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Cheers to the creators of SCIENCE! for a successful smash at the Large Hadron Collider, which has apparently not revoked our pass along the temporal continuity. Or, at least, we've managed to rebuild ourselves back to the current point.
Also, an American federal judge has nullified the ability of corporations to patent gene sequences, rightly figuring the American patent process does not apply to genes, which are products of nature, even if they are manipulated or discovered in a laboratory.
And then, the person denying he's a messiah to the followers that insist he is. Always a strange place to be stuck in.
And finally, author Philip Pullman, no stranger to vitriol about his writing, explains succinctly what someone's rights are when it comes to ideas they don't like. And in that regard, we add Mr. Greenwald's reporting on why governments, in cluding the United States government, want sites like Wikileaks to be shut down - because they keep exposing things those governments don't want their people or anyone else to see. Government censroship is especially pernicious stuff.
In the international realms, a large demonstration against a militant insurgent group in Somalia, one of the largest in years. Wouldn't that be nice to sustain from the populace and possibly kick the insurgents out.
The Central Intelligence Agency believes that Iran has the capability to produce nuclear weapons, putting more pressure on diplomats to resolve the situation peacefully before the warmongers snap and send in the troops.
The United States-Russia nuclear arms reduction agreement may have difficulty passing the United Staets Senate if the language regarding missile defense systems is not to Republican liking - treaties require the support of Republicans to be ratified, so this could be an excellent point for grandstanding, if Republicans wanted to.
A surprise visit from President Obama to Afghanistan may not have much effect on the difficulties of the engagement, which makes sense - unless the locals get involved toward the result you want, it's very difficult for anyone to get a foothold in Afghanistan.
Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Obama may have differences of opinion on how the United States should leverage its economic engine in world affairs, where domestically, Mr. Obama's opponents cry that he must slow down, and Mr. Sarkozy may urge Mr. Obama to speed up his regulations and reforms and set an example for the world to follow, while avoiding protectionism, of course.
Finally, Brazil engages in a unique program to promote both safer sex and slow deforestation use - they're changing their already large condom buying to include sustainable rubber produced in Brazil. Nicely done.
Last out, statistics of indeterminate value - Germans are less concerned about climate change now than they were in 2006 - possibly because large events like bank collapses and economic downturns have occured in the interim.
In the domestic realms, statistics of indeterminate value - about 50 percent of the American populace polled would accept an openly-homosexual president. Several other positions were also queried, all around the 50 percent mark, with a spike in acceptance for a Super Bowl quarterback up past 60 percent acceptance. What they seems to say is "we're fine with you homosexual people, but we're divided on whether we actually believe you should be able to hold elected office and power."
Other statistics of indeterminate value include the polls and implications from the Fox News organization that the American populace thinks the government is bigger, and bigger government is bad.
Your moment of "Really?" arrives with the person claiming he's never seen racial slurs in Tea Party activism, while holding a sign clearly printed with a racial slur. This is probably also part of the dialect derisively known as Teabonics, with several more examples of the "creative" spelling and grammar on display in the linked photo set.
On a similar note, the paramilitary group Minutemen Civil Defense Corps have disbanded from their self-appointed task of watching the United States-Mexico border, citing a hostile attitude from Washington toward them and the acceptance of amnesty ideas among lawmakers. (Hey, if the Times wants to call them "volunteers", we can call them what they are.) Check the rhetoric. Sound familiar? It's like the teabaggers if they were concerned about immigration instead of taxation.
Speaking of people who are both clueless and dangerous, a comprehensive link-filled story of what went down with the whole Hutaree bust, including some of the other plans they were also thinking of doing. According to the article writer, the religious stuff isn't really there, so it would be unfair to call them religiously motivated (terrorists). The Slacktivist notes there is probably some Tribulation Force/LaHaye/Jenkins influence, but the Hutaree diverge from the standard story by wanting to be the post-Rapture soldiers for God. Putting down a different argument, as well as a suggestion on how the Founding Fathers did handle similar situations, The Infamous Brad compares the Hutarees and the upcoming planend armed march on Washington, DC to Shay's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion. In the comment department there, there is at least one user attempting to make the point that liberals are just as wingnutty violent and have been in the past when the previous administrator was in power. There may be significant differences, however, depending on whether lawmakers and legislators egged on the wingnuts into terrorism with their rhetoric and such.
In technology, fragrance cannons will be fired at garbage dumps in Beijing to deal with the smell, magnets were used to disrupt a person's moral condemnations, by affecting a particular part of the brain associated with the task and making them less likely to condemn people who attempted but did not succeed at violence, the distribution of bacteria in the human body as a possible unique identifier,
In the opinions, we open with, yet again, statistics of indeterminate value, this time about how "real men", who happen to be mostly white, are shunning the Democratic party because they're the party of whiners, and whining is totally unacceptable to Real Men. Mr. Pruden, the author, then goes from there to say that the Democrats are terrified of these Real Men, because they found their voice in opposing health care, and they're not going to be quiet about it. In some ways, Mr. Pruden acknowledges the accusation that Tea Partiers are mostly white folk, but then tries to turn it into a strength by saying they're the only True Scotsmen. We generally call that a fallacy of logic.
The Washington Times then produces an unsigned claiming, at least, that gun regulations do not decrease crime, and at best (for them), a positive correlation between gun regulations and crime.
On the matter of health care, Mr. Stokes invokes the founders and makes it his hope that the Supreme Court will rule against the idea of the Constitution as a living document, while weighing in with invective against FDR and his apparent clone, Obama, about their insistence upon "rights" that don't actualy exist and that should never be considered rights. Ms. Parker, on the other hand, argues that mandates will cause increases in price because the supply will remain too low to handle it, and that this new act gets more sheep, err, people, dependent on "the government plantation". Remind me again when it became chic to use slavery references again? I thought those particular privileges had been revoked. Anyway, Mr. Phillips sees the health care bill as a vehicle for destruction of America and its economy, because government spends inefficiently, Private Market is Inherently Superior, All Hail To Its Name, moving on. Ms. Crouse covers the rest of the standard objections - rationed care, innovation slows, quality suffers, Private Market is Inherently Superior, All Hail To Its Name.
Last for tonight, a juror in a stolen credit card case apparently liked the idea and is alleged to have stolen the credit card of another juror and purchased goods with it - that she then brought back into the courtroom. Stu-pid.
We'll cleanse that away with glimpses of some very old Buddhist art and the society that created it. That's better.
Also, an American federal judge has nullified the ability of corporations to patent gene sequences, rightly figuring the American patent process does not apply to genes, which are products of nature, even if they are manipulated or discovered in a laboratory.
And then, the person denying he's a messiah to the followers that insist he is. Always a strange place to be stuck in.
And finally, author Philip Pullman, no stranger to vitriol about his writing, explains succinctly what someone's rights are when it comes to ideas they don't like. And in that regard, we add Mr. Greenwald's reporting on why governments, in cluding the United States government, want sites like Wikileaks to be shut down - because they keep exposing things those governments don't want their people or anyone else to see. Government censroship is especially pernicious stuff.
In the international realms, a large demonstration against a militant insurgent group in Somalia, one of the largest in years. Wouldn't that be nice to sustain from the populace and possibly kick the insurgents out.
The Central Intelligence Agency believes that Iran has the capability to produce nuclear weapons, putting more pressure on diplomats to resolve the situation peacefully before the warmongers snap and send in the troops.
The United States-Russia nuclear arms reduction agreement may have difficulty passing the United Staets Senate if the language regarding missile defense systems is not to Republican liking - treaties require the support of Republicans to be ratified, so this could be an excellent point for grandstanding, if Republicans wanted to.
A surprise visit from President Obama to Afghanistan may not have much effect on the difficulties of the engagement, which makes sense - unless the locals get involved toward the result you want, it's very difficult for anyone to get a foothold in Afghanistan.
Mr. Sarkozy and Mr. Obama may have differences of opinion on how the United States should leverage its economic engine in world affairs, where domestically, Mr. Obama's opponents cry that he must slow down, and Mr. Sarkozy may urge Mr. Obama to speed up his regulations and reforms and set an example for the world to follow, while avoiding protectionism, of course.
Finally, Brazil engages in a unique program to promote both safer sex and slow deforestation use - they're changing their already large condom buying to include sustainable rubber produced in Brazil. Nicely done.
Last out, statistics of indeterminate value - Germans are less concerned about climate change now than they were in 2006 - possibly because large events like bank collapses and economic downturns have occured in the interim.
In the domestic realms, statistics of indeterminate value - about 50 percent of the American populace polled would accept an openly-homosexual president. Several other positions were also queried, all around the 50 percent mark, with a spike in acceptance for a Super Bowl quarterback up past 60 percent acceptance. What they seems to say is "we're fine with you homosexual people, but we're divided on whether we actually believe you should be able to hold elected office and power."
Other statistics of indeterminate value include the polls and implications from the Fox News organization that the American populace thinks the government is bigger, and bigger government is bad.
Your moment of "Really?" arrives with the person claiming he's never seen racial slurs in Tea Party activism, while holding a sign clearly printed with a racial slur. This is probably also part of the dialect derisively known as Teabonics, with several more examples of the "creative" spelling and grammar on display in the linked photo set.
On a similar note, the paramilitary group Minutemen Civil Defense Corps have disbanded from their self-appointed task of watching the United States-Mexico border, citing a hostile attitude from Washington toward them and the acceptance of amnesty ideas among lawmakers. (Hey, if the Times wants to call them "volunteers", we can call them what they are.) Check the rhetoric. Sound familiar? It's like the teabaggers if they were concerned about immigration instead of taxation.
Speaking of people who are both clueless and dangerous, a comprehensive link-filled story of what went down with the whole Hutaree bust, including some of the other plans they were also thinking of doing. According to the article writer, the religious stuff isn't really there, so it would be unfair to call them religiously motivated (terrorists). The Slacktivist notes there is probably some Tribulation Force/LaHaye/Jenkins influence, but the Hutaree diverge from the standard story by wanting to be the post-Rapture soldiers for God. Putting down a different argument, as well as a suggestion on how the Founding Fathers did handle similar situations, The Infamous Brad compares the Hutarees and the upcoming planend armed march on Washington, DC to Shay's Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion. In the comment department there, there is at least one user attempting to make the point that liberals are just as wingnutty violent and have been in the past when the previous administrator was in power. There may be significant differences, however, depending on whether lawmakers and legislators egged on the wingnuts into terrorism with their rhetoric and such.
In technology, fragrance cannons will be fired at garbage dumps in Beijing to deal with the smell, magnets were used to disrupt a person's moral condemnations, by affecting a particular part of the brain associated with the task and making them less likely to condemn people who attempted but did not succeed at violence, the distribution of bacteria in the human body as a possible unique identifier,
In the opinions, we open with, yet again, statistics of indeterminate value, this time about how "real men", who happen to be mostly white, are shunning the Democratic party because they're the party of whiners, and whining is totally unacceptable to Real Men. Mr. Pruden, the author, then goes from there to say that the Democrats are terrified of these Real Men, because they found their voice in opposing health care, and they're not going to be quiet about it. In some ways, Mr. Pruden acknowledges the accusation that Tea Partiers are mostly white folk, but then tries to turn it into a strength by saying they're the only True Scotsmen. We generally call that a fallacy of logic.
The Washington Times then produces an unsigned claiming, at least, that gun regulations do not decrease crime, and at best (for them), a positive correlation between gun regulations and crime.
On the matter of health care, Mr. Stokes invokes the founders and makes it his hope that the Supreme Court will rule against the idea of the Constitution as a living document, while weighing in with invective against FDR and his apparent clone, Obama, about their insistence upon "rights" that don't actualy exist and that should never be considered rights. Ms. Parker, on the other hand, argues that mandates will cause increases in price because the supply will remain too low to handle it, and that this new act gets more sheep, err, people, dependent on "the government plantation". Remind me again when it became chic to use slavery references again? I thought those particular privileges had been revoked. Anyway, Mr. Phillips sees the health care bill as a vehicle for destruction of America and its economy, because government spends inefficiently, Private Market is Inherently Superior, All Hail To Its Name, moving on. Ms. Crouse covers the rest of the standard objections - rationed care, innovation slows, quality suffers, Private Market is Inherently Superior, All Hail To Its Name.
Last for tonight, a juror in a stolen credit card case apparently liked the idea and is alleged to have stolen the credit card of another juror and purchased goods with it - that she then brought back into the courtroom. Stu-pid.
We'll cleanse that away with glimpses of some very old Buddhist art and the society that created it. That's better.
