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The future is upon us, citizens! Thus, we lead with preliminary results from the missile we sent into the moon indicating there is water on Luna. The past still haunts us, though, and thus occasionally, men will have to fight off mountain lions with chainsaws and unnoticed pigeons will cause drivers to put their very expensive cars into corrosive bodies of water.
It is still far too early to be running one’s VEWPRF specials, in print or otherwise, but you can take a gander at how the Nazi Party attempted to secularize Christmas to their own ends and failed, which, if I listen rightly, could somehow find its way to a Fox News segment somewhere about the purported War on Christmas. Recall, after all, that there are some who will see Coraline as a metaphor for liberals, showing their twisted, dark, abortion-and-homosexual-marriage-supporting evil selves.
Elsewhere in existence, a higher-up in the IKEA ranks has written a book alleging the otherwise normal company uses secret tactics, has racist leadership, and pays off activist groups that would otherwise hammer them for various violations...in short, IKEA would be like other multinational corporations, instead of somehow seeming squeakier than them. And if one looks further into the company, one sees a foundation that owns the company, but that doesn't say what it does with the money generated by the company.
Domestically speaking, did you know the RNC covered abortions on insurance since 1991? They're stopping now, of course, to be visibly aligned with their principles, but they used to cover it. And furthermore on conservatives embarrassed, apparently there are more than a few nude photos and recordings of Ms. Prejean, which, if one wanted to believe it, might be seen as the universe indicating what, precisely, it thinks of hypocrites and those who pray on street corners. (Or, the universe expresses its support for homosexual marriage by making a visible critic of such suffer in several sexual ways.)
A billboard expressing a positive message for atheism will be moved after the persons living next to the board received threats of violence and death against them, despite the billboard being on land they do not own. Yet a lot of this country sill doesn’t believe in such a thing as Christian violence like they believe in Islamic terrorism. Wonder what they think of thirteen murder charges brought against the fort Hood shooter, with nary a terrorism charge in sight? Or that Charles Manson still holds great influence, despite his advanced years?
If econonmics and the recession is your interest, you might get lots of life looking at how the jobless rate changes for you depending on your demographic data. If you’re white, your numbers are better. If you’re old, your numbers are better. If you’ve got at least a high school degree, your numbers are significantly better. The highest unemployment rate is black men between 15 and 24 without a high school degree, at 48.5%. There’s your stay in school message. White men aged 25-44 with a college degree are 3.4% unemployed, which could say something about the privileges involved.
And now, for the big thing playing across the airwaves - five suspects in the 11 september attacks will be brought to a federal civilian court in New York to stand trial, instead of going through the secret military comissions panels. Five others will be going to the panels instead of to trials, thoguh, so in one hand, they giveth, in the other, they taketh away. The opposition is already vocally saying that civilian courts are inappropriate, mostly based on the possibility that the accused may be acquitted or otherwise not receive a guilty verdict, based on the procedures done so far to elicit confessions and other evidence.
A former Congressman convicted of taking bribes has been sentenced to thirteen years in jail for his corruption.
In opinions, after spending some time quiet and letting the new administrator do his job, the previous administrator has spoken out against the current administration's policies. I think what was novel about the matter is that the previous administrator waited as long as he did before lodging his critique. The previous administrator does not mention the current administrator by name, but makes it unmistakable as to whom he is talking about.
Mr. Rove, a member of the previous administration, warns of the dangers of making the midterm elections a referendum on the current administration, because he believes such a strategy would backfire for the Democrats, as the increasingly unhappy populace votes them out for not achieving the goals they promised.
Ms. Palin takes her and her book to the airwaves and tours, confirming that she and the McCain campaign did not get along, and that she felt they were stifling her and not letting her play to her full potential. One wonders what that might be, but one also might see it in action if in two years or so, we see Ms. Palin run to be the nominee of the Republican Party (or as a Conservative/Tea Party alternative). Ms. Palin has venom for Ms. Couric and the interview that probably sealed her fate as the ditzy, unprepared candidate image that she couldn’t shake and that Tina Fey captured pretty well.
On health care, Mr. Towery says all the polls are wrong and the public doesn't support the public option, if by “public option” you mean “government controls all of health care”, the meaning conservatives use, instead of “a government-backed option that people can choose instead of private insurance”, which is usually what the pollers ask about to get their favorable ratings. The people do want the public option, it’s just that there are other elements trying to confuse them about what the public option actually entails. Mr. Towery also implies that health care is separate from the economy and the fascination with it is detrimental to said economic recovery. (Uh, not with health care spending being almost one-fifth of GDP, it ain’t.)
Ms. Strassel suggests that Mr. Burris, the replacement appointed for the current administrator's Senate seat, will use his power in the Senate caucus to drive the health care bill leftward, against the forces wanting to pull it to the right.
For an alternative to th eindividual-government binary debate that people erroneously get into, the Slacktivist provides a more nuanced model where there are intermediate levels of support to individuals, and that good government is where those higher-order organizations provide support to the lower-level ones, and then, if needed, step in when the lower-level organizations fail.
We haven’t had a Worst Persons Derby in a while, but I think we've got the stuff for it on this series. Thus, the bronze to Mr. Thomas, who is very tired of diversity, which apparently coddles and accomodates Muslims to the hilt but tells Christians not to show their religious beliefs, lest they be branded as fundamentalists or offensive to everyone else here. This is also in the context of the Fort Hood shooting, and Mr. Thomas impugns that all Muslims follow Sharia all the way to its violent end, if they get the chance to do so. Mr. Thomas might appreciate diversity and the greatness of its practice if he spent some time in a country where he was a minority, and many of the protections that minoirites enjoy here were denied him. As for his (and several others’) contention that Islam is a bloodthirsty religion bent on world domination, I suggest that when he comes to terms with Christianity’s similar aims and history, he can then be allowed to complain about someone else. It is a rather large speck-plank problem, and there was a teaching on how to deal with those.
At the silver level, the aforementioned story teller who thinks that Coraline is a tale of liberals, who have no values and no light in their life and can consequently only tell stories about evil beings meant to scare children. Reading much into that, are we?
Our winner tonight, however, is Mr. Hyman, not for voicing the idea that Barack Obama Hates America, but for his justifications thereof, which read like a list of objections the jingoist has to someone who doesn't believe as firmly as they do that they're right, their friends are right, and everyone else should jump at the chance to be like them, as well as several sections of reading exactly what you want to see into something (the President at Dover Air Force Base was a clear photo-op attempt! Excepting the families decide whether or not to have pictures, and I suspect they decide that before they know who else may be in attendance.)
Last out of the opinions, ddjango says most of what you will find in these "news" roundups is a distraction from the rape and pillaging of the American populace by corporations and the politicians they've bought to retool the country into giving them all the profits and no responsibilities.
In technology, printable electronics possibly one step closer? Also, biodegradeable transistors, cheap devices to take rehabilitation exercises home and continue on, and YouTube in 1080p HD.
Last out for tonight, the usage of a nondefined sound is apparently grounds for paranoia, banning, and disciplinary measures to those students that meep in class. Mee-mee-mememem-me-meep! Meep, by the way, has many versatile definitions. That makes the robocall that told all of a student body they were failing, even though it was only intended to go to those who actually were, tame by comparison.
It is still far too early to be running one’s VEWPRF specials, in print or otherwise, but you can take a gander at how the Nazi Party attempted to secularize Christmas to their own ends and failed, which, if I listen rightly, could somehow find its way to a Fox News segment somewhere about the purported War on Christmas. Recall, after all, that there are some who will see Coraline as a metaphor for liberals, showing their twisted, dark, abortion-and-homosexual-marriage-supporting evil selves.
Elsewhere in existence, a higher-up in the IKEA ranks has written a book alleging the otherwise normal company uses secret tactics, has racist leadership, and pays off activist groups that would otherwise hammer them for various violations...in short, IKEA would be like other multinational corporations, instead of somehow seeming squeakier than them. And if one looks further into the company, one sees a foundation that owns the company, but that doesn't say what it does with the money generated by the company.
Domestically speaking, did you know the RNC covered abortions on insurance since 1991? They're stopping now, of course, to be visibly aligned with their principles, but they used to cover it. And furthermore on conservatives embarrassed, apparently there are more than a few nude photos and recordings of Ms. Prejean, which, if one wanted to believe it, might be seen as the universe indicating what, precisely, it thinks of hypocrites and those who pray on street corners. (Or, the universe expresses its support for homosexual marriage by making a visible critic of such suffer in several sexual ways.)
A billboard expressing a positive message for atheism will be moved after the persons living next to the board received threats of violence and death against them, despite the billboard being on land they do not own. Yet a lot of this country sill doesn’t believe in such a thing as Christian violence like they believe in Islamic terrorism. Wonder what they think of thirteen murder charges brought against the fort Hood shooter, with nary a terrorism charge in sight? Or that Charles Manson still holds great influence, despite his advanced years?
If econonmics and the recession is your interest, you might get lots of life looking at how the jobless rate changes for you depending on your demographic data. If you’re white, your numbers are better. If you’re old, your numbers are better. If you’ve got at least a high school degree, your numbers are significantly better. The highest unemployment rate is black men between 15 and 24 without a high school degree, at 48.5%. There’s your stay in school message. White men aged 25-44 with a college degree are 3.4% unemployed, which could say something about the privileges involved.
And now, for the big thing playing across the airwaves - five suspects in the 11 september attacks will be brought to a federal civilian court in New York to stand trial, instead of going through the secret military comissions panels. Five others will be going to the panels instead of to trials, thoguh, so in one hand, they giveth, in the other, they taketh away. The opposition is already vocally saying that civilian courts are inappropriate, mostly based on the possibility that the accused may be acquitted or otherwise not receive a guilty verdict, based on the procedures done so far to elicit confessions and other evidence.
A former Congressman convicted of taking bribes has been sentenced to thirteen years in jail for his corruption.
In opinions, after spending some time quiet and letting the new administrator do his job, the previous administrator has spoken out against the current administration's policies. I think what was novel about the matter is that the previous administrator waited as long as he did before lodging his critique. The previous administrator does not mention the current administrator by name, but makes it unmistakable as to whom he is talking about.
Mr. Rove, a member of the previous administration, warns of the dangers of making the midterm elections a referendum on the current administration, because he believes such a strategy would backfire for the Democrats, as the increasingly unhappy populace votes them out for not achieving the goals they promised.
Ms. Palin takes her and her book to the airwaves and tours, confirming that she and the McCain campaign did not get along, and that she felt they were stifling her and not letting her play to her full potential. One wonders what that might be, but one also might see it in action if in two years or so, we see Ms. Palin run to be the nominee of the Republican Party (or as a Conservative/Tea Party alternative). Ms. Palin has venom for Ms. Couric and the interview that probably sealed her fate as the ditzy, unprepared candidate image that she couldn’t shake and that Tina Fey captured pretty well.
On health care, Mr. Towery says all the polls are wrong and the public doesn't support the public option, if by “public option” you mean “government controls all of health care”, the meaning conservatives use, instead of “a government-backed option that people can choose instead of private insurance”, which is usually what the pollers ask about to get their favorable ratings. The people do want the public option, it’s just that there are other elements trying to confuse them about what the public option actually entails. Mr. Towery also implies that health care is separate from the economy and the fascination with it is detrimental to said economic recovery. (Uh, not with health care spending being almost one-fifth of GDP, it ain’t.)
Ms. Strassel suggests that Mr. Burris, the replacement appointed for the current administrator's Senate seat, will use his power in the Senate caucus to drive the health care bill leftward, against the forces wanting to pull it to the right.
For an alternative to th eindividual-government binary debate that people erroneously get into, the Slacktivist provides a more nuanced model where there are intermediate levels of support to individuals, and that good government is where those higher-order organizations provide support to the lower-level ones, and then, if needed, step in when the lower-level organizations fail.
We haven’t had a Worst Persons Derby in a while, but I think we've got the stuff for it on this series. Thus, the bronze to Mr. Thomas, who is very tired of diversity, which apparently coddles and accomodates Muslims to the hilt but tells Christians not to show their religious beliefs, lest they be branded as fundamentalists or offensive to everyone else here. This is also in the context of the Fort Hood shooting, and Mr. Thomas impugns that all Muslims follow Sharia all the way to its violent end, if they get the chance to do so. Mr. Thomas might appreciate diversity and the greatness of its practice if he spent some time in a country where he was a minority, and many of the protections that minoirites enjoy here were denied him. As for his (and several others’) contention that Islam is a bloodthirsty religion bent on world domination, I suggest that when he comes to terms with Christianity’s similar aims and history, he can then be allowed to complain about someone else. It is a rather large speck-plank problem, and there was a teaching on how to deal with those.
At the silver level, the aforementioned story teller who thinks that Coraline is a tale of liberals, who have no values and no light in their life and can consequently only tell stories about evil beings meant to scare children. Reading much into that, are we?
Our winner tonight, however, is Mr. Hyman, not for voicing the idea that Barack Obama Hates America, but for his justifications thereof, which read like a list of objections the jingoist has to someone who doesn't believe as firmly as they do that they're right, their friends are right, and everyone else should jump at the chance to be like them, as well as several sections of reading exactly what you want to see into something (the President at Dover Air Force Base was a clear photo-op attempt! Excepting the families decide whether or not to have pictures, and I suspect they decide that before they know who else may be in attendance.)
Last out of the opinions, ddjango says most of what you will find in these "news" roundups is a distraction from the rape and pillaging of the American populace by corporations and the politicians they've bought to retool the country into giving them all the profits and no responsibilities.
In technology, printable electronics possibly one step closer? Also, biodegradeable transistors, cheap devices to take rehabilitation exercises home and continue on, and YouTube in 1080p HD.
Last out for tonight, the usage of a nondefined sound is apparently grounds for paranoia, banning, and disciplinary measures to those students that meep in class. Mee-mee-mememem-me-meep! Meep, by the way, has many versatile definitions. That makes the robocall that told all of a student body they were failing, even though it was only intended to go to those who actually were, tame by comparison.
