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Welcome aboard. Let's start with something important - a message of necessary things, spoken with love. If you find resonance with it, it's for you. If not, there may be someone you know who will find resonance with it.
Out in the world today, the Metropolitan Police Department of London are gathering technology to listen in on your mobile conversations without your consent or knowledge.
The officially declared seven billionth person inhabiting Terra was born in India 31 October.
UNESCO voted to give membership status to the Palestinian Authority, which then triggered United States policy to withhold funds from the United Nations, because U.S. politicians apparently believe that the state of Palestine is letting more terrorists into what should be an august body. (Or perhaps because the foreign policy is so tied to Israel that they really had no other move than to do this if they wanted to stay on ISrael's good side.) One can also cue up the beginning of opinion columns claiming the UNESCO acted rashly and that admitting Palestine is both premature and giving legitimacy to terrorists, and a special treat of how Model United Nations simulations are training American children to accept global UN rule and place their American morals and democracy underneath the power of unelected dictators acting through the UN.
Domestically, A message from those who want to bring the Occupy movement to Detroit - Detroit has already done Occupy. And then some. Detroit is What Happens Next. The movement in Oakland has called for a general strike, and has at least a couple of unions backing their call. And... it apparently went well, without that much major violence, and when fringe elements attempted to do violence, they were contained and their images turned over to the police.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives certainly didn't feel like doing any work, deciding to reaffirm "In God We Trust as the national motto" rather than work on something like, say, jobs.
Members of the Michigan Senate inverted legislation to protect students from bullying by forcing in an exemption from bullying laws any "sincerely held" religious belief stated. There is still a change that the other houses or the Governor's Office will rebuke such an exception and return the legislation to its intended purpose.
the Department of Homeland (in)Security has more aerial drones than they have staff to fly them and funds to field them. But those contractors deserve all of that government largesse, because they're people that need help, right?
Mr. Cain had a no good, very bad day at the scandals on Monday. Including the possibility that his entire campaign has beenillegal under campaign finance laws, because people were directly funding people instead of PACs. He wasn't the only one, though. Mr. Perry appeared more than a bit punch-drunk in a speech he gave in New Hampshire -
Goldline executives went from mere scandal to actual indictment for fraud and theft. Glenn Beck's endorsement apparently can't change the alleged deceptive practices.
Last out, the Justice Department decided they didn't want to officially endorse lying by government agencies in response to FOIA requests.
In opinions, an apology for the idea that video games and interactive media will be unable to be Great Art, because their interactive nature prohibits them from being something that can stop time in contemplation.
Mr. Brownfield offers his reasons why he thinks teacher unions do more harm than good - they negotiate contracts that have too rich of benefits compared to the private sector, they stop administrators from being able to hire and fire at will, and the single seniority-based pay scale means gym teachers on average make more than science teachers, which doesn't reflect good priorities at all.
Mr. Hanson believes the First Lady's comments on the question of the one percent versus the rest are partisan, untrue because of the massive amounts of government spending, and tha she has no standing because she vacations in the places where the elites go. If you were really a True Scotsman, says Mr. Hanson, you wouldn't have done such things. Mr. Curl continues in the theme, denigrating Mrs. Obama because she't taking active rolws in capmpaigning and that she freely admits to being angry at things, instead of being the demure and uncontroversial First Lady that Mr. Curl would like to see her be.
Mr. Knight accuses the Occupy Wall Street movements of being all sorts of evil, amoral, Nazi-sympathetic, Communist-sympathetic rabble-rousers with no class...while also claiming the Tea Party were saints who didn't have any such issues and that much of recent violence in Egypt was begat by Muslims against Christians...and that the Librul Media is so biased that none of this will ever appear in a news story. Which means you need columnists finding whichever imam they can to justify their own insistence that Islam is the Bloodthirsty Religion and anyone who says otherwise is deluded.
Mr. McGurn believes that the Occupy Wall Street movement should be angry at their universities for saddling them with unsustainable debt in pursuit of their degrees, degrees that don't teach them teh valuable skills they need when they inevitably must change jobs in their careers.
Mr. Continetti accuses liberals of being backward-looking into the Past That Never Was, while Conservatives are now the progressive, looking-forward party, and that one should leave the deluded liberals to their visions of the past and recapture the original spirit of free enterprise and minimal government interference that's further in the past that the accused deluded liberals. Mr. Taylor likely agrees, with his insistence that the United States return to The Market (A.P.T.I.N.) and trust that fidelity and fealty will cure all economic ills.
Last out, Mr. Carafano says that the military still needs to plan ahead even in budget cut times.
Last for tonight, some corruptions of Charles Schulz's Peanuts gang. Usually profane, and thus not safe for work. Also helps to know the Halloween special of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" back to front. Anyway - Linus has his moment of glory, Charlie Brown has had enough, Sally loses faith in Linus, and a suite of deleted scenes from said special.
Out in the world today, the Metropolitan Police Department of London are gathering technology to listen in on your mobile conversations without your consent or knowledge.
The officially declared seven billionth person inhabiting Terra was born in India 31 October.
UNESCO voted to give membership status to the Palestinian Authority, which then triggered United States policy to withhold funds from the United Nations, because U.S. politicians apparently believe that the state of Palestine is letting more terrorists into what should be an august body. (Or perhaps because the foreign policy is so tied to Israel that they really had no other move than to do this if they wanted to stay on ISrael's good side.) One can also cue up the beginning of opinion columns claiming the UNESCO acted rashly and that admitting Palestine is both premature and giving legitimacy to terrorists, and a special treat of how Model United Nations simulations are training American children to accept global UN rule and place their American morals and democracy underneath the power of unelected dictators acting through the UN.
Domestically, A message from those who want to bring the Occupy movement to Detroit - Detroit has already done Occupy. And then some. Detroit is What Happens Next. The movement in Oakland has called for a general strike, and has at least a couple of unions backing their call. And... it apparently went well, without that much major violence, and when fringe elements attempted to do violence, they were contained and their images turned over to the police.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives certainly didn't feel like doing any work, deciding to reaffirm "In God We Trust as the national motto" rather than work on something like, say, jobs.
Members of the Michigan Senate inverted legislation to protect students from bullying by forcing in an exemption from bullying laws any "sincerely held" religious belief stated. There is still a change that the other houses or the Governor's Office will rebuke such an exception and return the legislation to its intended purpose.
the Department of Homeland (in)Security has more aerial drones than they have staff to fly them and funds to field them. But those contractors deserve all of that government largesse, because they're people that need help, right?
Mr. Cain had a no good, very bad day at the scandals on Monday. Including the possibility that his entire campaign has beenillegal under campaign finance laws, because people were directly funding people instead of PACs. He wasn't the only one, though. Mr. Perry appeared more than a bit punch-drunk in a speech he gave in New Hampshire -
Goldline executives went from mere scandal to actual indictment for fraud and theft. Glenn Beck's endorsement apparently can't change the alleged deceptive practices.
Last out, the Justice Department decided they didn't want to officially endorse lying by government agencies in response to FOIA requests.
In opinions, an apology for the idea that video games and interactive media will be unable to be Great Art, because their interactive nature prohibits them from being something that can stop time in contemplation.
Mr. Brownfield offers his reasons why he thinks teacher unions do more harm than good - they negotiate contracts that have too rich of benefits compared to the private sector, they stop administrators from being able to hire and fire at will, and the single seniority-based pay scale means gym teachers on average make more than science teachers, which doesn't reflect good priorities at all.
Mr. Hanson believes the First Lady's comments on the question of the one percent versus the rest are partisan, untrue because of the massive amounts of government spending, and tha she has no standing because she vacations in the places where the elites go. If you were really a True Scotsman, says Mr. Hanson, you wouldn't have done such things. Mr. Curl continues in the theme, denigrating Mrs. Obama because she't taking active rolws in capmpaigning and that she freely admits to being angry at things, instead of being the demure and uncontroversial First Lady that Mr. Curl would like to see her be.
Mr. Knight accuses the Occupy Wall Street movements of being all sorts of evil, amoral, Nazi-sympathetic, Communist-sympathetic rabble-rousers with no class...while also claiming the Tea Party were saints who didn't have any such issues and that much of recent violence in Egypt was begat by Muslims against Christians...and that the Librul Media is so biased that none of this will ever appear in a news story. Which means you need columnists finding whichever imam they can to justify their own insistence that Islam is the Bloodthirsty Religion and anyone who says otherwise is deluded.
Mr. McGurn believes that the Occupy Wall Street movement should be angry at their universities for saddling them with unsustainable debt in pursuit of their degrees, degrees that don't teach them teh valuable skills they need when they inevitably must change jobs in their careers.
Mr. Continetti accuses liberals of being backward-looking into the Past That Never Was, while Conservatives are now the progressive, looking-forward party, and that one should leave the deluded liberals to their visions of the past and recapture the original spirit of free enterprise and minimal government interference that's further in the past that the accused deluded liberals. Mr. Taylor likely agrees, with his insistence that the United States return to The Market (A.P.T.I.N.) and trust that fidelity and fealty will cure all economic ills.
Last out, Mr. Carafano says that the military still needs to plan ahead even in budget cut times.
Last for tonight, some corruptions of Charles Schulz's Peanuts gang. Usually profane, and thus not safe for work. Also helps to know the Halloween special of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" back to front. Anyway - Linus has his moment of glory, Charlie Brown has had enough, Sally loses faith in Linus, and a suite of deleted scenes from said special.
