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Salutations, people who secretly wish they were caught in the middle of an improv show they weren’t tipped off to. Improv Everywhere stages the opening scene of Ghostbusters in the New York Public Library several years after the movie came out. Hee.
Out in the world today, someone didn’t pay attention to why things were they way they were, and merged her separate, in her maiden name cell phone account with the in her husband's name cable accounts, sent one global bill, and in doing so, exposed the affair she had been having, because now he could see what her cell what doing and calling. She’s suing the company for merging things without her express permission and without notifying her that it was happening.
Have 160 or less characters for Pope Benedict? Now's your chance to text him.
A judge in Malawi convicted [RECORDSCRATCH-original, two men] a couple, one identifying as male, the other as female, of unnatural acts and gross indecency for celebrating their engagement. *sigh*. Love should not be criminal. Nor should it be seen as something worthy of assault, as three gay men assaulted at a pride parade were. For an example of better behavior, let’s head to Singapore's Hong Lim Park and the Pink Dot celebration.
And following on an earlier story, the gay father of twins who wasn't allowed to bring them back to Israel? It took the District Attorney's Office, and possibly the Prime Minister, telling the judge to not be a dick before tha paternity test was ordered.
Iraqi authorities claim to have detained an al-Qaeda operative who was planning a terrorist attack at the World Cup tournament in South Africa this year. On the terror front, the United States thinks Pakistan is holding back useful Concept War intelligence from their detainees. Maybe because the U.S. is still sending in drone strikes to kill people in the country?
And to increase your paranoia, or to cement in your mind that Israel will attack if the United States does not upon Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, Israel has begun war exercises that assume Iran has nuclear capability. And add on skepticism that Iran will be shipping nuclear fuel to Turkey, and we’re still heading down whatever course that has been decided. With the United States still insisting that it has total support for Isreal, despite message mix-up over the last year and change.
Domestically, Mark Souder does what John Ensign won't - resigns after admitting to an affair.
A judge has ordered that students and their parents of the Lower Merion School District be able to view images captured by the laptops alleged to have spied on them at home. So now the students get to see the extent of what they were photographed doing or not doing.
Speaking of schooling, California is considering a bill that would bar the state from purchasing any textbooks that meet the proposed significantly more right-wing textbook standards of Texas. According to some publishers, California would have their own version of textbooks available anyway, so they wouldn’t see any of the Texas changes, but California wants to check them and make sure none of the porposed Texas content, if passed, makes it to their books. So one might have choices in textbook manufacture - those that fit California’s standards, or those that fit Texas’s. Wonder if someone would track how many of each type were bought outside of both states. And in case you thought they were merely playing chicken, the current majority of the Texas Board of Ed still plans on going through with their revisionism to add God, remove minorities, and steer the system more toward turning out little pro-war, pro-white, anti-tax Christian Republi-TeaBaggers instead of students who know a little bit about their own history but not much more.
The person in charge of the War on (Some) Drugs at this point says that it has not worked nor met any of its goals, a position his precedessor takes issue with, claiming the War has blunted the impact of what things could have been.
In a place known basically only to the participants a privileged few, a night market comes alive, and people put in some very interactive installations in the backs of otherwise-unmarked box trucks. Come participate in the show, see the spa, be the star of a Surveillance Video Plot, or something else.
The Washington Post is running an experiment in unpaid blog contributors similar to the model of the Huffington Post, having noticed that HuffPo does what it does well and gets lots of eyeballs from it.
In technology, some scientists are worried that our full-body, see-your-genitals scanners might be outputting harmful doses of radiation to those persons that are sensitive or have mutations that will react poorly to extra radiation doses.
There’s also the increasing amount of medical information on-line leading to more people self-diagnosing, and not always correctly.
A suggestion that China's Great Firewall is a trade barrier, and thus could fall under the pressure of the WTO to be removed. Novel, certainly.
We’ve also seen the bio-manufactured brick, that takes sand, adds bacteria, and produces a brick. No clay nor backing needed.
Plus, software to help take advantage of the power of the GPU to run operations that the CPU would normally handle, trying to teach robots how to interact politely witht he world around them, and a successfully implanted biofuel device, generating power from glucose and thus not needing to be taken out and replaced once implanted.
And thus, opinions, where writers complain that the President is signing a bill about press freedom while holding no press conferences nor answering any questions about it. I wonder whether this will develop further into the narrative of Obama, the President Scared to Meet The Press or something like that. Despite all of his interviews and content distribution, that is. President Obama may be the first to embrace the idea that he can get his message out the way he intends it and avoid the meddling influence of journalists in the first place. He might very well be embracing the idea that every company is a media company, regardless of whether their products are girders or broadcasts and extending it to government, too.
On the big oil spill in the Gulf, Mr. Carroll says some of the blame must rest with the federal government, either the ornerous regulations or the waivers granted to them, and the apparently ineffective inspections the government did of the rig before it failed. The solution is not only to make corporations responsible for their safety, but to then hold them accountable for failures, a position we agree with. Fine the living hell out of their profits for small accidents, and even more for bigger ones, and make it so they have to be exceedingly safe because their profits will vanish for several years in fines if they aren’t.
On immigration, Mr. Hunt accuses both those calling for the immediate deportation of Jessica Colotl and those calling for the immediate repeal of the Papers Please law as overreacting, and charts a Third Way where those here illegally are brought into legal status through payment of fines and taxes at the least, and the federal government decides to create and enforce a coherent and cogent immigration policy, instead of leaving things piecemeal and up to the states.
Messrs. Gattuso and John return to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as the true cause of sub-prime mortgage crisis, and insist that the only way to truly make good on a promise that the taxpayers won't have to bail anyone out is to break them up and disband them.
The Washington Times claims nominee Kagan would classify a founding document of the United States as electioneering and subject to campaign restrictions, and that her willingness to say that some speech should be balanced against its societal costs should be an automatic disqualifier. Despite the laws about incitement to riot and other sorts of speech that is clearly unfree. And that there were remarks that such regulation would have to be non-ideologically based. The Times also knee-jerks at a comment about governments granting individuals and corporations the ability to make wealth, saying that only individuals can create wealth, and only The Market (A.P.T.I.N.) can correct imbalances in speech through more speech and more money. Without the government, however, most people would find it very hard to amass any sort of wealth, as the infrastructure needed to produce and the laws protecting that wealth are the products of government.
Mr. Nugent insists that the only thing that Americans are entitled to is to go out everyday and work as much as they can, and if they can't produce, then it sucks to be them. His message of fiscal responsibility and adapting to the times for both individuals and governments is poisoned by the insistence that only individual savings should be one’s safety net, and that by extension, some people deserve to suffer because they’re, in his opinion, too lazy to find work (or work the 100-hour workweek they need to be able to survive on their salary), didn’t save enough for disasters (some of which will bankrupt anyone, regardless of their preparations), or too stupid to cut back on their spending when their incomes go down.
And last of opinions, Ms. Parker complains about the Attorney General not saying what "everyone knows", that modern terrorists are always Muslim. She sees it as a black-and-white issue and then veers away from Occam toward secret conspiracy territory by insinuating that people who have something other than America’s best interests at heart are in charge of the country. Ms. Parker, you missed the Hutaree conversation, then? And you’re ignoring the white-supremacy groups, the people who think Timothy McVeigh is the true martyr, or, say, the person who flew the plane into the IRS building? All of them are Muslims, too? Perhaps next time, you could do even a cursory sweep of the research before making demonstrably false statements?
Last for tonight, a combination review of the magazine Sassy and the book that recently came out chronicling it.
Out in the world today, someone didn’t pay attention to why things were they way they were, and merged her separate, in her maiden name cell phone account with the in her husband's name cable accounts, sent one global bill, and in doing so, exposed the affair she had been having, because now he could see what her cell what doing and calling. She’s suing the company for merging things without her express permission and without notifying her that it was happening.
Have 160 or less characters for Pope Benedict? Now's your chance to text him.
A judge in Malawi convicted [RECORDSCRATCH-original, two men] a couple, one identifying as male, the other as female, of unnatural acts and gross indecency for celebrating their engagement. *sigh*. Love should not be criminal. Nor should it be seen as something worthy of assault, as three gay men assaulted at a pride parade were. For an example of better behavior, let’s head to Singapore's Hong Lim Park and the Pink Dot celebration.
And following on an earlier story, the gay father of twins who wasn't allowed to bring them back to Israel? It took the District Attorney's Office, and possibly the Prime Minister, telling the judge to not be a dick before tha paternity test was ordered.
Iraqi authorities claim to have detained an al-Qaeda operative who was planning a terrorist attack at the World Cup tournament in South Africa this year. On the terror front, the United States thinks Pakistan is holding back useful Concept War intelligence from their detainees. Maybe because the U.S. is still sending in drone strikes to kill people in the country?
And to increase your paranoia, or to cement in your mind that Israel will attack if the United States does not upon Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, Israel has begun war exercises that assume Iran has nuclear capability. And add on skepticism that Iran will be shipping nuclear fuel to Turkey, and we’re still heading down whatever course that has been decided. With the United States still insisting that it has total support for Isreal, despite message mix-up over the last year and change.
Domestically, Mark Souder does what John Ensign won't - resigns after admitting to an affair.
A judge has ordered that students and their parents of the Lower Merion School District be able to view images captured by the laptops alleged to have spied on them at home. So now the students get to see the extent of what they were photographed doing or not doing.
Speaking of schooling, California is considering a bill that would bar the state from purchasing any textbooks that meet the proposed significantly more right-wing textbook standards of Texas. According to some publishers, California would have their own version of textbooks available anyway, so they wouldn’t see any of the Texas changes, but California wants to check them and make sure none of the porposed Texas content, if passed, makes it to their books. So one might have choices in textbook manufacture - those that fit California’s standards, or those that fit Texas’s. Wonder if someone would track how many of each type were bought outside of both states. And in case you thought they were merely playing chicken, the current majority of the Texas Board of Ed still plans on going through with their revisionism to add God, remove minorities, and steer the system more toward turning out little pro-war, pro-white, anti-tax Christian Republi-TeaBaggers instead of students who know a little bit about their own history but not much more.
The person in charge of the War on (Some) Drugs at this point says that it has not worked nor met any of its goals, a position his precedessor takes issue with, claiming the War has blunted the impact of what things could have been.
In a place known basically only to the participants a privileged few, a night market comes alive, and people put in some very interactive installations in the backs of otherwise-unmarked box trucks. Come participate in the show, see the spa, be the star of a Surveillance Video Plot, or something else.
The Washington Post is running an experiment in unpaid blog contributors similar to the model of the Huffington Post, having noticed that HuffPo does what it does well and gets lots of eyeballs from it.
In technology, some scientists are worried that our full-body, see-your-genitals scanners might be outputting harmful doses of radiation to those persons that are sensitive or have mutations that will react poorly to extra radiation doses.
There’s also the increasing amount of medical information on-line leading to more people self-diagnosing, and not always correctly.
A suggestion that China's Great Firewall is a trade barrier, and thus could fall under the pressure of the WTO to be removed. Novel, certainly.
We’ve also seen the bio-manufactured brick, that takes sand, adds bacteria, and produces a brick. No clay nor backing needed.
Plus, software to help take advantage of the power of the GPU to run operations that the CPU would normally handle, trying to teach robots how to interact politely witht he world around them, and a successfully implanted biofuel device, generating power from glucose and thus not needing to be taken out and replaced once implanted.
And thus, opinions, where writers complain that the President is signing a bill about press freedom while holding no press conferences nor answering any questions about it. I wonder whether this will develop further into the narrative of Obama, the President Scared to Meet The Press or something like that. Despite all of his interviews and content distribution, that is. President Obama may be the first to embrace the idea that he can get his message out the way he intends it and avoid the meddling influence of journalists in the first place. He might very well be embracing the idea that every company is a media company, regardless of whether their products are girders or broadcasts and extending it to government, too.
On the big oil spill in the Gulf, Mr. Carroll says some of the blame must rest with the federal government, either the ornerous regulations or the waivers granted to them, and the apparently ineffective inspections the government did of the rig before it failed. The solution is not only to make corporations responsible for their safety, but to then hold them accountable for failures, a position we agree with. Fine the living hell out of their profits for small accidents, and even more for bigger ones, and make it so they have to be exceedingly safe because their profits will vanish for several years in fines if they aren’t.
On immigration, Mr. Hunt accuses both those calling for the immediate deportation of Jessica Colotl and those calling for the immediate repeal of the Papers Please law as overreacting, and charts a Third Way where those here illegally are brought into legal status through payment of fines and taxes at the least, and the federal government decides to create and enforce a coherent and cogent immigration policy, instead of leaving things piecemeal and up to the states.
Messrs. Gattuso and John return to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as the true cause of sub-prime mortgage crisis, and insist that the only way to truly make good on a promise that the taxpayers won't have to bail anyone out is to break them up and disband them.
The Washington Times claims nominee Kagan would classify a founding document of the United States as electioneering and subject to campaign restrictions, and that her willingness to say that some speech should be balanced against its societal costs should be an automatic disqualifier. Despite the laws about incitement to riot and other sorts of speech that is clearly unfree. And that there were remarks that such regulation would have to be non-ideologically based. The Times also knee-jerks at a comment about governments granting individuals and corporations the ability to make wealth, saying that only individuals can create wealth, and only The Market (A.P.T.I.N.) can correct imbalances in speech through more speech and more money. Without the government, however, most people would find it very hard to amass any sort of wealth, as the infrastructure needed to produce and the laws protecting that wealth are the products of government.
Mr. Nugent insists that the only thing that Americans are entitled to is to go out everyday and work as much as they can, and if they can't produce, then it sucks to be them. His message of fiscal responsibility and adapting to the times for both individuals and governments is poisoned by the insistence that only individual savings should be one’s safety net, and that by extension, some people deserve to suffer because they’re, in his opinion, too lazy to find work (or work the 100-hour workweek they need to be able to survive on their salary), didn’t save enough for disasters (some of which will bankrupt anyone, regardless of their preparations), or too stupid to cut back on their spending when their incomes go down.
And last of opinions, Ms. Parker complains about the Attorney General not saying what "everyone knows", that modern terrorists are always Muslim. She sees it as a black-and-white issue and then veers away from Occam toward secret conspiracy territory by insinuating that people who have something other than America’s best interests at heart are in charge of the country. Ms. Parker, you missed the Hutaree conversation, then? And you’re ignoring the white-supremacy groups, the people who think Timothy McVeigh is the true martyr, or, say, the person who flew the plane into the IRS building? All of them are Muslims, too? Perhaps next time, you could do even a cursory sweep of the research before making demonstrably false statements?
Last for tonight, a combination review of the magazine Sassy and the book that recently came out chronicling it.
