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Greetings, happy people, wonderful people, and those waiting at bus stops in the rain. Wouldn't it be nice if we had a big fuzzy friend to wait with us?
Speaking of happy things, Ireland looks to be well on their way to the Century of the Fruitbat, with the lower legislative house passing a bill that would allow for legal civil partnerships for lesbians and gay people.
The United Nations has finally voted to set up a group dedicated to the advancement and empowerment of women, after four years of negotiations.
And then there’s the person treating pregnant women with a dangerous drug on an off-label usage with the intent of seeing whether it makes their girl children turn out to be little feminine beings with no interest in being lesbian, bi, or into anything other than their dollies and baby-making, under the cover of treating them for having too many androgens in their bodies, which might ambiguate their genitals and make them take on male characteristics.
Plus The Washington Times pens an unsigned on the demise of American Family Values because the President has decided that LGBTQI people are people too and is working to accomodate them, through passports with no gender binary, adding lesbians and gay men, as well as single parents, to his definition of what family is, extending FMLA to cover any family that has children, so that parents through adoption have time to bond with their child, and authorizing the greation of guidelines for prison workers on how to deal with LGBTQ inmates properly. Yep, it’s a radical social agenda driven by fringe leftists, all right. Also, that unsupported remark about how one parent of each sex is obviously a superior arrangement for raising kids? Bugger off. The studies say repeatedly that kids with lesbian and gay parents do just as well as kids with one of each sex.
Out in the world today, after being portrayed as letting violence run rampant during the G-20 summit, Toronto police changed up tactics, overcorrecting to the point that their methods from there on are criticized as being too much. For an eyewitness account of one of the person in purple being hauled away by police, she writes up the whole thing, from being knocked on the ground to taken away by thugs that never called themeselves police officers through cold cells, cheese sandwiches, and delays in the prospect of the speedy trial. This sounds like a very familiar refrain when it comes to protests and police. I’m beginning to think we need neutral observers as well as the media available at all stages of the protest, arrest, and processing.
A United Nations official suggested that any suggestions for a political solution from the Taliban organizations will arise because those organizations know they will lose if they don't. One would think that the sufficiently fanatical would get more hostile if they knew they were going down with the ship - negotiation means you’re hedging and trying to keep what you have in hopes that you’ll end up winning eventually. If you know you’re going to lose, you don’t negotiate - you make them come and get you.
The sale of nuclear reactors and technology to Pakistan by China has nonproliferation hackles up in the United States, asking China to obtain an exemption from the Nuclear Suppliers Group before proceeding with the sale. Doing so would be entirely voluntary on China’s part.
Inside the United States, we have more financial shenanigans - The Federal Reserve lied to Congress about junk assets they had bought with taxpayer dollars, to help bail out friends. And because the stimulus and other economic recovery measures aren't making it to middle class America (shock and surprise at businesses cutting workers and pocketing as much cash as they can), we have the mortifying statistic that Fifty-five percent of Americans have been laid off, forced into part-time, or had their hours chopped because of the recession.
The best solution to the problem might well be to remember that money is a construction, and that certain debts can (and probably should) be defaulted on so that the economy can restart itself. Perhaps, instead of making interest payments on all our debts, we reduced, defaulted, forgave, and reciprocated those gestures from others where possible so that everybody suddenly has money freed up to stimulate their own economies. I can totally see it. “Okay, we’ll forgive all our Third World debt if our creditors forgive an equal amount of our debt with them.” Not that such a thing would be popular with the opposition, who want you to believe that the grand majority of the current problem is the current administration's fault for not cutting back on everything when they took office.
And as for us regular people, Sallie Mae is moving to Delaware, the most pro-business state in the Union. I doubt this spells happy things for people, and that we may see more bad stories of Sallie Mae, like the one the Slacktivist relates, as they readjust to not being taxpayer-funded.
The Obama Administration and the opposition are unlikely to get any substantive immigration reform passed, over differences in policy, procedure, and that both sides are accusing each other of not taking them seriously on the issue and of trying to find a bipartisan solution. Very tough when both sides have solutions fairly opposite of each other - the Republicans want more troops and “security” to shoot illegal immigrants with and discourage them from trying to come in, as well as things like the Papers Please law to allow police to deport certain segments of illegals based on their looks, the Democrats want a graduated amnesty program better ideas of how to turn the illegal immigration flow into a legal one.
Last out, one of the suspects in an alleged ring of Russian spies confessed, as hearings and trials await the other nine accused.
Into science and technology realms, where we find scientists looking at gene variants that are found mostly in the long-lived, haptic robots moving further and further along the production stage, and some serious consideration that technical and vocational education is worth developing, not just because of demand for work, but that it also suits the skills and interests of students. Not everyone needs two degrees and six years of university to be able to do what they like best.
In the opinions, retired Admiral Lyons critiques the President on appearing weak in the Middle East and the policy of keeping troops in Afghanistan to nation-build past their original mission, because the rules of engagement there make us look weak, much like the President apparently makes us look weak. Mr. Hanson expands the prospect by claiming that little remarks made by President Obama have been seen as opportunities by other countries to get belligerent, attack, or otherwise get aggressive without fear of U.S. reprisal - so apparently the only way to keep peace in the world is to never admit you might have done soemthing wrong or that you’d like to do things differently than by sending the troops in. A self-styled Digital Publius continues the theme by claiming all liberals will lose at Risk, err, war and the spread fo democracy because they have no drive to win and can't see the real world as it is, so instead of pre-emptively glassing someone who looks at us funny, they let hostilities and forces build up until they’re used to attack us, and they don’t even build up forces to retaliate with. Publius then goes on to assert that domino theory is right when you’re talking about terror organizations, even though it was wrong about communists, and the only proper solution is perpetual war toward total victory. Every time. (He also claims that our tiger deterrent is working because nobody has seen a tiger in a few years.)
Messrs. Rector and Donovan think the government is encouraging people to stay on the welfare rolls instead of finding work and getting married like they should be. Their suggested reforms are to encourage marriage through extra tax breaks for children, loudly proclaiming the benefits of getting hitched in low-income areas where all the single mothers plot their next welfare heist, and turning part of TANF into a loan that has to be repaid. We suspect that Mr. Rector and Mr. Donovan want people to stay in hock, whether to the husband they got as a highly-encouraged antipoverty measure, or to the debt they accumulate trying to pay off their assistance, in much the same way a payday loan shark keeps people in debt paying off their several-hundreds percent interest loans. The general point the commenters would have you believe is that government hijacked our willingness to help each other and institutionalized it, making it inefficient and bloated. Government has no drive to do things right, apparently, and is only interested in making more of itself instead of letting The Market (A.P.T.I.N.) handle everything.
And then there’s Mr. Stein claiming that in filing suit against the Papers Please law, the administration tips its hand that it wants to give sweeping amnesty to illegal aliens, and it would rather fight American citizens who pass their own measures than enforce federal immigration laws. To Mr. Stein, all this means is that lots of money is going to be spent so that states can get the right to enforce the law, instead of perhaps taking a second look at the provisions and deciding that perhaps writing in something that says “if it looks like an illegal, question it like one” and believing that writing something in afterward that says “but no racial profiling” is enough to stop what will be racial profiling, because “everyone knows” illegal people don’t look white.
Last for tonight, The annual survey from Sana college finds FDR to be the best President, with Obama at 15, and G.W. Bush plummeting down toward the bottom of the rankings - backlash, perhaps, in belief, true or mistaken, that Obama shows off quite well all the things that were wrong with his Presidency? (While continuing many of those same policies.)
Oh, and apparently, we now have Glenn Beck U. Because being a radio shill isn’t enough, you have to start your own fake institution of learning.
Speaking of happy things, Ireland looks to be well on their way to the Century of the Fruitbat, with the lower legislative house passing a bill that would allow for legal civil partnerships for lesbians and gay people.
The United Nations has finally voted to set up a group dedicated to the advancement and empowerment of women, after four years of negotiations.
And then there’s the person treating pregnant women with a dangerous drug on an off-label usage with the intent of seeing whether it makes their girl children turn out to be little feminine beings with no interest in being lesbian, bi, or into anything other than their dollies and baby-making, under the cover of treating them for having too many androgens in their bodies, which might ambiguate their genitals and make them take on male characteristics.
Plus The Washington Times pens an unsigned on the demise of American Family Values because the President has decided that LGBTQI people are people too and is working to accomodate them, through passports with no gender binary, adding lesbians and gay men, as well as single parents, to his definition of what family is, extending FMLA to cover any family that has children, so that parents through adoption have time to bond with their child, and authorizing the greation of guidelines for prison workers on how to deal with LGBTQ inmates properly. Yep, it’s a radical social agenda driven by fringe leftists, all right. Also, that unsupported remark about how one parent of each sex is obviously a superior arrangement for raising kids? Bugger off. The studies say repeatedly that kids with lesbian and gay parents do just as well as kids with one of each sex.
Out in the world today, after being portrayed as letting violence run rampant during the G-20 summit, Toronto police changed up tactics, overcorrecting to the point that their methods from there on are criticized as being too much. For an eyewitness account of one of the person in purple being hauled away by police, she writes up the whole thing, from being knocked on the ground to taken away by thugs that never called themeselves police officers through cold cells, cheese sandwiches, and delays in the prospect of the speedy trial. This sounds like a very familiar refrain when it comes to protests and police. I’m beginning to think we need neutral observers as well as the media available at all stages of the protest, arrest, and processing.
A United Nations official suggested that any suggestions for a political solution from the Taliban organizations will arise because those organizations know they will lose if they don't. One would think that the sufficiently fanatical would get more hostile if they knew they were going down with the ship - negotiation means you’re hedging and trying to keep what you have in hopes that you’ll end up winning eventually. If you know you’re going to lose, you don’t negotiate - you make them come and get you.
The sale of nuclear reactors and technology to Pakistan by China has nonproliferation hackles up in the United States, asking China to obtain an exemption from the Nuclear Suppliers Group before proceeding with the sale. Doing so would be entirely voluntary on China’s part.
Inside the United States, we have more financial shenanigans - The Federal Reserve lied to Congress about junk assets they had bought with taxpayer dollars, to help bail out friends. And because the stimulus and other economic recovery measures aren't making it to middle class America (shock and surprise at businesses cutting workers and pocketing as much cash as they can), we have the mortifying statistic that Fifty-five percent of Americans have been laid off, forced into part-time, or had their hours chopped because of the recession.
The best solution to the problem might well be to remember that money is a construction, and that certain debts can (and probably should) be defaulted on so that the economy can restart itself. Perhaps, instead of making interest payments on all our debts, we reduced, defaulted, forgave, and reciprocated those gestures from others where possible so that everybody suddenly has money freed up to stimulate their own economies. I can totally see it. “Okay, we’ll forgive all our Third World debt if our creditors forgive an equal amount of our debt with them.” Not that such a thing would be popular with the opposition, who want you to believe that the grand majority of the current problem is the current administration's fault for not cutting back on everything when they took office.
And as for us regular people, Sallie Mae is moving to Delaware, the most pro-business state in the Union. I doubt this spells happy things for people, and that we may see more bad stories of Sallie Mae, like the one the Slacktivist relates, as they readjust to not being taxpayer-funded.
The Obama Administration and the opposition are unlikely to get any substantive immigration reform passed, over differences in policy, procedure, and that both sides are accusing each other of not taking them seriously on the issue and of trying to find a bipartisan solution. Very tough when both sides have solutions fairly opposite of each other - the Republicans want more troops and “security” to shoot illegal immigrants with and discourage them from trying to come in, as well as things like the Papers Please law to allow police to deport certain segments of illegals based on their looks, the Democrats want a graduated amnesty program better ideas of how to turn the illegal immigration flow into a legal one.
Last out, one of the suspects in an alleged ring of Russian spies confessed, as hearings and trials await the other nine accused.
Into science and technology realms, where we find scientists looking at gene variants that are found mostly in the long-lived, haptic robots moving further and further along the production stage, and some serious consideration that technical and vocational education is worth developing, not just because of demand for work, but that it also suits the skills and interests of students. Not everyone needs two degrees and six years of university to be able to do what they like best.
In the opinions, retired Admiral Lyons critiques the President on appearing weak in the Middle East and the policy of keeping troops in Afghanistan to nation-build past their original mission, because the rules of engagement there make us look weak, much like the President apparently makes us look weak. Mr. Hanson expands the prospect by claiming that little remarks made by President Obama have been seen as opportunities by other countries to get belligerent, attack, or otherwise get aggressive without fear of U.S. reprisal - so apparently the only way to keep peace in the world is to never admit you might have done soemthing wrong or that you’d like to do things differently than by sending the troops in. A self-styled Digital Publius continues the theme by claiming all liberals will lose at Risk, err, war and the spread fo democracy because they have no drive to win and can't see the real world as it is, so instead of pre-emptively glassing someone who looks at us funny, they let hostilities and forces build up until they’re used to attack us, and they don’t even build up forces to retaliate with. Publius then goes on to assert that domino theory is right when you’re talking about terror organizations, even though it was wrong about communists, and the only proper solution is perpetual war toward total victory. Every time. (He also claims that our tiger deterrent is working because nobody has seen a tiger in a few years.)
Messrs. Rector and Donovan think the government is encouraging people to stay on the welfare rolls instead of finding work and getting married like they should be. Their suggested reforms are to encourage marriage through extra tax breaks for children, loudly proclaiming the benefits of getting hitched in low-income areas where all the single mothers plot their next welfare heist, and turning part of TANF into a loan that has to be repaid. We suspect that Mr. Rector and Mr. Donovan want people to stay in hock, whether to the husband they got as a highly-encouraged antipoverty measure, or to the debt they accumulate trying to pay off their assistance, in much the same way a payday loan shark keeps people in debt paying off their several-hundreds percent interest loans. The general point the commenters would have you believe is that government hijacked our willingness to help each other and institutionalized it, making it inefficient and bloated. Government has no drive to do things right, apparently, and is only interested in making more of itself instead of letting The Market (A.P.T.I.N.) handle everything.
And then there’s Mr. Stein claiming that in filing suit against the Papers Please law, the administration tips its hand that it wants to give sweeping amnesty to illegal aliens, and it would rather fight American citizens who pass their own measures than enforce federal immigration laws. To Mr. Stein, all this means is that lots of money is going to be spent so that states can get the right to enforce the law, instead of perhaps taking a second look at the provisions and deciding that perhaps writing in something that says “if it looks like an illegal, question it like one” and believing that writing something in afterward that says “but no racial profiling” is enough to stop what will be racial profiling, because “everyone knows” illegal people don’t look white.
Last for tonight, The annual survey from Sana college finds FDR to be the best President, with Obama at 15, and G.W. Bush plummeting down toward the bottom of the rankings - backlash, perhaps, in belief, true or mistaken, that Obama shows off quite well all the things that were wrong with his Presidency? (While continuing many of those same policies.)
Oh, and apparently, we now have Glenn Beck U. Because being a radio shill isn’t enough, you have to start your own fake institution of learning.
