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It is now the day after an election. Did you all vote? There were some very important questions on your ballot.
A company interested in building hotels...in...spaaaaaace says they're still on schedule for a 2012 opening.
Saudia Arabia upholds a sentence of beheading and crucifixion for a man who raped children and left one out in the desert to die. No argument for punishment for such a crime, but the question continues to be whether the death penalty is a useful and/or necessary thing to have.
The Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Department would like a word with the studdy authors claiming there is still a strong distrust of America from Canada, considering the way the numbers shake out and the questions asked. Asking whether you think America is doing good in the world is not a question of trust, it's a question of results. To illustrate, a poll that suggests a lot of people would like to permanently relocate to other countries, usually from places perceived as poor to places perceived as rich, like the United States. Ask a different question, get a different result.
Nroth Korea claims to have added to its nuclear arsenal by weaponizing plutonium. This comes as a push to try for some one-on-one talks between North Korea and the United States.
In your war department, questions on how reliable the M-16 and the associated ammunition are, which is easy to digest, and Mr. Greenwald on the Second Circuit's decision to uphold the idea that government oepratives can break even the Constitutino for purposes of national security, and no preson should be able to bring suit or charge against them, so long as they make that claim. Someone smack the Second Circuit with a cluebat - the judiciary is supposed to try these kinds of cases and make rulings about whether government actions are legal.
A Marine Commandant expresses his support of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on the grounds that openly gay people would be disruptive. More on the plight of homosexuals... right below.
In results now currently available, it appears Maine voters rejected the legalization of homosexual marriage in their state by approximately 53 percent of the voters to 47 percent, which makes for another tough slog on the ground for the country founded on "all men are created equal" to actually make it there. Washington State continues to be within the margins of error, but current results indicate that R-71, the "all but marriage" referendum, will be approved, giving registered domestic partnerships all of the rights and responsibilities of heterosexual marriage, just without the name. Pointing out what should be pretty apparent, Melissa McEwan notes that when you ask the majority whether minorities should have the same rights as them, they tend to say no, and that the legislature and the courts are there to give those people a solid cluebatting that their biases should not be written into the law, especially where those biases conflict with the higher ideals of the country.
An Illinois teacher was suspended from his school for allowing his students to read that the animal kingdom does have examples of homosexual relationships. The article itself was apparently one option in several on spotting bias in writers for an AP English course, so it's not like there weren't other things that could be done. The General says the matter should be reversed, as it was clearly an easy way of teaching people to read critically.
In the race in New York Congressional District 23, the Republican who quit endorsed the Democrat, not the Conservative, and it appears the Democrat won the seat.
A new study concludes that if you carry a gun with you, you're more likely to be shot during an assault. Um, yeah. That seems pretty obvious.
And in the economy, Goldman Sachs was betting on the housing market crashing...and neglected to tell anyone it was doing so, which could be a violation of securities laws. For those who think the current administration cares not about defecits, they're aware that things are getting big, and they do want to do work to bring them down. Which could be a matter of wishes and gestures to those who believe they'll just keep spending, even with these gestures. And then there are the proposals that would leave the too big to fails to get bigger and even harder to fail, instead of trustbusting their butts back to a reasonable, not going to cause collapse if they go down size.
And while all this whirls around our heads, people still have to deal with foreclosures and the labyrinth of paperwork that trying to stave it off consumes.
A McDonald's worker called police to cite teenagers who rapped their order at the drive through for disorderly conduct. The teenagers allege they repeated their order more slowly when the worker accused them of holding up the line. That's bush leagues compared to the columnist who said we shouldn't celebrate as much the victory of an American in the NYC Marathon because he wasn't born in America. Perhaps, instead, he should go cover the gentleman who walked a marathon in laps around his block instead.
There is one good thing, though - the judge who refused to marry interracial couples in Louisiana has resigned his position.
In the opinions, the comment squad crows at the decision of a Planned Parenthood chief to follow her conscience and quit the organization after she decided the group was focusing too much on abortions. In Texas, we note, where the pressure of the antiabortion movement is fairly constant and fairly strong. Good for her for resigning her position instead of trying to hold on to it while not really believing in the organization.
A new game that you hop eyou never have to play - Gender Bias Bingo!, where we lay out all the things that work against women in the workplace (and one against men who step outside their traditional gender roles to be a stay-at-home father).
In Iowa, and around the country, there is disillusionment with President Obama, as the person they thought they elected turns out to be someone else. For some, this means an opportunity to attack the President while continuing to hammer Congress, for others, a chance to taunt the grassroots that turned out in force to elect him.
For those more nakedly opposed to the President, they'll focus on why they feel it's such a snub for the President to not attend an anniversary of the Berlin Wall's falling down and try to put it as more proof the President doesn't believe in the jingoistic rah-rah of Fredom and America: Fuck Yeah!
On the other side of the spectrum, Bay Buchanan says the Republican label is becoming irrelevant, and the GOP should tack both to becoming more ideologically pure and finding candidates who appeal to independents and conservative Democrats, while painting all their opponents with the "Obama brush" as being spend-and-spend fringe left liberals. Sounds like she wants to shed the moderates and become pure, while mysteriously being able to find candidates that do not appeal strictly to the fringe. Good luck on that. After all, even Markos himself will tell you that the way to get the base out to vote is to appeal to them, instead of trying to appeal to both the base and the people who don't like you. On that front, the National Republican Senate Committee took their ball and went home, declaring they would not spend money on primary elections, which could mean the fringe elements could make life difficult for other Republican candidates.
The Washington Examiner says that the White House is inflating their jobs created or saved numbers to look good, a trick the Examiner says they learned from unions, who also make nonexistent positions so they can fill their coffers with money.
On health care, the Republican radio address went back to the familiar well - inter-state competition, tort reform, access to large pools for small businesses, and let states do what thy can to make things better. Which will supposedly fix all the problems, because insurance companies, exempted from trust laws, will clearly compete with each other to drive prices down and services up with just those things. Mr. Sowell certainly thinks all we really need is tort reform and to stop practicing defensive medicine, and all will fix itself. Mr. Hunt goes for a better-seeming argument, that we could just get the 14 million too poor to be insured insured at the cost of half of what the House bill is, and that what the bill does is morally wrong as well as poor stewardship (because of abortions. Always abortions), so it should be opposed. He does assume, of course, that our current programs for the elderly and the young are sufficiently funded and effective for the first part. It does sound, though, like he wanted to write a column about how abortion is wrong and government options that would cover abortions are wrong, but wanted to cover it with something else.
Down near the bottom of the barrel, the AFA's director of issues is distraught that the Girl Scouts can't find a place to meet because there are too many sex offenders around, and so he suggests something more permanent be done to them. Because underage sex and public urination clearly require the same sorts of punishments as rape.
Last out, Columnist Dan Savage on why sexy costumes (for adults) for Halloween is a good thing. And then the decisions for parents when their children want to do things outside the gender stereotype - do you let him and possibly expose him to mockery, or do you tell him not to because of that fear? Luckily, this parent recognizes her child had made up his mind, and she decided to go with it.
In technology, an opinion suggesting the doomsday scenarios of corporate-contolled and blocked Internet will never come to pass, so we need no net neutrality laws or regulations, some rather doomsday scenarios about a secret treaty being negotiated that would remake the Internet into a media cabal's wet dream, kicking off alleged file-sharers, requiring stuff be taken down if copyright violation is alleged against it without proof, and forcing ISPs to actively police the content on their sites for potential copyright violations, research indicating culture, rather than genes, is a better predictor and indicator of altriusm, and a reminder that Bill Gates has been anticompetitive for a very long time now.
Last for tonight, foul moods make for clearer thinking and attention, giving up hope on your chronic condition might make you happier, and good moods are great for creativity. So we need both. Otherwise, we'll never come up with Pie Pops.
Oh, okay, one last thing. Carrie Prejean, according to TMZ, will not be continuing to sue the Miss California Pageant after their lawyer showed a homemade sex tape of Miss Prejean. I'm betting somewhere around here, the torrents already have it, and have been distributing it for months. Those wishing to confirm this for themselves, good luck.
A company interested in building hotels...in...spaaaaaace says they're still on schedule for a 2012 opening.
Saudia Arabia upholds a sentence of beheading and crucifixion for a man who raped children and left one out in the desert to die. No argument for punishment for such a crime, but the question continues to be whether the death penalty is a useful and/or necessary thing to have.
The Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Department would like a word with the studdy authors claiming there is still a strong distrust of America from Canada, considering the way the numbers shake out and the questions asked. Asking whether you think America is doing good in the world is not a question of trust, it's a question of results. To illustrate, a poll that suggests a lot of people would like to permanently relocate to other countries, usually from places perceived as poor to places perceived as rich, like the United States. Ask a different question, get a different result.
Nroth Korea claims to have added to its nuclear arsenal by weaponizing plutonium. This comes as a push to try for some one-on-one talks between North Korea and the United States.
In your war department, questions on how reliable the M-16 and the associated ammunition are, which is easy to digest, and Mr. Greenwald on the Second Circuit's decision to uphold the idea that government oepratives can break even the Constitutino for purposes of national security, and no preson should be able to bring suit or charge against them, so long as they make that claim. Someone smack the Second Circuit with a cluebat - the judiciary is supposed to try these kinds of cases and make rulings about whether government actions are legal.
A Marine Commandant expresses his support of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on the grounds that openly gay people would be disruptive. More on the plight of homosexuals... right below.
In results now currently available, it appears Maine voters rejected the legalization of homosexual marriage in their state by approximately 53 percent of the voters to 47 percent, which makes for another tough slog on the ground for the country founded on "all men are created equal" to actually make it there. Washington State continues to be within the margins of error, but current results indicate that R-71, the "all but marriage" referendum, will be approved, giving registered domestic partnerships all of the rights and responsibilities of heterosexual marriage, just without the name. Pointing out what should be pretty apparent, Melissa McEwan notes that when you ask the majority whether minorities should have the same rights as them, they tend to say no, and that the legislature and the courts are there to give those people a solid cluebatting that their biases should not be written into the law, especially where those biases conflict with the higher ideals of the country.
An Illinois teacher was suspended from his school for allowing his students to read that the animal kingdom does have examples of homosexual relationships. The article itself was apparently one option in several on spotting bias in writers for an AP English course, so it's not like there weren't other things that could be done. The General says the matter should be reversed, as it was clearly an easy way of teaching people to read critically.
In the race in New York Congressional District 23, the Republican who quit endorsed the Democrat, not the Conservative, and it appears the Democrat won the seat.
A new study concludes that if you carry a gun with you, you're more likely to be shot during an assault. Um, yeah. That seems pretty obvious.
And in the economy, Goldman Sachs was betting on the housing market crashing...and neglected to tell anyone it was doing so, which could be a violation of securities laws. For those who think the current administration cares not about defecits, they're aware that things are getting big, and they do want to do work to bring them down. Which could be a matter of wishes and gestures to those who believe they'll just keep spending, even with these gestures. And then there are the proposals that would leave the too big to fails to get bigger and even harder to fail, instead of trustbusting their butts back to a reasonable, not going to cause collapse if they go down size.
And while all this whirls around our heads, people still have to deal with foreclosures and the labyrinth of paperwork that trying to stave it off consumes.
A McDonald's worker called police to cite teenagers who rapped their order at the drive through for disorderly conduct. The teenagers allege they repeated their order more slowly when the worker accused them of holding up the line. That's bush leagues compared to the columnist who said we shouldn't celebrate as much the victory of an American in the NYC Marathon because he wasn't born in America. Perhaps, instead, he should go cover the gentleman who walked a marathon in laps around his block instead.
There is one good thing, though - the judge who refused to marry interracial couples in Louisiana has resigned his position.
In the opinions, the comment squad crows at the decision of a Planned Parenthood chief to follow her conscience and quit the organization after she decided the group was focusing too much on abortions. In Texas, we note, where the pressure of the antiabortion movement is fairly constant and fairly strong. Good for her for resigning her position instead of trying to hold on to it while not really believing in the organization.
A new game that you hop eyou never have to play - Gender Bias Bingo!, where we lay out all the things that work against women in the workplace (and one against men who step outside their traditional gender roles to be a stay-at-home father).
In Iowa, and around the country, there is disillusionment with President Obama, as the person they thought they elected turns out to be someone else. For some, this means an opportunity to attack the President while continuing to hammer Congress, for others, a chance to taunt the grassroots that turned out in force to elect him.
For those more nakedly opposed to the President, they'll focus on why they feel it's such a snub for the President to not attend an anniversary of the Berlin Wall's falling down and try to put it as more proof the President doesn't believe in the jingoistic rah-rah of Fredom and America: Fuck Yeah!
On the other side of the spectrum, Bay Buchanan says the Republican label is becoming irrelevant, and the GOP should tack both to becoming more ideologically pure and finding candidates who appeal to independents and conservative Democrats, while painting all their opponents with the "Obama brush" as being spend-and-spend fringe left liberals. Sounds like she wants to shed the moderates and become pure, while mysteriously being able to find candidates that do not appeal strictly to the fringe. Good luck on that. After all, even Markos himself will tell you that the way to get the base out to vote is to appeal to them, instead of trying to appeal to both the base and the people who don't like you. On that front, the National Republican Senate Committee took their ball and went home, declaring they would not spend money on primary elections, which could mean the fringe elements could make life difficult for other Republican candidates.
The Washington Examiner says that the White House is inflating their jobs created or saved numbers to look good, a trick the Examiner says they learned from unions, who also make nonexistent positions so they can fill their coffers with money.
On health care, the Republican radio address went back to the familiar well - inter-state competition, tort reform, access to large pools for small businesses, and let states do what thy can to make things better. Which will supposedly fix all the problems, because insurance companies, exempted from trust laws, will clearly compete with each other to drive prices down and services up with just those things. Mr. Sowell certainly thinks all we really need is tort reform and to stop practicing defensive medicine, and all will fix itself. Mr. Hunt goes for a better-seeming argument, that we could just get the 14 million too poor to be insured insured at the cost of half of what the House bill is, and that what the bill does is morally wrong as well as poor stewardship (because of abortions. Always abortions), so it should be opposed. He does assume, of course, that our current programs for the elderly and the young are sufficiently funded and effective for the first part. It does sound, though, like he wanted to write a column about how abortion is wrong and government options that would cover abortions are wrong, but wanted to cover it with something else.
Down near the bottom of the barrel, the AFA's director of issues is distraught that the Girl Scouts can't find a place to meet because there are too many sex offenders around, and so he suggests something more permanent be done to them. Because underage sex and public urination clearly require the same sorts of punishments as rape.
Last out, Columnist Dan Savage on why sexy costumes (for adults) for Halloween is a good thing. And then the decisions for parents when their children want to do things outside the gender stereotype - do you let him and possibly expose him to mockery, or do you tell him not to because of that fear? Luckily, this parent recognizes her child had made up his mind, and she decided to go with it.
In technology, an opinion suggesting the doomsday scenarios of corporate-contolled and blocked Internet will never come to pass, so we need no net neutrality laws or regulations, some rather doomsday scenarios about a secret treaty being negotiated that would remake the Internet into a media cabal's wet dream, kicking off alleged file-sharers, requiring stuff be taken down if copyright violation is alleged against it without proof, and forcing ISPs to actively police the content on their sites for potential copyright violations, research indicating culture, rather than genes, is a better predictor and indicator of altriusm, and a reminder that Bill Gates has been anticompetitive for a very long time now.
Last for tonight, foul moods make for clearer thinking and attention, giving up hope on your chronic condition might make you happier, and good moods are great for creativity. So we need both. Otherwise, we'll never come up with Pie Pops.
Oh, okay, one last thing. Carrie Prejean, according to TMZ, will not be continuing to sue the Miss California Pageant after their lawyer showed a homemade sex tape of Miss Prejean. I'm betting somewhere around here, the torrents already have it, and have been distributing it for months. Those wishing to confirm this for themselves, good luck.
