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Old news - 19-20 November 2009
Nov. 23rd, 2009 11:29 amWe're trying to get these out on time, but life continues to intrude. On the plus side, when life does intrude, progress gets made.
Good morning, persons of interest, with all your knowledge and things that make us all enriched by your presence. And you skills that bring us beautiful shots of the Great Wall of China as well as hyperreal sculpture and flowcharts of which major fast food chain one should eat at.
A dubious honor to begin with, as Afghanistan is the world's most dangerous place in the world to be born, according to the UN. (Worst and most dangerous are not the same - someone remind the headline writer.)
And then we get into the worser parts, including what could be the UK's version of the ACTA treaty - a source in the Government suggests the Government will push hard for a provision in an upcoming bill that would give an official power to do whatever they damn well pleased regarding copyright eithout Parliamentary input, oversight, or even the need to get his designs passed through the body. Nothing conrete yet, and it may dematerialize as a threat if sufficient public outcry is registered merely on the rumour.
Elsewhere in the world, the leader of Afghanistan's Taliban escaped to Pakistan and is now being hidden with the aid of Pakistani intelligence, according to the United States intelligence sources quoted. Is this still pushing for expanding a war to a new front?
Domestically, A new visitation on an old trend - the use of Pslam 109:8 as a "ha, ha, get him out of office" to the curretn administrator, whose context is much darker - involving death and widowhood and fatherless children and destruction to his family, too. Could have started as a joke, but it gets worse quick. And we know there are some people out there who will take it seriously. Whether or not they put it into action against someone around them or the President is undetermined. But really, do we want to continue raising the scary rhetoric?
a food bank opened the doors one day to find it had been robbed. Luckily, the community and local businesses replaced what was lost, but whomever did it will have to turn invisible, lest they face the wrath of the community. It's not like a food bank will hoard and not distribute things to those in need.
After the firing of library workers who practiced censorship, the library district has received claims that the graphic novel in question is a threat to public safety, because it encourages predators to act on their fantasies. Seriously, people, we've done that one before. Lolita ring a bell? The library is in the business of representing and carrying a wide range of materials, some of which will be offensive to your sensibilities. Deal, or in the case of "think of the childrens!", PARENT.
Also horrible, a police officer who used a stun gun on a ten year-old child has been suspended - not for the usage, but for not having a camera attached to the weapon, which is akin to putting Al Capone away for tax evasion. Right result, wrong reasons. And worse? The officer was called to the house because the child was throwing a tantrum. Parenting fail results in policeman fail results in big fail for not suspending him for using a stun gun on a ten year-old.
Bigger police fail, though, involves a firsthand account of crowded jails that do not listen to people's medical requests, to the point where someone going in pled guilty just to get otu so they could get prompt and accurate medical care, which can only make the people who go in, who are often sick, only sicker while they stay there. The jail says, "Nonsense. Our statistics show we do just fine, and even with your account, we'd say that person's case was a success." The Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics department would like to correct that impression. Possibly with blunt-force clue-instruments.
The Daily Show again proves its superiority by enlisting the aid of professional wrestler Mick Foley to aid a 10 year-old who refuses to say the Pledge of allegiance at school until homosexuals can marry in the United States. There are a lot of options available here, and there should be some serious opportunities for education of the school, including whether or not it is legal to do what he does, what that means, and the bigger issues there, too. Hope the school takes advantage instead of treating the child as a troublemaker and/or suspending him. Recall, too, that Texas may still have outlawed all marriage or marriage-like relations in their zeal to prevent homosexuals from getting married or having marriage-like relationships.
In the arts, Harlequin launched Horizons, a vanity press that is pay to play and doesn't really actually carry any help or weight or name from Harlequin. In response, several writers associations, including the SFWA and the RWA, condemned the practice and the new vanity press, to the point of saying that no Harlequin imprints at all would be considered for any awards. From there? Harlequin said they were removing the Harlequiin name from the vanity press, but they will still continue to promote it. Sufficiently that they will encourage authors to use it if they're rejected from the main imprint. So it's not really a decision to be, y'know, eithical.
On lighter fare, taxation is the name of the game when it comes to paying for health care reform - so natureally people will complain that certain taxes aren't fair, when not copmlaining that taxes exist in the first place.
A retired general testified before a Congressional hearing, claiming the Army lacked any procedure for dealing with violent extremism, and that political correctness prevented a true investigation into Major Hasan that would have caught him before he killed people. If you believe Mr. Henninger, however, the fact that there are website that promote violent Islam, and that peopel can view them under First Amendment protections, is too much, and we should censor those webpages immediately, so as to stop getting "homegrown terrorists". Would that be before or after you criticize other countries for their censorship?
The White House continuees to predict they will be able to convict the alleged planners of the 11 September attacks they sent to federal court. They're probably right, or they would not have likely done so.
Arrests of illegal immigrants at their places of work are down, according to figures released by ICE, which means you may cue up the xenophobia sentiment of "they're taking our jobs!" and other such things that their own slavish devotion to capitalism should tell them is nonsense.
And last out, a federal jusge has rule the Army Corps of Engineers can be held liable for much of the damage wrought in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina on the grounds that they were negligent in the upkeep, maintenance, and strengthening of a system of channels designed to divert the water away from stirking the levees.
Right before the opinions, take a break and admire how a NERF gun becomes a gatling weapon.
In opinions, Mr. Drum tracks a correlation between tuition increases, including the latest UC spike, and corrections spending increases, noting the two track pretty well. Reduce tuition by, perhaps, releasing low-level offenders instead of locking them up? And possibly some other legalizations that would further reduce the prison population? Maaaybe.
Also, HuffPo points out that what you say and what gets pictures taken of you are two very different things - remember that you view through someone else's lens much of the time, even when you read the supposedly unbiased. And nowhere is that more prevalent than in Sarah Palin's book, a memoir of grudge-settling, score-keeping, and all the other petty insults and jibes that she thought to pack into 400 pages.
Mr. du Point believes the people are speaking very loudly about what they want, and the Obama administration is blithely ignoring them in continuing to push for its oh-so-liberal agenda, or rather, the taxes and spending that accompany such. Adding in Mr. Barons's contention that nothing the Obama administration has tried to do has actually been successful, and you have the illusion that the American populace is angry at the President and intends to vote him and his party out of office. Actually, that may not be an illusion, but I would certainly consider it to be some part of a deception based on one's own somewhat jingoistic view of the country.
Last out, Mr. Bowden analyzes what happened with the revolution of 1979 and how the secular government was hijacked by religious zealots, all to claim that the curreny attemtps at revolution in the country are attempting to bring back real and secular democracy, something that we will agree with on the real, but not necessarily on the secular part. We could be wrong, and at what point it becomes demonstrable that we are, then throwing support behind the revolution becomes a good choice of action. Assuming we don' have people who haven't read their Atwood taking seriously the General's satire that all women should be compelled to give childbirth, based on a remark that believes having kids saves someone from breast cancer, through the power of Jeezis.
In the sciences, a reminder that while the ocean can such up a lot of CO2, it has a finite capacity as well, and we're getting close to it, the appearance of Asian carp DNA beyond an electrical barrier intended to keep it out of the Great Lakes, for which there is apparently a poison campaign planned for when the barrier gets shut off for maintenance, suggestion that the Indus Valley civilization invaded and conquered by the Aryan people may have been quite advanced, a browser intended to be able to show how a webpage has changed over time, instead of simply always displaying the latest version, by utilizing a function of the HTTP protocol and having compatible servers that store various date-time stamped versions of their site, more on tiny medibots that can do diagnostics and surgeries in delciate places from the inside, rapid diagnostic chips that are almost as wide as a pencil, and significantly less long and thick, YouTube's decision to turn on automated caption addition to their videos, and HP's ambition to develop a trillions-big sensor network to cover the Earth and act like a central nervous system for the planet.
Last for tonight, a top ten list of the best/worst sex scandal details of the year, with guest commentators and writers, including adult film stars, MSNBC show hosts, and more. And one distrurbic statistic - a recent poll indicates more than a majority - 57 percent - of those who identified as Republicans believe ACORN was responsible for stealing the 2008 presidential election. Is this where I say that the teabaggers have taken over, and the polls now show it?
Good morning, persons of interest, with all your knowledge and things that make us all enriched by your presence. And you skills that bring us beautiful shots of the Great Wall of China as well as hyperreal sculpture and flowcharts of which major fast food chain one should eat at.
A dubious honor to begin with, as Afghanistan is the world's most dangerous place in the world to be born, according to the UN. (Worst and most dangerous are not the same - someone remind the headline writer.)
And then we get into the worser parts, including what could be the UK's version of the ACTA treaty - a source in the Government suggests the Government will push hard for a provision in an upcoming bill that would give an official power to do whatever they damn well pleased regarding copyright eithout Parliamentary input, oversight, or even the need to get his designs passed through the body. Nothing conrete yet, and it may dematerialize as a threat if sufficient public outcry is registered merely on the rumour.
Elsewhere in the world, the leader of Afghanistan's Taliban escaped to Pakistan and is now being hidden with the aid of Pakistani intelligence, according to the United States intelligence sources quoted. Is this still pushing for expanding a war to a new front?
Domestically, A new visitation on an old trend - the use of Pslam 109:8 as a "ha, ha, get him out of office" to the curretn administrator, whose context is much darker - involving death and widowhood and fatherless children and destruction to his family, too. Could have started as a joke, but it gets worse quick. And we know there are some people out there who will take it seriously. Whether or not they put it into action against someone around them or the President is undetermined. But really, do we want to continue raising the scary rhetoric?
a food bank opened the doors one day to find it had been robbed. Luckily, the community and local businesses replaced what was lost, but whomever did it will have to turn invisible, lest they face the wrath of the community. It's not like a food bank will hoard and not distribute things to those in need.
After the firing of library workers who practiced censorship, the library district has received claims that the graphic novel in question is a threat to public safety, because it encourages predators to act on their fantasies. Seriously, people, we've done that one before. Lolita ring a bell? The library is in the business of representing and carrying a wide range of materials, some of which will be offensive to your sensibilities. Deal, or in the case of "think of the childrens!", PARENT.
Also horrible, a police officer who used a stun gun on a ten year-old child has been suspended - not for the usage, but for not having a camera attached to the weapon, which is akin to putting Al Capone away for tax evasion. Right result, wrong reasons. And worse? The officer was called to the house because the child was throwing a tantrum. Parenting fail results in policeman fail results in big fail for not suspending him for using a stun gun on a ten year-old.
Bigger police fail, though, involves a firsthand account of crowded jails that do not listen to people's medical requests, to the point where someone going in pled guilty just to get otu so they could get prompt and accurate medical care, which can only make the people who go in, who are often sick, only sicker while they stay there. The jail says, "Nonsense. Our statistics show we do just fine, and even with your account, we'd say that person's case was a success." The Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics department would like to correct that impression. Possibly with blunt-force clue-instruments.
The Daily Show again proves its superiority by enlisting the aid of professional wrestler Mick Foley to aid a 10 year-old who refuses to say the Pledge of allegiance at school until homosexuals can marry in the United States. There are a lot of options available here, and there should be some serious opportunities for education of the school, including whether or not it is legal to do what he does, what that means, and the bigger issues there, too. Hope the school takes advantage instead of treating the child as a troublemaker and/or suspending him. Recall, too, that Texas may still have outlawed all marriage or marriage-like relations in their zeal to prevent homosexuals from getting married or having marriage-like relationships.
In the arts, Harlequin launched Horizons, a vanity press that is pay to play and doesn't really actually carry any help or weight or name from Harlequin. In response, several writers associations, including the SFWA and the RWA, condemned the practice and the new vanity press, to the point of saying that no Harlequin imprints at all would be considered for any awards. From there? Harlequin said they were removing the Harlequiin name from the vanity press, but they will still continue to promote it. Sufficiently that they will encourage authors to use it if they're rejected from the main imprint. So it's not really a decision to be, y'know, eithical.
On lighter fare, taxation is the name of the game when it comes to paying for health care reform - so natureally people will complain that certain taxes aren't fair, when not copmlaining that taxes exist in the first place.
A retired general testified before a Congressional hearing, claiming the Army lacked any procedure for dealing with violent extremism, and that political correctness prevented a true investigation into Major Hasan that would have caught him before he killed people. If you believe Mr. Henninger, however, the fact that there are website that promote violent Islam, and that peopel can view them under First Amendment protections, is too much, and we should censor those webpages immediately, so as to stop getting "homegrown terrorists". Would that be before or after you criticize other countries for their censorship?
The White House continuees to predict they will be able to convict the alleged planners of the 11 September attacks they sent to federal court. They're probably right, or they would not have likely done so.
Arrests of illegal immigrants at their places of work are down, according to figures released by ICE, which means you may cue up the xenophobia sentiment of "they're taking our jobs!" and other such things that their own slavish devotion to capitalism should tell them is nonsense.
And last out, a federal jusge has rule the Army Corps of Engineers can be held liable for much of the damage wrought in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina on the grounds that they were negligent in the upkeep, maintenance, and strengthening of a system of channels designed to divert the water away from stirking the levees.
Right before the opinions, take a break and admire how a NERF gun becomes a gatling weapon.
In opinions, Mr. Drum tracks a correlation between tuition increases, including the latest UC spike, and corrections spending increases, noting the two track pretty well. Reduce tuition by, perhaps, releasing low-level offenders instead of locking them up? And possibly some other legalizations that would further reduce the prison population? Maaaybe.
Also, HuffPo points out that what you say and what gets pictures taken of you are two very different things - remember that you view through someone else's lens much of the time, even when you read the supposedly unbiased. And nowhere is that more prevalent than in Sarah Palin's book, a memoir of grudge-settling, score-keeping, and all the other petty insults and jibes that she thought to pack into 400 pages.
Mr. du Point believes the people are speaking very loudly about what they want, and the Obama administration is blithely ignoring them in continuing to push for its oh-so-liberal agenda, or rather, the taxes and spending that accompany such. Adding in Mr. Barons's contention that nothing the Obama administration has tried to do has actually been successful, and you have the illusion that the American populace is angry at the President and intends to vote him and his party out of office. Actually, that may not be an illusion, but I would certainly consider it to be some part of a deception based on one's own somewhat jingoistic view of the country.
Last out, Mr. Bowden analyzes what happened with the revolution of 1979 and how the secular government was hijacked by religious zealots, all to claim that the curreny attemtps at revolution in the country are attempting to bring back real and secular democracy, something that we will agree with on the real, but not necessarily on the secular part. We could be wrong, and at what point it becomes demonstrable that we are, then throwing support behind the revolution becomes a good choice of action. Assuming we don' have people who haven't read their Atwood taking seriously the General's satire that all women should be compelled to give childbirth, based on a remark that believes having kids saves someone from breast cancer, through the power of Jeezis.
In the sciences, a reminder that while the ocean can such up a lot of CO2, it has a finite capacity as well, and we're getting close to it, the appearance of Asian carp DNA beyond an electrical barrier intended to keep it out of the Great Lakes, for which there is apparently a poison campaign planned for when the barrier gets shut off for maintenance, suggestion that the Indus Valley civilization invaded and conquered by the Aryan people may have been quite advanced, a browser intended to be able to show how a webpage has changed over time, instead of simply always displaying the latest version, by utilizing a function of the HTTP protocol and having compatible servers that store various date-time stamped versions of their site, more on tiny medibots that can do diagnostics and surgeries in delciate places from the inside, rapid diagnostic chips that are almost as wide as a pencil, and significantly less long and thick, YouTube's decision to turn on automated caption addition to their videos, and HP's ambition to develop a trillions-big sensor network to cover the Earth and act like a central nervous system for the planet.
Last for tonight, a top ten list of the best/worst sex scandal details of the year, with guest commentators and writers, including adult film stars, MSNBC show hosts, and more. And one distrurbic statistic - a recent poll indicates more than a majority - 57 percent - of those who identified as Republicans believe ACORN was responsible for stealing the 2008 presidential election. Is this where I say that the teabaggers have taken over, and the polls now show it?
