned, successfully, against a plan to bring subsidized housing for seniors into town by declaring, "I don't want to live next to poor people. I don't want poor people in my town." Xinos, who says he never had children in part because he wasn't sure he'd be able to support them, sprinkles the F-word throughout his conversations. He dismisses a recent library event involving dogs with a blunt three-word rant in which he bookends swear words around the word "that.".
And the possibility of the Teamsters certifying the workers? "Xinos says he speaks for Oak Brook's view of the Teamsters when he says, 'Nobody here likes those kind of people.'"
Well, nobody here likes you, either. Suggest you get a clue, perhaps by taking some time outside your gated community, somewhere that's not nearly as full of rich folk. Go spend some time at the public library somewhere else and see just how useful it is to the community. Or, have someone remind you of your position on libraries when you complain about how expensive thigns are, like books or CDs or DVDs or the like. Repeatedly.
In the world, on his trip to Copenhagen to lobby for the Olympics, President Obama met and conferred with General McChrystal on the Afgthanistan issue. Not too soon after, Militants attacked an outpost and killed 8 United States soldiers.
Because of recent religion-motivated attacks and slightly more extreme government, Christians feel increasingly insecure in mostly-Muslim Pakistan.
ICANN will become more world-based and less United States-based, ending much of the United States dominance over the Intarwebs. Of course, this means some will shot "Anarchy! Censorship! No control!" because it's no longer strictly under United States control.
Rio de Janerio is selected for the 2016 Olympic Games, with the American city, Chicago, eliminated in the first round of balloting. This is much to the delight of the right wing, with the WSJ trying to kep their squee to an acceptable area, rather than the more general glee exploded out by Boss Limbaugh and Lonesome Rhodes Beck.
Domestically, how's that recovery, again? 263,000 more jobs lost in September. The WSJ is quick to blame things - the minimum wage hike is blamed for the lack of young people being employed, for example.
The Senate Finance Committee is nearing pasing out a complete bill to the floor. Still without a public option, but then it goes to the floor where all things are possible.
In the opinions, Mr. Wolff explains what's wrong with Mr. Murdoch's strategy on the web - making people pay and not keeping up with the trends.
Mr. Cline notes the dangers of the Newsmax column talking about a coup, and how worrying it is that we might soon hear this talk going on openly without apology or takedown.
Mr. Morris and Ms. McGann sing the praises of Medicare Advantage and say that Mr. Obama plans to cut it because the AARP wants more money and because Mr. Obama, of course, hates private programs that work. Mr. Fund believes the Senate Finance Committee is in favor of insurance fraud and waste, because they rejected an amendment to require immigrants to show identification to get medical benefits. The bill itself, as I recall, still says that no illegal immigrants would get coverage. So adding on explicit amendments is a bit of overkill, innit?
Mr. Ingrassia complains that unions killed Saturn, because the unions fought all the great reforms Saturn did in being as non-union as possible.
Bill'O says that President Obama is under siege from the left, and that if he does actually listen to them, not only does the country suffer, so does his re-election chances. Mr. O is thankful, however, that there aren't really a lot of people who want "radical leftist" change, so if the President decides to throw the left under the bus, it won't be a problem.
And last out for tonight, the things the American media wants you to belive are true about Iran, but aren't. It's all part of engendering the great culture of fear that makes it possible for the government to take over and do what they want with you.
Science and technology says ."d00d! We dug up Nero's dining room!", a gigantic hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold, that ziggurats were musical instruments to a rain god, and "d00d! We Found Stonehenge's little sister".
And the end of all this, WTF changes name to TFW to avoid WTF jokes. Perhaps they should also build some DIY LED incapacitators for anyone who tries to make the WTF joke. It would certainly be more effective than providing brassiers that double as gas masks.
