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Morning, everyone. We start with the thought that perhaps Prop 8 in California, and all other protect marraige acts like it could be sued for being lemons, advertised falsely. Because divorces still happen, so marriage is clearly not protected by those laws.
We continue with an admonition not to dismiss something fantastical as useless - fairy tales, both ancient and modern, have great power and should not be taken nor rejected lightly. Storytelling has a great hold on people, and can inspire them to do all sorts of things. Think about what you're saying when you dismiss something as simply another story.
Domestically, A Florida bill wants to stop doctors from being able to ask parents about the presence of guns in their household. Such a question usually is followed by some tips on how to keep guns safe with young children, but Republicans believe pediatricians have an anti-gun agenda and must be stopped from pushing it on parents, and that it is somehow not the business of a health professional to ask about things that can have a profoundly negative effect on a child's health.
Lest one panic about Social Security being insolvent soon, one should really pay attention to what the Social Security people have been doing since the program's inception - they've known about a lot of things and adjusted accordingly. About the only thing they really need to do to survive into the next several is to raise the cap on wages that are subject to the tax, or something like it. The real problem is that Republicans are trying to find any excuse they can to get rid of the governmental safety net.
On the matter of reproductive rights and freedoms, South Dakota's law that requires a three-day waiting period between initial consultation and abortion, as well as a mandated visit to a crisis pregnancy center, has not yet had any takers for centers will accept those women that would abort. One would think they'd all want to be able to spend their time lecturing women on the evil sinfulness of their aborion choice, but no, nobody has signed up. When the law goes into effect, if nobody has signed on, does that effectively outlaw abortion in South Dakota? And while abortion is the big thing that draws all the news cameras, abortion is not the sole fight in the reproductive freedom war - there are a lot of other issues at hand, many involving the intersection of the poor, the disabled, and people of color with what white men think is good for them - like sterilization if they have genetic conditions, or are poor, or otherwise "udnesirable" according to the white men.
The President's nominee to fill the position of Deputy Attorney General ran into a block vote in the Senate, with all the Republicans save one voting against the nominee. They believe his corporate ties are sketchy and that he's not hard enough on terrorism, because he described the 11 September attacks as a heinous crime, instead of as a declaration of war. Those Republicans believe the nominee might have been "defending terrorists", which is an unforgivable sin.
New guidance from the Navy's upper commanders indicates that once the ban on openly-gay servicepeople is lifted, naval chaplains and base facilities may be used to conduct marriages, provided that the state where the ceremony is allows gay and lesbian servicemen to be married and the chaplain is otherwise registered and officially able to do so. Critics claim that such guidance is in violation of the Defense of Marriage Act that established that the federal government will only recognize marriages conducted between a single man and a single woman, and that government employees such as Naval chaplains are bound by those rules instead of the rules in their state.
Finally, the onrushing flood waters in the major rivers of the southeast part of the country have many people worried about whether this flood will match The Great One, or whether things have been engineered (and kept up) sufficiently to divert all the high water successfully out to sea and away from damaging too many homes.
In technology, The power of the Internet and its ability to generate small-world solutions to what might otherwise look like the P-NP problem in terms of complexity.
The City of New York will be able to send alerts by text message to persons within the broadcast radius of a cellular phone tower, regardless of whether the phone is native to the area or not.
In opinions, Mr. Soini sees bailouts as the path to destruction for governments and working people in the Eurozone, a scheme forced upon them by wealthy banks that should have been allowed to become insolvent and fail. He suggests that the correct path to chart is to let those insolvent backs fail out, let government debt become a bit insolvent itself, take the hit, and then start building again in the free market.
Fox News heralds the unveiling of the Heritage Foundation's ideal budget, a plan that you can read at Heritage's website. Saving the American Dream
The editors of the WSJ beleive that Mr. Boehner is correct in insisting that spending cuts that equal or exceed any planned debt limit raising be accepted before Republicans allow for such a raise, which in some ways defeats the point of raising the ceiling. If those cuts could be enacted safely, then why raise the debt limit at all? Why noy just insist on the cuts and get them put through? It would easily pass the House, and probably the Senate, because spending is currently toxic waste in terms of the Beltway Press.
Last for tonight, a letter from the director to a fan encouraging her to pursue her dream in filmmaking.
We continue with an admonition not to dismiss something fantastical as useless - fairy tales, both ancient and modern, have great power and should not be taken nor rejected lightly. Storytelling has a great hold on people, and can inspire them to do all sorts of things. Think about what you're saying when you dismiss something as simply another story.
Domestically, A Florida bill wants to stop doctors from being able to ask parents about the presence of guns in their household. Such a question usually is followed by some tips on how to keep guns safe with young children, but Republicans believe pediatricians have an anti-gun agenda and must be stopped from pushing it on parents, and that it is somehow not the business of a health professional to ask about things that can have a profoundly negative effect on a child's health.
Lest one panic about Social Security being insolvent soon, one should really pay attention to what the Social Security people have been doing since the program's inception - they've known about a lot of things and adjusted accordingly. About the only thing they really need to do to survive into the next several is to raise the cap on wages that are subject to the tax, or something like it. The real problem is that Republicans are trying to find any excuse they can to get rid of the governmental safety net.
On the matter of reproductive rights and freedoms, South Dakota's law that requires a three-day waiting period between initial consultation and abortion, as well as a mandated visit to a crisis pregnancy center, has not yet had any takers for centers will accept those women that would abort. One would think they'd all want to be able to spend their time lecturing women on the evil sinfulness of their aborion choice, but no, nobody has signed up. When the law goes into effect, if nobody has signed on, does that effectively outlaw abortion in South Dakota? And while abortion is the big thing that draws all the news cameras, abortion is not the sole fight in the reproductive freedom war - there are a lot of other issues at hand, many involving the intersection of the poor, the disabled, and people of color with what white men think is good for them - like sterilization if they have genetic conditions, or are poor, or otherwise "udnesirable" according to the white men.
The President's nominee to fill the position of Deputy Attorney General ran into a block vote in the Senate, with all the Republicans save one voting against the nominee. They believe his corporate ties are sketchy and that he's not hard enough on terrorism, because he described the 11 September attacks as a heinous crime, instead of as a declaration of war. Those Republicans believe the nominee might have been "defending terrorists", which is an unforgivable sin.
New guidance from the Navy's upper commanders indicates that once the ban on openly-gay servicepeople is lifted, naval chaplains and base facilities may be used to conduct marriages, provided that the state where the ceremony is allows gay and lesbian servicemen to be married and the chaplain is otherwise registered and officially able to do so. Critics claim that such guidance is in violation of the Defense of Marriage Act that established that the federal government will only recognize marriages conducted between a single man and a single woman, and that government employees such as Naval chaplains are bound by those rules instead of the rules in their state.
Finally, the onrushing flood waters in the major rivers of the southeast part of the country have many people worried about whether this flood will match The Great One, or whether things have been engineered (and kept up) sufficiently to divert all the high water successfully out to sea and away from damaging too many homes.
In technology, The power of the Internet and its ability to generate small-world solutions to what might otherwise look like the P-NP problem in terms of complexity.
The City of New York will be able to send alerts by text message to persons within the broadcast radius of a cellular phone tower, regardless of whether the phone is native to the area or not.
In opinions, Mr. Soini sees bailouts as the path to destruction for governments and working people in the Eurozone, a scheme forced upon them by wealthy banks that should have been allowed to become insolvent and fail. He suggests that the correct path to chart is to let those insolvent backs fail out, let government debt become a bit insolvent itself, take the hit, and then start building again in the free market.
Fox News heralds the unveiling of the Heritage Foundation's ideal budget, a plan that you can read at Heritage's website. Saving the American Dream
The editors of the WSJ beleive that Mr. Boehner is correct in insisting that spending cuts that equal or exceed any planned debt limit raising be accepted before Republicans allow for such a raise, which in some ways defeats the point of raising the ceiling. If those cuts could be enacted safely, then why raise the debt limit at all? Why noy just insist on the cuts and get them put through? It would easily pass the House, and probably the Senate, because spending is currently toxic waste in terms of the Beltway Press.
Last for tonight, a letter from the director to a fan encouraging her to pursue her dream in filmmaking.
