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Vacation Taken - 04-07 April 2010
Apr. 8th, 2010 12:10 amGreetings to all of you, seekers of truth and light. For those who celebrate the return of a God Son from the dead, the Slacktivist offers his take on the great power of the day before the promise of resurrection is fulfilled, and how much he feels that day is integral to Christianity.
We have seen The Eleventh Hour. We’re giving the new Doctor a series to get his bearings. Do like the TARDIS, however, and the companion choice seems quite solid.
Professionally speaking, rocker Keith Richards, in his new book, says he’d like to be a librarian, and considered professional training to manage his own collection.
In the world today, after consulting with Islamic clerics, a shop intending to sell sex novelties and products to Muslims has opened in the Netherlands. I have one thing to say to this - AWE-SOME. Now, will someone leaflet Dubai with the website - they’re still stuck on convicting a kissing couple of indecency.
WikiLeaks has released video of an attack in 2007 from an American helicopter that killed an Iraqi journalist. The military has confirmed that the video is genuine. The best response to this comes from the Slacktivist, reminding us again, you're not allowed to kill civilians.
A gent attempted to frame another by breaking into the house and downloading kiddie porn on the victim's computer. He was caught, but not before the suspicion of kiddie porn had descended on the victim. This is definitely one of the ways that the modern world offers revenge. As it turns out, the attacker wanted to fulfill a fantasy of taking the victim’s place in the family.
In the United States, the Supreme Court of New Jersey has indicated the attorney-client privilege extends even to e-mails sent at work computers using web-based e-mail clients, and that the employer cannot use copies of those communications in their defense.
The city of Salt Lake, Utah enacted two new non-discrimination ordinances regarding sexual orientation, making them remarkably fruit-bat in a state that doesn’t particualrly like women or homosexuals, judging by their laws. They don’t seem to be quite as much for the re-writing of American history to suit their ideological ends, though.
Looking for any way they can manage to keep or get jobs, some seekers are looking to cosmetic surgery to keep their looks up, thinking that any blemish or problem with their face would distract from their talent.
The United States government has quietly decided Abu Zabaydah was not all the things the Bush Administration said he was when they sent him to
In technology, traditinoal Indian medicinal plants face extinction, which can’t be good for species diversity, regardless of actual medicinal value, an interview suggesting that all of our lives will soon be more like games and play, which could be awesome, or could be evil, but could even infiltrate our work spaces to make us enjoy our work more.
Elsewhere, human bone grown in the lab, more research into cars that can sense hazards and stop the car automatically, yet more reasons why PDFs are potentially dangerous things, and a remote-controlled female android, still hoping to do some gap-bridging.
Oh, and iPad's been jailbroken.
In the opinions, a suggestion that persuasion, not coercion, is the best way to gather intelligence.
Mr. Cline digs deeper into the teabagger phenomenon of opposing and hating programs that they will and do benefit greatly from, and concludes that teabaggers are caught in a seriously dissonant cognitive state, where they are trying to maintain the illusion that their government assistance is just because they work hard or some other X, while other government assistance or expansions to that assistance is socialism or trying to reward the lazy. Thus, they can benefit greatly while advocating against those who want them to benefit more.
And then there's Fox News, chief enabler and provider of new places for teabaggers to throw their anger.
It’s time to play for the quiche derby. To lead into our evil department, the state of Virginia made its proclamation for Confederate History Month. We can only hope that they’re only promoting the good bits and not the bad.
Making an effort to earn the coveted prize, Bob Tiernan actually tries to defend the Republican trip to Voyeur, a lesbian-and-bondage-themed clue, where they expensed more than $2000. By saying that the nudity in the club isn’t actually there, despite the reviews saying that there’s a whole lot of nudity.
Getting close to the worst, and adding to their tally of possible Worst Persons in Time, The Catholic Chruch shifted a priest accused of child abuse out of the country to India, and has no plans of returning him to the U.S. to face the charges. Beyond that, though, one of the Pope's preachers compared the sex abuse scandal to anti-Semitism, with the Catholic Church as the Jews, and tried to claim the Pope was being attacked because he opposed homosexuality and abortion, while others calling themselves Catholics blamed the pedophilia on a "crisis" of homosexuality, culminating in Bill Donahue doing his best to blame others, anyone he can, to justify that the Pope did what any employer would do upon accusations of child abuse by an employee and that critics are blowing something small out of proportion because all thsoe critics just hate the Catholic Church. There are a lot of reasons why that article is wrong.
Tonight’s winners of being the Very Worst Persons in the World, the residents of Fulton, Mississippi. After the school canceled Constance McMillen's prom because she wanted to bring her female date, the parents of her town organized a secret prom for the students that Constance was not invited to. The one she actually went to had about seven people in attendance, including her and her date. Constance won her case against the school for discrimination, and then the town pulls a “No Lesibans Allowed” club and holds a prom somewhere else, instead of choosing to embrace diversity. Now that they’ve shown their stripes, we can stamp them with “Worst. People. In. The. World!” Oh, and did we mention the Facebook group telling her to quit whining?
That’s it for this point. Probably more serious and detailed stuff tomorrow.
We have seen The Eleventh Hour. We’re giving the new Doctor a series to get his bearings. Do like the TARDIS, however, and the companion choice seems quite solid.
Professionally speaking, rocker Keith Richards, in his new book, says he’d like to be a librarian, and considered professional training to manage his own collection.
In the world today, after consulting with Islamic clerics, a shop intending to sell sex novelties and products to Muslims has opened in the Netherlands. I have one thing to say to this - AWE-SOME. Now, will someone leaflet Dubai with the website - they’re still stuck on convicting a kissing couple of indecency.
WikiLeaks has released video of an attack in 2007 from an American helicopter that killed an Iraqi journalist. The military has confirmed that the video is genuine. The best response to this comes from the Slacktivist, reminding us again, you're not allowed to kill civilians.
A gent attempted to frame another by breaking into the house and downloading kiddie porn on the victim's computer. He was caught, but not before the suspicion of kiddie porn had descended on the victim. This is definitely one of the ways that the modern world offers revenge. As it turns out, the attacker wanted to fulfill a fantasy of taking the victim’s place in the family.
In the United States, the Supreme Court of New Jersey has indicated the attorney-client privilege extends even to e-mails sent at work computers using web-based e-mail clients, and that the employer cannot use copies of those communications in their defense.
The city of Salt Lake, Utah enacted two new non-discrimination ordinances regarding sexual orientation, making them remarkably fruit-bat in a state that doesn’t particualrly like women or homosexuals, judging by their laws. They don’t seem to be quite as much for the re-writing of American history to suit their ideological ends, though.
Looking for any way they can manage to keep or get jobs, some seekers are looking to cosmetic surgery to keep their looks up, thinking that any blemish or problem with their face would distract from their talent.
The United States government has quietly decided Abu Zabaydah was not all the things the Bush Administration said he was when they sent him to
In technology, traditinoal Indian medicinal plants face extinction, which can’t be good for species diversity, regardless of actual medicinal value, an interview suggesting that all of our lives will soon be more like games and play, which could be awesome, or could be evil, but could even infiltrate our work spaces to make us enjoy our work more.
Elsewhere, human bone grown in the lab, more research into cars that can sense hazards and stop the car automatically, yet more reasons why PDFs are potentially dangerous things, and a remote-controlled female android, still hoping to do some gap-bridging.
Oh, and iPad's been jailbroken.
In the opinions, a suggestion that persuasion, not coercion, is the best way to gather intelligence.
Mr. Cline digs deeper into the teabagger phenomenon of opposing and hating programs that they will and do benefit greatly from, and concludes that teabaggers are caught in a seriously dissonant cognitive state, where they are trying to maintain the illusion that their government assistance is just because they work hard or some other X, while other government assistance or expansions to that assistance is socialism or trying to reward the lazy. Thus, they can benefit greatly while advocating against those who want them to benefit more.
And then there's Fox News, chief enabler and provider of new places for teabaggers to throw their anger.
It’s time to play for the quiche derby. To lead into our evil department, the state of Virginia made its proclamation for Confederate History Month. We can only hope that they’re only promoting the good bits and not the bad.
Making an effort to earn the coveted prize, Bob Tiernan actually tries to defend the Republican trip to Voyeur, a lesbian-and-bondage-themed clue, where they expensed more than $2000. By saying that the nudity in the club isn’t actually there, despite the reviews saying that there’s a whole lot of nudity.
Getting close to the worst, and adding to their tally of possible Worst Persons in Time, The Catholic Chruch shifted a priest accused of child abuse out of the country to India, and has no plans of returning him to the U.S. to face the charges. Beyond that, though, one of the Pope's preachers compared the sex abuse scandal to anti-Semitism, with the Catholic Church as the Jews, and tried to claim the Pope was being attacked because he opposed homosexuality and abortion, while others calling themselves Catholics blamed the pedophilia on a "crisis" of homosexuality, culminating in Bill Donahue doing his best to blame others, anyone he can, to justify that the Pope did what any employer would do upon accusations of child abuse by an employee and that critics are blowing something small out of proportion because all thsoe critics just hate the Catholic Church. There are a lot of reasons why that article is wrong.
Tonight’s winners of being the Very Worst Persons in the World, the residents of Fulton, Mississippi. After the school canceled Constance McMillen's prom because she wanted to bring her female date, the parents of her town organized a secret prom for the students that Constance was not invited to. The one she actually went to had about seven people in attendance, including her and her date. Constance won her case against the school for discrimination, and then the town pulls a “No Lesibans Allowed” club and holds a prom somewhere else, instead of choosing to embrace diversity. Now that they’ve shown their stripes, we can stamp them with “Worst. People. In. The. World!” Oh, and did we mention the Facebook group telling her to quit whining?
That’s it for this point. Probably more serious and detailed stuff tomorrow.
