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We begin today with unique forms of art that have been appearing around in support of libraries, archives, and other public-funded items.
From that point, two authors collaborated on a work. A major publishing house told them they would publish it - if they made the gay character straight or erased him altogether. This was not the only time they had received this request. So now they're asking others to show how prevalent it is in publishing to whitewash characters and to straighten any gay characters. The response has been...fruitful. And they have some requests from you, whether you're a consumer, a purchaser, or you work in the industry. The prevalence of these requests to supposedly make them appeal to main audiences does a disservice to all the readers out there looking for people that are like them. We need more of those heroes, not less. A different agent than the one mentioned and a different poster bring in a credibility attack, claiming the manuscript in question has been shopped around and rejected because it wasn't good enough and not at all because of any bigotry. The comment squad responds in favor and against, pointing out how what a publisher sees as editorial decisions, authors might see as straightwashing. As the situation expands, here's an excellent rundown and summary of what's gone on so far.
Because when we have less of those heroes, we also have partners who cannot participate in wrongful-death lawsuits because the law prevents recognition of their partnership. We have bridal shop owners saying they won't sell their dress to a lesbian because she doesn't want to participate in "illegal acts", despite civil unions being possible in the state where they live and marriage in the state they planned on getting married in.
Out in the world today, scientists in Cuba have developed a method for allowing the body to combat lung cancer through the production of antibodies that attack the cancer's protiens.
The Interior Minister of France has decided he would like to ban Muslims praying in the street in France, because the hard right of the country is successfully convincing the government that France is being "invaded" by Muslims, and that this is dangerous to France.
During a moment of silence for the 11 September attacks, a protesting group burned the United States' flag - counter-protesters, both Muslim and nativist, were nearby and expressing their views as well.
As the biggest supplier of money to the International Monetary Fund, United States taxpayers may find themselves subsidizing bailouts or other assistance to troubled European governments, which I'm sure will make all of our isolationists clamor even more to keep all our money home. Or it will re-bring-out the "big government bad" columnists. Could be either.
The military government of Egypt is facing increased pressure from the people of Egypt looking to speed the process of transition to another form of government...and some are using Israel as their scapegoat and presure valve.
A physicist in the American Physical Society has resigned from his post over a difference with the organization's official policy about climate change. Cue another wave of reports in favor of saying humans aren't causing the claimate variations.
Domestically, why the United States pays more for health care than other countries - we do a lot of things wrong because profit is our motivator, instead of health. Which basically means that if you're part of the record number of people who live below the poverty line, health care is basically denied to you because you can't afford it, even with insurance. And no, forsaking medicine for faith healing alone is not going to give you a leg up on costs or successes. Besides, even after you're priced out of health care, the costs of essential goods are going up as well, so soon basic stuff will be unaffordable if you're in the poor category.
The sponsor of the legislation that created the Transportation Security Administration has called for its destruction and privatization.
In presidential politics, the GOP of Pennsylvania looks to make their electoral votes awarded district-by-district, so that in close races, the party that doesn't win the state can still get about half of the electoral votes. This will probably benefit them in the next election, but could harm them considerably in elections when the GOP would normally win the state in a close battle.
Now that there's a full-swing campaign going, scandalous matters are starting to appear in the news radar. The question of whether the administration pressured a general to change his concerns about a satellite phone plan interfering with GPS satellites, and the possibility of whether the Administration rushed a loan to a solar company because it was good PR, a company which has since filed for bankruptcy.
Having had the door openend, then you get hidden provisions in health care entitlements that ruin the economy, accusations that the President is anti-military when he should give the military everything they want and more,
Elsewhere, The Republican candidate, Bob Turner, won the special election for the seat vacated when Anthony Weiner resigned over a sex scandal. On that, Ms. Noonan believes the latest Democratic seat going to a Republican is the continued message of the American people that they don't like Obama and his governmance, and that this should not be a surprise to anyone at this point, because he's solely responsible for things not getting better for everyone. Mr. Ahlert agrees, and predicts trouble for Democrats in 2012 because Obama is an albatross.
In technology, The FBI has quite a bit of interest in new data standards and technologies, both in how they will help surveillance of mobiles and how they will be able to defeat current conventional surveillance, either through overwhelming amounts of data or through transferrence of data that surveillance can't detect. We wonder if they'll look at the way that China is trying to handle the legions of microbloggers slipping through the cracks of official policy to find out how to control and surveil that growing swell of data. If Congress is going the way of making it a felony to exceed uathorized access on a device with a microchip, which seems both farcically ridiculous and utterly plausible in our "scared-of-everything" government when it comes to technology, then we'll have to watch the Congress do a rather strong facefault.
An engineer transformed a shell of a Volkswagen Beetle into a replica of a Porsche 356, incorporating several authentic parts into her finished product. The final item was her chariot to her wedding, completed in time.
Into opinions. With regard to the proposal presented by the President on jobs and another possible stimulus, Mr. Peterson believes that it's really a bailout for Democratic states, because their unionized workforces force higher interest rates on their bonds, so they need more money to pay interest. Mr. Thomas believes the people should tune out the President when he talks about jobs, because he doesn't have a clue how all his policies will affect businesses, not ever having run a business himself. All that wonderful "uncertainty" of businesses not knowing what they'll pay for new mandates, but knowing full well that they can get more profit by getting rid of workers. Y'know, capitalism. Very "uncertain". (And the bit about how social conservative values should be the gold standard for familiar relations? Always nice to include in your eceonmic analysis.) Mr. Sowell concurs, concluding the President is "arrogant" and that the people shouldn&apo;t believe him because everything he's done to fix the economy has failed. Would that be everything he wanted to do, or everything that the Congress actually let him do and added on their own poisons to? Mr. Moore also leaves this out in his own condemnation. And then there are the commentators that say it won't work because it's based mostly on the same things that the first stimulus was, and look how well that turned out.
Ms. O'sGrady is at least kind enough to inform us of her one-note symphony before going into it regarding oil production in Canada that would surely fix all the U.S. ills if Mr. Obama would just abandon the environment and allow an oil pipeline to be built from the oil sands in Alberta. And Mr. Kleckner believes the trick is in free trade agreements that the administration hasn't sent to Congress. And in all of this, there is a sane question - what happens when the tax holidays are over? Theoretically, a recovered economy absorbs them and the revenues are boosted so as to be able to pay for all the spending beforehand. That's how it's supposed to work, right? Temporary relief to get things going again, then a little period of increased taxes to pay for it when the economy can handle it.
Finally, though, there is an investigative question: if federal jobs-training programs keep producing dismal results in actually getting people hired, then what's wrong with either the programs or the employers that these results keep happening? One part has eventually been investigated - the programs. What about the employers? Is there something about them that makes the graduates of these programs unable to get jobs? Perhaps both sides of these should be investigated. With data, one can hope that we actually design something that does work...or at least figure out that we can't design something that will work.
Ms. Glick believes it's a good idea to have a bill that would withhold significant amounts of funding for the United Nations until the international body conforms to the expectations of the United States, reforms and expectations that would likely permanently make the UN the foreign policy arm of the US, in perception if not in actuality.
Mr. Green offers his evidence of Islam as the Bloodthirsty, Brutal religion by how they treat dogs, and especially bomb-sniffing dogs, in Afghanistan, in addition to the worst offenses committed against women and the "pedophilia" of Mohammed. Elsewhere, everyone should be afraid that Egypt will become a theocracy, because the strongest powers in the elections-to-be-held are all violent fanatical wings, at least according to Mr. Brown, and that will mean Israel will be surrounded on all sides by countries that want to exterminate them. (Oh, and expect no help from Obama, as he's clearly against Israel's existence.)
Mr. Lacey returns to a very old well with his best case as to how much Saddam Hussein would have been a terrorist threat with chemical, biological, and other weapons had he not been invaded and destroyed when he was. This seems part of the greater narrative involved in justifying all the counter-terrorism in the post 9/11 era. Whether in New York, or across the country generally, or even when talking about the change from justice and courtrooms to missiles shot from drones over national borders and in the sovereign space of other countries, and always with the triumphant stinger that the supposed anti-Bush has follwed in his footsteps. The conclusion is, of course, America is great and we should always advance her interests everywhere. Oh, and liberals will never understand this, so don't elect them or listen to them, especially when they talk about how national tragedies were perverted to political ends. And be sure to demean them and think them simple-minded because they don't see the world the same way you do, insist that when confronted with another viewpoint of the world that it must change and you are always right, and even when faced with the opportunity to gather wisdom from religious practice, ignore it and keep the hate stoked and focused.
Falling out of opinions, the editors at the WSJ are glad people are talking about entitlement reform...but they really wish that Rick Perry and Mitt Romney weren't the people doing so.
And Mr. Williams believes most college students aren't actually smart enough and dedicated for college, but that colleges and universities want tuition money more than to give education, so they deliberately dumb down their courses to allow those stupid kids to pass.
Last for tonight, a letter from an actor to a composer giving effusive praise, and a fake memo from a Disney employee as a protest against the choice to rename Basil of Baker Street to the Great Mouse Detective.
From that point, two authors collaborated on a work. A major publishing house told them they would publish it - if they made the gay character straight or erased him altogether. This was not the only time they had received this request. So now they're asking others to show how prevalent it is in publishing to whitewash characters and to straighten any gay characters. The response has been...fruitful. And they have some requests from you, whether you're a consumer, a purchaser, or you work in the industry. The prevalence of these requests to supposedly make them appeal to main audiences does a disservice to all the readers out there looking for people that are like them. We need more of those heroes, not less. A different agent than the one mentioned and a different poster bring in a credibility attack, claiming the manuscript in question has been shopped around and rejected because it wasn't good enough and not at all because of any bigotry. The comment squad responds in favor and against, pointing out how what a publisher sees as editorial decisions, authors might see as straightwashing. As the situation expands, here's an excellent rundown and summary of what's gone on so far.
Because when we have less of those heroes, we also have partners who cannot participate in wrongful-death lawsuits because the law prevents recognition of their partnership. We have bridal shop owners saying they won't sell their dress to a lesbian because she doesn't want to participate in "illegal acts", despite civil unions being possible in the state where they live and marriage in the state they planned on getting married in.
Out in the world today, scientists in Cuba have developed a method for allowing the body to combat lung cancer through the production of antibodies that attack the cancer's protiens.
The Interior Minister of France has decided he would like to ban Muslims praying in the street in France, because the hard right of the country is successfully convincing the government that France is being "invaded" by Muslims, and that this is dangerous to France.
During a moment of silence for the 11 September attacks, a protesting group burned the United States' flag - counter-protesters, both Muslim and nativist, were nearby and expressing their views as well.
As the biggest supplier of money to the International Monetary Fund, United States taxpayers may find themselves subsidizing bailouts or other assistance to troubled European governments, which I'm sure will make all of our isolationists clamor even more to keep all our money home. Or it will re-bring-out the "big government bad" columnists. Could be either.
The military government of Egypt is facing increased pressure from the people of Egypt looking to speed the process of transition to another form of government...and some are using Israel as their scapegoat and presure valve.
A physicist in the American Physical Society has resigned from his post over a difference with the organization's official policy about climate change. Cue another wave of reports in favor of saying humans aren't causing the claimate variations.
Domestically, why the United States pays more for health care than other countries - we do a lot of things wrong because profit is our motivator, instead of health. Which basically means that if you're part of the record number of people who live below the poverty line, health care is basically denied to you because you can't afford it, even with insurance. And no, forsaking medicine for faith healing alone is not going to give you a leg up on costs or successes. Besides, even after you're priced out of health care, the costs of essential goods are going up as well, so soon basic stuff will be unaffordable if you're in the poor category.
The sponsor of the legislation that created the Transportation Security Administration has called for its destruction and privatization.
In presidential politics, the GOP of Pennsylvania looks to make their electoral votes awarded district-by-district, so that in close races, the party that doesn't win the state can still get about half of the electoral votes. This will probably benefit them in the next election, but could harm them considerably in elections when the GOP would normally win the state in a close battle.
Now that there's a full-swing campaign going, scandalous matters are starting to appear in the news radar. The question of whether the administration pressured a general to change his concerns about a satellite phone plan interfering with GPS satellites, and the possibility of whether the Administration rushed a loan to a solar company because it was good PR, a company which has since filed for bankruptcy.
Having had the door openend, then you get hidden provisions in health care entitlements that ruin the economy, accusations that the President is anti-military when he should give the military everything they want and more,
Elsewhere, The Republican candidate, Bob Turner, won the special election for the seat vacated when Anthony Weiner resigned over a sex scandal. On that, Ms. Noonan believes the latest Democratic seat going to a Republican is the continued message of the American people that they don't like Obama and his governmance, and that this should not be a surprise to anyone at this point, because he's solely responsible for things not getting better for everyone. Mr. Ahlert agrees, and predicts trouble for Democrats in 2012 because Obama is an albatross.
In technology, The FBI has quite a bit of interest in new data standards and technologies, both in how they will help surveillance of mobiles and how they will be able to defeat current conventional surveillance, either through overwhelming amounts of data or through transferrence of data that surveillance can't detect. We wonder if they'll look at the way that China is trying to handle the legions of microbloggers slipping through the cracks of official policy to find out how to control and surveil that growing swell of data. If Congress is going the way of making it a felony to exceed uathorized access on a device with a microchip, which seems both farcically ridiculous and utterly plausible in our "scared-of-everything" government when it comes to technology, then we'll have to watch the Congress do a rather strong facefault.
An engineer transformed a shell of a Volkswagen Beetle into a replica of a Porsche 356, incorporating several authentic parts into her finished product. The final item was her chariot to her wedding, completed in time.
Into opinions. With regard to the proposal presented by the President on jobs and another possible stimulus, Mr. Peterson believes that it's really a bailout for Democratic states, because their unionized workforces force higher interest rates on their bonds, so they need more money to pay interest. Mr. Thomas believes the people should tune out the President when he talks about jobs, because he doesn't have a clue how all his policies will affect businesses, not ever having run a business himself. All that wonderful "uncertainty" of businesses not knowing what they'll pay for new mandates, but knowing full well that they can get more profit by getting rid of workers. Y'know, capitalism. Very "uncertain". (And the bit about how social conservative values should be the gold standard for familiar relations? Always nice to include in your eceonmic analysis.) Mr. Sowell concurs, concluding the President is "arrogant" and that the people shouldn&apo;t believe him because everything he's done to fix the economy has failed. Would that be everything he wanted to do, or everything that the Congress actually let him do and added on their own poisons to? Mr. Moore also leaves this out in his own condemnation. And then there are the commentators that say it won't work because it's based mostly on the same things that the first stimulus was, and look how well that turned out.
Ms. O'sGrady is at least kind enough to inform us of her one-note symphony before going into it regarding oil production in Canada that would surely fix all the U.S. ills if Mr. Obama would just abandon the environment and allow an oil pipeline to be built from the oil sands in Alberta. And Mr. Kleckner believes the trick is in free trade agreements that the administration hasn't sent to Congress. And in all of this, there is a sane question - what happens when the tax holidays are over? Theoretically, a recovered economy absorbs them and the revenues are boosted so as to be able to pay for all the spending beforehand. That's how it's supposed to work, right? Temporary relief to get things going again, then a little period of increased taxes to pay for it when the economy can handle it.
Finally, though, there is an investigative question: if federal jobs-training programs keep producing dismal results in actually getting people hired, then what's wrong with either the programs or the employers that these results keep happening? One part has eventually been investigated - the programs. What about the employers? Is there something about them that makes the graduates of these programs unable to get jobs? Perhaps both sides of these should be investigated. With data, one can hope that we actually design something that does work...or at least figure out that we can't design something that will work.
Ms. Glick believes it's a good idea to have a bill that would withhold significant amounts of funding for the United Nations until the international body conforms to the expectations of the United States, reforms and expectations that would likely permanently make the UN the foreign policy arm of the US, in perception if not in actuality.
Mr. Green offers his evidence of Islam as the Bloodthirsty, Brutal religion by how they treat dogs, and especially bomb-sniffing dogs, in Afghanistan, in addition to the worst offenses committed against women and the "pedophilia" of Mohammed. Elsewhere, everyone should be afraid that Egypt will become a theocracy, because the strongest powers in the elections-to-be-held are all violent fanatical wings, at least according to Mr. Brown, and that will mean Israel will be surrounded on all sides by countries that want to exterminate them. (Oh, and expect no help from Obama, as he's clearly against Israel's existence.)
Mr. Lacey returns to a very old well with his best case as to how much Saddam Hussein would have been a terrorist threat with chemical, biological, and other weapons had he not been invaded and destroyed when he was. This seems part of the greater narrative involved in justifying all the counter-terrorism in the post 9/11 era. Whether in New York, or across the country generally, or even when talking about the change from justice and courtrooms to missiles shot from drones over national borders and in the sovereign space of other countries, and always with the triumphant stinger that the supposed anti-Bush has follwed in his footsteps. The conclusion is, of course, America is great and we should always advance her interests everywhere. Oh, and liberals will never understand this, so don't elect them or listen to them, especially when they talk about how national tragedies were perverted to political ends. And be sure to demean them and think them simple-minded because they don't see the world the same way you do, insist that when confronted with another viewpoint of the world that it must change and you are always right, and even when faced with the opportunity to gather wisdom from religious practice, ignore it and keep the hate stoked and focused.
Falling out of opinions, the editors at the WSJ are glad people are talking about entitlement reform...but they really wish that Rick Perry and Mitt Romney weren't the people doing so.
And Mr. Williams believes most college students aren't actually smart enough and dedicated for college, but that colleges and universities want tuition money more than to give education, so they deliberately dumb down their courses to allow those stupid kids to pass.
Last for tonight, a letter from an actor to a composer giving effusive praise, and a fake memo from a Disney employee as a protest against the choice to rename Basil of Baker Street to the Great Mouse Detective.
