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Greetings, everyone! While there is plenty of three-ring circus going on regarding Presidential politics, even though the actual primaries and elections are several months off, the medid's steadfast insistence that this circus is the only important news thing in town allows for the obscuring of real issues and the disappearing of candidates who do not already fit the planned narrative, like Ron Paul. The hyper-partisanship and demonization of the other side also makes it so that one must be With Us or With The Extremists/Terrorists, requiring cognitive dissonance, or at least giving a pass, to actions taken by the leadership and the party that are damaging and harmful and utterly out-of-character for what that party is supposed to be for. Like the erosion of rights and replacement of a representative democracy with a corporate state.
Observe the damage being done to the economy by the current focus away from the problems - there's no serious action on how to fix the problems we have, or at least maneuver people who might actually try into the positions of power that would let them give it a go.
There's also a victory for the censorship crowd, who had Doyle pulled because he didn't paint Mormons in a flattering light. And people think that children are apparently unable to handle the complexity of "people who wrote in previous times had opinions, and sometimes they were just as steeped in misinformation and inaccuracy as modern opinion-writers." Considering we already know the Anti-Sex League will tell falsehoods in their attempts to make children afraid of sex and more conforming to the Anti-Sex League's worldview, perhaps this is another extension of believing so little about children that anything complex or possibly out of orthodoxy has to be removed. Won't people think of the children?
Out in the world today, one would think bus drivers working on routes where persons with disabilities might ride would know how to operate the equipment in their vehicles designed to keep PWD safe - this is apparently not the case, bedcause the Transit Authority isn't providing training for the drivers, and even worse, that same transit authority is deliberately putting broken buses on those routes to claim . How severely messed up is that?
Members of the United States diplomatic and military corps say that Iraq is capable of handling its own security issues, which will be necessary for the U.S. to be able to withdraw its troops from the country on the schedule. That's assuming that the contrary forces don't win out and have the U.S. stay past their own negotiated deadline date.
The President of the United States indicated that he is most worried about individuals and small groups being able to commit acts of mass destruction, as they are the hardest to detect and defeat before the attacks.
Inside the United States, another funny thing - if you start driving away the people who would normally take the jobs that don't pay well and have long hours, your employers start not having enough employees to be able to do the jobs. And because the robot revolution hasn't come, you then have a pickle. A big pickle. Elsewhere, the executive branch issued new rules for handling deportation cases, guidelines similar to that of the DREAM Act, which has many up in arms that the executive is implementing their legislation without actually having the law passed. And thus, one finds out about the checks and balances available.
Elsewhere, a brand is sufficiently afraid of another brand that the first brand is willing to pay the second brand not to advertise for them.
The United States Justice Department may be investigating the Standard and Poor's rating agency for their role in selling shit as AAA-rated bonds. Which is going to seem like a revenge attack after S&P downgraded the U.S. credit rating based on the political bickering. That investigation should have happened a loooooooong time ago.
In technology, More about the Spray and Pray for a Settlement techniques undertaken by Hollywood and some adult film studios, believing that will stem the tide of piracy.
Research is ongoing into a vehicle that would be powered entirely through the use of the somewhat radioactive element Thorium, a relatively common rare-earth element. A small amount of thorium, about eight grams, in the powerplant would be sufficient to power a car for the expected lifetime of all its other parts - thorium generates quite a bit of heat when exposed to energy, so thorium plus some steam turbines would be enough to provide the power needed to run an electric motor vehicle, and supposedly on-demand. That would be pretty neat - an all-range electric car that doesn't need a lot of radioactivity shielding.
Into opinions, where Mr. Taranto insists that the reason President Obama hasn&apost;t had major success in the public's view is because the President has been a stubborn liberal ideologue, full of blame and finger-pointing when a flexible, actually-a-conservative President would have been able to be much more of a winner. No mention at all, of course, of the Republicans in Congress that insists they must get exactly what they want and anything the President supports must be opposed. Mr. Podhoretz insists that despite his appeals to the center, Mr. Obama is still the hard-line liberal bent on making the United States a socialist paradise, so nobody should be fooled, or possibly, say, try to meet Mr. Obama when he heads toward them. Combined with Mr. Williams insisting that the current crisis and the 1930s depression are solely the fault of government action and spending, the Tea Party have all the justification they need to dig their heels in and do nothing but call for austerity.
Elsewhere, Mr. Barone claims that the no-unions, no-regulations, full-throttle capitalism of Texas is the new wave, as opposed to the usual Midwestern idea of manufacturing and labor. Which makes the corporations and their pet politicians quite happy, but will generally force working people to accept less wages, no benefits, and long hours just to maintain subsistence living. The editors of the WSJ think that rich people getting taxed more means that the "middle class", those making over 200,000 USD, get pinched, so Mr. Buffet's insistence on higher taxes for the rich is really a ploy to make the less wealthy pay more. They do suggest some nice loopholes and deductions to close or limit for the wealthy, though, so maybe Congress can get on that? When they and the pundits are done busily blaming the President for apparent inaction and lack of planning as they insist their unserious plans are the only thing they will pass and only their way will be allowed to be debated or advanced, of course.
Mr. Adams insists that only leftists have permanent institutions to litigate election law and pull it in the direction that helps Democrats. And the Roberts Supreme Court means nothing, as does redistricting, and the continued insistence by conservatives of widespread election fraud always in Democratic favor? There are permanent structures for conservatives, as well, but they tend to go the route of brute monetary force, misleading advertisements, and corporate puppeteering of supposed grass-roots enterprises.
Ms. Noonan condemns the people rioting in England for insufficient Christian morality and Republican values, claiming the entire media is of the same opinion, and thus they can't possibly be wrong about the causes. No mention of whether they might be unwilling to say the complete truth about the rich and the poor, because those rich people and the politicians those rich people control can control their jobs. Mr. Hanson decries insufficient Republican values and focus on the immaterial as the causes for riots and demonstrations, and that if only we were able to force our children to believe that material wealth is unimportant, then we wouldn't have these problems. Mr. Pendry declares that the United States is founded upon ideas and passages in the Christian Foundational Writings, with his proof resting on selected texts from the founding writings of the United States that are not specifically Christian. Should we lose that Christian way, he declares, we'll be like London's riots, and our support for diversity, women's choice, and non-Christian religions are all condemning us to a London fate. Mr. Dalrymple / Daniels blames a government unwilling to crack down on young people, unwilling to instill a "work for pittances and hope the rich don't take your money" attitude in those children, and unable to give them any real education for the current situation. Mr. Stephens expands this likelihood of problems to include the entire Eurozone, and uses them as proof that social democracies don't actually work.
Elsewhere, on the same idea of how certain groups in the country are not being taught proper Christo-Republic values, Mr. Sowell's Social Degeneration series starts with a crackdown ordered against black men in Philadelphia and a demand that they stop displaying black culture and act more like white Republicans in suits. From there, it's clear to him that the only people interested in telling black people to be black and not to insist they be corporate sutis are "race hustlers" who want to profit politically and materially from the conflict between black culture and white corporate culture. In part II, Mr. Sowell contends that the news media deliberately ignoreds racist attacks by black people against white people, but will converge on anything that might even look like a white person attacking or discriminating against black people, and will also pointedly ignore the stated reasons of the looters and rioters in London so as to put forward their own preferred narrative, one that doesn't conclude that black people and chavs are insufficiently white Corporate Christian Republicans in suits, and are thus moral degenerates that should be punished for their behavior. The lack of beatings administered to youth for their misbehavior by parents or strict, severe punishments by government also contribute to creating the entitled brats that Mr. Sowell is certain are entirely at fault for the riots. In part III, he attacks the government for coddling them with social welfare, instead of incarcerating them and insisting they become Corporate Republicans, and the education system for not requiring that blacks and chavs assimilate to white Corporate Republican culture and leave their heritage behind to succeed in schooling. I think this has been done before. I'm certain of it. I still don't think that such simple solutions will actually work, either...because most of them seem to have generated the disparities that the current group of rioters are demonstrating against (when they are demonstrating for a purpose).
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that individual mandates for the health care law are not Constitutional has conservatives crowing that the whole thing will soon go down in flames by the Supreme Court.
The editors of the WSJ have still not found a Republican candidate they like, and they believe the continuing fight between various GOP frontrunners indicates the conservative/independent bloc hasn't, either. They're still gearing up to defend their favored candidate from accusations they think are myths to shore up their far-right credentials and make them palatable to the primary voters.
Finally, Mr. Lehrman complains that the decision to allow the dollar to float off of the gold standard was the worst decision Richard Nixon ever made, and the dollar has suffered in terms of real purchasing power ever since.
Last for tonight, a letter from the landlords of Andy Warhol's Factory about his parties and late-night, loud affairs, asking him to turn it down or they will take action against him. And the personal letter of thanks given to John Wayne for his appearance on Laugh-In.
Observe the damage being done to the economy by the current focus away from the problems - there's no serious action on how to fix the problems we have, or at least maneuver people who might actually try into the positions of power that would let them give it a go.
There's also a victory for the censorship crowd, who had Doyle pulled because he didn't paint Mormons in a flattering light. And people think that children are apparently unable to handle the complexity of "people who wrote in previous times had opinions, and sometimes they were just as steeped in misinformation and inaccuracy as modern opinion-writers." Considering we already know the Anti-Sex League will tell falsehoods in their attempts to make children afraid of sex and more conforming to the Anti-Sex League's worldview, perhaps this is another extension of believing so little about children that anything complex or possibly out of orthodoxy has to be removed. Won't people think of the children?
Out in the world today, one would think bus drivers working on routes where persons with disabilities might ride would know how to operate the equipment in their vehicles designed to keep PWD safe - this is apparently not the case, bedcause the Transit Authority isn't providing training for the drivers, and even worse, that same transit authority is deliberately putting broken buses on those routes to claim . How severely messed up is that?
Members of the United States diplomatic and military corps say that Iraq is capable of handling its own security issues, which will be necessary for the U.S. to be able to withdraw its troops from the country on the schedule. That's assuming that the contrary forces don't win out and have the U.S. stay past their own negotiated deadline date.
The President of the United States indicated that he is most worried about individuals and small groups being able to commit acts of mass destruction, as they are the hardest to detect and defeat before the attacks.
Inside the United States, another funny thing - if you start driving away the people who would normally take the jobs that don't pay well and have long hours, your employers start not having enough employees to be able to do the jobs. And because the robot revolution hasn't come, you then have a pickle. A big pickle. Elsewhere, the executive branch issued new rules for handling deportation cases, guidelines similar to that of the DREAM Act, which has many up in arms that the executive is implementing their legislation without actually having the law passed. And thus, one finds out about the checks and balances available.
Elsewhere, a brand is sufficiently afraid of another brand that the first brand is willing to pay the second brand not to advertise for them.
The United States Justice Department may be investigating the Standard and Poor's rating agency for their role in selling shit as AAA-rated bonds. Which is going to seem like a revenge attack after S&P downgraded the U.S. credit rating based on the political bickering. That investigation should have happened a loooooooong time ago.
In technology, More about the Spray and Pray for a Settlement techniques undertaken by Hollywood and some adult film studios, believing that will stem the tide of piracy.
Research is ongoing into a vehicle that would be powered entirely through the use of the somewhat radioactive element Thorium, a relatively common rare-earth element. A small amount of thorium, about eight grams, in the powerplant would be sufficient to power a car for the expected lifetime of all its other parts - thorium generates quite a bit of heat when exposed to energy, so thorium plus some steam turbines would be enough to provide the power needed to run an electric motor vehicle, and supposedly on-demand. That would be pretty neat - an all-range electric car that doesn't need a lot of radioactivity shielding.
Into opinions, where Mr. Taranto insists that the reason President Obama hasn&apost;t had major success in the public's view is because the President has been a stubborn liberal ideologue, full of blame and finger-pointing when a flexible, actually-a-conservative President would have been able to be much more of a winner. No mention at all, of course, of the Republicans in Congress that insists they must get exactly what they want and anything the President supports must be opposed. Mr. Podhoretz insists that despite his appeals to the center, Mr. Obama is still the hard-line liberal bent on making the United States a socialist paradise, so nobody should be fooled, or possibly, say, try to meet Mr. Obama when he heads toward them. Combined with Mr. Williams insisting that the current crisis and the 1930s depression are solely the fault of government action and spending, the Tea Party have all the justification they need to dig their heels in and do nothing but call for austerity.
Elsewhere, Mr. Barone claims that the no-unions, no-regulations, full-throttle capitalism of Texas is the new wave, as opposed to the usual Midwestern idea of manufacturing and labor. Which makes the corporations and their pet politicians quite happy, but will generally force working people to accept less wages, no benefits, and long hours just to maintain subsistence living. The editors of the WSJ think that rich people getting taxed more means that the "middle class", those making over 200,000 USD, get pinched, so Mr. Buffet's insistence on higher taxes for the rich is really a ploy to make the less wealthy pay more. They do suggest some nice loopholes and deductions to close or limit for the wealthy, though, so maybe Congress can get on that? When they and the pundits are done busily blaming the President for apparent inaction and lack of planning as they insist their unserious plans are the only thing they will pass and only their way will be allowed to be debated or advanced, of course.
Mr. Adams insists that only leftists have permanent institutions to litigate election law and pull it in the direction that helps Democrats. And the Roberts Supreme Court means nothing, as does redistricting, and the continued insistence by conservatives of widespread election fraud always in Democratic favor? There are permanent structures for conservatives, as well, but they tend to go the route of brute monetary force, misleading advertisements, and corporate puppeteering of supposed grass-roots enterprises.
Ms. Noonan condemns the people rioting in England for insufficient Christian morality and Republican values, claiming the entire media is of the same opinion, and thus they can't possibly be wrong about the causes. No mention of whether they might be unwilling to say the complete truth about the rich and the poor, because those rich people and the politicians those rich people control can control their jobs. Mr. Hanson decries insufficient Republican values and focus on the immaterial as the causes for riots and demonstrations, and that if only we were able to force our children to believe that material wealth is unimportant, then we wouldn't have these problems. Mr. Pendry declares that the United States is founded upon ideas and passages in the Christian Foundational Writings, with his proof resting on selected texts from the founding writings of the United States that are not specifically Christian. Should we lose that Christian way, he declares, we'll be like London's riots, and our support for diversity, women's choice, and non-Christian religions are all condemning us to a London fate. Mr. Dalrymple / Daniels blames a government unwilling to crack down on young people, unwilling to instill a "work for pittances and hope the rich don't take your money" attitude in those children, and unable to give them any real education for the current situation. Mr. Stephens expands this likelihood of problems to include the entire Eurozone, and uses them as proof that social democracies don't actually work.
Elsewhere, on the same idea of how certain groups in the country are not being taught proper Christo-Republic values, Mr. Sowell's Social Degeneration series starts with a crackdown ordered against black men in Philadelphia and a demand that they stop displaying black culture and act more like white Republicans in suits. From there, it's clear to him that the only people interested in telling black people to be black and not to insist they be corporate sutis are "race hustlers" who want to profit politically and materially from the conflict between black culture and white corporate culture. In part II, Mr. Sowell contends that the news media deliberately ignoreds racist attacks by black people against white people, but will converge on anything that might even look like a white person attacking or discriminating against black people, and will also pointedly ignore the stated reasons of the looters and rioters in London so as to put forward their own preferred narrative, one that doesn't conclude that black people and chavs are insufficiently white Corporate Christian Republicans in suits, and are thus moral degenerates that should be punished for their behavior. The lack of beatings administered to youth for their misbehavior by parents or strict, severe punishments by government also contribute to creating the entitled brats that Mr. Sowell is certain are entirely at fault for the riots. In part III, he attacks the government for coddling them with social welfare, instead of incarcerating them and insisting they become Corporate Republicans, and the education system for not requiring that blacks and chavs assimilate to white Corporate Republican culture and leave their heritage behind to succeed in schooling. I think this has been done before. I'm certain of it. I still don't think that such simple solutions will actually work, either...because most of them seem to have generated the disparities that the current group of rioters are demonstrating against (when they are demonstrating for a purpose).
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision that individual mandates for the health care law are not Constitutional has conservatives crowing that the whole thing will soon go down in flames by the Supreme Court.
The editors of the WSJ have still not found a Republican candidate they like, and they believe the continuing fight between various GOP frontrunners indicates the conservative/independent bloc hasn't, either. They're still gearing up to defend their favored candidate from accusations they think are myths to shore up their far-right credentials and make them palatable to the primary voters.
Finally, Mr. Lehrman complains that the decision to allow the dollar to float off of the gold standard was the worst decision Richard Nixon ever made, and the dollar has suffered in terms of real purchasing power ever since.
Last for tonight, a letter from the landlords of Andy Warhol's Factory about his parties and late-night, loud affairs, asking him to turn it down or they will take action against him. And the personal letter of thanks given to John Wayne for his appearance on Laugh-In.
