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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a problem that many people face in their lifetimes - the requirement to participate in exercises that will result in layoffs based on arbitrary standards, forcing co-workers to play musical chairs with each other, and generally rendering it impossible for actual work to be done, because everyone is looking to see whether it's their own ass getting chomped. The Slacktivist asks for assistance in how to make it so that the Two Bobs can't actually put the workers against each other and participate in their own demise.
If you believe other commentators, though, the difficulty we all face is entirely the fault of the President, who gives despair instead of hope to the unemployed and has destroyed any chance of jobs returning to the United Staes any time soon, rather than the machinations of globalization, outsourcing, and the profit motive that prides another dollar over a worker with a stable job..
There are other despairing factors in the world today, as well, like the lapsed psychologist who saved a video of a woman berating and beating her child to play for ratings, instead of calling the police immediately after hearing of her account and/or seeing her at work.
But, in the end, we have ways to help our despair and our failings. The Catholic Church has approved a smartphone application that will allow users to record and confess their sins to password-protected accounts, although they still require a priest to perform the absolution portion of the ritual. Would hate for it to be seen as digital indulgences, after all, because it costs $2 for people to get the app.
For something a bit more helpful and enlightening, try the place in Vancouver that is a supervised injection site for addicts, so as to make sure they have clean needles and people to help them potentially get help to kick the habits.
The Dead Pool Literary Society claimes Brian Jacques, most famously known for his Redwall series of young adult novels, at 71. On the potential other end of the spectrum, a letter from Sid Vicious about why he loved his girlfriend, crude references and all.
Out in the world today, the Afghan President has called for the removal of international military structures as the country transisitons from NATO control to local government.
Despite signing a new arms reduction treaty supposed to help cool off tension, Russia continues to feel very nervous about planned missile defenses from the United States near them.
Elsewhere in Russia, the leader of a Chechen insurgent group claimed responsibility for the airport bomb that exploded last month.
China intends to create a mega-city by linking several areas into one metropolis.
The movement in Egypt has settled into a waiting game - take a look inside Freedom Square and see how the protest plans on maintaining its momentum and staying power, as well as figuring out supply lines and other important matters. The labor unions have joined the protestors in the square, swelling their ranks even more. Yet some of our comment squad still believes than supporting the protests will inevitably lead to ultrafundamentalists taking over and making Egypt into a staunch enemy.
Investigators claim that materials used in Islamic schools in the United Kingdom are riddled with falsehoods and racist statements against Jews - the materials may be from the Saudi kingdom and their particular brand of Islam, so anyone claiming that this is a blanket indictment against the Western World's ability to fight Islam or proof that multicultralisim fails is blowing smoke.
This strain is all over - United States Republicans accuse the secretary of Homeland Security of being unwilling to name Islam as the Bloodthirsty Religion, and thus keeping the country unprepared for the next attack. The Secretary claims the threat of terrorism is wider than the narrow band that the Republicans believe is the focus.
Finally, the votes are in - the south of Sudan is going to secede and form their own country, which makes the current Sudanese government walk an even finer tightrope if they want to get through it without brutalizing others and destroying the peace agreement they had.
Domestically, a group that helped turn the Democrats into the Republicans Lite is likely closing its doors, because of a lack of funding.
Concerns about how the United Nations is getting funding for a security upgrade have the Republicans demanding refunds.
Father Thomas Euteneuer, priest, active and vocal critic of abortion and a believer in demonic possession was found to be having sex with a young woman he was exorcising, making his chastity vows broken and forcing his resignation from the organization he was helping to run, Human Life International. This happened in August, and we're only learning abotu it now. Even without an active cover-up, that seems a bit long from incident to report.
A Zero Intelligence policy hampers a Colorado student with a rare neurological condition by claiming the student can't come back onto campus after he's taken his lozenges, nor carry or consume the lozenges with him on campus...because they're THC capsules and the policy doesn't allow for the consumption or possession of medical marijuana on its grounds. Apparently, if the student takes the meds, then he has "internal possession" of the banned substance and can't be allowed back on the campus. Had it been Vicodin, though, that would have been just fine.
After having failed to rush it through as emergency legislation, the Republican Party in the House is re-set to pass the provisions of USAPATRIOT that are scheduled to expire. Without changes, of course. We'll see what the Senate does with it. Unlike the Republicans, though, the Pentagon at least seems to know that it's too big, and is looking to reduce the number of contractors it has, at least until it knows how many it actually has.
After having pissed off Anonymous, Bank of America now has its dirty laundry, including a plot to supposedly stop Wikileaks by convincing Glenn Greenwald to stop supporting them, out and available for others to point and laugh at.
The Environmental Protection Agency has finally released the contents of Corexit, the oil dispersant used in the Deepwater Horizons disaster, and they're toxic as hell. So why did the EPA hold it to the vest, and furthermore, why did they let BP use it in the first place, knowing what it actually contained?
Last for tonight, after cutting a deal to make sure the rich can stay rich, the current administration is proposing a cut in funding to heating assistance for the poor. And thus he is just as much of an American centrist as his supposed opposition.
In technology, an idea to replace large wireless towers with component pieces and antennas that can be deployed anywhere there is power and a broadband connection, saving power, reducing the footprint, and spreading connectivity to places that might not have the space for big towers.
The MPAA has threatened to take Google offline because they believe some of the people on their network are infringing copyright. Thfffthehehehehehehe.
Going to need more information (and someone with good written Japanese skills, I believe) to corroborate on this, but a Japanese think tank has concluded that widespread piracy of anime series may increase their DVD sales instead of retarding them.
The organizaiton Wikileaks and the ACLU are trying to keep Twitter data of various volunteers for them out of the hands of the United States government.
A non-profit organization plans on buying a satellite in orbit and using it to provide Internet access to the world for free, distributing low-cost modems to developing nations to start with. Maybe the robots with their own learning network will be able to utilize it wherever they are.
In medical technology, a new way of making a non-addictive painkiller that blocks the nervous system from transmitting any pain signals, instead of altering the way they're processed, and United Kingdom scientists are attempting to develop a general vaccination for all strains of the flu - an early test of theirs appears to have been successful.
Finally, attempting to set a land speed record using nothing more than steam power.
In opinions, the need to be realistic when considering the legacy of the Great Saint Reagan, and avoid the whitewash that removes all the things he did on the social warfare front. Y'know, the whitewash that Mr. Laffer fully engages in. It would be like claiming that when Mr. Wilders talks about how Islam is The Bloodthirsty Religion Come To Kill Us All, You Fools, Open Your Eyes, that his work on, say, the economy is more important than that, and so we should sweep all that foolish talk about deadly Muslims under the rug. Anyway, the Great Saint Reagan is being used more and more as the supposed anti-Obama, the one that the current President should be venerating and emulating forever if he wants a hope of economic recovery and hope returning to the American people. Because he's still apparently a self-absorbed narcissist because he didn't give the approved answers to a conservative interviewer.
Mr. Rove claims that the Republicans can use the budget reconciliation process to pass a repeal of Obamacare and avoid Democratic filibusters. Which sounds familiar to those who remember how a lot of Republican tax cuts got passed. Mr. Rove, however, at least still acknowledges that the President can veto him, and it won't be over-ridden, because the Republicans don't have enough votes.
Mr. Jacoby claims that any accounts of the demise of manufacturing in the United States is greatly exaggerated, but that everyone thinks its dying because productivity per worker has been increased to the point of severe layoffs of the people as they are replaced by machines.
Last out for tonight, Mr. Sowell finds that he would much prefer to accuse people of judicial activism than receive those same accusations on judges he likes. Because those judges are ruling against Obamacare, Mr. Sowell is perfectly fine with them, but those other judges have been accused of activism in the past. If he's entirely a Tenth Amendment person, then we expect him to be against a lot more things than what he's come out against so far.
Last for tonight, feral pigs running wild?
If you believe other commentators, though, the difficulty we all face is entirely the fault of the President, who gives despair instead of hope to the unemployed and has destroyed any chance of jobs returning to the United Staes any time soon, rather than the machinations of globalization, outsourcing, and the profit motive that prides another dollar over a worker with a stable job..
There are other despairing factors in the world today, as well, like the lapsed psychologist who saved a video of a woman berating and beating her child to play for ratings, instead of calling the police immediately after hearing of her account and/or seeing her at work.
But, in the end, we have ways to help our despair and our failings. The Catholic Church has approved a smartphone application that will allow users to record and confess their sins to password-protected accounts, although they still require a priest to perform the absolution portion of the ritual. Would hate for it to be seen as digital indulgences, after all, because it costs $2 for people to get the app.
For something a bit more helpful and enlightening, try the place in Vancouver that is a supervised injection site for addicts, so as to make sure they have clean needles and people to help them potentially get help to kick the habits.
The Dead Pool Literary Society claimes Brian Jacques, most famously known for his Redwall series of young adult novels, at 71. On the potential other end of the spectrum, a letter from Sid Vicious about why he loved his girlfriend, crude references and all.
Out in the world today, the Afghan President has called for the removal of international military structures as the country transisitons from NATO control to local government.
Despite signing a new arms reduction treaty supposed to help cool off tension, Russia continues to feel very nervous about planned missile defenses from the United States near them.
Elsewhere in Russia, the leader of a Chechen insurgent group claimed responsibility for the airport bomb that exploded last month.
China intends to create a mega-city by linking several areas into one metropolis.
The movement in Egypt has settled into a waiting game - take a look inside Freedom Square and see how the protest plans on maintaining its momentum and staying power, as well as figuring out supply lines and other important matters. The labor unions have joined the protestors in the square, swelling their ranks even more. Yet some of our comment squad still believes than supporting the protests will inevitably lead to ultrafundamentalists taking over and making Egypt into a staunch enemy.
Investigators claim that materials used in Islamic schools in the United Kingdom are riddled with falsehoods and racist statements against Jews - the materials may be from the Saudi kingdom and their particular brand of Islam, so anyone claiming that this is a blanket indictment against the Western World's ability to fight Islam or proof that multicultralisim fails is blowing smoke.
This strain is all over - United States Republicans accuse the secretary of Homeland Security of being unwilling to name Islam as the Bloodthirsty Religion, and thus keeping the country unprepared for the next attack. The Secretary claims the threat of terrorism is wider than the narrow band that the Republicans believe is the focus.
Finally, the votes are in - the south of Sudan is going to secede and form their own country, which makes the current Sudanese government walk an even finer tightrope if they want to get through it without brutalizing others and destroying the peace agreement they had.
Domestically, a group that helped turn the Democrats into the Republicans Lite is likely closing its doors, because of a lack of funding.
Concerns about how the United Nations is getting funding for a security upgrade have the Republicans demanding refunds.
Father Thomas Euteneuer, priest, active and vocal critic of abortion and a believer in demonic possession was found to be having sex with a young woman he was exorcising, making his chastity vows broken and forcing his resignation from the organization he was helping to run, Human Life International. This happened in August, and we're only learning abotu it now. Even without an active cover-up, that seems a bit long from incident to report.
A Zero Intelligence policy hampers a Colorado student with a rare neurological condition by claiming the student can't come back onto campus after he's taken his lozenges, nor carry or consume the lozenges with him on campus...because they're THC capsules and the policy doesn't allow for the consumption or possession of medical marijuana on its grounds. Apparently, if the student takes the meds, then he has "internal possession" of the banned substance and can't be allowed back on the campus. Had it been Vicodin, though, that would have been just fine.
After having failed to rush it through as emergency legislation, the Republican Party in the House is re-set to pass the provisions of USAPATRIOT that are scheduled to expire. Without changes, of course. We'll see what the Senate does with it. Unlike the Republicans, though, the Pentagon at least seems to know that it's too big, and is looking to reduce the number of contractors it has, at least until it knows how many it actually has.
After having pissed off Anonymous, Bank of America now has its dirty laundry, including a plot to supposedly stop Wikileaks by convincing Glenn Greenwald to stop supporting them, out and available for others to point and laugh at.
The Environmental Protection Agency has finally released the contents of Corexit, the oil dispersant used in the Deepwater Horizons disaster, and they're toxic as hell. So why did the EPA hold it to the vest, and furthermore, why did they let BP use it in the first place, knowing what it actually contained?
Last for tonight, after cutting a deal to make sure the rich can stay rich, the current administration is proposing a cut in funding to heating assistance for the poor. And thus he is just as much of an American centrist as his supposed opposition.
In technology, an idea to replace large wireless towers with component pieces and antennas that can be deployed anywhere there is power and a broadband connection, saving power, reducing the footprint, and spreading connectivity to places that might not have the space for big towers.
The MPAA has threatened to take Google offline because they believe some of the people on their network are infringing copyright. Thfffthehehehehehehe.
Going to need more information (and someone with good written Japanese skills, I believe) to corroborate on this, but a Japanese think tank has concluded that widespread piracy of anime series may increase their DVD sales instead of retarding them.
The organizaiton Wikileaks and the ACLU are trying to keep Twitter data of various volunteers for them out of the hands of the United States government.
A non-profit organization plans on buying a satellite in orbit and using it to provide Internet access to the world for free, distributing low-cost modems to developing nations to start with. Maybe the robots with their own learning network will be able to utilize it wherever they are.
In medical technology, a new way of making a non-addictive painkiller that blocks the nervous system from transmitting any pain signals, instead of altering the way they're processed, and United Kingdom scientists are attempting to develop a general vaccination for all strains of the flu - an early test of theirs appears to have been successful.
Finally, attempting to set a land speed record using nothing more than steam power.
In opinions, the need to be realistic when considering the legacy of the Great Saint Reagan, and avoid the whitewash that removes all the things he did on the social warfare front. Y'know, the whitewash that Mr. Laffer fully engages in. It would be like claiming that when Mr. Wilders talks about how Islam is The Bloodthirsty Religion Come To Kill Us All, You Fools, Open Your Eyes, that his work on, say, the economy is more important than that, and so we should sweep all that foolish talk about deadly Muslims under the rug. Anyway, the Great Saint Reagan is being used more and more as the supposed anti-Obama, the one that the current President should be venerating and emulating forever if he wants a hope of economic recovery and hope returning to the American people. Because he's still apparently a self-absorbed narcissist because he didn't give the approved answers to a conservative interviewer.
Mr. Rove claims that the Republicans can use the budget reconciliation process to pass a repeal of Obamacare and avoid Democratic filibusters. Which sounds familiar to those who remember how a lot of Republican tax cuts got passed. Mr. Rove, however, at least still acknowledges that the President can veto him, and it won't be over-ridden, because the Republicans don't have enough votes.
Mr. Jacoby claims that any accounts of the demise of manufacturing in the United States is greatly exaggerated, but that everyone thinks its dying because productivity per worker has been increased to the point of severe layoffs of the people as they are replaced by machines.
Last out for tonight, Mr. Sowell finds that he would much prefer to accuse people of judicial activism than receive those same accusations on judges he likes. Because those judges are ruling against Obamacare, Mr. Sowell is perfectly fine with them, but those other judges have been accused of activism in the past. If he's entirely a Tenth Amendment person, then we expect him to be against a lot more things than what he's come out against so far.
Last for tonight, feral pigs running wild?
