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Opening tonight, The Dead Pool snags Peter Graves, best known for his role in the Mission: Impossible television series, at 83 years of age.
From death to life, though, we find even babies will boogie to the beat, suggesting our ability to follow the rhythm and dance is an evolutionary trait. Perhaps because cooperation works better with the beat.
Aroudn the world, lest one think that only Americans have industries trying to prevent people from doing anything to media the cabals don't want them to, a leaked memo about a plan to rush a bill throuh Parliament that claims Britain's MI5 service is a major opponent of their bill, and that if the bill gets actual scrutiny, it will likely die. Scrutinize away, House of Commons. Please.
According to early partial counts, Nouri al-Malaki's State of Law party holds the lead in several parliamentary races.
Domestically, another reason to repeal the ban on homosexuals serving in the military - Don't Ask, Don't Tell can still be followed to the letter and a service person can still be discharged from the military, in this case because the police, who were looking for her partner, disclosed that information to her service branch. She didn't tell, they didn't ask, and yet she's being discharged all the same.
A solider was rewarded for heroic efforts in a battle while also being reprimanded for insufficient preparations, which makes a certain amount of lgocial sense. By not preparing properly beforehand, heroic actions became necessary to get out alive. Thus, punished for creating the emergency, rewarded for getting out of it alive and with little casualties. For a least one commenter, this is apparently disgraceful.
On the matter of health care, FiveThirtyEight runs Wordle on Gallup's raw data of people's reasons why their government official should vote for or against health care, and produces two major strains of thought - People Need Afford[able] Insurance on the pro side, and Government Insurance Cost(s) People Money on the anti side. This is somewhat disappointing, as it means the totally untrue meme about a government takeover of the insurance sector has sprouted in the anti segment. As for Mr. Stupak, who has had his fifteen minutes of fame, note this - several Christian groups have sent letters to the Congress urging them to pass the bill, and not to pay any attention to Mr. Stupak's nonsense.
In education, President Obama looks to fix a lot of what's wrong with No Child Left Behind with a proposal on education that focuses less on test scores and incentives to dumb the curriculum down, replacing literacy goals with a goal saying that everyone graduating high school hould be equipped to go to college and a career. This may run contrary to Time's aricle on the dropout economy, where people who see that the jobs they're supposed to be gettign from college aren't there decide to hop off that track and go live a simpler, possibly off-the-grid, life, moving more toward self-reliant, self-sufficient communities where work is done from home, because technology takes care of a lot of the things people would commute for.
LGBT students and their allies have become a favored target for cyberbullying, and because it's virtual and away from the school grounds, school administrators, teachers, and watchers are unable to do much about stopping it, as the parents might not be able to, short of removing the on-line presence of the victim (which cuts them off from support, usually, too.)
The Washington Times does their best to play up President Obama as being exactly like President Bush, with the release of the State Department's report on global human rights, by saying that not much has changed in the report or in the policies. (We note that the closing of Guantanamo Bay has been delayed not by executive fiat, but legislative fearmongering, and thus we say that context is very important.) They do a much better job of objectivity in saying the Obama Administration has rescinded or rolled back proposed and actual sets of rules regarding union transparency - still lots of "Evul Obama", but a much better handling of the facts of the case. The best one might be the piece indicating the Obama Administration nominee to oversee exports would have to recuse himself because of conflicts-of-interest with several firms he has been associated with the past, and that two of those firms are on a watch list for having ties to to places that raise eyebrows.
Have to say, thoguh, the Times is pretty good about not playing up things they don't have the full story on. Fox seems willing to jump on anything to make the administration look bad, including as-yet unsubstantiated accusations that a primary challenger to Arlen Specter was offered a federal job as a bribe to drop out of the race.
Last out, because this seems to be more about undue panic than anything else, why, yes, someone sspected of having ties to a terror organization did work as a low-level grunt in a nuclear plant. While this may be cause for alarm for many, we also note that successful terrorists simply had knowledge of how to fly planes, brandish weapons, and take advantage of policies. One would think nuclear plants have sufficient policies in place to prevent any one person, regardless of whom they are, from easily being able to create an incident, but perhaps I have too much faith in the system.
In technology, embodied cognition, the branch of science that attempts to think of what we would be like were we not human - how would we act or think or be different if we were not bipeds of a certain height and body symmetry, with certain sense organs and appendages, etc. etc.
Furthermore, a washing machine system that uses nylon beads and a small amount of water to draw stains off clothing, which, if it works as advertised, could reduce water and heating bills significantly while still getting the stains and dirt off clothing. That's pretty cool.
And then, The FCC's plans to upgrade the nation's Internet backbones through stimulus money, science telling us Neanderthals made sophisticated gadgets - they just preferred not to use blades,
Opening opinions, Mr. Hertzberg suggests that nuclear power might make a comeback as carbon emissions are more heavily taxed and regulated.
Ms. Essig points out how well Utah is setting themselves up as the people to avoid emulating when it comes to preventing teen pregnancies, along with the worry that people in other states will attempt to put into place a similar system, with similar results.
And Mr. Hartwell tells us that it's up to us to stop the next terrorist attacker, so spy on your fellow travelers and report suspicious-looking people. As he said, some amount of common sense is in play here. So maybe we could stop with the fear-mongering?
On the matter of health care, Michelle Malkin sets the tone by using the words "human kiddie shield" to describe the apparent trend of President Obama't speech audiences getting younger. She also calls the ability to keep college-age dependents on their parents insurance "slacker mandates". That said, she does at least say that we should reform employer-based insurance and do something better. Not that she would ever endorse a single-payer plan, but she does leave the column hanging, so maybe she does. The line continues with Mr. Williams returning to his favorite argument that government taxation and entitlements are really some people forcing others to give them things they haven't earned, and that it's "slavery" for anyone to have to live like this. Mr. Williams is fine with charity, as it is a voluntary decision, but he would happily try to live in a world without taxes so that he can keep all the money he earns instead of it going to someone he feels doesn't deserve it. I wonder what the infrastructure of such a world looks like. Especially if we combine it with Mr. Stossel's desire that license requirements for any profession be abolished entirely, so that anyone could practice law, or architecture, or flower-selling, without the slightest hint of actually being qualified to do so.
More on the procedures, Mr. Medved would have you believe that using reconciliation to pass this measure is a dangerous departure from the tradition of reconciliation, despite it totally not being the case, as most modern health care reform issues have been passed by reconciliation. (While also making it seem like things like civil rights were passed with broad public support first...)
And then on the effects, Ms. Strassel says that passing health care reform will do nothing for the political fortunes of the Democratic Party, because it doesn&aops;t take immediate effect, and the base wanted something more liberal, really.
Last out, Mr. Rasmussen explains why the people keep opposing the health care bill - they're thinking or broader impacts, which they don't like, they don't trust the numbers, and they've bought into various half-truths about being forced to change their insurance, for example.
More economically, The WSj urges students in California to vote out their legislature, because the current one is apparently selling them out, enacting pension benefits in boom times that are hurting them and their tuition bills in bust time. For unions, of course, because unions are always evil to the WSJ. More generally, Mr. Beach says taht our reliance on government is coming to its tipping point, and if we go much further, we'll slide into dependency, socialism, and lose whatever drive we had to innovate and be the best in the world. And the government will collapse under the debt, to boot.
Mr. Connely lays out his screed against political correctness, picking the very worst of extreme examples and portrraying them as mainstream liberal thought and action, and then turns his eye to what he sees as the liberals trying to corrupt the Texas textbook standards - by trying to make them a little less jingoistic and removing or rewriting narratives that are clearly false, we note - and how college professors are enforcing their ideology on students by failing those who dare to espouse other philosophies. It's a very familiar song and dance, but I think, in the grand scheme of things, we should be more worried about people trying to remove Thomas Jefferson than people trying to make Columbus into less of a pristine figure.
Mr. Cline ties it all together with a criticism of Liz Cheney's advertisements, while admitting that they do the job of inspiring fear in the populace really well. Liz Cheney may be the new Joe McCarthy, although we believe it's still Glenn Beck who has the list of socialists. Mr. Wheeler was going to make a point somewhere about why stimulus money being used to fund a revolutionary Marxist group was bad, but then he got lazy and assumed you'd connect the dots for him, instead of telling him to finish his column. (And furthermore, government money going to entities intended on bringing down the government? There are a lot of jokes and ha, ha, only serious that could be done here. Take your pick.) And at the end, Mr. Hanson is happy because Mr. Obama continues to be more like his predecessor every day.
Last for tonight, a reminder that women do have carnal desires, and that books even parodically trying to say they don't are due up for correction, and old illustrations for the works of one E.A. Poe. The illustrations are better than the album covers layered on each other to create bigger pictures in my opinion.
From death to life, though, we find even babies will boogie to the beat, suggesting our ability to follow the rhythm and dance is an evolutionary trait. Perhaps because cooperation works better with the beat.
Aroudn the world, lest one think that only Americans have industries trying to prevent people from doing anything to media the cabals don't want them to, a leaked memo about a plan to rush a bill throuh Parliament that claims Britain's MI5 service is a major opponent of their bill, and that if the bill gets actual scrutiny, it will likely die. Scrutinize away, House of Commons. Please.
According to early partial counts, Nouri al-Malaki's State of Law party holds the lead in several parliamentary races.
Domestically, another reason to repeal the ban on homosexuals serving in the military - Don't Ask, Don't Tell can still be followed to the letter and a service person can still be discharged from the military, in this case because the police, who were looking for her partner, disclosed that information to her service branch. She didn't tell, they didn't ask, and yet she's being discharged all the same.
A solider was rewarded for heroic efforts in a battle while also being reprimanded for insufficient preparations, which makes a certain amount of lgocial sense. By not preparing properly beforehand, heroic actions became necessary to get out alive. Thus, punished for creating the emergency, rewarded for getting out of it alive and with little casualties. For a least one commenter, this is apparently disgraceful.
On the matter of health care, FiveThirtyEight runs Wordle on Gallup's raw data of people's reasons why their government official should vote for or against health care, and produces two major strains of thought - People Need Afford[able] Insurance on the pro side, and Government Insurance Cost(s) People Money on the anti side. This is somewhat disappointing, as it means the totally untrue meme about a government takeover of the insurance sector has sprouted in the anti segment. As for Mr. Stupak, who has had his fifteen minutes of fame, note this - several Christian groups have sent letters to the Congress urging them to pass the bill, and not to pay any attention to Mr. Stupak's nonsense.
In education, President Obama looks to fix a lot of what's wrong with No Child Left Behind with a proposal on education that focuses less on test scores and incentives to dumb the curriculum down, replacing literacy goals with a goal saying that everyone graduating high school hould be equipped to go to college and a career. This may run contrary to Time's aricle on the dropout economy, where people who see that the jobs they're supposed to be gettign from college aren't there decide to hop off that track and go live a simpler, possibly off-the-grid, life, moving more toward self-reliant, self-sufficient communities where work is done from home, because technology takes care of a lot of the things people would commute for.
LGBT students and their allies have become a favored target for cyberbullying, and because it's virtual and away from the school grounds, school administrators, teachers, and watchers are unable to do much about stopping it, as the parents might not be able to, short of removing the on-line presence of the victim (which cuts them off from support, usually, too.)
The Washington Times does their best to play up President Obama as being exactly like President Bush, with the release of the State Department's report on global human rights, by saying that not much has changed in the report or in the policies. (We note that the closing of Guantanamo Bay has been delayed not by executive fiat, but legislative fearmongering, and thus we say that context is very important.) They do a much better job of objectivity in saying the Obama Administration has rescinded or rolled back proposed and actual sets of rules regarding union transparency - still lots of "Evul Obama", but a much better handling of the facts of the case. The best one might be the piece indicating the Obama Administration nominee to oversee exports would have to recuse himself because of conflicts-of-interest with several firms he has been associated with the past, and that two of those firms are on a watch list for having ties to to places that raise eyebrows.
Have to say, thoguh, the Times is pretty good about not playing up things they don't have the full story on. Fox seems willing to jump on anything to make the administration look bad, including as-yet unsubstantiated accusations that a primary challenger to Arlen Specter was offered a federal job as a bribe to drop out of the race.
Last out, because this seems to be more about undue panic than anything else, why, yes, someone sspected of having ties to a terror organization did work as a low-level grunt in a nuclear plant. While this may be cause for alarm for many, we also note that successful terrorists simply had knowledge of how to fly planes, brandish weapons, and take advantage of policies. One would think nuclear plants have sufficient policies in place to prevent any one person, regardless of whom they are, from easily being able to create an incident, but perhaps I have too much faith in the system.
In technology, embodied cognition, the branch of science that attempts to think of what we would be like were we not human - how would we act or think or be different if we were not bipeds of a certain height and body symmetry, with certain sense organs and appendages, etc. etc.
Furthermore, a washing machine system that uses nylon beads and a small amount of water to draw stains off clothing, which, if it works as advertised, could reduce water and heating bills significantly while still getting the stains and dirt off clothing. That's pretty cool.
And then, The FCC's plans to upgrade the nation's Internet backbones through stimulus money, science telling us Neanderthals made sophisticated gadgets - they just preferred not to use blades,
Opening opinions, Mr. Hertzberg suggests that nuclear power might make a comeback as carbon emissions are more heavily taxed and regulated.
Ms. Essig points out how well Utah is setting themselves up as the people to avoid emulating when it comes to preventing teen pregnancies, along with the worry that people in other states will attempt to put into place a similar system, with similar results.
And Mr. Hartwell tells us that it's up to us to stop the next terrorist attacker, so spy on your fellow travelers and report suspicious-looking people. As he said, some amount of common sense is in play here. So maybe we could stop with the fear-mongering?
On the matter of health care, Michelle Malkin sets the tone by using the words "human kiddie shield" to describe the apparent trend of President Obama't speech audiences getting younger. She also calls the ability to keep college-age dependents on their parents insurance "slacker mandates". That said, she does at least say that we should reform employer-based insurance and do something better. Not that she would ever endorse a single-payer plan, but she does leave the column hanging, so maybe she does. The line continues with Mr. Williams returning to his favorite argument that government taxation and entitlements are really some people forcing others to give them things they haven't earned, and that it's "slavery" for anyone to have to live like this. Mr. Williams is fine with charity, as it is a voluntary decision, but he would happily try to live in a world without taxes so that he can keep all the money he earns instead of it going to someone he feels doesn't deserve it. I wonder what the infrastructure of such a world looks like. Especially if we combine it with Mr. Stossel's desire that license requirements for any profession be abolished entirely, so that anyone could practice law, or architecture, or flower-selling, without the slightest hint of actually being qualified to do so.
More on the procedures, Mr. Medved would have you believe that using reconciliation to pass this measure is a dangerous departure from the tradition of reconciliation, despite it totally not being the case, as most modern health care reform issues have been passed by reconciliation. (While also making it seem like things like civil rights were passed with broad public support first...)
And then on the effects, Ms. Strassel says that passing health care reform will do nothing for the political fortunes of the Democratic Party, because it doesn&aops;t take immediate effect, and the base wanted something more liberal, really.
Last out, Mr. Rasmussen explains why the people keep opposing the health care bill - they're thinking or broader impacts, which they don't like, they don't trust the numbers, and they've bought into various half-truths about being forced to change their insurance, for example.
More economically, The WSj urges students in California to vote out their legislature, because the current one is apparently selling them out, enacting pension benefits in boom times that are hurting them and their tuition bills in bust time. For unions, of course, because unions are always evil to the WSJ. More generally, Mr. Beach says taht our reliance on government is coming to its tipping point, and if we go much further, we'll slide into dependency, socialism, and lose whatever drive we had to innovate and be the best in the world. And the government will collapse under the debt, to boot.
Mr. Connely lays out his screed against political correctness, picking the very worst of extreme examples and portrraying them as mainstream liberal thought and action, and then turns his eye to what he sees as the liberals trying to corrupt the Texas textbook standards - by trying to make them a little less jingoistic and removing or rewriting narratives that are clearly false, we note - and how college professors are enforcing their ideology on students by failing those who dare to espouse other philosophies. It's a very familiar song and dance, but I think, in the grand scheme of things, we should be more worried about people trying to remove Thomas Jefferson than people trying to make Columbus into less of a pristine figure.
Mr. Cline ties it all together with a criticism of Liz Cheney's advertisements, while admitting that they do the job of inspiring fear in the populace really well. Liz Cheney may be the new Joe McCarthy, although we believe it's still Glenn Beck who has the list of socialists. Mr. Wheeler was going to make a point somewhere about why stimulus money being used to fund a revolutionary Marxist group was bad, but then he got lazy and assumed you'd connect the dots for him, instead of telling him to finish his column. (And furthermore, government money going to entities intended on bringing down the government? There are a lot of jokes and ha, ha, only serious that could be done here. Take your pick.) And at the end, Mr. Hanson is happy because Mr. Obama continues to be more like his predecessor every day.
Last for tonight, a reminder that women do have carnal desires, and that books even parodically trying to say they don't are due up for correction, and old illustrations for the works of one E.A. Poe. The illustrations are better than the album covers layered on each other to create bigger pictures in my opinion.
