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Cheers, all.
It is dangerous to have members of the Anti-Sex League in your medical professional ranks, sometimes. When the doctor on call refuses to do an abortion, despite the clear danger to the mother and the knowledge the fetus will die, then there are definite problems going on. The article writer survived only because someone called an off-call doctor who would do abortions to come in and save the life of the mother. This should not have to happen.
A high school student who asked that his school not deliver a prayer at graduation has been thrown out of his house, had the student body and the faculty rise up against him for his non-Christian belief, and...found the support of the atheist community and an upstanding member of the family, who have taken him in and provided him with the support he will need to be able to attend university. After the parents abandoned him, the school went ahead with the prayer, as well as spending time to continue with attacks at other events.
Out in the world today, The Delmas, Port-au-Prince Mayor's Office has begun a program to erase the presence of any remaining refugees from the earthquake.
Domestically, the displayed knowledge of a United States Representative regarding the Constitution resulted in a challenge from a high school sophomore that she will be better at civics than the Representative. Self-styled supporters of the Representative have taken to delivering threats to the sophomore, including the publication of her home address.
Senator Wyden of Oregon says most people's interpretation of USAPATRIOT is far more restrictive than the one the government uses. That interpretation is, naturally, classified, but senator Wyden would like to see it declassified and discussed, even if the actual techniques involved remain secret.
Mr. Cantor still insists that relief money for tornado victims be paid for by cutting other programs' budgets, which makes us wonder whether he will rust if left out in the rain too long. Congresscritters are considering cutting funding to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (food stamps).
The commanding officer of the Blue Angels flight group resigned his post after a maneuver that he started below the acceptable altitude floor for the group.
The United States Defense Secretary has put on the table the idea of military benefit and pay cuts to reduce the spending of the department. Perhaps it would be a better idea to cancel some contracts, instead? Especially for those groups that are making something that the military has already decided it doesn't need. For those who want to make sure the military gets everything it wants, though, they need to portray the Defense Secretary as saying that the military should always get what it asks for and more.
The Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Department offers some perspective, in terms of casualties, between the 11 September attacks and the Two Land Wars In Asia that followed them.
The disabled as an employment group are often making less than the minimum wage, which is apparently explained by government assistance making up both of the necessities, and, of course, the hand-wringing that the companies employing people at that rate can't pay them a proper wage for the work they do. Even so, if you're going to hire someone, pay them at least the minimum wage. Or better, pay them a wage that they can live on. Hiring for less than minimum wage makes it look like you're trying to exploit someone, doubly so if they're disabled.
Last out, school lessons about gender diversity in the animal kingdom, and the group that has a Pavlovian response to such things.
Speaking of responses, a religious experience can apparently be mimiced by exposure to a brand image/logo that the person is devoted to.
In tech, a co-founder of the EFF went into a conference about copyright and gave assorted media cabalists and others and earful about how their methods and ideas about IP and its enforcement weren't working. Thing is, it may be more than media cabals that need a lesson now. Doctors and dentists have a new form that supposedly makes it so that any reviews you give of their services become their property, not yours, so they can delete them or otherwise change them at will. The legal experts consulted on it made it seem like there wasn't a tooth to be found in the whole thing, but these sorts of things really do make you wonder why someone would want that power.
The NHTSA in the US is considering making it a requirement that all vehicles have event data recorders in them, even as legal precedent about who owns the information in such devices and their admissibility in court or other uae is being defined.
An infographic about for-profit schools and their distance learning programs that are very good at separating the students' money and putting them in debt, and sometimes the paper they give in return isn't going to be taken seriously.
And in sciences, a bacterium that lives on caffeine.
In opinions, Mr. Hanson attributes the world's relative success and prosperity entirely on Team America and says that the current administration must continue to be Team America or the world will backslide into chaos, incivility, and regional dictators bullying their neighbors. Which includes strengthening ties with Poland against a resurgent Russian Federation, because they're still just looking to do that whole USSR thing again, apparently, and Iran.
Tait Trussel is afraid that the Obama administration will sign arms control treaties and thus be able to do gun regulation that he couldn't otherwise get through Congress as laws...possibly forgetting that all treaties require Senate approval? Also, skirting the Constitution is suddenly a thing to be no-noed, rather than something to be praised because it's necessary to catch the Terrists or something else.
Messrs. Gerecht and Dubowitz suggest the United States stop purchasing any product that has Iranian oil in it so as to punish the country's leadership and actions.
Thoroughly-disgraced propagandist Andrew Brietbart is at it again, this time with attempting to make it seem like Congressman Weiner of New York sent pictures just this side of fully nude of his penis to a woman. In the clear, where it could be seen. Problem is, it was yet another amateurish hack job. Bigger problem, however, is that CNN picked up the fake and gave it legs and credibility.
And out of opinions, Mr. McGurn is actually pleased that there are no frontrunners in the 2012 election, because mixing things up will make the winning candidate stronger and more able to take on the Obama Machine in the general election.
And last for tonight, a story of memory of soldiers, those who did big feats, those who were killed long before their time, and those still with us that need our care.
It is dangerous to have members of the Anti-Sex League in your medical professional ranks, sometimes. When the doctor on call refuses to do an abortion, despite the clear danger to the mother and the knowledge the fetus will die, then there are definite problems going on. The article writer survived only because someone called an off-call doctor who would do abortions to come in and save the life of the mother. This should not have to happen.
A high school student who asked that his school not deliver a prayer at graduation has been thrown out of his house, had the student body and the faculty rise up against him for his non-Christian belief, and...found the support of the atheist community and an upstanding member of the family, who have taken him in and provided him with the support he will need to be able to attend university. After the parents abandoned him, the school went ahead with the prayer, as well as spending time to continue with attacks at other events.
Out in the world today, The Delmas, Port-au-Prince Mayor's Office has begun a program to erase the presence of any remaining refugees from the earthquake.
Domestically, the displayed knowledge of a United States Representative regarding the Constitution resulted in a challenge from a high school sophomore that she will be better at civics than the Representative. Self-styled supporters of the Representative have taken to delivering threats to the sophomore, including the publication of her home address.
Senator Wyden of Oregon says most people's interpretation of USAPATRIOT is far more restrictive than the one the government uses. That interpretation is, naturally, classified, but senator Wyden would like to see it declassified and discussed, even if the actual techniques involved remain secret.
Mr. Cantor still insists that relief money for tornado victims be paid for by cutting other programs' budgets, which makes us wonder whether he will rust if left out in the rain too long. Congresscritters are considering cutting funding to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (food stamps).
The commanding officer of the Blue Angels flight group resigned his post after a maneuver that he started below the acceptable altitude floor for the group.
The United States Defense Secretary has put on the table the idea of military benefit and pay cuts to reduce the spending of the department. Perhaps it would be a better idea to cancel some contracts, instead? Especially for those groups that are making something that the military has already decided it doesn't need. For those who want to make sure the military gets everything it wants, though, they need to portray the Defense Secretary as saying that the military should always get what it asks for and more.
The Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Department offers some perspective, in terms of casualties, between the 11 September attacks and the Two Land Wars In Asia that followed them.
The disabled as an employment group are often making less than the minimum wage, which is apparently explained by government assistance making up both of the necessities, and, of course, the hand-wringing that the companies employing people at that rate can't pay them a proper wage for the work they do. Even so, if you're going to hire someone, pay them at least the minimum wage. Or better, pay them a wage that they can live on. Hiring for less than minimum wage makes it look like you're trying to exploit someone, doubly so if they're disabled.
Last out, school lessons about gender diversity in the animal kingdom, and the group that has a Pavlovian response to such things.
Speaking of responses, a religious experience can apparently be mimiced by exposure to a brand image/logo that the person is devoted to.
In tech, a co-founder of the EFF went into a conference about copyright and gave assorted media cabalists and others and earful about how their methods and ideas about IP and its enforcement weren't working. Thing is, it may be more than media cabals that need a lesson now. Doctors and dentists have a new form that supposedly makes it so that any reviews you give of their services become their property, not yours, so they can delete them or otherwise change them at will. The legal experts consulted on it made it seem like there wasn't a tooth to be found in the whole thing, but these sorts of things really do make you wonder why someone would want that power.
The NHTSA in the US is considering making it a requirement that all vehicles have event data recorders in them, even as legal precedent about who owns the information in such devices and their admissibility in court or other uae is being defined.
An infographic about for-profit schools and their distance learning programs that are very good at separating the students' money and putting them in debt, and sometimes the paper they give in return isn't going to be taken seriously.
And in sciences, a bacterium that lives on caffeine.
In opinions, Mr. Hanson attributes the world's relative success and prosperity entirely on Team America and says that the current administration must continue to be Team America or the world will backslide into chaos, incivility, and regional dictators bullying their neighbors. Which includes strengthening ties with Poland against a resurgent Russian Federation, because they're still just looking to do that whole USSR thing again, apparently, and Iran.
Tait Trussel is afraid that the Obama administration will sign arms control treaties and thus be able to do gun regulation that he couldn't otherwise get through Congress as laws...possibly forgetting that all treaties require Senate approval? Also, skirting the Constitution is suddenly a thing to be no-noed, rather than something to be praised because it's necessary to catch the Terrists or something else.
Messrs. Gerecht and Dubowitz suggest the United States stop purchasing any product that has Iranian oil in it so as to punish the country's leadership and actions.
Thoroughly-disgraced propagandist Andrew Brietbart is at it again, this time with attempting to make it seem like Congressman Weiner of New York sent pictures just this side of fully nude of his penis to a woman. In the clear, where it could be seen. Problem is, it was yet another amateurish hack job. Bigger problem, however, is that CNN picked up the fake and gave it legs and credibility.
And out of opinions, Mr. McGurn is actually pleased that there are no frontrunners in the 2012 election, because mixing things up will make the winning candidate stronger and more able to take on the Obama Machine in the general election.
And last for tonight, a story of memory of soldiers, those who did big feats, those who were killed long before their time, and those still with us that need our care.
