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Engage more stuff! - 4 Feburary 2010
Feb. 5th, 2010 10:09 amGreetings pet and animal people! Be astounded by all these things that you should know about domestic cats, including good reasons why you will never catch your cat in an all-out sprint.
At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, President Obama took time to decry the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda, which probably helped give cover to The Family, whose members are intimately tied to the affair, as well as giving him a forum to express the obvious.
On the international front, The New York Times looks into the life of your average Chinese cyberthief, who makes significant lucre writing, selling, and using code. And there are a lot more like him out in the world, some doing it for the money, others because they work for governmental entities that will deny their ties to them, but all working to break security.
In Pakistan, a bomber blew up part of a school for girls, which should qualify them as a reprehensible human, no further commentary needed.
If you're an American and a terrorist, take heart, as the bullet or other weapon ends your life, that someone had to make a specific decision to kill you.
the Pentagon believes North Korea will deploy a nuclear-tipped missile with the capability of reaching United States shores within the next decade.
Domestically, President Obama visited Democratic members of Congress for another question and answer session, where he told them to learn from the election of Scott Brown and let members up for re-election campaigns ask him questions about how to repel Republican talking points about them
In a move intended completely to get as many people off of full-time benefits as possible, Target is scaling back several full-time managerial and specialist positions to part time, and then hiring others at entry-level to make up for the hours lost. Thus, only wages, instead of wages and benefits. Anyone else still want to say that a single-payer guaranteed health insurance system is not a cost-effective way of doing things? After all, it's a big piece of the economy right now, and government might already soon be spending about half of the total outlay of health care as it is, so why not develop a system to spend that money more effectively, give insurance to everyone, and thus relieve private employers of the burden of costs and health insurance companies of the temptation to put profits over people?
Ms. Murdoch, daughter of Mr. Murdoch, suggests that content-producers will have to accept some loss of control over their product, and that pirates are often their biggest fans and salespeople, so they may have to accept some amount of borderline pirate behavior. And speaking of Mr. Murdoch, despite gathering information from the reliably-conservative QuickNEWS community on LJ, now that he has put up his paywall that restricts access to the full text of his articles, I'm less inclined to use the WSJ for just about anything. That's too bad - it means I have to rely more on other places to get my mockable opinions, like TownHall, and the actual news and information, like the Washington Times, the New York Times, or the Google News aggregator. By not letting me read his articles, Mr. Murdoch loses the possibility of all the eyeballs this post might bring. (Sure, I'm small fries, but the point is the same.)
Last out, The House of Representatives passed their measure to raise the national debt ceiling 1.9 trillion USD.
Technology rocks the house with a robot car attempting to race Pike's Peak at high speed, a hearing aid that vibrates your jaw to deliver sound to your inner ear, and using MRIs to allow vegetative-diagnosed (but not actually vegetative) patients to indicate their awareness of the world around them and answer questions, although currently it's limited to Yes/No.
In the opinions, the WSJ uses data indicating more unionized workers are in the public sector than the private as an attack against Democratic politicians and those unions, because public sector unions are trying to capture economy shares, rather than industrial profits, and they can create a self-reinforcing cycle where public unions get politicians elected and then demand more of taxpayer money to pay their salaries and benefits. So, naturally, to control revenues, unions must be busted before they can gobble up an ever-increasing share of revenues.
Mr. Williams returns to the crusade to convince everyone that globarl warming is a myth, based on the recent revelations of hype and the apparently dwindling number of stations being used to record temperatures, despite those stations still transmitting data. (No word in the article, of course, from either side, as provocation or justification on why those stations aren't being used any more.)
Mr. Stossel makes accusations that the government is picking and choosing which companies succeed and which fail, through the use of "big, complicated government" and because there were some connections between the company and the Obama administration. Mr. Stossel, KBR/Haliburton probably benefited more from cronyism and special tax credits than Serious Materials ever will. Not that it excuses it, should the accusations be true, but there is the issue of scale here...
Tonight's hive of scum and villany starts with Saxby Chambliss, displaying a hypocrisy of position - homosexuals serve the country well, but should not be allowed to serve openly. Furthermore, he argues that if we let homosexuals serve openly, then all the rules regarding alcohol use, body art, and fraternization will also have to be dealt and and possibly repealed. Mr. Chambliss, your slippery-slope argument has superglue on the sides of the mountain. Additionally, The Marine Commandant also believes in the value of "don't ask, don't tell, but his reasons are a little bit better founded in reality. (Everyone knows, of course, that The General has nothing but the stiffest support for leaving the policy in place.)
Mr. Morris and Ms. McGann play mid-boss tonight, by claiming the Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Department would say the Bush deficits are half what they're claimed to be, while also using Joe Wilson's breach of protocol to set the tone for his column. If TARP is to be counted as a short-term loan, making the defeicit smaller, then wouldn't we be able to count stimulus spending as short-to-medium term credit to the American populace? They'll pay it back in taxes and infrastructure anyway, right? As for his suggestion to cut the deficit in half by caceling the remainder of both stimulus packages, well, here's an alternative - cancel the Pentagon budget request for next year. Presto! Deficit also cut nearly in half, and the domestic programs of the United States won't even feel the breeze. Obviously, neither of these solutions is a sane one, but one of them seems plausible if you believe in the Inherent Superiority of the Private Market (All Praise to Its Name) and that it will recover just fine without any need for government spending, regulation, or anything else other than cutting taxes and feeling good about increased corporate profits that ar ethen squirreled away to avoid being taxed.
But at the very bottom, the American missionaries who tried to take children out of Haiti, after lying that the kids were orphans to some, and then lying about their education and opportunity prospects to the parents they were taking the children from. I don't know what actual purpose they were being taken for, whether it would have been adoption into a white Christian family to show off their concern for the darkies, or as a gesture to "save" them from their home, where all the heathens and voodoo practitioners are, but whatever it was, that they lied about these children to their parents and to authorities makes them the runaway winners of being the Worst People In The World. The fact that they have been charged with child abduction is only the beginning of what we hope is a very informative session, so we can see all the works they were planning on doing.
At the very end, Norman Rockwell as a pro civil-rights artist, a wrinkle in his image as the artist of rural, conservative America. I'll bet he would have enjoyed the phallic monuments of Love Valley.
At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, President Obama took time to decry the anti-homosexuality bill in Uganda, which probably helped give cover to The Family, whose members are intimately tied to the affair, as well as giving him a forum to express the obvious.
On the international front, The New York Times looks into the life of your average Chinese cyberthief, who makes significant lucre writing, selling, and using code. And there are a lot more like him out in the world, some doing it for the money, others because they work for governmental entities that will deny their ties to them, but all working to break security.
In Pakistan, a bomber blew up part of a school for girls, which should qualify them as a reprehensible human, no further commentary needed.
If you're an American and a terrorist, take heart, as the bullet or other weapon ends your life, that someone had to make a specific decision to kill you.
the Pentagon believes North Korea will deploy a nuclear-tipped missile with the capability of reaching United States shores within the next decade.
Domestically, President Obama visited Democratic members of Congress for another question and answer session, where he told them to learn from the election of Scott Brown and let members up for re-election campaigns ask him questions about how to repel Republican talking points about them
In a move intended completely to get as many people off of full-time benefits as possible, Target is scaling back several full-time managerial and specialist positions to part time, and then hiring others at entry-level to make up for the hours lost. Thus, only wages, instead of wages and benefits. Anyone else still want to say that a single-payer guaranteed health insurance system is not a cost-effective way of doing things? After all, it's a big piece of the economy right now, and government might already soon be spending about half of the total outlay of health care as it is, so why not develop a system to spend that money more effectively, give insurance to everyone, and thus relieve private employers of the burden of costs and health insurance companies of the temptation to put profits over people?
Ms. Murdoch, daughter of Mr. Murdoch, suggests that content-producers will have to accept some loss of control over their product, and that pirates are often their biggest fans and salespeople, so they may have to accept some amount of borderline pirate behavior. And speaking of Mr. Murdoch, despite gathering information from the reliably-conservative QuickNEWS community on LJ, now that he has put up his paywall that restricts access to the full text of his articles, I'm less inclined to use the WSJ for just about anything. That's too bad - it means I have to rely more on other places to get my mockable opinions, like TownHall, and the actual news and information, like the Washington Times, the New York Times, or the Google News aggregator. By not letting me read his articles, Mr. Murdoch loses the possibility of all the eyeballs this post might bring. (Sure, I'm small fries, but the point is the same.)
Last out, The House of Representatives passed their measure to raise the national debt ceiling 1.9 trillion USD.
Technology rocks the house with a robot car attempting to race Pike's Peak at high speed, a hearing aid that vibrates your jaw to deliver sound to your inner ear, and using MRIs to allow vegetative-diagnosed (but not actually vegetative) patients to indicate their awareness of the world around them and answer questions, although currently it's limited to Yes/No.
In the opinions, the WSJ uses data indicating more unionized workers are in the public sector than the private as an attack against Democratic politicians and those unions, because public sector unions are trying to capture economy shares, rather than industrial profits, and they can create a self-reinforcing cycle where public unions get politicians elected and then demand more of taxpayer money to pay their salaries and benefits. So, naturally, to control revenues, unions must be busted before they can gobble up an ever-increasing share of revenues.
Mr. Williams returns to the crusade to convince everyone that globarl warming is a myth, based on the recent revelations of hype and the apparently dwindling number of stations being used to record temperatures, despite those stations still transmitting data. (No word in the article, of course, from either side, as provocation or justification on why those stations aren't being used any more.)
Mr. Stossel makes accusations that the government is picking and choosing which companies succeed and which fail, through the use of "big, complicated government" and because there were some connections between the company and the Obama administration. Mr. Stossel, KBR/Haliburton probably benefited more from cronyism and special tax credits than Serious Materials ever will. Not that it excuses it, should the accusations be true, but there is the issue of scale here...
Tonight's hive of scum and villany starts with Saxby Chambliss, displaying a hypocrisy of position - homosexuals serve the country well, but should not be allowed to serve openly. Furthermore, he argues that if we let homosexuals serve openly, then all the rules regarding alcohol use, body art, and fraternization will also have to be dealt and and possibly repealed. Mr. Chambliss, your slippery-slope argument has superglue on the sides of the mountain. Additionally, The Marine Commandant also believes in the value of "don't ask, don't tell, but his reasons are a little bit better founded in reality. (Everyone knows, of course, that The General has nothing but the stiffest support for leaving the policy in place.)
Mr. Morris and Ms. McGann play mid-boss tonight, by claiming the Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Department would say the Bush deficits are half what they're claimed to be, while also using Joe Wilson's breach of protocol to set the tone for his column. If TARP is to be counted as a short-term loan, making the defeicit smaller, then wouldn't we be able to count stimulus spending as short-to-medium term credit to the American populace? They'll pay it back in taxes and infrastructure anyway, right? As for his suggestion to cut the deficit in half by caceling the remainder of both stimulus packages, well, here's an alternative - cancel the Pentagon budget request for next year. Presto! Deficit also cut nearly in half, and the domestic programs of the United States won't even feel the breeze. Obviously, neither of these solutions is a sane one, but one of them seems plausible if you believe in the Inherent Superiority of the Private Market (All Praise to Its Name) and that it will recover just fine without any need for government spending, regulation, or anything else other than cutting taxes and feeling good about increased corporate profits that ar ethen squirreled away to avoid being taxed.
But at the very bottom, the American missionaries who tried to take children out of Haiti, after lying that the kids were orphans to some, and then lying about their education and opportunity prospects to the parents they were taking the children from. I don't know what actual purpose they were being taken for, whether it would have been adoption into a white Christian family to show off their concern for the darkies, or as a gesture to "save" them from their home, where all the heathens and voodoo practitioners are, but whatever it was, that they lied about these children to their parents and to authorities makes them the runaway winners of being the Worst People In The World. The fact that they have been charged with child abduction is only the beginning of what we hope is a very informative session, so we can see all the works they were planning on doing.
At the very end, Norman Rockwell as a pro civil-rights artist, a wrinkle in his image as the artist of rural, conservative America. I'll bet he would have enjoyed the phallic monuments of Love Valley.
