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Greetings. We begin today with A letter from a Mr. Carl Sagan about how The Explorers Club should reconsider its men-only policy, an argument that was ultimately successful. Mr. Sagan pointed out how much work women were doing in the purview of the club, plus mentioned that other sponsors might withdraw their support based on being a men-only club, as IBM did. It's a good reminder of how aewesome women are, not only in what they can do, but that they still reatin the optimism that men can be changed and brought into a better way of thinking and they ceaselessly advocate for the law and the society to remove any disparities or gaps between them and men.
In the War of The People Versus The Corporations and their Republican Lackeys, The Wisconsin Senate pulled a [BLEEP] out of their asses and proceeded to pass their union-stripping bill, claiming that by removing the financial impacts of the bill, they did not need a quorum to proceed. Over the explosive objection of the Democrat in residence, who astutely pointed out that doing so is a violation of Wisconsin's Open Records Law. Said bill prohibits any of those public employees who have had their collective bargaining rights stripped from striking, and says that anyone who participates in a strike or "sick calls" en masse will be fired. After the bill passed, Koch lackey Walker said how pleased he was with the success of the bill, and claimed it would help balance the budget, despite all the fiscal components supposedly having been removed.
Suffice to say, the protests are ON again in Wisconsin, even as other states pass their own versions of union-stripping bills (or bills that allow the state governor to dissolve any government organization he likes, including elected town representatives, appoint someone to run that organization, and renegotiate all the contracts that governmental entity had unilaterally and without consideration to the other party. Expect no help from mainstream media in showing what sort of travesty this is.
Out in the world today, residents in a houseboat area near where the 2012 Olympics will be held are claiming they're being deliberately forced from their spaces through severe rent hikes. They claim it's a "social cleansing" designed to make sure the undesirables don't give the visitors any hint that things aren't perfect in London.
Domestically, an arrest has been made in the case of a backpack filled with explosives left along a Martin Luther King Jr. parade route.
Army personnel gave a cancer-stricken boy a proper honor guard and an induction ceremony into the Army, granting one of his greatest wishes. Elsewhere, the Army would very much like their soldiers to collect pay for stop-loss extensions of their tour, and the women who serve have a high likelihood of divorces, sometimes brought on by the difficulties of dealing with PTSD - sometimes his and hers, together, and sometimes brought on by the difficulty of having a sopuse who is away on deployment, or being away on deployment from their spouses.
Finally, a staff sergeant was found to have been in error when he confined soldiers who didn't want to go to a Christian rock concert to their barracks and made them clean said barracks. Good that they came to the right conclusion. Interesting that they didn't believe that there was any malicious intent behind what happened.
In technology, a treatment originally intended to help plants grow in space is finding excellent application to ease the pain of chemotherapy and radiation therapy in bone marrow and stem cell transfer patients. And thus, the TANG principle applies - stuff that doesn't work for the purpose it was designed for still has a purpose - but someone else has to find it.
In opinions, the national Secretary of Education advocates for the creation of a state Secretary of Education post in Washington state. Speaking of education, Ms. Charen says anyone who thinks Head Start has benefits is ignoring all the evidence, and thus only those who ignore that evidence believe in funding Head Start. Those studies tend to say that Head Start would have to go longer to be effective, and that the school system tends to eat any benefits given by Head Start. Now if you looked at that data set, wouldn't you normally conclude that there is something rather broken about the public school system, that it can erase the demonstrated benefits of Head Start in such a short time? For those looking to privatize education, though, it's a perfect excuse to attack Head Start instead.
Mr. Flyn welcomes back the ROTC to Harvard, and thinks it will go well in "repairing" Harvard's anti-military reputation and making them a prestigious, wonderful, American Ivy League college, instead of the liberal anti-American stronghold that it has been for the last forty years.
Heritage puts out a research piece detailing why they think the United States should avoid emulating the European Union and Euro-style democracies, because it's economic disaster and goes against the Founding Principles.
Mr. Moran accuses the Left of Making Stuff Up when they criticize Representative King's hearing on how American Muslims have all become card-carrying jihadists.
Mr. Salieri suggests that the United States needs to think long-term energy strategy if it wants to do will in the next decade.
Farhad Manjoo hopes for the day when all of us have to sign our names to our comments, wherever we go on the Web, saying that the advantages of civlity and raised discourse levels far outweigh the disadvantage of having anonymous comment space vanish. Of course, then there are the elected councilpersons who sign their names to their screeds against anyone not like them.
Last out for tonight, another example of the Nice Guy(TM) that's sliding into Moron phase, talking about how all men love corrupting the "innocent" girl into having a bad streak that they can control. On counterpoint, with the skewers and the sarcasm, TJohn Devore tells you why that's all bullpucky.
Last for tonight, decoration of various tanks around Japan.
In the War of The People Versus The Corporations and their Republican Lackeys, The Wisconsin Senate pulled a [BLEEP] out of their asses and proceeded to pass their union-stripping bill, claiming that by removing the financial impacts of the bill, they did not need a quorum to proceed. Over the explosive objection of the Democrat in residence, who astutely pointed out that doing so is a violation of Wisconsin's Open Records Law. Said bill prohibits any of those public employees who have had their collective bargaining rights stripped from striking, and says that anyone who participates in a strike or "sick calls" en masse will be fired. After the bill passed, Koch lackey Walker said how pleased he was with the success of the bill, and claimed it would help balance the budget, despite all the fiscal components supposedly having been removed.
Suffice to say, the protests are ON again in Wisconsin, even as other states pass their own versions of union-stripping bills (or bills that allow the state governor to dissolve any government organization he likes, including elected town representatives, appoint someone to run that organization, and renegotiate all the contracts that governmental entity had unilaterally and without consideration to the other party. Expect no help from mainstream media in showing what sort of travesty this is.
Out in the world today, residents in a houseboat area near where the 2012 Olympics will be held are claiming they're being deliberately forced from their spaces through severe rent hikes. They claim it's a "social cleansing" designed to make sure the undesirables don't give the visitors any hint that things aren't perfect in London.
Domestically, an arrest has been made in the case of a backpack filled with explosives left along a Martin Luther King Jr. parade route.
Army personnel gave a cancer-stricken boy a proper honor guard and an induction ceremony into the Army, granting one of his greatest wishes. Elsewhere, the Army would very much like their soldiers to collect pay for stop-loss extensions of their tour, and the women who serve have a high likelihood of divorces, sometimes brought on by the difficulties of dealing with PTSD - sometimes his and hers, together, and sometimes brought on by the difficulty of having a sopuse who is away on deployment, or being away on deployment from their spouses.
Finally, a staff sergeant was found to have been in error when he confined soldiers who didn't want to go to a Christian rock concert to their barracks and made them clean said barracks. Good that they came to the right conclusion. Interesting that they didn't believe that there was any malicious intent behind what happened.
In technology, a treatment originally intended to help plants grow in space is finding excellent application to ease the pain of chemotherapy and radiation therapy in bone marrow and stem cell transfer patients. And thus, the TANG principle applies - stuff that doesn't work for the purpose it was designed for still has a purpose - but someone else has to find it.
In opinions, the national Secretary of Education advocates for the creation of a state Secretary of Education post in Washington state. Speaking of education, Ms. Charen says anyone who thinks Head Start has benefits is ignoring all the evidence, and thus only those who ignore that evidence believe in funding Head Start. Those studies tend to say that Head Start would have to go longer to be effective, and that the school system tends to eat any benefits given by Head Start. Now if you looked at that data set, wouldn't you normally conclude that there is something rather broken about the public school system, that it can erase the demonstrated benefits of Head Start in such a short time? For those looking to privatize education, though, it's a perfect excuse to attack Head Start instead.
Mr. Flyn welcomes back the ROTC to Harvard, and thinks it will go well in "repairing" Harvard's anti-military reputation and making them a prestigious, wonderful, American Ivy League college, instead of the liberal anti-American stronghold that it has been for the last forty years.
Heritage puts out a research piece detailing why they think the United States should avoid emulating the European Union and Euro-style democracies, because it's economic disaster and goes against the Founding Principles.
Mr. Moran accuses the Left of Making Stuff Up when they criticize Representative King's hearing on how American Muslims have all become card-carrying jihadists.
Mr. Salieri suggests that the United States needs to think long-term energy strategy if it wants to do will in the next decade.
Farhad Manjoo hopes for the day when all of us have to sign our names to our comments, wherever we go on the Web, saying that the advantages of civlity and raised discourse levels far outweigh the disadvantage of having anonymous comment space vanish. Of course, then there are the elected councilpersons who sign their names to their screeds against anyone not like them.
Last out for tonight, another example of the Nice Guy(TM) that's sliding into Moron phase, talking about how all men love corrupting the "innocent" girl into having a bad streak that they can control. On counterpoint, with the skewers and the sarcasm, TJohn Devore tells you why that's all bullpucky.
Last for tonight, decoration of various tanks around Japan.
