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Another day in time - 21 January 2011
Jan. 21st, 2011 09:39 amGreetings, people of great interest. If you want to know what kind of panic Wikileaks inspires, observe the prevalence of a telephone scam that accuses someone of having collaborated with Wikileaks and tells them they have to pay a steep fine for doing so.
Dr. King continues to be in the minds of people, at least for the moment. Remember that Dr. King was also very anti-war, which makes the claim that Dr. King would support the current Land Wars in Asia incredibly laguhable. Only by reducing Dr. King to one dimension would anyone be able to make that claim.
Out in the world today, the worry of being the last Christian in the town, with no priest and no fellow practitioners, the result of that area of Iraq having been a stronghold for al-Qaeda and other extremist groups that were not as friendly as the people in town.
The United States helped the Vietnamese government locate an unmarked mass grave of soldiers from the conflict of decades ago.
According to the British Medical Association, homeopathic remedies are in the same class as "witchcraft" and the National Health Service should not have to pay for them.
Finally, an in-depth look at the plutocrats of our modern era, many of whom are self-made through their work and actively trying to get more, instead of living off of inheritances or money that was there before them, and their own self-making is both blinding them to the suffering of others and inspiring them to give lots of their wealth to their own philanthropic foundations. In all cases, the rich are getting richer, they're not necessarily sympathetic to the idea that the middle class should get richer as well, and with globalization and international trade, the very rich are finding ways and markets to grow their own profits without having to grow the wealth of the people underneath them. It sounds much like Galtian paradise and Randian heaven, but unless you're certain you're Galt, if it happens, you're screwed.
Inside the United States, The House of Representatives held their largely-symoblic vote on repealing the health care bill, and the Republican majority passed the bill through, where it will die in the Senate. Of course, now that Republicans actually have to govern, they're suddenly very interested in making sure the Senate isn't a place where all bills go to die. And they really want you to believe that it's more than merely symbolic, that the American people really do want it repealed.
A Representative, Mr. Hunter of California, wishes to introduce a bill that would require the chiefs of each branch of the armed services to give their personal okay before the repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell would actually be implemented. In doing so, Mr. Hunter would basically allow the Marine Corps Commmandant to exercise veto power over the legislature, the Executive, SecDef, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and block the implementation of the repeal.
Staying on the military theme, several mentors and advisors to the military may quit their advisory roles rather than comply with new regulations that requrie them to disclose their outside organization ties so as to avoid conflicts of interest.
The new Veterans' Affairs committee members contain one person with military experience.
The governor of Alabama apologized for remarks he made about how persons who were not devout Christians were not his brothers and sisters, saying that he intended to be a governor for all faiths and that nobody should hate another based on their religious beliefs. For context, the governor was speaking in a church to people of a similar belief as him, so it might have been that he was speaking in the religious context to the flock and not making a general statement. The fact that he apologized only if someone took offense to said remarks is less happy than just a blanket apology.
In technology, according to a study, we could have all of our power consumption provided by renewable sources by 2030, if the will and funding were available for it.
Into opinions, where Mr. Stossel continues to insist that whole departments be cut, spending be rolled back to 2002 levels, and that the government require big things, like defense and entitlements, also be cut severely. He also thinks that it's a good idea to repeal two laws for each one passed. Mr. Will might agree, but he seems to busy trying to make it look like the Obama administration's first two years have been unequivocal failures, and that the people have wholeheartedly rejected his and every liberal's agenda.
Mr. Williams says the nation is so divided on political issues because politics are inherently a zero-sum game, and someone always gets forced to do the opposite of what they want to do, so the obvious solution is to remove governmental influence from people's lives, so they don't feel zero-summed at everything. Get rid of the regulations, and let everyone do what they want to do, assuming they can afford it.
Mr. Sperry claims tht Suhail Khan is not just a RINO, but a wolf in sheep's clothing because he is not rabidly, knee-jerkingly, and absolutley opposed to anything that might treat Muslims as people instead of the Evil Bloodthirsty Religion and might speak occasionally to Muslim groups about how they need to continue a peaceful struggle.
Mr. Carroll believes that the President's op-ed that said he'd tell people to reduce their regulations is all hat and no cattle, and that if he really was serious about it, he'd stop his branch from going through their formal rule-makings.
Mr. Sowell accuses most newspaper articles about the need for blight renovation or redevelopment of other areas are realy advertisements for the govrnment's program of stealing money from you, wealthy taxpayer, and giving it to poor people who don't deserve it, because if they really deserved affordable housing or redevelopment, some private enterprise would have invested it in already.
And last out, The Washington Times continues to be smug about how much President Obama's policies have resembled the policies of the previous administrator and his vice-captain, and how much the left must be tongue-tied in being unable to criticize Mr. Obama with the same wild abandon they used against the previous administrator.
Finally for tonight, recall that certain interpretations of the idea of the "sanctity of marriage" include that anyone married to an abusive husband must stay married to them until G-d decides to strike them dead for their abusiveness. Should you decide to divorce, then you're committing adultery and should also be struck dead by G-d. So, dead if you're abused, dead if you divorce. It's almost like someone just wants women to be dead. Oh, and while you might think it's abuse, it's really just your husband being tired, or just a bad situation, so you shouldn't jump to conclusions about it being abuse. And you should be willing to look past all of that if you actually loved him. After all, you married him, right?
Dr. King continues to be in the minds of people, at least for the moment. Remember that Dr. King was also very anti-war, which makes the claim that Dr. King would support the current Land Wars in Asia incredibly laguhable. Only by reducing Dr. King to one dimension would anyone be able to make that claim.
Out in the world today, the worry of being the last Christian in the town, with no priest and no fellow practitioners, the result of that area of Iraq having been a stronghold for al-Qaeda and other extremist groups that were not as friendly as the people in town.
The United States helped the Vietnamese government locate an unmarked mass grave of soldiers from the conflict of decades ago.
According to the British Medical Association, homeopathic remedies are in the same class as "witchcraft" and the National Health Service should not have to pay for them.
Finally, an in-depth look at the plutocrats of our modern era, many of whom are self-made through their work and actively trying to get more, instead of living off of inheritances or money that was there before them, and their own self-making is both blinding them to the suffering of others and inspiring them to give lots of their wealth to their own philanthropic foundations. In all cases, the rich are getting richer, they're not necessarily sympathetic to the idea that the middle class should get richer as well, and with globalization and international trade, the very rich are finding ways and markets to grow their own profits without having to grow the wealth of the people underneath them. It sounds much like Galtian paradise and Randian heaven, but unless you're certain you're Galt, if it happens, you're screwed.
Inside the United States, The House of Representatives held their largely-symoblic vote on repealing the health care bill, and the Republican majority passed the bill through, where it will die in the Senate. Of course, now that Republicans actually have to govern, they're suddenly very interested in making sure the Senate isn't a place where all bills go to die. And they really want you to believe that it's more than merely symbolic, that the American people really do want it repealed.
A Representative, Mr. Hunter of California, wishes to introduce a bill that would require the chiefs of each branch of the armed services to give their personal okay before the repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell would actually be implemented. In doing so, Mr. Hunter would basically allow the Marine Corps Commmandant to exercise veto power over the legislature, the Executive, SecDef, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and block the implementation of the repeal.
Staying on the military theme, several mentors and advisors to the military may quit their advisory roles rather than comply with new regulations that requrie them to disclose their outside organization ties so as to avoid conflicts of interest.
The new Veterans' Affairs committee members contain one person with military experience.
The governor of Alabama apologized for remarks he made about how persons who were not devout Christians were not his brothers and sisters, saying that he intended to be a governor for all faiths and that nobody should hate another based on their religious beliefs. For context, the governor was speaking in a church to people of a similar belief as him, so it might have been that he was speaking in the religious context to the flock and not making a general statement. The fact that he apologized only if someone took offense to said remarks is less happy than just a blanket apology.
In technology, according to a study, we could have all of our power consumption provided by renewable sources by 2030, if the will and funding were available for it.
Into opinions, where Mr. Stossel continues to insist that whole departments be cut, spending be rolled back to 2002 levels, and that the government require big things, like defense and entitlements, also be cut severely. He also thinks that it's a good idea to repeal two laws for each one passed. Mr. Will might agree, but he seems to busy trying to make it look like the Obama administration's first two years have been unequivocal failures, and that the people have wholeheartedly rejected his and every liberal's agenda.
Mr. Williams says the nation is so divided on political issues because politics are inherently a zero-sum game, and someone always gets forced to do the opposite of what they want to do, so the obvious solution is to remove governmental influence from people's lives, so they don't feel zero-summed at everything. Get rid of the regulations, and let everyone do what they want to do, assuming they can afford it.
Mr. Sperry claims tht Suhail Khan is not just a RINO, but a wolf in sheep's clothing because he is not rabidly, knee-jerkingly, and absolutley opposed to anything that might treat Muslims as people instead of the Evil Bloodthirsty Religion and might speak occasionally to Muslim groups about how they need to continue a peaceful struggle.
Mr. Carroll believes that the President's op-ed that said he'd tell people to reduce their regulations is all hat and no cattle, and that if he really was serious about it, he'd stop his branch from going through their formal rule-makings.
Mr. Sowell accuses most newspaper articles about the need for blight renovation or redevelopment of other areas are realy advertisements for the govrnment's program of stealing money from you, wealthy taxpayer, and giving it to poor people who don't deserve it, because if they really deserved affordable housing or redevelopment, some private enterprise would have invested it in already.
And last out, The Washington Times continues to be smug about how much President Obama's policies have resembled the policies of the previous administrator and his vice-captain, and how much the left must be tongue-tied in being unable to criticize Mr. Obama with the same wild abandon they used against the previous administrator.
Finally for tonight, recall that certain interpretations of the idea of the "sanctity of marriage" include that anyone married to an abusive husband must stay married to them until G-d decides to strike them dead for their abusiveness. Should you decide to divorce, then you're committing adultery and should also be struck dead by G-d. So, dead if you're abused, dead if you divorce. It's almost like someone just wants women to be dead. Oh, and while you might think it's abuse, it's really just your husband being tired, or just a bad situation, so you shouldn't jump to conclusions about it being abuse. And you should be willing to look past all of that if you actually loved him. After all, you married him, right?
